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The Urbach Letter – January 2005 |
The Master Negotiator (Part I) How good are you at negotiation? Most folks think they do pretty well when making major purchase like a car or house. People also believe they do fine when asking for a raise or promotion… or when finding common ground during family disputes. Sure. Just like most people (us men especially), believe we’re excellent drivers, gourmet cooks, good listeners, adept decision makers, etc., that belief doesn’t square with reality. In actual fact, most people are lousy drivers, terrible cooks, bad listeners, poor decision makers, and simply awful negotiators. I can’t help with your driving or cooking, but I can help you become a much better negotiator. Do you think that’s important? Becoming a master negotiator? Hell yes it is! I can think of few skills with a higher payoff. Even though negotiation encompasses much more than just getting the best price, I'll use that as a simple example. Let’s say you’re a reasonably well compensated individual, making a hundred bucks an hour. If you’re buying a new car or boat or other big ticket item, it’s not unreasonable to find that employing a strategy you've invested a half-hour to learn and practice can easily reduce the purchase price by a thousand dollars. Suddenly you’re pulling down twenty times your normal rate. Great ROTI (Return on Time Investment), eh? But it gets better. Later, you can then use that same technique to save $30,000 on the purchase price of a house. Or get an extra half-million when selling out of your business. At a certain point, your return on time investment goes asymptotic (to infinity). Are you motivated yet? If not, consider this: in almost every situation I've mentioned, you're going up against professional negotiators. The people on the other side of the desk have studied traditional negotiating techniques. Don't you think -- at a minimum -- you should know what they know? Fortunately, negotiation is a skill that can be learned. No matter what your current level, you can become *much* better at it… if you’re willing to invest some time with me. But why listen to what I have to say on the subject of negotiation? Well... it’s one of the highest-value things I do for my clients. I negotiate on their behalf. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that I’ve leveraged millions of dollars through negotiation. But again, negotiation covers much more than money. I’ve employed the same strategies to gain very favorable terms and conditions, not to mention “soft” lifestyle benefits for myself and my clients. If you hang in with me over the next few Urbach Letters, I’ll teach you (almost) everything I know. A Free Mini-Seminar at Your Desk If you’re interested in becoming a better negotiator, I invite you to spend the next eight and a half minutes viewing the January Urbach Letter Video Magazine. If you’ve never tuned in before (many people haven’t), you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the mini-seminar format. You see, it’s my goal to deliver maximum usable information to you in minimum time. Therefore a shift to desktop video seminars and away from long text articles. Over the past two years, each UL ran about 12 typed pages. That’s a lot for you to read (and a lot for me to write!) each month. I’m now shifting some of my time and energy into producing even better video seminars for you. I’ll try to keep some of the fun stuff in print (cool thing of the month, links, strange photos, cartoons, web humor, etc.), but no promises. We’ll take it month by month and see how things go. Are you in? Click the button right now to begin.
January 2005 Urbach Letter Video Magazine Run Time: 8 minutes 30 seconds |
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