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Consultative Selling Tips: How to Sell to Procurement Managers

Brooks Group

Procurement managers have a reputation for focusing only on price. This post describes how you can use a consultative selling approach to understand the unique buying agenda of procurement managers and sell more effectively. This makes it far more likely they will listen to you—and that you’ll make the sale.

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The Important Role of Pricing Departments in the Price, Cost, Revenue Equation

Holden Advisors

Is aware of costs and constraints like the finance team. Works side-by-side with sales to sell value and overcome procurement. When only 30% of B2B buyers make decisions based exclusively on price (noted in Negotiating with Backbone ), it’s not surprising the other 70% care about value if they are thoughtfully informed about it.

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. Delegates then chose to focus on finance, economics and pricing. Finance fundamentals Financial awareness is another capability required by M&BD.

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Top Tactics for Selling to a Buying Committee

Brooks Group

Finance, operations, and management, oh my! Bigger deals usually mean bigger committees, which present unique challenges compared to selling to an individual decision maker or even a small group. These stakeholders typically fall into four primary categories: Decision Makers Decision makers hold the ultimate authority for the purchase.

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How to negotiate a contract

PandaDoc

Contract negotiation is essential for modern businesses, but it isn’t always easy. Kennedy stated: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” Although negotiation can make the suavest salesman scared, you can develop this skill over time. What is a contract negotiation?

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What is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Apptivo

An ERP system brings together business processes of an enterprise, which makes it possible to improve performance and enhance project management abilities which, in turn, helps plan, budget, predict and report the organization’s processes and financial status. The Finance and accounting module. The Sourcing and procurement module.

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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

Our target markets span large and small businesses; private, public sector and not for profit sectors; centralised and decentralised buying processes; procurement and user-led purchasing behaviour. For example, for accountants this might include Quoted Companies Alliance, UK Finance or Federation of Small Businesses.