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09/26/2025
012. Are You Easy to Do Business With?
Instructor: Todd Cohen, CSP
Level of Complexity: Intermediate/Advanced
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
This powerful session challenges distribution and supply chain professionals to examine their business from the customer's perspective. Through real-world case studies and interactive elements, it reveals how seemingly small barriers—complex processes, unclear communication, difficult policies—create massive revenue leaks. While your competition focuses on price cuts and flashy features, you'll discover how to become the vendor, partner, or employer that people actually WANT to work with. This presentation transforms how leaders think about customer experience, employee engagement, and operational efficiency by making "easy to do business with" your ultimate competitive advantage.
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Selling Through Tough Times
Paul Reilly
As a sales professional, you know that it’s harder to sell in tough times―whether it’s a recession, industry-wide challenge, or global pandemic. You may also have noticed that some salespeople and managers not only survive but thrive through tough times. How do they do it? What do they do to thrive through adversity?
Paul Reilly explains it all in Selling Through Tough Times: Customers buy differently in tough times, so salespeople need to sell differently in tough times. In this eye-opening and indispensable guide, he shows how to develop the right mindset and adapt your skills to prevail in even the most challenging selling climate. His plan includes both immediate, hands-on action plans (including six Daily Mental Flex activities) as well as longer-range strategies to ensure you (and your team) never get caught on the back foot again.
While the principles of selling are constant, Reilly demonstrates how changing your tactics in tough times will not only help you through current difficulties but help you emerge stronger. You’ll discover how to redefine value in customer terms, reposition products and services, and how employ different persuasion tactics. You’ll also learn how to select and pursue the right opportunities, win more deals, and―crucially―protect profit by embracing the “tough timers” mental attitude.
Tough times are inevitable and often unpredictable. But in Selling Through Tough Times, you’ll find the tools and mindset you need to power through them―and come out on top.
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