After reading Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People, by G. Richard Shell, I thought about how every time an author engages someone about their book, there is actually a negotiation taking place. Granted, one is not negotiating the purchase of a car or world pace, but they are interacting in a way where a transaction could take place.
Are you looking to sell your book to an individual? Perhaps you are swaying a bookstore to carry your book? Might you want to convince a group to host you as a speaker? How about the news media - do you want them to cover the book? Could you want someone to follow you on a social media platform?
Any and all of these things involves negotiation -- the power of persuasion and how you market your book or comport yourself. How will you negotiate?
In Shell’s book, he identifies a foundation of six effective negotiation elements. Let’s look at them, as they could relate to your book:
1. Bargaining Style
How does your personality affect your approaches to negotiation? Are you shy or chatty? Do you speak with confidence? Do you sound friendly? Do you show an interest in their needs, desires, or concerns?
2. Goals and Expectations
The beliefs that you have about what is possible or probable --and of what you deserve - can shape your approach.
3. Authoritative Standards & Norms
How do you see and treat others? Do you project yourself to be an authority or expert?
4. Relationships
Do you act consistently in a way one expects you to? Are you fair, trustworthy, and helpful in your dealings?
5. The other Party’s Interests
Do you protect your self-interests but also come off as respecting the needs of others? Know what moves others.
6. Leverage
What can you use to bring people to embrace your views? Are you fearful or at the mercy of someone that you are interacting with?
Some of the ways to think about how you interact with others should include the following:
- Think win-win; not just win.
- Ask lots of questions- show an interest in them and learn information that can be used to your advantage.
- Rely on fair practices and standards, especially ones the other accepts or expects.
- Always acknowledge the other party -- make them feel cared about.
- Hidden psychological strategies will be used in any good negotiation.
- Be willing to shed unhelpful assumptions.
- Let people feel they earned a concession even if you are willing to give it to them.
- Stay within ethical boundaries of behavior.
- Prepare, exchange information, bargain, and then commit to what you want and are willing to give in exchange.
- Let people see your passion and good will.
- Let others feel they are helping you without compromising themselves.
- Shoot for more than you could hope to get.
- Show good faith by giving something away of no real consequence, or make a promise to do them a favor.
- Seek common ground and try to see how your values align with theirs.
- Get them to like you and see you as a human being.
- Anticipate what others might demand, ask, or push for, and decide how you will handle them.
- Get people to YES by getting small things agreed on early in the discussion. Find common ground even on issues unrelated to your book.
- Always assuage the ego of another.
- Give others the feeling they lose something if they
don’t say yes to you.
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