Present sales incentives are structured for individual salespersons ' as an alternative for a team approach. "The new philosophy is to initiate changes in business practices that will result in revisions to current sales methodologies of individual sales representatives account management to that incorporates a salesperson, a product-engineering specialist and a customer service representative with support from R& D" (UOP Scenario, 2008). Though Riordan 's Sales Department sales department processes have changed, the current incentive/bonus programs are lagging and are not strategically aligned with the new and revised programs that Riordan is attempting to implement.…
Personal selling – The practice used by salespeople to identify, research, and approach potential customers to sell products and services.…
In this task I am going to compare and contrast the personal selling skills and processes used in the two different situations. One situation is over the phone and the other one is face to face communication.…
Ans: Personal selling is where businesses use people to sell the product after meeting face-to-face with the customer. Personal selling is flexible and has many characteristics. For instance, the sales person can answer and overcome objection and focus on points of customer interests. Also, it builds relationships in the form of ensuring that buyers receive the appropriate service. Moreover, direct feedback, in this form of communication, the sender can directly gauge the feedback from the receiver. Direct feedback will allow the sender to know how well the message is being communicated.…
• Liaising with clients in all areas of sales - client interaction is vital and sales assistants working with higher priced goods will need to provide a highly personalised approach;…
Paparoidamis, Nicholas G., and Paolo Guenzi (2009). An empirical investigation into the impact of relationship selling and lmx on salespeople’s behaviours and sales effectiveness. European Journal of Marketing, 43 (7–8), 1053–1075.…
Instead of having sales people make calls, we have them undergo some training. This means we are losing sales. We don’t know how much sales we would lose. We talk to the sales manager and try to have the best estimate of what we are going to lose.…
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When one reads the definition of selling as I stated above, no one thinks of it as a…
The Duncker diagram technique is used after you have articulated your “present state” and “desired state”. It is used to generate many ideas for solutions to a problem. But it works by prompting you to not only consider solutions that achieve the desired state but also solutions that make it “okay” –with you - to NOT necessarily achieve the desired state. This technique is a good one to use when you recognize that it may be impossible to achieve your desired state completely, and therefore, you might have to consider solutions that will make it OKAY – with you - to not achieve the desire state as you have defined it. It forces you to consider solutions that would achieve an acceptable resolution to the conflict or problem.…
Personal selling is also termed as the face-to-face selling, whereby sales people inform, educate and persuade prospective buyers to purchase the company’s products and services.…
Keywords Communication, Face-to-face communications, Sales, Salesforce, Performance Abstract While the effect of communication apprehension on a multitude of psychological and performance variables has been studied in many other disciplines, it has not been extensively examined by sales researchers. This article considers communication in the sales transaction from the perspective of communication apprehension, and investigates the role of communication apprehension as an indicator of a salesperson's performance. Using ordinal logistic regression, an attempt is made to predict a salesperson's performance based on the four contexts of communication apprehension, in a multicultural sample. The results show a small but significant effect of communication apprehension on the performance of salespersons, and some contexts of communication apprehension are found to be better predictors than others. The findings also indicate that the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension-24 scale is valid and reliable when used to establish international principles.…
The principles of selling are useful to everyone, not just people with the title of salesperson.…
We all know, or at least have an impression, of what personal selling entails. As a…
Personal selling refers to retail and wholesale sales activities in which a salesperson actively presents products to customers in seeking to make a sale. Sales activities may include but are not limited to – identification of customers, development of product knowledge; marketing; promotion; prospecting; knowledge of customer service standards; gaining appointments; choosing sales approaches; meeting customers; identifying customer needs and requirements; demonstrating products; use of selling techniques; use of sales aids; making sales pitches; overcoming objections; closing sales, completing documentation, receiving payments; recording sales; using sales technologies; providing after-sales service, following up sales, sales analysis.…