Negotiating with backbone : eight sales strategies to defend your price and value / Reed K. Holden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holden, Reed K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Negotiation in business.

Selling.

Customer relations.

Pricing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Eight sales strategies to defend your price and value

Place of Publication:

Old Tappan, New Jersey : Pearson Education, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

OCLC:

927108288