Repeat guest Jerry Gowen is back. This time, he's telling a story about how he dealt with a common sales situation: being called upon to assist a customer in "value engineering"....often a fig leaf for "grinding you for a price reduction". In this case, there was actually an opportunity for engineering cost out of a product, but only after winning a piece of business that his company had failed to win for seventeen years.

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