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Have you been thinking of buying food products online? There are many benefits that come with it. One of the benefits is that you don’t have to leave your home to make the purchase. All you need to do is to place an order on your computer and the product will be delivered to your doorstep.

Another benefit is that you can’t buy anything on impulse as you don’t have to wander down aisles stocked with appetizing food products. This not only saves you money, it also protects you from eating unhealthy foods.

Most online stores tend to sell their products at low prices; therefore, when you buy from them you tend to buy at very low prices which saves you a lot of money.

The internet has many types of foods to buy from; therefore, it’s much easier to find the specific food that you are interested in buying. Instead of spending hours trying to look for a given product, you only need to type your keyword and you will get your desired product.

While buying products online gives you the above benefits, the main drawback is that many online sellers tend to charge very high shipping fees especially for small items. While this is the case, this doesn’t mean that you have to pay a lot of money to get your food item. Here are two of the best ways of reducing the cost of the product that you want to buy:

How to Buy A Food Product At A Lower Price

Use Food Stamps

Food stamps are usually provided to families that need assistance in buying food and food products. To buy the food product using the stamp method you only need to contact the retailer and ask him/her whether he/she will accept the stamp. You should then go ahead and place your order. You should then wait and the order will be delivered to your door step. It’s good to note that it’s impossible to buy tobacco, non-food items and prepared meals using the food stamp program.

Discounts

As mentioned above, many online stores offer great discounts to their customers. In most of the cases, the online stores give discounts during special occasions such as Christmas. To save money it’s wise that you buy your food product at this time as you have higher chances of attracting higher discounts.

Conclusion

This is what you need to know about buying food products online. Remember that there are many unscrupulous online sites that are out there to rip you off; therefore, you should always do thorough research about a given site before you part with your money.

When you spend time thinking about what it takes to reach a deal with the other side of the table no matter what negotiation styles or negotiating techniques are being used, something becomes clear very quickly. If the other side is not comfortable dealing with you, if they don’t trust what you tell them, then it’s going to take a much longer time to reach a deal with them. What this all boils down to for you is that you are going to have to find some way to reach rapport with the other side of the table during your next negotiation.

What Is Rapport?

If you are going to want to reach a level of rapport with the other side of the table, then you are first going to need to know just exactly what “rapport” is. I think that we’ve all heard this term before, but that does not mean that we know what it means.

I like to define rapport as being something that is above and beyond simple trust. The other side of the table has to trust you before you can start to try to develop a sense of rapport with them. Rapport really comes down to both sides of the table having a level of mutual respect for each other.

In fact, it goes just a bit beyond this. You both have to actually like each other. Yes, you are engaged in a business negotiation; however, you are going to have to like the other side enough to be willing to make changes to the deal that is being discussed for your friend on the other side as the negotiations move along.

How Can You Reach Rapport With The Other Side?

Knowing what rapport is can be an important first step. However, now that you know what it is, you’re going to have to figure out how you can establish it with the other side of the table. To make this happen you are going to have to engage in some serious “out of the box” style thinking.

Building a foundation of respect and friendship with the other side of the table is going to require you to spend time with them outside of the negotiations. You are going to have to identify something that they like to do and then you are going to have to do it with them.

By doing this, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in the small talk that friends have with each other. You’ll both share small details of your lives and what you want to achieve. No, this probably won’t have anything to do with the negotiations that you are going to be engaged in, but it will help both of you to better understand where you are coming from.

What Does All Of This Mean For You?

As negotiators, our goal is to get the best deal as quickly as possible from our next principled negotiation. In order to make this happen, we need to build a sense of rapport with the other side so that we can more easily work with them and we can both quickly make progress towards a deal that we can live with.

Rapport is something that is built on a foundation of trust that we already have with the other side. Having rapport with the other side means that we actually like them, they are our friends. To make this happen we need to invest time in building this type of relationship outside of the negotiations.

I suspect that like most negotiators, there are not enough hours in the day for you to get everything that you have to get done, done. Working on developing rapport with the other side might just seem like too much work. However, it can pay off with such great benefits that the extra time and effort that it requires is well worth the effort. Give it a try and you just might be surprised.

I just got back from my whirlwind speaking engagements and it occurred to me that you might be interested in these recent experiences (especially since speaking in the number one way to increase to raise your visibility and credibility in the industry). In a matter of two weeks, I spoke at two different conferences. Although the topic was the same the audience for each was different.

In Florida I was the first speaker at the Prestige Products Conference. Boy, was I nervous.I was using a new and untested presentation and was the first guinea pig on the stage. I checked my PowerPoint beforehand (and carried two back-up copies) and was leery of the ever waiting glitches in presentations. Everything went well and I finished exactly within the 45 minute time period. This is something you can’t always gauge even with practice. If you get nervous and speak fast, it will shorten your speaking time. Then this leaves dead time before the next speaker and it makes you look like an amateur.

The group was great. The asked loads of question and connected with me and my topic. I got ton of business cards from members of the audience who wanted a copy of the entire of the presentation. I made a point of speaking to everyone too and asked their opinion of the other presentations.

The second gig was very different. I was the last speaker on the first day’s session. I worked my self into a frenzy after watching Hallmark, Kraft Foods and Sherwin Williams’s present programs with all kinds of special effects including video clips. Yikes, here I was with my simple PowerPoint presentation competing for attention at the end of a long day.

By this time I was a wreck, I knew my stuff was good from the previous week’s experience, but what about the “show”? I did a quick once over of my slides at the break and everything looked in order. When I got up finally to speak, after a very technical tedious program, I relaxed a little. It was really hard to read such a large audience, where they tired, bored and seemingly uninterested. I panicked when my second speech was missing two slides which I “ad libbed” and I had no bells and whistles to keep them awake. Surprise! Again, I got lots of questions and business cards even without the special effects.

The next day I spoke to a lot of the attendees about the previous day’s programs. To my amazement most felt “the big names presentations” were dull, canned or not really relevant to what they were looking for. I even got a terrific testimonial from one attendee about how I had “great takeaways” of information.

So why am I telling you all of this? It’s not the “name” of the company or the special effects that makes the presentation or the information of value, it’s what the attendees learn and hear from you that makes your presentation a success. Connect with your audience by understanding why they are there in the first place. Don’t get caught up in bells and whistles or special effects that detract from the “substance” of your program. If the material is good, your presentation will be too, even if there are a few hitches in it. Speakers are not “gods” to be worshiped from afar. Those who connect with their audience though solid content and information will be remembered long after the “fancy” presentations fade.