An Insider's Guide to Hotel Contract Negotiations Stephen Guth's latest book provides a unique insider's perspective on the high-stakes complexities of hotel contract negotiations. Covering topics from attrition to force majeure to walked guests, "Hotel Contract Negotiation Tips, Tricks, and Traps" dissects contract provisions with easy-to-understand explanations and alternate language to counter hotel negotiation ploys. Based on years of real-life experience, the practical negotiation tactics described in this book could save you tens of thousands of dollars on your next meeting and could protect you from being hit with even more in liquidated damages. Whether you are a meeting planner, ten-percenter, or just someone who is looking to get a great deal for your next group meeting, this book has something for you. Don't negotiate your next hotel deal without it!

A Hands-On Guide for Contracting in the Cloud Stephen Guth's latest book zeros in on the high-stakes negotiations of Software as a Service procurements. Covering topics from audit rights to data privacy to service levels, the Contract Negotiation Handbook: Software as a Service dissects a cloud computing contract line-by-line with easy to understand explanations, preparing you to successfully counter service provider negotiation ploys. Based on years of real-life experience, the practical negotiation tactics described in this how-to book could save you money on your next cloud computing procurement and protect you from taking on unnecessary risk. Whether you're an attorney, a procurement professional, or just looking to get the best possible deal, this book has something for you. Don't negotiate your next cloud computing contract without it!

This guide provides both a gameplan and a method for negotiating, using real-life examples, skill-testers and easy-to-remember strategies and techniques.

This book focuses on the tactics and strategies used in business-to-business contract negotiations. In addition to outlining general negotiation concepts, techniques and tools, it provides insight into relevant framework conditions, underlying mechanisms and also presents generally occurring terms and problems. Moreover, different negotiating styles are illustrated using an exemplary presentation of negotiation peculiarities in China, the USA and Germany. The presented tactics and strategies combine interdisciplinary psychological and economic knowledge as well as findings from the field of communication science. The application scope of these tactics and strategies covers business-to-business negotiations as well as company-internal negotiations. The fact that this book does not necessarily stipulate any prior knowledge of the subject of negotiations also makes it highly suitable for nonprofessionals with a pronounced interested in negotiations. Nonetheless, it provides proficient negotiators with a deeper understanding for situations experienced in negotiations. This book also helps practioners to identify underlying mechanisms and on this basis sustainably improve their negotiation skills.

Robert Mayer's hobby is collecting negotiating tricks, and over the past 40 years he seems to have encountered nearly all of them. Here, he presents 38 techniques that just about anyone can learn to use to negotiate everything from house prices to car leases to executive salaries. Nevertheless, you'll encounter some bumps along the way. Meyer has to stretch a bit for his LANCER acronym, for example, and he sometimes lapses into jargon. Despite these minor problems, he is almost Solomonic in his ability to come up with ways to divide shares equitably among parties. getAbstract believes that both seasoned and novice negotiators can learn from Mayer's wisdom. Next time you're making an expensive purchase, you'll be able to put his ideas to good use.