RAIN Group

JUNE 13, 2018

With more sales going through purchasing departments, you're bound to face price pressure on almost every opportunity. They'll expect you to discount. Nearly all organizations negotiate or discount their stated list price to some extent. Results showed that only 7% of organizations never discount.

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MTD Sales Training

AUGUST 17, 2017

If you want to negotiate a discount and you’re a buyer then I’ll give you some phrases to use. Conversely if you’re a sales person I’m going to give you some phrases on how to counter buyers who are haggling and negotiating for a discount. You want to draw a reaction from the sales person. Phrase 1 “How Much!”.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 22, 2019

Regardless of the pricing model, you have worked hard to develop when push comes to shove, and often even before push comes to shove, salespeople cave in and offer discounts. If key stakeholders are not invested in the relationship with your company, they will have no qualms about pushing for discounts that hurt your bottom line.

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The Pipeline

JUNE 18, 2020

Urgency is always a battle cry at sales meetings, one on one or the team. When month-end or quarter-end comes and managers are facing reality, they choose the easy way out. When month-end or quarter-end comes and managers are facing reality, they choose the easy way out. By Tibor Shanto. Urgency Is Relative.

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MTD Sales Training

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Being able to negotiate effectively is one of the most important skills you can build in your sales armoury, as it has a direct effect on your margins and overall profitability, as well as ensuring your customers get the best service possible. Ask: What are the key challenges this specific customer is facing at the moment?

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Author: John Larson A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a friend, a successful executive who has run large sales organizations for three different companies. In the B2B world, your sales force is actually your loyalty program. Loyalty, at the end of the day, is not created by offering discounts or exceeding customer expectations.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

In sales, as with any other field or practice, sometimes you need to think outside the box to come out on top. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. Our research has shown how much sales calls have changed in the last year. Longer sales cycles.

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Customer Centric Selling

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Sales Tips: How to Avoid the Discounting "Squeeze". By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. After asking a few questions it seemed clear that they were the vendor of choice and were in a death spiral of discounting.

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The Pipeline

AUGUST 27, 2019

While it may be realistic to expect inside sales teams to sell more than 23% of their time, it is not for others. This is exactly what you are doing when you choose to discount instead of sell. 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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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2023

Sales is a tough job under normal circumstances, but throw in a recession and things get even more complicated. This means retiring the old playbook and getting creative with your sales strategies. As a result, sales cycles tend to get longer. Expect more touchpoints in the sales process.

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I realize that goes in the face of conventional thinking, but I’m serious when I say this. If you are afraid to walk away, then how will you ever face the music and not cave on price? If you are afraid to walk away, then how will you ever face the music and not cave on price? SECRET 5: Don’t offer discounts.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Your business, marketing, sales, and content strategies are surely different than your competitors’ strategies. Generally, the main purpose of every entrepreneur (including yours) is to improve the sales performance of his business. Using an Email Autoresponder to Improve Sales. Your business is unique.

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The Sales Hunter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Sales managers without even trying are very good at taking profit right out of their company. They do this because of how they handle things with their salespeople who in turn offer customers discounts. When a sales manager places pressure, they need to do it with guidance as to how the salesperson should handle things.

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Janek Performance Group

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Meeting current customers and networking with new prospects face to face is what we do in sales. Taking clients out for dinner and building new relationships is an aspect of sales that will never change. But we are not ready to discount the value of in-person events and trade shows. The answer is a firm YES.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 18, 2021

In sales, as with any other field or practice, sometimes you need to think outside the box to come out on top. Knowing the rules for a sales call is vital; so is knowing when to break those rules. Our research has shown how much sales calls have changed in the last year. Longer sales cycles.

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Partners in Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

They throw their preference for a Rep Free buying experience into our faces. And to win that business, we have to discount deeply–getting approvals is such a hassle and it impacts our commissions. Faced with this, selling isn’t for the weak spirited. Confession time. I’m terribly lazy.

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Most businesses, whether they are small, large, brand new or established, are turning to more high tech sales tactics to gain and retain customers. This of course is an important part of marketing and sales. Due to this shift, more traditional sales practices have been rendered moot.

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The ROI Guy

JUNE 29, 2015

By Mark Schlueter & Tom Pisello More sales execs are revealing that discount pressures are at an all time high, and as a result, they need more transactions than ever just to make the numbers. Procurement specialists’ incentive pay is now directly tied to the discounts they can extract from each vendor. times higher ($25M).

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The Pipeline

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In casual conversation about your pipeline, he would learn the average length of your sales cycle. Clearly, we do not want to discount or offer incentive that will reduce the total value of the client. Rather than focusing on the close, the sale, focus on small incremental progress. Need Help Now. How Was Your January?

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The Sales Hunter

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The urge to cut your price to close a sale is something we all face, and for many salespeople, it’s almost a daily occurrence. Suddenly the urge to do something stupid just to close a sale is not nearly as strong. Copyright 2013, Mark Hunter “The Sales Hunter.” ” Sales Motivation Blog.

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Increase Sales

MARCH 14, 2012

Salespeople are quick to defend their need to discount with the belief that this is the only way they can close the sale. This is the number one reason I wrote High-Profit Selling: Win the Sale Without Compromising on Price. I wanted to provide salespeople with proven solutions to avoid the discounting madness.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 12, 2019

Author: Todd Caponi Negotiating an agreement with a client is often perceived as requiring the development of a completely different selling muscle: During the sales cycle, we’re doing things to add value to the buying journey, building trust and providing the information a buyer needs to make a confident, informed decision. .

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SalesFuel

MARCH 20, 2024

Though Wauneka had only been on the job for a short time, she knew AdMall would help set her apart from other media sales reps. Result: A new client for a new media sales rep The real estate client agreed to an annual contract of nearly $5,000 — a good win for a new sales rep.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 18, 2024

However, you will likely also face many challenges and decisions along the way. The more time you give yourself, the less anxiety you will face in situations as they arise. Paying upfront typically includes a discount to save you money on the total cost of the insurance product.

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Allego

MARCH 31, 2023

Using ineffective and poor sales words and phrases can damage your sales conversations. In the modern world, where sales are driven by science, our choice of vocabulary can emotionally connect or disconnect with our buyer’s brain and emotions in different ways. It ain’t gonna make me buy.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

As such, steep discounts are often on the table in a way that can feel as thrilling as a 50% off Apple Watch on Cyber Monday. For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. And sometimes, a discount is just a discount, and you should grab it while it’s hot and save that money.

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Hubspot Sales

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s here, the biggest sales quarter of the year. The very moment deal-seekers everywhere shoot their shot, turn prospects into buyers, and score buzzer-beating slam dunks that accelerate the business to record-breaking sales. Sales professionals who are doing their best work in Q4 are executing their sales processes to perfection.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 7, 2012

To hire effectively you need to observe sales candidates in action. Most sales leaders discount the job tryout because it is difficult. This post is written for the head of sales of a rapidly growing organization. We will discuss how to test for great sales talent. Want to start hiring better sales talent today?

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Janek Performance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

In our recent white paper The Ultimate Guide to Sales Negotiations , we discuss how negotiations improve with consultative selling. By stressing long-term relationships over short-term sales, sellers should form partnerships and work with buyers to achieve the best outcomes. In addition, be alert to casually dropped names.

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Partners in Excellence

DECEMBER 15, 2015

” It was challenging, but I couldn’t go to my management complaining, “We need to give them a discount,” or “We are just too expensive.” I started to focus on TCO, total cost of ownership, recognizing, that even if I could do some discounting, often these had a relatively small impact on TCO.

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 22, 2022

We surveyed over 1,000 sales professionals around the globe to find out the top sales trends of 2022, and one thing is certain – the pandemic made a lasting impact on the relationship between salespeople and their prospects. If you’re looking for a specific insight, you can skip ahead to these sections: The Top Sales Trends.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 16, 2022

Obviously, that figure has massive implications for businesses of all sizes, and several business owners are faced with a question that's every bit as uncomfortable as it is pressing: What do we do about our prices? As of March 31, 2022, inflation in the United States stands at 8.54% — the worst it has been in close to 40 years.

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Pipeliner

AUGUST 21, 2023

We discussed the shift in search behavior and the challenges people face with the new way of searching. He explained that while AI can assist marketing creatives in working faster and generating more ideas, it’s crucial to ask the right questions and give the right commands to get quality output. I couldn’t agree more.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 30, 2020

That is why Shapiro Negotiations Institute has taught for decades how to plan for successful sales and negotiations while maintaining and enhancing the relationship for future deals. If a goal of your sales team is to make better deals, faster and at better margins, then you must read (and follow) these five tips: . Use W questions.

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Distribution Pricing Journal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As price lowers, sales go up along the demand curve. If prices rise, sales drop. Understanding Price Reduction Discounting is a familiar tactic when trying to win large jobs in distribution. You also risk creating an expectation with all your customers that another discount is around the corner.

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Vengreso

JULY 5, 2023

As the world of sales continues to evolve, Digital Sales Referrals have emerged as a powerful tool for driving business growth. In this comprehensive guide, you will gain insights into the transition from traditional to modern selling techniques and understand the impact COVID-19 has had on sales strategies.

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Salesmate

JULY 21, 2020

Here are a few SaaS sales tips to help you convert your free-trial users into paying customers. Here are a few SaaS sales tips to help you convert your free-trial users into paying customers. Call them during the free-trial to check if they are facing any trouble while using the software. How you sell matters.

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