CHAPTER 14 INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS: PERSONAL SELLING AND DIRECT MARKETING MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 1. __________________ is quoted as saying that “everyone lives by selling something.” a. Bill Gates b. Robert Louis Stevenson c. Arthur Miller d. Henry Ford Answer: (b) Difficulty: (2) Page: 513 2. All of the following were characterizations of salespeople brought about by Arthur Miller’s Death of Salesman and Meredith Wilson’s
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Relational Sales - Focusing on Your Customers’ Needs Facilitating the Customer’s Decision to Buy In an increasingly competitive business climate‚ customers are faced with a multitude of alternative products and vendors. A traditional approach based on "closing the sale" may be inefficient and even counter-productive. In today’s markets‚ customers need customized solutions to their needs. Rather than being sold to‚ customers want to buy. In relational sales the emphasis is on building and maintaining
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1. It is important for a sales person to anticipate buyers concerns and objectives because it shows that you have concerns as well and as a sales person you must generate the correct information to help buyers understand there interest. 2. There are multiple numbers of objectives‚ but only a few are more difficult to handle and they fall in this categories needs objection‚ product or service objectives‚ company or source objections‚ price objections and time objectives. 3. The direct denial
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Summary – Shock advertising Generation X is society’s trendiest group‚ it is realistic and under the age of thirty. Advertisers have recently discovered this segment and are willing to sell directly to them now‚ but also would like to start a relationship that goes beyond this generation. The problem is that Generation X doesn’t trust advertisers‚ they are aware of the fact that there are companies willing to sell them products they don’t want. These companies are desperate to reach this new segment
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Online Selling Online shopping or e-shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser. Alternative names are: e-web-store‚ e-shop‚ e-store‚ Internet shop‚ web-shop‚ web-store‚ online store‚ online storefront and virtual store. Mobile commerce (or m-commerce) describes purchasing from an online retailer’s mobile optimized online site or app. An online shop evokes the physical analogy of buying
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James O’Connor: Selling Nature Let’s start by posing a couple of questions. First‚ what is humanity’s relationship to nature? Second‚ what is capitalism? If you stop and think about it‚ there is something odd about the first question. At first glance it appears to be similar to asking “what is your relationship to your car?” This is a question we might ask of somebody who spends too much time customizing his or her car. And the question is reasonable. But what I want you to see is that the question
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Promotion Mix • Personal Selling‚ Product‚ Sales Promotion The promotion mix was great going into the 21st century. There is not much personal selling in Krispy Kreme. Instead‚ customers come in with the brand awareness of the doughnuts. The store emphasizes its original glazed doughnuts but other than that not much personal selling goes on. Product giveaways are held at grand openings to improve knowledge of Krispy Kreme products. On certain occasions Krispy Kreme sells a special flavored doughnut
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CHAPTER 1: THE AGE OF SELLING‚ SELLING AND SALESPEOPLE SELLING IS PERVASIVE The pervasiveness of selling in practically all human endeavors‚ occupations‚ preoccupations‚ and professions that require contact and engagement with people is by itself a compelling reason to formally study the art and science of selling. It is an art because it requires skills that have to be constantly practiced to achieve‚ at least‚ a decent level of excellence or perfection; on the other hand‚ it is also a science
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and selling. Training programmes‚ enterprise development and the current thrust for competitiveness have now given high priority to promoting marketing awareness among small business owners‚ and marketing is now assuming its rightful place along with other business functions. Since early 1990s there has been a change in the thinking of businessman from product orientation to consumer orientation. Modern business concerns lay emphasis on ‘selling satisfaction’ and not merely on selling products
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develops skills for two sales techniques such personal selling‚ key account management‚ relationship selling‚ direct marketing and Internet and IT applications in selling and sales management; negotiation could be one of those techniques. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this paper is to outline the selling and sales management that occurs at Rentokil Trinidad. The paper first explains the difference between selling and sales management. It then looks at how the
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