Archive for Category: Discount

Three quick tips that can accelerate your sales

Here’s one more tip on, “Give us a discount”. Confidently ask the buyer, “Why?” Here’s three quick practical tips that can accelerate your sales. Tip one: Discount doesn’t have a currency attached to it. Quit attaching one when negotiating. The average seller dreads the words, “Give us a discount.” In fact, some businesses have even

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Don’t be too quick to acquiesce to requests for discounts

Doing so makes you an order taker; you are little more than a shopkeeper waiting for the buyer to say, “I want a loaf of bread,” for you to jump into action. If you acquiesce to discounts based solely on your salespeople’s feedback, then you and your sales people have a problem; you, a business

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