Showing posts with label negotiating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negotiating. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Warren Buffett's Four Tips for Closing the Deal

Small businesses have limited resources and every decision is crucial. You need to know when to jump on an opportunity and when it’s too good to be true. And no one knows how to do this better than uber businessman Warren Buffett.

In the book “How To Close A Deal Like Warren Buffett,” authors Tom Searcy and Henry Devries examine Buffett’s decision-making traits to see what he looks for when closing deals.

“Warren is famous for doing enormous deals with as little information as a few pages of business plans and the standard financials that a company would submit to a bank in order to qualify for a loan,” Searcy and Devries write, adding that business leaders can use this set of principles and effective strategies to gain “explosive, major growth” for their own businesses. Here are four ways to follow Buffett’s lead when it comes to closing deals for your own company.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

5 Tips to Win Any Negotiation

If you're a new small business trying to get off the ground, the ability to negotiate is crucial. You will have to make your arguments against much bigger, more powerful entities, so it's essential that you know the science behind negotiation skills and how they affect the other party's psyche. Here's what you need to know to come out on top.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

15 Negotiation Tactics for Startup Owners

Confidence Is Crucial

Question: What is the most important negotiating skill that you have learned as an entrepreneur?

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

How to Negotiate a Complex Deal

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With simple products, negotiation is all about price. With complex deals, though, there are often competing priorities–things like delivery schedules, support capabilities, financial targets, and so forth.

If you're going to negotiate the proverbial win/win deal, you'll need to understand where you are now, where you need to be, and how you plan to get there. This is only possible if you make the following four decisions before you actually sit down at the negotiating table.

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Saturday, May 5, 2012

How to Improve Your Negotiating Skills

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Every day is a negotiation for an entrepreneur. Whether advancing a cause, making a request, or persuading others of the merits of our view, negotiating for what we want--often and effectively--is a survival technique for a business owner. We can use it to go after what we want, to create options where there were previously none, and we can use it to defend what is ours and what we need. Perhaps the best news of all, this is a skill that can be learned.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

4 Rules of Successful Negotiation

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Negotiation is part of our everyday lives. We negotiate with our kids about homework, haggle with the farmers' market seller over prices and work out who will clean the dirty dishes at home. Small-business negotiations happen all the time with vendors, employees and customers.

Despite the media's portrayal of contentious negotiations (think pro sports lockout), it's possible to negotiate calmly and come to an agreement that satisfies both parties. Michael E. Sloopka, the negotiating coach, explains how to do it.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Do You Make These 5 Common Negotiating Mistakes?

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Negotiations are key for successful freelancers. Nearly every project starts with negotiations (or if it doesn’t, it should). Freelancers who can’t negotiate a profitable deal are at risk for losing money, or even worse, going out of business.

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