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Big Customer Negotiating: Dancing with a Gorilla

Holden Advisors

Big or small, almost all B2B companies have to sell to large, powerful companies because they believe that the "big win" keeps the plant running or resources at capacity. Those negotiations are often tough and focus on price. As a result of those brutal negotiations, the oftentimes smaller seller will lose money or barely break even.

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“LIQUIDITY,” ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE AND YOU

Strategic Account Management Association

To give a couple of examples: Among department stores, Nordstrom has demonstrated resilience by dramatically increasing online sales; as a result, they have excelled. Arch competitor Neiman Marcus, on the other hand, has declared bankruptcy. In telecommunications, while most firms have posted strong results, Digicel has declared bankruptcy.

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Strengthen Negotiations with New Products and Services

Holden Advisors

Too often, sales teams rely too heavily on discounts or service giveaways to close deals. This leads to a host of issues including leaving money on the table, teaching customers to negotiate hard for discounts and freebies, and eroding the customer's perception of your value. One solution is by adding new products and services.

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A Simple Sales Negotiation Tactic that Works

Account Manager Tips

A simple sales negotiation tactic. To do that, you need sales negotiation skills to convince them to buy more and, when the time comes, to renew. Here's a simple negotiation tactic that will help. A sales negotiation is challenging and means difficult conversations. What is a sales negotiation?

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The Secret to Successful Sales Negotiations

Account Manager Tips

Successful Sales Negotiation Strategy. As an Account Manager, there's always something to negotiate. But there's a simple sales negotiation strategy that works which is. Sooner or later, for one reason or another, you will have to negotiate. That puts you in the best position to negotiate - informed!

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21 Free Courses for Key Account Managers to Boost Your Skills Now

Account Manager Tips

Sales Find the course that's right for you How to identify your skill gaps Define success What goals do you need to achieve? Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator. Learn how to analyse negotiations and shape them with convincing arguments. Creativity 2.

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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

SAMA and Boston Consulting Group partnered in May 2020 to conduct a study aimed at discovering the early changes to customer expectations for sales organizations as a result of the COVID pandemic. Indicators show that much of the sales process can — and should — be automated through technological advancements.