This document discusses personal selling and sales management. It defines personal selling as building personal relationships with customers to generate value. It describes different types of personal selling like delivering orders or missionary selling. It outlines the sales management process including deciding sales territories, sizing the sales force, organizing the sales structure, and implementing HR practices like recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and compensating the sales team. Quotas are also discussed as part of sales management. The personal selling process and advantages/disadvantages of personal selling are summarized as well.
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This document discusses personal selling and sales management. It defines personal selling as building personal relationships with customers to generate value. It describes different types of personal selling like delivering orders or missionary selling. It outlines the sales management process including deciding sales territories, sizing the sales force, organizing the sales structure, and implementing HR practices like recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and compensating the sales team. Quotas are also discussed as part of sales management. The personal selling process and advantages/disadvantages of personal selling are summarized as well.
This document discusses personal selling and sales management. It defines personal selling as building personal relationships with customers to generate value. It describes different types of personal selling like delivering orders or missionary selling. It outlines the sales management process including deciding sales territories, sizing the sales force, organizing the sales structure, and implementing HR practices like recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and compensating the sales team. Quotas are also discussed as part of sales management. The personal selling process and advantages/disadvantages of personal selling are summarized as well.
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This document discusses personal selling and sales management. It defines personal selling as building personal relationships with customers to generate value. It describes different types of personal selling like delivering orders or missionary selling. It outlines the sales management process including deciding sales territories, sizing the sales force, organizing the sales structure, and implementing HR practices like recruiting, selecting, training, motivating, evaluating, and compensating the sales team. Quotas are also discussed as part of sales management. The personal selling process and advantages/disadvantages of personal selling are summarized as well.
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UNIT 13
Personal Communication Channels
Personal Selling The communication technique in which sales people builds the personal relationship with customers to generate the value for the organization.
Sales VALUE Benefits
Nature of Personal Selling • Delivering • Inside order taker • Outside order • Missionary selling • Sales engineer Approaches to Personal Selling
• Stimulus response selling
• Need satisfaction selling • Problem solving selling Situations that Favor Personal Selling
• High price of the product, technical in nature
and needs demonstration. • Introduction stage • Organization does not have enough money for advertisement. • Product can be customized. • Market is concentrated. Advantages of Personal Selling
• It can be customized. • It can focus on prospective customers. • It results in actual sale. Disadvantages of Personal Selling
• It is costly to develop and operate sales force.
• It is very difficult to attract upper class people. Sales Management Sales Management 1. Deciding the sales territory 2. Sales force size 3. Sales organization 4. H.R. Practices in Sales management 5. Quota 1. Deciding the sales territory It is the geographical boundary set for sales executives to work in.
2. Sales force size
It is decided by work load method. Work Load Method consists of: 3. Sales organization It is allocated on the basis of geography and the product. 4. H.R. Practices in Sales Management • Recruiting • Selecting • Training • Motivating • Evaluating • Compensation Recruiting • Internal Sources are referred to the existing employees of the same organization. • External Sources include the following: Employment exchange Competitors organization Salesman of non-competing firms Educational Institutions Recommended classes Advertisement Unsolicited applications etc. Selecting Steps: Training Aims of Training • To prepare the salesman to discharge his job efficiently. • To tell him what to do. • To guide him how to demonstrate. • To allow him to practice or perform it. • To check him in his performance. Training Objectives: 1.Product Knowledge 2. Reduce Labor turnover 3. Improve employer-employee relationship 4. Improve relationship with customer 5. Increase sales 6. Motivate sales people 7. Reduce the expense 8. Increase in efficiency of sales people Training Program ACMEE • A – Aim of Training • C – Content of Training a. Job knowledge b. Product knowledge c. About Company d. Markets and Consumers e. The competitors f. Sales technique g. Daily Reports Training Program • M – Method of Training • E – Execution of Training • E – Evaluation Training Needs of Salesman at Different Times • New Salesmen Need • Regular Salesmen Need • Supervisors Need Training Methods Group Training 1. Lecture Method 2. Audio-Visual Method 3. Discussion Method 4. Conference Method 5. Role-playing Method 6. Panel Method 7. Round Table Method 8. Brain Storming Method Individual Training 1. On the job Training 2. Sales Manual 3. Initial or Break-in Training • Motivating - Financial Incentive - Non- Financial Incentive • Evaluating • Compensation - Direct Salary - Direct Commission - Combined Plans. Quota • Sales Quota • Expense Quota • Profit Quota • Activity Quota • Combination Quota Personal Selling Process 1. Lead Generation 2. Lead Evaluation 3. Buyer Analysis 4. Approaching the Customer 5. Presentation and demonstration 6. Providing solutions to customer 7. Order generation 8. Follow up Direct Marketing Direct Marketing 1. Telephone Marketing 2. Catalog Marketing 3. Kiosk Marketing 4. Online Marketing THANK YOU