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Sales Tips: Avoid the Discounting Squeeze

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Avoid the Discounting "Squeeze". After asking a few questions it seemed clear that they were the vendor of choice and were in a death spiral of discounting. Once discounting starts, it’s difficult to stop as you are continuously squeezed to make further concessions.

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Sales Tips: How to Setup Your 2015 for Success

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Setup Your 2015 for Success. It''s the fourth quarter and if you''re like most salespeople, you''re examining your pipeline trying to determine which opportunities have a chance of closing this quarter; what needs to be done and when in order for them to close; and, which ones will have to be carried over into 2015.

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5 Ways to Raise Your Price in 2015

The Sales Hunter

Blog pricing Professional Selling Skills discount discounting price profit profits' It’s the beginning of the year, and the sooner you raise them, the more incremental cash flow you’ll be able to profit from this year. There’s no need to be gun-shy, thinking if you take an increase you’ll lose your […].

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Best Way to Reduce Discounting: Better Negotiating or Value Selling?

The ROI Guy

There is more pressure than ever on suppliers to lower their prices and offer steep discounts. Recent studies indicate that the average discount levels has risen to 20% per deal (IDC), but we find that many solution providers would be happy if that were the level of discount they were providing. Many are a whopping 50-70%!

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Frugalnomics in Effect - Gartner predicts 5.5% decline in IT spending for 2015

The ROI Guy

Financial justification is the new language of IT selling, where CFOs are more involved through all stages of the purchase decision, and procurement is there to demand a discount if you lead with product and price vs. value. Sources: Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending to Decline 5.5% Percent in 2014 Gartner Forecasts 3.1%

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Roadmap for how B2B marketing and sales can use unique value to market better, stand out & sell more

The ROI Guy

The book release is occurring at SiriusDecisions Summit 2015, an annual gathering of 3,000 sales and marketing executives in Nashville, TN. Tom Pisello will conduct exclusive book signings and giveaways throughout the SiriusDecisions Summit 2015, in the Marketplace at booth 612. “

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A Failure to Close

The ROI Guy

And, according to IDC, those who apply business value / ROI to deals discount much less, elevating deal sizes by 20% compared to deals where business value / ROI was not used. From CSO Insights, we learn that taking your ROI selling skills from “good” to “great” can improve win rates from 37% to 51%.

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