Meetings Negotiation Suppliers 
Strategic Account Management Association
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
COVID-19 has accelerated a trend already underway toward increased virtual interactions between customers and their suppliers. Moreover, many salespeople we interviewed report that both they and their customer counterparts are often more focused, and more efficient, in virtual interactions than in face-to-face meetings.
Strategic Account Management Association
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
In business, it has created an opportunity to reflect on how companies are managing customers, and it has given customers a window of opportunity to re-evaluate their supplier relationships to determine which partnerships are truly valuable. Value Realization – This is where the rubber meets the road. We’re seeing it first hand.
Account Manager Tips
MAY 1, 2021
Successful Sales Negotiation Strategy. As an Account Manager, there's always something to negotiate. But there's a simple sales negotiation strategy that works which is. Sooner or later, for one reason or another, you will have to negotiate. Where do you sit in the spectrum of suppliers? Selling feels manipulative.
Account Manager Tips
OCTOBER 21, 2021
Always have a meeting with your client scheduled for sometime in the future. Even if they ghost you between meetings, you have those placeholders to catch up. Usually our clients are more important to us than we are to them Especially if you're not a major supplier. And keep them in your calendar. They're not always available.
Account Manager Tips
JUNE 29, 2021
Capture Strategy Tips A capture strategy identifies how to position organizations as the supplier of choice and convince clients to renew without considering alternatives. Close any gaps in your solution, meet all commitments and ensure your client is satisfied. Suppliers submit proposals to provide them. Reduce payment terms.
MTD Sales Training
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Have you heard of the term ‘integrative negotiation’? It’s not a term used often but it’s a concept that can take your negotiating skills onto the next level. Here, we discuss what it is and how you can best utilise it in your negotiating meetings, especially if you need to get to a position during win-win bargaining.
Account Manager Tips
MAY 29, 2021
In the the blink of an eye, there it is: an expiring contract, a looming deadline and a client that's already talking to other suppliers (maybe even appointed a new one) released an RFP dictating the timelines and pace of the discussion. Sooner or later the future of your commercial relationship will hang in the balance. Capture planning.
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