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

Holden Advisors

Think: Revenue – Costs = Profit. Is aware of costs and constraints like the finance team. 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. Assist in communicating value.

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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. The crux of marketing is to anticipate (and meet) client needs whilst maximising profit. Price is a major driver of profit. Books on pricing?

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4 Ways to Impact Price Realization

Holden Advisors

One of our top goals in any consulting engagement is uncovering revenue and profit growth opportunities for clients. For other customers who are unwilling to pay higher prices, it’s still important to align product tiers and service levels with prices to provide credibility and negotiating levers for your commercial teams.

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How to maximize your deal desk process flow

PandaDoc

Key takeaways A deal desk is a cross-functional team assembled to oversee opportunity qualification, solution and proposal development, and negotiation stages of a sales process. Analyze your deal desk’s performance by using metrics such as response and resolution time, win rate, deal size, profit, and renewal time.

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How can agencies make client relationships more profitable?, with Chris Merrington

Account Management Skills

In this episode we talk about making client relationships more profitable. He specialises in helping agency leaders and their teams negotiate more profitably. I’ve had it on my shelf for a few years now and it becomes a reference guide for negotiating. Welcome to Episode 53. So Chris, welcome. Chris 00:44.

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The Deal Desk: Sourcing Internal Expertise to Close Complex Deals

Hubspot Sales

As I touched on earlier, a deal desk might have a role in other aspects of the deal-closing process, including providing advice on negotiation strategy and insight about product knowledge. Again, you might include stakeholders from departments like sales, legal, product, and finance. Who do you want to involve?

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Pros v. Cons of a Sales Career

Brooks Group

Transferrable Skills The skills developed in sales —such as communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and time management—are highly valued across many industries, making sales experience a valuable asset. Professional Opportunities Sales roles exist in virtually every industry, from technology and healthcare to retail and finance.