What Ebay Can Teach A Sales Negotiator

Everyone’s heard about the web site Ebay right? That’s where you can go to auction off any junk that you don’t want to have lying around your place any more or where you can go to purchase a GI Joe doll that you remember from your childhood (in its original box!) It turns out that … Read more

What Does “Take It Or Leave It” Mean In A Sales Negotiation?

The one thing that you never want to hear during a sales negotiation is the other side of the table telling you to “… take it or leave it.” It sure doesn’t seem as though you have any other options when they tell you this. Or do you…? The Power Of 5 Words Nothing can … Read more

Sales Negotiators Know How To Ask “How Much?”

Sometimes it’s the littlest of things that can trip up even a professional sales negotiator. In this case, we often don’t want to ask the one question that we need to ask the other side of the table:”how much does that cost”. In the end, this can end up costing us a great deal… Why … Read more

Making The Right Team Decisions Before A Sales Negotiation Starts

In order to be successful in your next sales negotiation, you need to make the right decisions before you sit down to start negotiating. If you take the time to make the right decisions then you can end up being successful. It’s not only the person who is leading the negotiation that you need to … Read more

Using The Bogey Tactic To Get Your Way In A Sales Negotiation

So there you are in a sales negotiation, you like what is being offered to you but there is one small problem. You don’t have enough money to buy it. What can you do? Walking away is of course one option; however, maybe there’s something else that you can do. It turns out that this … Read more

Why Professional Sales Negotiators Build A House Of Straw

In order to make your next sales negotiation a success, you are going to end up having to make some concessions. Knowing that you’re going to end up having to do this means that you’re going to need to have some strategies up you sleeve relating to how you want to manage your concessions. One … Read more

Sales Negotiators Need To Step Into The Other Side’s Shoes For A Bit

How are you going to help the other side of the table make a decision the next time you sit down to a sales negotiation? It turns out that in order to increase your chances of successfully reaching an agreement, you’re going to have to step into the shoes of the other side of the … Read more

Get Ready For The Hunt: How To Gather Information For Sales Negotiations

Let’s go hunting, shall we? If you are getting ready to enter into a sales negotiation, then you need to make sure that you have collected all of the information about the deal and the other side of the table that you can. In order to do this, you’re going to have to get good … Read more

What Motivates The Other Side Of A Sales Negotiation?

In order to be successful in a sales negotiation, you need to play two roles: your side of the negotiating table as well as the other. When you are trying to determine how the other side of the table views the world (and therefore how they will negotiate with you), one of the most important … Read more

In A Sales Negotiation, Ya Gotta Have A Strategy…

If you were the coach of a football team, you wouldn’t go into your next game without a strategy for winning would you? Then why would you ever consider starting a sales negotiation without having a strategy for getting the deal that you want to get? Issues = Strategy Before you can even start to … Read more