Spiro Technologies

JULY 14, 2022

Conversations between salespeople and their prospects range from the mundane to the dramatic, as the complexity of human interaction is usually on full display. Exceptional salespeople don’t fear these conversations and are happy to follow them wherever they lead, while remaining focused on their end goal: getting a prospect to sign.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The ability to negotiate is a critical skill for salespeople. Your ability to effectively negotiate a deal is more about your ability to read the situation and act accordingly than it is about talking a prospect into doing what you want them to do. Let’s discuss some of the ways anchoring can impact your negotiations.

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Engage Selling

MARCH 28, 2023

 How do you navigate premature pricing requests? Sometimes, prospects will try to throw you off by asking for the pricing way too early in the sales cycle. Here’s the … The post Fending Off Premature Pricing first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 6, 2019

If you confuse objection handling and negotiating , you could be losing sales. . In this article, we’ll look at what objection handling and negotiating are (and what they aren’t). Then we’ll go in-depth to look at 5 techniques for handling objections and sales negotiation, so you always walk away with a win. Negotiation.

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criteria for success

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether it's to win a project or to fund a new opportunity, sales negotiation is a key component of the sales process. But as salespeople, we tend to struggle when handling prospect or client objections. That's why I’ve put together the following five-step acronym to help you and your team through the sales negotiation process.

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Salesforce

MARCH 6, 2024

There’s no better feeling than closing a deal after a tough price negotiation. Negotiation is a learned skill, requiring time for research, discovery, and due diligence long before both parties ever sit down together. What you’ll learn: What is price negotiation? Why are price negotiations important?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Q: Dear SaaStr: Should I Publish My Pricing? Transparent pricing has many advantages: It makes the sales process simpler. It allows prospects and leads to do more discovery work on their own. And it places you app in pricing context with other apps. times out of 10, at least start with transparent, published pricing.

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Closing Bigger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This sales podcast is focused on 12 Non-Negotiable Sales Truths. As a sales trainer and keynote speaker I come across people often who want to short-cut and negotiate the price of sales success. Sales Truth #1 – You can never be too busy to prospect and work your funnel.

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Spiro Technologies

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Salespeople must develop a wide range of skills in order to succeed, but one of the most overlooked skills in sales is the ability to negotiate. Lots of sales training tends to gloss over this part of the sales process, even though negotiations happen throughout every transaction. Stop trying to be ruthless.

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Hubspot

JULY 1, 2020

Negotiations come in various shapes, sizes, and scales. The term can cover everything from haggling at a flea market to hashing out a fair price for a new car to finding common ground for billion-dollar deals. Do everything you can to help yourself anticipate how your prospect is going to negotiate. Do your research.

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Engage Selling

JANUARY 5, 2023

 We all deal with the dreaded price objection at least once in our sales career. The post The Dreaded Price Objection first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader. Here’s a way I’ve found works very well to help diffuse that objection.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Like most skills, your ability to negotiate improves with practice. There’s a lot on the line during a negotiation with the buyer. You need to focus on your objectives, your prospect’s goals, potential landmines, and more. Enter negotiation role play exercises. Get Comfortable Breaking Up with Prospects.

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Hubspot

MARCH 22, 2022

A lot of time and effort is spent creating them, and this happens through a process called contract negotiation. In this post, learn about the key stages of contract negotiation, strategies for running a smooth negotiation, and scenarios where it makes sense to negotiate your contracts. Contract Negotiation Examples.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

When a buyer and seller don’t align on price, you might guess the sale won’t go through. In the 1970s, researchers studied the effect of seller ability to deviate from list price. They suspected sellers with higher pricing authority would close better deals. Sellers setting a precedent for price concessions. Don’t Cave.

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SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2025

If a prospect asks about integrations, pricing details, or implementation requirements that you’re unsure about, you’ll simply ask your AI, and it will provide the perfect answer in real-time. Imagine running a complex sales call with an enterprise prospect asking about specific integrations or implementation details.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Then, your prospect drops this on you: “We like you, but you need to do something about that price.”. What would you say that could help you win at this point in a negotiation? Excellent salespeople overcome their fear of saying no and use key negotiation phrases that protect margins and still get the deal done.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When it comes to negotiation, the goal isn’t a win… What you want is a win-win. True negotiations are all about coming to a mutual agreement on something where both parties feel like they got something out of the deal. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t “win” a negotiation by making the other person lose.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Price negotiation is central to virtually every sales process, and understanding how to properly prepare for one can be a big help in reducing stress and improving results — especially if you're new to the process. 10 Key Steps to Preparing for a Successful Price Negotiation 1. You need to remain mindful of this.

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SaaStr

MARCH 5, 2025

Maintain Financial Stability – A healthy balance sheet gives you the option to walk awayyour most powerful negotiating tool. When there’s deep trust between CEOs, direct negotiations can sometimes work better. Competition Creates Better Outcomes Having multiple bidders dramatically changes your leverage in negotiations.

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Hubspot

JUNE 7, 2023

Every step of your sales process is a struggle in its own right, so by the time you reach the negotiation stage, it can feel like you've run a marathon — but you still have a ways to go. So in the interest of showing you exactly what not to do, we've put together a handy, seven-step action plan for losing a negotiation. Don’t prepare.

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Understanding the Sales Force

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When prospects tell you that they're going with the lowest price, it's total crap. I don't blame companies for trying to buy for less, but it doesn't mean you have to sell for less, or match or beat someone's price. So what should you do when a prospect asks for a lower price? What's the point?

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Sales negotiation is a delicate art. You can quote a price, send over a contract, bank on landing a deal, and start celebrating — only to receive the dreaded email: "I'd like to talk about some of the details of this contract before I sign.". That's why every salesperson needs to have a solid grip on how to negotiate effectively.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

When a prospect first reaches out for more information, I’ve found that engagement is at its peak. Many times I’ve been frustrated trying to chase down a once-excited prospect whose priorities have already shifted to the next item on the list. Wondering how to achieve this lofty goal? AI can help.

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Iannarino

JANUARY 9, 2022

Too Little Prospecting: There are only two things a salesperson needs to do to succeed in sales: 1) create new opportunities and 2) capture those opportunities. Ninety minutes of prospecting a day will cure what ails you. That medium does not allow a genuine conversation with the prospective client.

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Salesmate

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Your sales success is dependent on your ability to handle and convert prospects into paying customers. Like all fingers of the hand aren’t the same, even the sales world is filled with different types of prospects. A good understanding of different kinds of prospects can help in developing successful strategies.

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Engage Selling

MAY 16, 2023

 Struggling to sell because of the price? Here’s the real reason why customers aren’t buying at your higher prices and what you can do about it. The post Stop Complaining About Price first appeared on Colleen Francis - The Sales Leader.

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SalesHandy

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sales Prospecting can be quite a time and cost-intensive process. So sales teams typically invest in sales prospecting tools and processes that help them scale their prospecting workflows. . It’s been analyzed that it takes a healthy volume of leads prospected in a cost-effective way to sustain sales growth. .

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Anthony Cole Training

MAY 28, 2015

Price too high. Didn’t provide the exact solution to match the prospects problem. Negotiate all of the potential objections up front so that, when you finish, you can simply ask, “What would you like to do now?”. Not talking to the decision maker. The incumbent relationship came back and matched your offer.

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A successful negotiation is like a tango. And nothing ruins a productive negotiation like one of the participants using one of the 14 phrases listed below. 14 Phrases That'll Instantly Sabotage Your Negotiation 1. The focus must always be on the buyer — yes, even during the negotiation. I’ll be honest.”

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Highspot

JANUARY 23, 2025

In sales, interpersonal skills, such as empathy, patience, and EQ, shape how reps communicate effectively with prospects, handle objections with care, and build meaningful customer relationships. In other words, hard skills guide what sales reps sell, and soft skills determine how they sell to prospects.

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Salesmate

JULY 8, 2020

The amount of time it takes to turn a lead into a customer will depend on the service you are offering, and the price of that service. Prospecting. Prospecting is the first stage of a sales pipeline. During the prospecting stage, you collect leads and record their contact information. Meeting Prospects.

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ClickFunnels

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s features What makes it unique Why it’s awesome Why it’s perfect for the target market Why the price is what it is How to use it. … Each prospect will have slightly different needs and knowing exactly how the product or service can help each of them is mandatory for building rapport and making sales. You’ve got to understand….

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Iannarino

JUNE 22, 2021

In a roleplay with my senior leader, though, instead of asking for an order, I asked my pretend prospect to give me all of their open orders, as the scenario stated that the prospect wasn’t getting what they needed from their existing supplier. In the early 1990s, I was trained by a very large company to follow that pattern.

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Salesmate

MARCH 9, 2021

Now, without a streamlined real estate sales process, it’s difficult to delight your customers and prospects. Negotiating the deal. 1 Pricing sellers’ home – Property Valuation. Before the final asking price goes to the buyer, it should include each and every cost that goes into selling the property.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Plus, how you can leverage BATNA's key negotiation tactics to ensure your business and your customers are both benefitting from a deal. BATNA stands for Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement. When you're negotiating, you need to ask yourself, 'What are the concessions I'm willing to make? What does BATNA stand for?

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Hubspot

APRIL 2, 2018

I’m looking forward to working with you [prospect].". Great to meet you [prospect]! We’d already agreed on X price. If we can come down to X price, would you sign today?”. You’re working with a prospect. If your prospect approaches any of these topics via email, drop what you’re doing and pick up the phone.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Then a month or so to make the decision, negotiate price, and sign. So there is further negotiation and discussion with the VP/SVP above them that owns the budget, but often not the problem itself (and solution to it) directly. As CEO, talk to more prospects. Try to talk to as many prospects as possible.

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