How to Trade Your Way to a Better Deal Without Moving Your Price | Ep 977

Over my career acquiring and scaling businesses for acquisition.com, I've done a lot of deals. A lot of these things I didn't actually learn from books. I learned them from mentors and actually seeing them do it and learning it like in the streets in the real world. Most itty bitty tactics like don't actually drive the needle. There's three contexts that you're going to use each of these skills with.

The first is with employees, and this goes both ways. If you're an employee trying to negotiate with an employer, then that applies. The second is going to be vendors. Now this also applies if you're a vendor who's dealing with customers. And then third, you've got what I would consider partners.

This is when you do deals, M<unk>A, things like that, investment. So these are kind of the three big vectors that all of this stuff applies to. So if you're like, I'm not sure if this will work for me, you for sure, even if you don't have a business, you are an employee. And if you are an employee and you don't want to use that, you certainly have vendors that come to your house and do things for you like this is the fruit of life. You have to negotiate and you get what you negotiate, not what you deserve.

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