Sales Management Test Review Chapter 1 * Marketing mix – product‚ distribution‚ price‚ and promotion; used to develop marketing strategy (pg. 66) * Communication mix – personal selling; advertising‚ sales promotion‚ direct marketing‚ and public relations and publicity; used by a firm to communicate with customers (pg. 66) * Role of personal selling – * Society – stimulate economy‚ diffuse innovation * Company – revenue producers (rainmakers)‚ market research/feedback
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Managing sales is not difficult while a company is small. However‚ when sales start to grow‚ it is very hard to manage enlarged sales workflow as effectively as before. It is because the increasing number of sales tasks‚ the number of regions‚ customers and products. It is taxing for salespersons to handle sales grows without a special system for planning‚ tracking‚ analysing‚ reporting‚ and controlling all aspects of sales activity‚ projects and tasks. Therefore‚ various sales management systems
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Jefferson Pilot: Growing the Sales Force Discussion Questions 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a career sales force versus an independent sales force? A career sales force that the company hires‚ trains‚ supervises‚ and compensates likely will be more loyal than an independent sales force. As the case notes‚ these career salespeople sell only JPF policies. They also learn and contribute to establishing and maintaining the organization’s “culture.” They learn how things work
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4 Steps to Sales Training That Delivers ROI Steven Rosen‚ MBA Despite the economic downturn progressive sales organizations are continuing to invest 2-5% of their annual sales budgets in sales training and development. These organizations undoubtedly will outperform their competitors who don’t invest. Training and development is one of the key factors that lead to improved sales performance. The problem is that 90% of sales training is a waste of time and money. Most sales training is an event
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Building a Sales Force Digital Think’s Business * Provided Web-based‚ self paced training with built in interactive sessions. * Ease of access through internet and company’s intranet. * Offered coursed on computer programming‚ internet literacy and desktop publishing. * Was known for its high-quality‚ in-depth courses. * 3 sources of revenue: * Catalog Business * Customized training courses for companies * Website Sales * Website sales was a direct
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The Sales Force In 1993‚ IBM’s Board of Directors decided the time was right for dramatic action. The once proud company had seen its sales fall from almost $69 billion in 1990 to $64‚5 billion in 1992. In the same period‚ profits plunged from $5‚9 billion to a loss of $4‚96 billion. In April 1993‚ the Board hired Louis V. Gerstner‚ Jr. to serve as its new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and to turn the company around. Just three months into the job‚ Gerstner announced his first major strategic
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ESSAY ON SALES and DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT “HOW WOULD YOU SELL A PREMIUM BRANDED FOUNTAIN PEN TO AN ILLITERATE BUYER?” Saptarshi Prasad Sinha‚ BBA -5thSemester‚ Amity Global Business School‚Kolkata. “Throughout recent years‚ a vast amount of money and time and brains has been employed in overcoming sales resistance
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Discuss how societal forces influence the practice and theory of management. Do you think management techniques are a response to these forces? (Samson and Daft‚ 2009:78). Management‚ as defined by Davidson et al. (2006)‚ is “a set of activities including planning‚ decision making‚ organizing‚ leading and controlling directed at an organization’s resources (human‚ financial‚ physical and information) to achieve organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner” (p. 5). According to Bartol
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threats. In the illustration of the Strategic Management Model‚ it shows how the external audit fits into the Strategic Management Process. Key External Forces External forces can be divided into five broad categories: * Economic forces; * Social‚ cultural‚ demographic‚ and environmental forces; * Political‚ governmental‚ and legal forces; * Technological forces; and * Competitive forces. Relationships among these forces and an organization are depicted in illustration
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common types of the sales force organisational structures are discussed below: 4.1 Functional Organisational Structure A standout amongst the most widely recognised sorts of organisational structures‚ the functional structure which departmentalises an association taking into account the common jobs functions. Benefits: It provides an association with a useful structure would bunch the greater part of the advertisers together in one office‚ assemble the greater part of the sales representatives together
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