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Selling to the C-Suite: Strategies for Reaching Executive Decision Makers

Brooks Group

Purchase decisions often involve multiple stakeholders and a longer sales cycle. How much impact does your product or service have on your customers’ profitability, revenue, or cash flow? Senior decision maker titles also vary by industry. Follow up and persist.

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Measuring Sales Performance – By Revenue or Margin?

Sales Management Matters

For this article’s purposes, we will define revenue as total sales volume or price and margin as the total profit from the sale (revenue minus cost of sale). Delivery of revenue growth without margin will not help the company achieve its forecasted profit objectives. What type of “margin” is being measured?

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How to negotiate with procurement, with Mike Lander

Account Management Skills

In this episode, I chat to Mike Lander, CEO of Piscari, a former procurement director who now assists sales teams in negotiating with procurement departments. We also dive into a five-step framework to help you negotiate more effectively and shed light on some questionable tactics employed by less experienced procurement professionals.

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How Construction, IT and Manufacturing Industries Can Capitalize on CRM

SuperOffice

In fact, 90% of leading marketers agree that personalization contributes to business profitability significantly. Because construction jobs involve several parties in order to complete projects, managing relationships with architects, engineers, and stakeholders is a crucial benefit of CRM for construction. How can CRM help?

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What is the sales and operations planning process?

PandaDoc

Supply planning Once you’ve got your strategic plan in place for production, you’ll want to start putting together tactical plans to govern your approach to supply chain management and general procurement. Ideally, this doesn’t involve setting up brand-new supply chains every time you want to roll out new products.