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WBSP092: Grow Your Business by Learning To Negotiate With FMCG Buyers w/ Mark Schenkius

WBSP092: Grow Your Business by Learning To Negotiate With FMCG Buyers w/ Mark Schenkius

FromWBSRocks: Business Growth with ERP and Digital Transformation


WBSP092: Grow Your Business by Learning To Negotiate With FMCG Buyers w/ Mark Schenkius

FromWBSRocks: Business Growth with ERP and Digital Transformation

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Length:
40 minutes
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

If you are trying to penetrate an account, the involvement of their procurement department is the last thing you want to see as they are hard negotiators on price. Selling to FMCG buyers could even be more challenging as they need to move fast and make quick decisions. In 2021, most offerings are fairly competitive, so you could only do so much while negotiating with FMCG buyers. However, if you researched enough and figured out how to sell based on value, you might end up converting your accounts into strategic with a significant upper hand.In today's episode, we have our guest, Mark Schenkius, who discusses selling to and negotiating with FMCG buyers in buying environments where they need to make quick decisions and move fast. He also describes several negotiation profiles with the help of blue and red colors and how to convert blue to red and vice versa. Finally, he describes the negotiation color of various departments and what sales and procurement teams can do to win negotiations. For more information on growth strategies for SMBs using ERP and digital transformation, visit our community at wbs.rocks or elevatiq.com. To ensure that you never miss an episode of the WBS podcast, subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform.
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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WBSRocks podcast features in-depth conversations on ERP, digital transformation, manufacturing, supply chain, eCommerce, and industry 4.0. The purpose of the show is to help CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and business owners with their daily operational and financial growth challenges by taking a deep dive into business cases and processes, technology strategy and architecture, transformation initiatives, and business models. The show also offers an independent analysis of technology trends, various ERP vendors and solutions, and enterprise software mergers and acquisitions. Subscribe today to stay on top of digital transformation trends!