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Rachel Harris's avatar

You truly saved the best advice for last. #5 is clutch.

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OnlyCFO's avatar

Honestly you could ignore everything else but if you get that right then you will be just fine

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Adham Bishr's avatar

The CRO running procurement reminds me of how Romans would make bridge builders stand under the bridge while they walked across to test its integrity. Incentives!

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OnlyCFO's avatar

Haha. True. This CRO got one of the best discounts we ever offered so it worked…

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Becoming Human's avatar

Another tactic is to stop returning the calls from a vendor that you want pricing concessions from, or find a way to remove an integration or lower usage for a week or two.

Any smart Saas company is monitoring usage like a hawk, and disengagement will alert their retention team. Don’t return calls.

If you can, add tags for a competing vendor to your site. They can have a bad api key, but those will also get seen.

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