Sales Tips When Negotiations with Procurement Part 2

September 7, 2009

Surviving Procurement
Part 2

Negotiating is tough enough but when you have to negotiate with someone who does it for a living, like a professional procurement person,it becomes a real challenge. In part one of this two part series on negotiating with procurement Joe and Mike discuss how to prepare before your initial meeting with a procurement professional.

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This week Guest Interview is Linda Richardson – Founder/Chairwoman of Richardson and author of the NY Times Best Seller “Perfect Selling”

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This week’s post on the SalesActionPlan Blog:

How Unnecessary Meetings Can Kill Your Sales Productivity

Salespeople are generally award based on the amount of revenue they are able to bring in. For this reason, it is in the best interests of sales professionals to only be engaged in activities that further this goal. Unfortunately however, things don’t always work this way. Sometimes, salespeople are able to fool themselves into thinking that they are being productive when in fact, they are just wasting time on tasks that don’t generate revenue: cleaning out their desks several times in a week, spending inordinate amounts of time talking about strategies with co-workers around the water cooler, and worst of all, going to unnecessary meetings. Read more about How Unnecessary Meetings Can Kill Your Sales Productivity

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