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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The 3 Rules to Winning Any Negotiation

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

David explains his 3 rules of negotiation, revealing a simplified process that enables anyone to close their first or multimillion-dollar deals. These 3 rules will empower you to win every deal and walk away with everything you want. He outlines the 3 cardinal rules: having a fair and abundant mindset going into it, never squeezing the other side down to the last penny, and most importantly, not doing business with d*cks. These insights will give you a fresh perspective on the negotiation process and ensure that outcomes are mutually beneficial. To get a copy of David's free negotiation guide, email david@dmeltzer.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the flavor.

0:05.0

Fouls 22 years old with the biggest deal of my life on the line, this is what I would

0:11.3

do.

0:12.3

I'd put into my mind the three rules of negotiation.

0:16.6

Number one to be fair, what does that mean?

0:19.5

Well first of all, you need to meet people where they're at.

0:22.3

You have to understand what they're doing today concerning solar or concerning

0:29.9

financial planning or concerning a piece of real estate.

0:33.9

What are you doing today?

0:35.5

Is a key question to know the fairness in the negotiation.

0:40.9

The two things that we want to find out by asking someone, what are you doing to

0:45.1

weigh concerning the thing that we're negotiating with.

0:49.1

If we can find out what someone likes about what they're doing today, or does it like

0:55.7

about what they're doing today, now we can be fair.

0:59.4

Because what we can do is add more of what they like and take away what they don't

1:07.5

like.

1:08.5

Completely separate from what we like and what we don't like, where we see value and

1:13.2

we don't see value.

1:14.9

It is the easiest and fastest way to be fair to meet people where they're at regardless

1:21.1

of a size, group, and skill of an opportunity.

1:24.1

This of the scarce perspective of the other people in the deal, if we're able to find

1:31.0

out what somebody thinks or does today and what they like and don't like, we're then

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