Diploma in Sales & Marketing Management 2013 SAMR018 Assignment 1 SALES AND MARKETING 2013 TIME ALLOWANCE: MARKS TOTAL PAGES 10 Hours 100 11 INSTRUCTIONS 1. Assignments must be typed/written/either typed or written – the important measure is that they are easy to read (legible). 2. All work must be adequately and correctly referenced. 3. No more than 25% of the assignment may be copied from the original source(s) used‚ even if referenced correctly. 4. Begin each section on a new page. 5
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Sales Maximization A reasonable‚ and often pursued objective of firms is to maximize sales‚ that is‚ to sell as much output as possible. Clearly sales lead to revenue‚ meaning that maximizing sales is also bound to maximize revenue. But as the analysis of short-run production indicates‚ maximizing sales does NOT necessarily maximize profit. So why do firms do it? Are firms unreasonable? Are they irrational? Do they NOT understand the basic economic principles of short-run production? For some firms
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ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN AND STRUCTURE * Examine customers in each market. * Determine the types of sales jobs needed to serve a market. * Note the job activities salespeople must do. * Design sales jobs around customers. * Set up the sales force organizational structure‚ which includes the various sales jobs and geographic territories. Application Of The Sales Job Classifications 1. Order Takers: wait for the costumer to order 2. Order Getters: obtain
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Assignment #2 1. No I do not think it is reasonable for to charge Pronto’s sales-force with simultaneously building and holding market share‚ an alternative would be to focusing on having the independent owners building market share and building the 2 percent to be comparable to the 12 percent‚ during this time the company-owned ones would continue to build market share and the company could have incentives for the independent owners to try and match or beat the company owned locations. Once
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Titled “HP Transforms Product Portfolio Management with Operations Research” [pic] Submitted By: Nabendu Paul (M120006MS) Christy Mathew Jacob (M120007MS) Paresh Pandurang Vengulkar (M120008MS) Patel Jay Hemantkumar (M120009MS) Navin Joseph (M120012MS) SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT NIT Campus P.O.‚ Kozhikode-673601‚ KERALA Introduction The case typically highlights the problems that M/s Hewlett Packard (HP) faced
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http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/shop_b.pdf http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/shop_a.pdf B Customer * * Return the shopkeeper’s greeting and ask if they sell English newspapers. * * Ask if they sell stamps. * * Say no‚ for England. * * Say you’d like three stamps and three postcards. Ask how much the postcards are. * * Comment that they’re expensive. * * Say yes‚ that’s all‚ thank the shopkeeper
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I. How Do Businesses Compete? （Q1‚Q2) 1. Business strategies are primarily concerned with allocating resources across functional activities and product-markets to give the unit a sustainable advantage over its competitors. 2. The unit’s core competencies and resources‚ together with the customer and competitive characteristics of its industry‚ determine the viability of any particular competitive strategy. 3. Most SBUs pursue a single competitive strategy—one that best fits their market environments
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geographic area assigned to a sales person who can effectively and economically serve customers of that particular area. However sales territories are just not about assigning geographical areas to sales persons‚ the following are the steps to follow in designing sales territories; * Select basic control unit. * Analyze workload. * Determine basic territories. * Assign territories. * Customer contact plan. * Evaluate‚ revise if needed. The objectives of sales territories are to;
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activities support sales efforts. Actually‚ they are usually the most significant forces in stimulating sales. Oftentimes‚ marketing activities (like the production of marketing materials and catchy packaging) must occur before a sale can be made; they sometimes follow the sale as well‚ to pave the way for future sales and referrals. Sales managers are paid to plan‚ lead and control the personal selling process in the organization. This is one of the very important jobs in an organization. Sales management
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SALES PROMOTION INTRODUCTION: The word Promotion‚ originates from the Latin word ‘Promovere’. The meaning is “to move forward” or “to push forward”. The aim of production is sales. Sales and promotion are two different words and sales promotion is the combination of these two words. sales promotion is one among the three pillars of promotional mix. The other two pillars are personal selling and advertising. Sales promotion is the connecting link between personal selling and advertising
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