Book description
B2B sales professionals: resist mindless discounting, level the playing field against tough procurement organizations, and close the deal on your terms! Negotiating with Backbone, Second Edition definitive guide for every sales pro facing the “procurement buzzsaw” – and it’s just been updated with even more powerful strategies and techniques! Where traditional purchasing managers negotiated, procurement officials seek to dictate, through multiple tactics with a single intent: to gain unprecedented discounts and concessions. Premier pricing strategist and sales consultant Reed K. Holden gives you the powerful new strategies and tactics you need to protect your margins and get the right deal. Holden guides you through recognizing what purchasing negotiators are really up to, keep value at the forefront of negotiations, and avoiding the mindless discounting that wrecks profitability. Holden details eight strategies for all types of pricing negotiations, including approaches for negotiating with price buyers, relationship buyers, value buyers, and poker players, reverse auctions, and much more. In this Second Edition, he offers extensive new coverage of establishing your foundation of value, and developing crucial give-get options, including value-added services. This book will be an invaluable resource for every B2B sales professional, customer-facing professional, and every executive responsible for leading successful sales organizations.
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Part I: The Great Game of Procurement
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Part II: Eight Knock-’em-Dead Scenarios for Winning the Game
- Seller’s Position
- 6. Negotiating with Price Buyers
- 7. Negotiating with Relationship Buyers
- 8. Negotiating with Value Buyers
- 9. Negotiating with Poker Players
- Part III: It’s a Negotiation, Not a Surrender
- Afterword: The Now and Future Sales Opportunity
- Index
Product information
- Title: Negotiating with Backbone: Eight Sales Strategies to Defend Your Price and Value, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780134270029
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