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3 Tips to Avoid Teaching Your Buyers to Expect a Q4 Discount

SBI Growth

Discounts become the primary weapon of sales reps. We all know the famous saying, “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” This can be applied to the way many organizations have trained their Buyers to buy, particularly in Q4.

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The High Cost of a Poor Pricing Strategy and How Fast Starters Get It Right

SBI Growth

Instead, they rely on outdated methods, and reactive discounting, leading to missed opportunities. Fast starters have a different approach by leveraging pricing as a tool to create early wins and stamp out lingering price negotiations.

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Prevent Your Revenue Desk From Becoming the Discount Approval Board

SBI Growth

If you follow our Sales Benchmark Index blog, you have read our take on enhancing your Deal Desk to a Revenue Desk in the recent post “What Do You Do When Your Deal Desk Is Failing – Set up a.

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CPQ Tools vs. Traditional Quoting: The Business Case for Smarter Sales

Cincom Smart Selling

CPQ Tools: The Smart Alternative to Traditional Quoting If traditional quoting methods are a roadblock, Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software is the fast lane. Pricing: Applies real-time rules, discounts, and margin controls. Discrepancies in discounting, causing revenue leakage. Speed: How Quickly Can You Deliver a Quote?

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It Doesn’t End With the Sale: Managing Customer Relationships

The Pipeline

Customer relationship management tools like Insightly and Salesforce make it easy to create profiles for each of your customers. If you know she has looked repeatedly at a certain item on your website, you can offer her a discount for it. Social media is another fantastic tool for staying on top of customer relationships.

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Make It Small

The Pipeline

Specifically, tools, apps and services that help my business success. The risk is that buyers will discount your claims; you need only look at feedback buyers are providing. Once they discount claims of success, how soon before they discount what they believe your product can actually do? I Wanna Believe.

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