Direct selling is the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers away from a fixed retail location. Peddling is the oldest form of direct selling. Modern direct selling includes sales made through the party plan‚ one-on-one demonstrations‚ and other personal contact arrangements as well as internet sales. A textbook definition is: "The direct personal presentation‚ demonstration‚ and sale of products and services to consumers‚ usually in their homes or at their jobs." Advantages/Benefits
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERSONAL SELLING IN THE MARKETING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF VANGAGE LTD) APPROVAL PAGE This DEDICATION This work is dedicated to my parents for all their love and support. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I like to acknowledge my supervisor Mr Udo former HOD of the department of Marketing Rivers State Poly technique Bori‚ for taking the pains to guide
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MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS The Roles of a marketing manager Marketing managers play many roles‚ and we can describe them with words that begin with the letter D: Detective The marketer is charged with understanding markets‚ and thus must spend considerable time learning about consumers‚ competitors‚ customers‚ and conditions in the markets. This learning takes many forms: formal marketing research studies‚ analysis of market data‚ market visits‚ and discussions with people in the markets. The
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There are a few cultural factors in international selling. Culture is the distinctive way of life of a person that is not biologically transmitted and it will be passed on from one generation to another‚ evolving and changing over time. Sales approach should be adapted for different cultures‚ with regarding to issues like Aesthetics‚ Religion‚ Education‚ Language and Social Organisation. Aesthetics is a non material cultural factor which may have an influence on the development of overseas market
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of Contents Introduction 3 Role of marketing Within the Construction Industry marketing 5 Basic Marketing 5 Specific Marketing Mechanism 6 Marketing strategies and policies for construction Projects 7 Knowledge Transfer Partnership 7 PEST Analyses 7 SWOT Analysis 9 Strengths and Weaknesses 9 Threats 10 Opportunities 10 Marketing mix 11 Relationship marketing 11 Place and significant of marketing within project management 12 The extent to which marketing is beneficial for the different
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uncollectible accounts. You can get these from reviews of literatures. You have to cite the references.) Direct selling is a type of sales channel where products are marketed directly to customers‚ eliminating the need for middlemen – wholesalers‚ advertisers and retailers. Direct selling can be conducted one-on-one‚ in group or party format‚ or online. At Avon‚ the “direct” part of direct selling also
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also covered some selling techniques. On completion of his training‚ Mathur was assigned a territory in the suburban Pune. Mathur’s territory had a mix of general practitioners‚ specialists‚ small nursing homes and medical stores. Although this was his first job‚ Mathur was enthusiastic because he believed that he had learnt a lot about Ace products during his training period. However‚ at the end of his month in the field‚ Mathur was disappointed. He had followed all the selling “steps” suggested
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The Role of the Marketing Staff DONALD R. LONGMAN Business management [S increasingly dependent upon marketing to gain enduring competitive advantage. This article describes the rich opportunities for success presented by a change rn the approach to marketing stafF work and acquisition of professional personnel for it. GREAT DEAL has been written in recent years about the marketing concept. We may expect to see much more; for competition in American industry is increasingly centered
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The role of internet in marketing In this task I will be discussing a very important subject of today’s world of business which is internet marketing. To start off my task‚ I am going to give a general idea of history of the internet‚ general functions it can perform and how the internet has generally changed the society in many different ways and aspects. The history of establishing the internet originally goes back to 1950s and that’s when it first came on the scene‚ no one ever thought of the
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Christine Moorman & Roland T. Rust The Role of Marketing As marketing gains increasing prominence as an orientation that everyone in the organization shares and as a process that all functions participate in deploying‚ a critical issue that arises is the role of the marketing function. Specifically‚ what role should the marketing function play‚ and what value does the marketing function have‚ if any‚ in an organization that has a strong market orientation? The authors take the view that though a
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