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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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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

And to evaluate the relative attractiveness of different segments Malcolm McDonald on value propositions – How to develop them (kimtasso.com) In professional service firm (PSF) marketing there is the challenge that we often span both B2B and B2C markets , across multiple sectors and for sometimes hundreds of service lines in different territories.

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Showing Your Shared Services ROI: 3 Ways to Prove Your Team’s Worth

Planview

As a leader of a shared services or center of excellence team, you might wonder how to showcase your team’s business value as tangibly as sales figures do. It’s crucial to articulate a clear and measurable value proposition for your team, which can significantly ease budget discussions.

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Consultative Selling Tips: How to Sell to Procurement Managers

Brooks Group

Buyers generally make up their minds in the first few seconds whether the time spent with you is going to be valuable. This makes it far more likely they will listen to you—and that you’ll make the sale. They make buying decisions about products and services they don’t personally use.

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The Four Buying Influences to Identify in Manufacturing Sales

Miller Heiman Group

In the past, manufacturing sellers could succeed by working with one or two decision-makers, developing friendships with handshake deals were agreed upon at the ballgame, on the golf course or during extravagant dinners. All this has changed. Now according to CSO Insights’ 2018 Buyer Preferences Study , sellers face an average of 6.4

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The 3 Biggest Factors That Drive Sales Close Rates – And How to Navigate Them

Openview

For sales organizations, there’s simply nothing worse than losing a deal during the final proposal and negotiation stages. For nearly every enterprise sales cycle, considerable time (and monetary) investments are made: Finance and legal teams work hard on contracts, proposals, and revisit redlines.