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

Sales and Marketing Management

The model provides incentives for committing to more users and more modules up front (volume). Can they commit to more technology to earn a higher percentage discount? Can they pay faster to earn a higher discount? So, we’ve paid you in the form of a discounted price based on annual, up-front payments.

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How Does Weather Affect Small Businesses?

Smooth Sale

To counter this, consider using digital marketing techniques to increase visibility online: Offer special promotions and discounts to entice customers during periods of bad weather. Take advantage of government-provided energy-efficiency incentives and tax rebates to help offset costs.

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Sales Tips: Accelerating Sales and Buying Cycles

Customer Centric Selling

Discounts offered to get decisions made for a given month or quarter can result in three (3) outcomes: Sellers get transactions and lower revenue. Buyers don’t purchase and expect discounts weeks later. If and when they are successful in doing so, buyers have an incentive to make earlier decisions.

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10 Sales training techniques every manager should know

PandaDoc

Training your team requires providing them with more than a manual and a few workshops before sending them out into the field. But don’t discount the talent of your newest reps. Incentivize your team One of the big attractions of a sales job is that pay and incentives are often linked to performance.

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Sales Training Article: Trouble Closing - or Selling?

Customer Centric Selling

The best outcome is getting orders, but often sellers have to give discounts to incent early decisions. Attend one of our sales training workshops to learn how to stop losing deals and win more business. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance.

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WHAT IS LIFECYCLE MARKETING AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT?

Apptivo

One of the most powerful tools in the conversion armory is the use of FOMO (Fear of missing out) in the prospect, by providing special discounts, limited time offers, exclusivity etc., Strategies: 1.Every Every marketing campaign should have a clear Call-to-Action to enable the prospect to know what steps to take next. Strategies: 1.Referral

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Sales Tips: "Always Be Closing"

Customer Centric Selling

Those that are willing to buy will almost certainly expect incentives (concessions and/or discounts) for buying sooner than they expected. There are few instances in B2B transactions when closing and discounting will work if sellers aren’t the vendor of choice. Less than 2 weeks from the next open workshop in Boston!

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