Yannick Kpodar

AMA: PayFit Former Global Director, Product Marketing, Yannick Kpodar on Pricing for Growth and Profitability

September 10 @ 10:00AM PT
View AMA Answers
What have been your key learnings from any "Pricing/Re-pricing launch" that you have led/seen within your company?
Please share your experiences from successful efforts and also the launches that didn't go well. Any tools/templates that worked for your teams?
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
A few key learnings: Involve your cross-functional partners as early as possible. The worst thing you can do is come up with a new strategy, but Sales or Account Manager...
...Read More
1003 Views
3 requests
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
Pre-launch:You won't always know if you have the right pricing from the beginning. You're always going to have some elements that need to be validated. Your best bet is t...
...Read More
1137 Views
1 request
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
In-house will usually be a great learning experience. You can run this project if you operate as a unit and work with your cross-functional partners. Consultants can add ...
...Read More
743 Views
3 requests
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
Get them involved as quickly as possible. I run a monthly win/loss meeting with my Sales team to understand why we win and why we lose. Based on this information, there's...
...Read More
1628 Views
1 request
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
The most challenging piece here is that you're flying with little internal data. You're operating based on assumptions. You can create pretty business plans with ideas o...
...Read More
538 Views
2 requests
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
Customer willingness to pay is crucial. You can create a product, but if it's not seen as a must-have for your customer, they won't purchase. Focus on building a product ...
...Read More
1291 Views
2 requests
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
There are multiple turning points when you should think about reviewing or changing pricing; You're losing too many deals to the competition Constant feedback from your ...
...Read More
1971 Views
4 requests
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
This is a tough one. Each market will need to have a tailored approach but don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. At PayFit, we have similar pricing and pack...
...Read More
988 Views
1 request
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
Step 1: Get access to biz ops data to understand business performance (clients per pricing plan, discounting per pricing plan, size of the company per pricing plan) Step...
...Read More
2275 Views
1 request
Yannick Kpodar
Natixis Former Chief Marketing Officer, Dalenys & Xpollens Payment Solutions5y
You'll see different scenarios in different companies based on industry, size, skills, or company history. At PayFit, Product Marketing owns the topic, but we work very c...
...Read More
2440 Views
1 request