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What’s Your Time Worth

The Pipeline

This is exactly what you are doing when you choose to discount instead of sell. Buyers know they will be offered price incentives to bring a deal in sooner, like “end of the quarter.” If it isn’t quota, then why discount? You can hope and pray, but you know the choice you face. Giving It Away.

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How Was Your January?

The Pipeline

Clearly, we do not want to discount or offer incentive that will reduce the total value of the client. Most salespeople think about how to complete the deal, when they should be focused on face time. If your cycle is three months, anything that would have to have been engaged with and be in your funnel. Need Help Now.

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Unleashing Profit Potential Through Rebate Automation

Distribution Pricing Journal

The distribution industry traditionally faces low margins in each sale. These might involve price reductions, special discounts and rebates. A One-stop Profit Boost for Pricing and Rebates One of the biggest issues that distributors face is in managing price and rebate information across multiple systems.

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Engaging B2B Customers Through Immersive Experiences

Sales and Marketing Management

Much less price sensitive (33 percent said they would need a discount of over 20 percent before they would defect). Much less price sensitive (33 percent said they would need a discount of over 20 percent before they would defect). In today’s experience economy, more and more consumers prioritize doing over having.

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Transparent Negotiations: The Counterintuitive Way to Negotiate More Valuable and Predictable Deals

Sales and Marketing Management

It may sound totally counterintuitive, but doing the opposite - playing your cards face up on your pricing model - consistently results in. To start with, play these cards face up from the beginning. When the typical negotiation “event” happens near the end of the sales process, we tend to flip the script. Extreme position?

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Do “Refer a Friend” Programs Actually Work? Absolutely! Sometimes.

No More Cold Calling

I received offers from my favorite retailers for birthday discounts, designed to make me feel special and (more importantly) spend money. B2C incentives work like magic. But in the B2B world, incenting people to provide referrals isn’t the no-brainer sales strategy that it is for consumer-facing companies.

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Why Improving Customer Experience is Essential to Your Business

Pipeliner

When you couple discounts or promotions with a solid customer experience, you are likely to see increased customer satisfaction and retention. When you couple discounts or promotions with a solid customer experience, you are likely to see increased customer satisfaction and retention. Offering referral incentives.