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Introduction to Sales
Management
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Evolution of personal selling
Partnership
Strategies
Business
Management
Consultative
Selling
Negotiation
Persuasion
2
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Marketing concepts
1) Production concept
2) Product concept
3) Selling concept
4) Marketing concept
5) Societal concept
3
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Nature and role of sales
management
The determination of sales force objective and
goals
Sales force organization, size, territory, and quota
finalization
Sales forecasting and budgeting
Sales force selection, recruitment, and training
Motivating and leading the sales force
Designing compensation plan and control systems
Designing career growth plans and building
relationship strategies with key customers
4
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Types of personal selling
• Industrial selling
• Retail selling
• Services selling
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Types of Selling
Inside Order Taker
Order
Takers Delivery Sales
People
Outside Order
Takers
Selling Order Missionary Sales
Function Creators People
New Business
Sales People
6
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Sales management process
7
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Chapter 2
Selling Skills and Strategies
8
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Selling situations
Maintenance selling
Developmental selling
9
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Selling skills
Effective
Problem
communication
solving skills
skills
Selling Skills
Listening Skills
Negotiation
and bargaining
skills
11
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Process of listening
Attention
Interpretation
Remembrance
Evaluations
Response Action
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Levels of listening
Feedback
Paraphrasing
Clarifications
Emphatic listening
Active Listening
Barriers to Listening !
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Conflict management skills
Models of conflict
Components of conflict
The conflict resolution process:
- lumping
- avoidance
- coercion
- meditation
- conciliation
- arbitration
- adjudication
- negotiation
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Negotiation skills
• Situation and timing for negotiations
• Formulation for a bargaining strategy
• The theory and strategy of principle
negotiations
- separate the people from the problem
- focus on interests, not on positions
- invent options for mutual gains
- insist on objective criteria
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Problem solving skills
• Habit I: be proactive
• Habit 2: begin with an end in mind
• Habit 3: put first things first
• Habit 4: think win–win
• Habit 5: seek first to understand, then to
be understood
• Habit 6: synergize
• Habit 7: renewal
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Problem solving process
Define the problem
The Selling
The Selling Process
Process
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Stages in the selling process
Pre-
Pre-sale approach Approach to
Prospecting before the
preparation the customer
interview
Handling
Follow up Closing the Customer Sales
action Sale Objections Presentation
19
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Prospecting
Successful prospecting
No Yes
Successful prospecting
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Process of prospecting
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Methods of prospecting
Cold canvassing
Endless chain customer referral
Prospect pool
Centers of influence
Non competing sales force
Observation
Friends and acquaintances
Lists and directories
Direct mail
Telemarketing
Trade shows and demonstrations
22
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Closing the sale
23
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Chapter 6
Sales Organization
24
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Sales organization
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Sales organization
contd.
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Factors influencing structure
• product and service related factors
• external factors:
- the speed of market change
- reduction in the number of vendors per
buyer
- closer to customer relationships
- changes in regulations and international
practices
27
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Design by territory
VP Marketing
National Sales
Manager
President,
Marketing
Vice President
(Marketing)
30
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President
Geographic
Marketing Manager Combined Marketing Manager
International
India
Sales Org. Design
G.M G.M G.M
Consumer care International Sales International Sales
Customer
Divisional Manager Divisional Manager Divisional Manager
Soaps Paper Food Product
32
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Number of sales people
Incremental method
Workload method
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