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Chapter 1

Introduction to Sales
Management

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Evolution of personal selling

Partnership
Strategies
Business
Management

Consultative
Selling
Negotiation

Persuasion

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Marketing concepts

1) Production concept
2) Product concept
3) Selling concept
4) Marketing concept
5) Societal concept

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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
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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

Front Line Organizational


Sales People Sales People

Order Getters Consumer


Sales People

Sales Technical Support


Support sales People
Sales
people Merchandisers

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Sales management process

Formulation of a strategic sales programme

Implementation of the sales programme

Evaluation and control of sales force performance

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Chapter 2
Selling Skills and Strategies

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Selling situations

 Sales task and function

 Maintenance selling

 Developmental selling

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Selling skills

Effective
Problem
communication
solving skills
skills

Selling Skills

Listening Skills

Negotiation
and bargaining
skills

Conflict management and


resolution skills
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Communication process

Managing body language:


 Personal Appearance
 Posture
 Gestures
 Facial Expressions
 Eye Contact
 Space Distancing

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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

Generate alternative solutions

Decide the solution

Implement the solution

Evaluate the solution


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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

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Prospecting
Successful prospecting

50 potential prospects 50 potential prospects


15 Qualified prospects 25 Qualified prospects
6 Interviews 17 Interviews
1 sale 7 sales

No Yes

Successful prospecting
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Process of prospecting

Identify and define prospects

Search for sources of potential


accounts

Qualify the prospects from the


suspects

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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

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Closing the sale

• Methods of closing the sale


• Follow-up action
• B2B selling

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Chapter 6

Sales Organization

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Sales organization

• an organization of individuals either working together


for the marketing of products and services manufactured
by an enterprise or for products that are procured by the
firm for the purpose of reselling

• a sales organization defines duties, roles, rights, and


responsibilities of sales people engaged in selling
activities meant for the effective execution of the sales
function

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Sales organization
contd.

• a structural body through which the functions of


sales management are carried out

• sales organization always makes efforts to increase sales,


thereby achieving the principle of profit maximization,
which contributes to the overall growth of enterprise

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Factors influencing structure
• product and service related factors

• organization related factors

• marketing mix 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
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Design by territory
VP Marketing

National Sales
Manager

Divisional Manager Divisional Manager Divisional Manager


(East) (North) (West)

Regional Sales Regional Sales Regional Sales


Manager Manager Manager

District Sales District Sales District Sales


Manager Manager Manager

Sales Staff Sales Staff Sales Staff


(City wise) (City wise) (City wise)
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Design by product

President,
Marketing

Product Manager (A)

Manager Manager Manager


(Sales) (Training) (Promotion)
Product Manager (B)

Manager Manager Manager


(Sales) (Training) (Promotion)
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Design by customer
President
(Marketing)

Vice President
(Marketing)

Sales Manager Sales Manager Sales Manager


Industrial Relations Wholesalers Retail Sales

Sales People Sales People Sales People

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President

Functional Vice President Vice President Vice President


(Production) (Marketing) (HRD)

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

Eastern Sales Western Sales Northern Sales


Division Division Division

Europe Division America Division Gulf Division


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Sales Organization
Key account sales
- focus on CRM
- customer profitability and value analysis
- the few accounts give incremental returns
- national accounts

Sales process automation


- EDI – Electronic Data Exchange

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Number of sales people

Affordability method (based on sales budget)

Incremental method

Workload method

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