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Struggling With Procurement?

Whetstone

You know how they will save your clients time and money and/or help them become more profitable. Unfortunately, Procurement doesn’t! This vicious cycle is typically the result of procurement departments believing their value to their organization is to find ways to drive prices down. You know how valuable your solutions are.

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Own Your Process to Stay Out of the Procurement Pit

Hubspot Sales

And that is even more true when a customer instructs you to work through their procurement process or solicits a request for proposal (RFP). Playing by someone else’s rules whose desire is to squeeze all the creativity, differentiation, and profit margin out of our deals is not fun. I don’t work for procurement people.

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How to Win Profitable Government Contracts w/Kizzy Parks, PhD (Ep#125)

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

Recently, she started GovConWinners to help service-based small business owners learn how to win their own profitable government contracts.

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PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), Storytelling and Client Feedback

Red Star Kim

She explained her firm’s core purpose was to build trusting relationships and vision of being independent, sustainably profitability and global. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the centre a team from Man Bites Dog and Baker McKenzie led a masterclass on thought leadership as the smart growth strategy. Be agile and responsive. Sustain momentum.

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3 CRM Models and How They Improve Customer Profitability

Insightly

CRM Models: How They Can Boost Customer Profitability. With carefully segmented customers and a method for appealing to each group, you can attract and retain more lifelong customers and increase profits. That’s because adding value and consistently delighting customers increases customer retention and therefore profit.

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9 Unexpected Reasons Why Key Account Management is Important

Account Manager Tips

Importance of key account management Existing business is cheaper and more profitable than new business. Account growth, renewals and advocacy are difficult for indirect suppliers because procurement focus on spend management. Pass it on. Click to Tweet. But (and it's a big but). The answer? Key account management to the rescue!

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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. Essentially a focus on the most profitable clients. So targeting is often more important and more challenging.