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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

This is an excerpt from the book, " Sales Truth " by Mike Weinberg. Just because a customer asks for a demo or a sales pitch, does not mean that it benefits you to do so. And that is even more true when a customer instructs you to work through their procurement process or solicits a request for proposal (RFP).

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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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Sales Targeting Toolbox for Professional Services Firms

Red Star Kim

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. Here is a summary of the sales targeting toolbox for professional services firms. So targeting is often more important and more challenging.

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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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Value Centers

Customer Think

Later we tried to make these profit centers. Some companies have tried to convert these into profit centers. This then converts service users into advocates of the company, increasing its sales, and thereby profits. Value Centers are what were traditionally thought of as cost centers. They really need to be value centers.