Your biggest customer isn’t getting a volume discount

The price your largest account pays is set by how much you need them, not by how much they buy, and the gap widens every time you renew.

By Steve 5 min read
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Ask most owners why their largest account pays meaningfully less than everyone else and the answer comes back in the language of cost: volume, efficiency, a full truck instead of a half one, one invoice instead of forty. It is a comfortable explanation because it makes the discount look like a decision the business made on the merits. Then examine the cost-to-serve. The large account frequently has bespoke reporting, a named contact, quarterly reviews, its own packaging or labelling, an audit or compliance overhead, and a habit of changing the…

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