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Marketing and customer relationship

Tariffs: negotiating to maintain margins

How to defend your margins with American customers and suppliers.


The current situation is critical for your business, and you'll soon be receiving calls from customers and suppliers. It's extremely important that you're ready. Improvisation is not a strategy in this context. While the situation presents its share of challenges, there are also opportunities to be seized. In this training course, you'll learn how to prepare for negotiation, in terms of techniques, tools and best practices.

Objectives

Être en mesure de préparer stratégiquement vos prochaines négociations avec vos clients et fournisseurs actuels et futurs.

Prerequisite

A minimum of sales knowledge.

Your benefits

  • Be equipped to prepare for and structure negotiations in advance
  • Upon completion of the training, prepare for negotiations with clients and suppliers.
  • Be proactive in the event of sudden changes in business practices
  • Content

    Negotiation starts with preparation

    • Why improvisation is a bad strategy in a high-pressure environment.
    • Understanding the impact of new trade barriers on negotiations.
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    The preparation checkpoint: structuring your negotiation

    • Define your objectives and priorities.
    • Identify power relationships with customers and suppliers.
    • Positioning and anchoring strategy: defending your added value.

    Tools and techniques for securing margins

    • BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement): always have a plan B.
    • ANC (Acceptable Negotiation Criteria): define your critical thresholds.
    • ZAPO (Zone of Optimal Potential Agreement): where is the room for maneuver?
    • Arguing with figures and concrete scenarios.

    Preparing for objections and pressure

    • How to anticipate and respond to customer/supplier arguments.
    • Techniques for maintaining the balance of power without losing the commercial relationship.

    💡 Useful information

    Our training sessions are offered in Montreal or Quebec City, in person or in virtual format. Dates and locations are provided when you select your session below. If you have any questions regarding registration, schedules, the language of instruction, or cancellation policies, please consult our FAQ .

    Duration
    0.5 day
    Schedule
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    Regular fee
    $600
    Preferential fee A preferential rate is offered to public institutions, to members of certain professional organizations as well as to companies that do a certain amount of business with Technologia. To know more, please read the "Registration and rates" section on our FAQ page. Please note that preferential rates are not available for online training courses. Discounts cannot be combined with other offers.
    $540
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