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3 Tips for Responding to the Inevitable ‘Your Price Is Too High’ Rejection

Success

Your prospects are concerned that later, after purchasing from you, someone else in the company will ask why they didn’t choose a cheaper competitor. They don’t want to be embarrassed by appearing to be poor negotiators. To that end, you provide them with proof, an analysis showing the greater value produced by what you sell.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

Success

Whether you are looking to negotiate a salary for a job offer or increase your salary at a current position, the key to securing an easy “yes” is preparedness. When you’re ready to have the negotiation conversation, frame your prepared research in a way that makes it easy to see why you deserve the increased pay.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

When a client comes to me and asks for a service outside my area of focus, I refer them to one of my partners, with whom I have a pre-negotiated referral fee. With each paddleboard purchase, our customers could buy a pair of RAMP skis at a discount price of $149 or a snowboard for $99.

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Career Success A to Z: E is for Etiquette

Eat Your Career

Negotiation. Etiquette can influence your ability to negotiate effectively. Conversely, demonstrating proper etiquette in the negotiation process provides unspoken—even subconscious—leverage. If someone has poor etiquette and you feel disrespected, you probably aren’t going to trust him or her with your purchase.

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The Truth About Impostor Syndrome and How to Overcome It

Stephanie LH Calahan

You shutter when someone refers to you as an expert or wants to put you in the spotlight. She has spoken candidly about her challenges with imposter syndrome and how she negotiated the feelings of fraud. Maybe you have not purchased that bold outfit you know you want. How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome.

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The Learning Tree: Books, Blogs and Podcasts that Changed Me

The Marq

I’m hoping by sharing my list, folks reading it will have another reference. All links are directed to Amazon Kindle versions of the books using the Amazon Smile links so that your purchases will benefit your charity of choice. Last Updated: 2020.11.05 Add to that podcasts and blogs, and you know you’ll have to be picky!

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To Sell is Human Summary and Review

Service Untitled

Through a survey, the author determined that people (who don’t work in sales in the traditional sense) still spend 40% of their time engaged in non-sales selling such as persuading, influencing, and convincing others that don’t involve a purchase. Frames of reference are important. ” Small business owners (i.