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Negotiating Like a SaaS Pro

By Chris Mele | May 6, 2014
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Saas Negotiation

Negotiating like a SaaS pro takes a careful approach when making concessions. Do you have the correct process in place for your sales team during the critical negotiation and close part of your selling process?

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Combating the Nibble

By Chris Mele | March 2, 2014
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What Is Nibble Negotiation

When a prospect that’s about to close asks for something (a Nibble), do you know how to combat it?

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Look to the Basics to Accelerate Sales

By Chris Mele | April 11, 2013
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Accelerate Sales

Many executives wonder why sales aren’t coming as fast or as easily as they should – despite their best efforts to focus on the right customers with the right product and the right benefits. One possibility that’s often overlooked is at the heart of a pricing model.

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Questions to Ask Before Offering Customers More Choices

By Chris Mele | April 11, 2012
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Questions to Ask Before Offering Customers More Choices

To attract new customers both SaaS and traditional software companies are now becoming much more flexible in how they deliver, price, and collect payment for their offerings.

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Getting the Most from Your Product Packaging?

By Chris Mele | October 11, 2011
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Getting the Most from Your Product Packaging?

Packaging can be used to enter new markets or make further inroads into existing markets and customers. It can also be used to address specific needs within a customer segment.

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7 Ways to Increase Fall Sales

By Chris Mele | September 11, 2011
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7 Ways to Increase Fall Sales

The pace of business is picking up as the Fall buying season begins – making now the perfect time to get new customers. As you address this near-term opportunity, be sure to consider actions that can pave the way for future, enterprise-scale sales.

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Why Trust is Crucial When Selling SaaS Solutions

By Chris Mele | January 11, 2011
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Why Trust is Crucial When Selling SaaS Solutions

How many times have you or a sales colleague wondered “Why is this deal taking so long to close?” There are many reasons but we’d like to focus on one that is rarely discussed: The customer doesn’t trust they are getting a fair deal – and maybe they don’t have enough trust in you.

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Why All-You-Can-Eat Licensing Can Cause Indigestion

By Chris Mele | August 30, 2010
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Why All-You-Can-Eat Licensing Can Cause Indigestion

If you are involved in large, unlimited software license deals, you may be leaving a lot of money on the table unnecessarily.

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The Challenges with SaaS Revenue Forecasting

By Chris Mele | August 11, 2010
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Revenue Forecasting

Whether yours is a new SaaS business or an established business adding or moving to SaaS, revenue forecasting can be especially challenging. In more traditional pricing models, large amounts of money are paid up front and most of the customer lifetime value is realized in short order. In SaaS, however, it’s very different.

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Will Virtualization End Hardware-Based Pricing Metrics?

By Chris Mele | October 11, 2000
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Will Virtualization End Hardware-Based Pricing Metrics?

The virtualization trend is growing and changing the software industry. Research pundits, like Gartner, predict virtualization will quickly affect how customers and vendors think about software pricing and licensing. Is your current pricing model keeping up with industry trends?

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