basics of sales management

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• Nature of Personal Selling and
Sales Management
• Pervasiveness of Selling
• Personal Selling in Marketing
• Creating Customer Value through
Salespeople: Relationship and
Partnership Selling
SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF
PERSONAL SELLING AND
SALES MANAGEMENT

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• Order Taking
• Order Getting
THE MANY FORMS
OF PERSONAL SELLING

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• Customer Sales Support Personnel
 Missionary salespeople
 Sales engineer
 Team selling
THE MANY FORMS
OF PERSONAL SELLING

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• Prospecting
• Preapproach
• Approach
THE PERSONAL SELLING
PROCESS: BUILDING
RELATIONSHIPS

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Stages
and
objectives
of the
personal
selling
process

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• Presentation
• Stimulus-Response Format
• Formula Selling Format
THE PERSONAL SELLING
PROCESS: BUILDING
RELATIONSHIPS

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• Presentation
• Need-Satisfaction Presentation
 Adaptive selling
 Consultative selling
• Handling Objections
• Close
• Follow-Up
THE PERSONAL SELLING
PROCESS: BUILDING
RELATIONSHIPS

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THE SALES
MANAGEMENT PROCESS

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• Sales Plan Formulation
• Setting Objectives
• Organizing the Salesforce
THE SALES
MANAGEMENT PROCESS

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Organizing
the
Sales
Force by
customer,
product,
and
geography

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Organizing the sales force by customer

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Organizing the sales force by product

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Organizing the sales force by geography

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• Organizing the Salesforce (cont)
 Major account management
 Workload method
• Developing Account Management
Policies
THE SALES
MANAGEMENT PROCESS

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Account management policy grid

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• Sales Plan Implementation
• Salesforce Recruitment and Selection
 Emotional intelligence
THE SALES
MANAGEMENT PROCESS

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U.S. salesforce composition and change

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• Sales Plan Implementation
• Salesforce Training
• Salesforce Motivation and Compensation
THE SALES
MANAGEMENT PROCESS

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• Salesforce Evaluation and Control
• Quantitative Assessments
• Behavioral Evaluation
• Salesforce Automation and Customer
Relationship Management
• Salesforce Computerization
• Salesforce Communication
THE SALES
MANAGEMENT PROCESS