Revenue Management Conversations

About Revenue Management Conversations

Revenue Management Conversations is the revenue management podcast from City Shift Finance. Episodes cover pricing strategy, demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, segmentation, discounting, capacity, channel strategy, commercial performance, and margin across industries. The show combines concise episodes with conversations featuring executives and practitioners working in revenue management, pricing, finance, and commercial strategy. Our third podcast, City Shift Finance Hotel Finance Explained, presents adaptations of our published hotel research.

Publisher

City Shift Finance

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Sept 2026

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

11 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Win-Loss Analysis and the Economics of Lost Deals

   A lost deal recorded as a pricing defeat may conceal switching costs, weak qualification, delivery uncertainty, or an expensive pursuit that should never have advanced. This episode of Revenue Management Conversations examines how seller-reported loss reasons, opportunity selection, and misleading win rates can distort competitive assessments, pricing decisions, and commercial spending. It also considers the financial consequences of pursuit costs, unfavorable contract terms, and competitive intelligence that reaches management too late to influence decisions. Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/win-loss-analysis-economics-lost-deals/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/win-loss-analysis-economics-lost-deals/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Sales Incentive Compensation and Unprofitable Growth

   Sales incentive compensation influences which contracts salespeople pursue, when transactions close, and how much profitable revenue a business retains after fulfilling its obligations. In this episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Amber examines the relationship between commission design, customer contract economics, operating margins, and working capital. The discussion covers commission accelerators, payout thresholds, customer acquisition costs, and the financial exposure created when sales compensation is paid before customer cash is collected. It also explores how fixed and variable compensation structures affect selling costs during periods of declining demand. The episode considers how reported booking growth can coexist with deteriorating contribution margins, increasing service obligations, and greater cash requirements. Podcast page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-management-podcast/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-management-podcast/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

3. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Sales Territory Planning and Uneven Opportunity

   Sales territories distribute selling capacity across markets with different levels of demand, account potential, and coverage requirements. Equal revenue targets can therefore conceal substantial differences in the opportunity available to individual sales teams. In this episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Josh examines how sales territory planning influences revenue performance, forecasting exposure, distribution costs, and contribution margin. The discussion explores the financial consequences of overlapping territories, geographic constraints, uneven account concentration, and sales capacity deployed against limited commercial opportunity. The central issue is how territory allocation influences realized revenue and the cost of acquiring it, independently of individual salesperson performance. Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/sales-territory-planning-uneven-opportunity/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/sales-territory-planning-uneven-opportunity/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

4. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Revenue Leakage: Where Contracted Value Disappears

   Contracted revenue can remain unbilled, undercollected, or reduced through operating failures long after the commercial agreement has been signed. Missed usage charges, unapplied renewal increases, incorrect billing rules, recurring credits, and customer data errors can create a persistent difference between contracted value and realized revenue. In this episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Josh, Director of Strategy at City Shift Finance, examines how revenue leakage develops across contract administration, billing operations, usage tracking, service delivery, and collections. The discussion explores how recurring billing omissions accumulate, why standard revenue reporting can conceal missing value, and how the relationship between contractual entitlements and actual transactions determines the financial exposure. Topics: Revenue Leakage | Unbilled Revenue | Billing Accuracy | Contract Management | Revenue Assurance | Revenue Management Learn more at https://cityshiftfinance.com/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/) Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-leakage-contracted-value/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-leakage-contracted-value/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

5. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Revenue Management Execution: When Pricing Decisions Fail in Operations

   An approved pricing decision can carry sound financial expectations and still produce a different result at the transaction level. Delayed system updates, local overrides, outdated contract terms, inconsistent channel rates, and conflicting operating incentives can separate approved commercial decisions from realized revenue and margin. In this episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Josh, Director of Strategy at City Shift Finance, examines how revenue management decisions move through sales operations, technology, distribution channels, and capacity controls. The discussion explores pricing discipline, exception management, accountability across operating functions, and the financial consequences of execution failures that remain hidden in otherwise legitimate transactions. Topics: Revenue Management Execution | Pricing Governance | Price Realization | Discount Controls | Capacity Management | Revenue Operations Learn more at cityshiftfinance.com. Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-management-execution/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-management-execution/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

6. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Price Optimization: From Customer Response to Realized Margin

   A price increase can improve average selling price while reducing valuable demand. A discount can increase conversion while weakening contribution. The financial outcome depends on how customers respond, where demand shifts, and what remains after capacity and delivery costs are accounted for. In this episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Josh, Director of Strategy at City Shift Finance, examines the relationship between price elasticity, willingness to pay, customer segmentation, and realized margin. The discussion covers how pricing decisions affect purchasing behavior, product and channel mix, price realization, and capacity utilization. It also examines why revenue growth and higher conversion rates can conceal weaker economics. Explore the episode: https://cityshiftfinance.com/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/) Topics: Price Optimization | Price Elasticity | Willingness to Pay | Pricing Strategy | Revenue Management | Margin Economics Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/price-optimization-realized-margin/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/price-optimization-realized-margin/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

7. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Price Waterfall: Where List Price Becomes Realized Price

   A price increase can look successful at list price while much of the intended value disappears before it reaches margin. In the latest episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Josh examines the price waterfall from list price through discounts, rebates, concessions, invoice price, and pocket price. The episode covers where price realization weakens, why similar customers can produce very different retained economics, and how channel terms, renewal protections, credits, and commercial exceptions change the value ultimately retained. Price Waterfall: Where List Price Becomes Realized Price Listen on Spotify. #RevenueManagement #PricingStrategy #PriceRealization #CommercialFinance #Pricing Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/price-waterfall-price-realization/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/price-waterfall-price-realization/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

8. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Price Waterfall Analysis: Where the Price Goes After It Is Set

   A price increase does not necessarily produce an equivalent increase in the amount a company retains. Discounts, rebates, allowances and contractual concessions can change the final transaction price. In this episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Amber examines how price waterfall analysis traces commercial adjustments from a defined starting price through invoice price to pocket price. The discussion covers transaction-level price differences, recurring concessions, post-invoice adjustments and the relationship between price waterfalls and price realization. It also examines why pocket price and transaction profitability require different measurements. Read the full transcript: ⁠https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-insights/price-waterfall-analysis/⁠ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-insights/price-waterfall-analysis/) Hosted by Amber #PricingStrategy #PriceWaterfall #RevenueManagement Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

9. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Revenue Management KPIs: Measuring Revenue, Yield, Capacity and Margin

   Revenue can increase while yield deteriorates, capacity becomes constrained and the cost of serving additional demand reduces contribution. In this episode of the City Shift Finance Insights podcast, Josh examines how revenue, yield, capacity, utilization and margin interact across commercial and operating decisions. The discussion covers discounting, customer mix, capacity allocation and the financial consequences that can remain concealed when performance indicators are reviewed separately. Explore how the relationship between these measures changes the interpretation of revenue performance, particularly when higher activity produces weaker economics. Learn more about City Shift Finance and its Strategic Revenue Management & Pricing practice at https://cityshiftfinance.com/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/). Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-insights/revenue-management-kpis/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-insights/revenue-management-kpis/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

10. 

    18 Sept 2026

    Demand Forecasting in Revenue Management: When the Forecast Is Wrong

    A demand forecast shapes pricing, capacity, inventory, and operating commitments before final demand is known. Josh examines what happens when the forecast is directionally right but wrong where decisions are actually being made, leaving capacity in the wrong place, price moving too early, or higher-value demand unserved. The episode considers forecast error as a commercial and financial exposure, including the effects of overforecasting, underforecasting, changing customer mix, utilization, and price realization. It also looks at why demand forecasts need to remain connected to the market conditions, capacity positions, and margin assumptions that continue to move after the original forecast is set. Episode page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-insights/demand-forecasting-in-revenue-management-when-the-forecast-is-wrong/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-insights/demand-forecasting-in-revenue-management-when-the-forecast-is-wrong/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)

11. 

    11 Sept 2026

    Revenue Management: Pricing, Demand, Capacity and Margin

    Revenue management connects pricing, demand, capacity, segmentation, forecasting and margin. In the first episode of Revenue Management Conversations, Amber introduces the new City Shift Finance podcast and the commercial decisions the series will examine across industries. Future episodes will include explainers with Amber, solo episodes with Josh, Director of Strategy, and conversations with guests working directly with pricing, demand, capacity and revenue performance. Podcast page: https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-management-podcast/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/revenue-management-podcast/) Revenue management and pricing practice: https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/ (https://cityshiftfinance.com/pricing-and-revenue-management/)