Informed purchasing, without wasted effort.

With Arbol Consultants, our services allow you to…

  • Filter through the sales noise, purchasing more effective software and addressing your unique needs at better rates

  • Solve for the right problem the first time around, so you’re not identifying deficiencies two years down the road and needing to start from scratch all over again, wasting time and money

  • Save your staff valuable time and frustration, so they’re no longer forced to do work outside of their scope and expertise

…so that you can get back to the work that matters

Our Services

  • Buy Better Consulting

    Dedicated to helping school district administrators confidently choose and implement the most effective instructional software solutions by conducting comprehensive analyses, gathering stakeholder feedback, offering expert recommendations, and acting as a trusted sales filter, saving valuable time and resources while ensuring that the software meets your unique needs and aligns with your strategic goals.

  • Buy Better Training

    For the district that wants to do this work on their own, but up-level their vendor and sales savviness, Buy Better Training is perfect for school district personnel to improve their vendor and sales skills through lessons on sales processes, effective questioning, potential pitfalls, and reducing cold sales outreach.

The Buy Better Consulting Process

  • We’ll provide an initial scoping questionnaire, conduct a scoping review meeting, review previous RFPs, perform contract reviews, and then compile our learnings into a proposal that is easy to understand, but easier to act on.

  • After the deep review of your current instructional program, we’ll compare its usage and success to your strategic goals and determine any gaps. We’ll identify whether current instructional programs can more effectively address those pain points.

  • We'll complete the cycle by identifying potential vendors which can provide you with the largest ROI. We'll narrow down the vendors and provide you with clear and highly-aligned specifications that can be used during the RFP process that will enable you to get the most of out of your time and money spent.

Fill Out a Scoping Questionnaire

Buy Better Training

Learn what salespeople do to move you through their sales processes from cold call to “closed”. In this in-person or online 1.5 hour training session, you’ll learn:

  • About sales process and being in the “pipeline”, helping you understand where you are in the buyer’s journey and why it matters

  • What questions to ask to uncover hidden blind spots in a potential EdTech tool so that you don’t get caught by surprise midway through the semester when it’s too late to make a change

  • How to reduce the number of cold calls/emails you get (Hint: it’s not sending them to voicemail)

  • How to turn the tables on salespeople to get them talking, and then how to pick up on what they’re actually trying to say

  • Through an example case from your district, how you could have tackled a previous buying situation and the impact it may have had