Selling to Big Business

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Winning Major Accounts: David & Goliath in the Concrete Jungle

If you are a smaller business, you may underestimate your competitive advantage when pursuing major accounts. Do you deliver quick turn-around for your clients? Deliver creative responses to client demands? Service narrow, specialized business needs? This is true for one of my clients who delivers specialized training. They had done a couple of projects in consumer banking when they [...]

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Selling your Company? Fatten Your EBITDA

Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Deductions and Allowances” is why you want to have major accounts as clients.

When I was retained by an early-stage services company, they needed stable, predictable revenue. Friends and family had been promised they would have their funds back within 3 years.

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Key Accounts: Where Should You Hunt?

Since you are a specialized business services firm, becoming a preferred provider to a few key accounts may make the difference between a stable income and “drought” periods.  Before you pull on your jodpurs, you’ll probably need to know: Are you hunting water or tree-dwellers? Where do they prefer to eat? Do they travel in [...]

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