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What To Do If Your Company Is Asked To Participate In A Reverse Auction

Holden Advisors

My clients answered no, which made the decision easy. Our value list looked something like this: We were the incumbent, and we had a great relationship with the buying decision maker. We had just-in-time inventory hubs at their manufacturing facilities where we stored a two-week supply of our product. We didn’t think they did.

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Reverse Auction: What It Is & How to Crush It in Sales

Hubspot Sales

With customers having access to more information than ever, how can you make your offering stand out? For buyers, there are many benefits of conducting a reverse auction, including: Competitive pricing — Because sellers are competing with one another to win over the buyer, pricing is a major factor in the decision-making process.

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The Four Buying Influences to Identify in Manufacturing Sales

Miller Heiman Group

In the past, manufacturing sellers could succeed by working with one or two decision-makers, developing friendships with handshake deals were agreed upon at the ballgame, on the golf course or during extravagant dinners. Yet many manufacturers struggle to coach their sellers on how to identify these buying influences.

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How Construction, IT and Manufacturing Industries Can Capitalize on CRM

SuperOffice

But for businesses in construction, IT and manufacturing, there are additional aspects of CRM that can make daily tasks simple. CRM for Manufacturing. So, what makes CRM any different? This doesn’t make it easy to distinguish meaningful information from the noise. CRM for Construction. CRM for IT.

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How to define customer churn in B2B?

QYMATIX

Businesses sometimes can make a distinction between voluntary churn and involuntary churn. Voluntary churn refers to the conscious decision by a customer to switch to another supplier or service provider. This decision again can be tricky. Take a time-period that makes more sense to your business model.

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The Perplexing Power of Process & Methodology in Complex B2B Sales

Mike Kunkle

Thoughts on Viewing Sales Process Differently If I were doing process design internally, creating process for something within my span of control at work, or running engineering or a manufacturing line, I would follow Deming’s advice to a tee, to reduce or eliminate variation and deviation as much as possible.

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Five Strategies to Ensure Manufacturing Sales Funnel Success

Miller Heiman Group

Manufacturing sales leaders need insight into your organization’s sales funnel in order to accurately manage the pipeline. A strong funnel management plan is one that uses your pipeline to guide decisions about your daily sales activities, strategies and selling time spent in order to achieve both short-term and long-term goals.