Mark Pitts Peoplestreet is recruiting a VP of Business Development; Mark Pitts is the leading applicant. The company serves as a human resource and recruiting service. Their strategic purpose was to develop an effective‚ popular and updated online hiring search engine for employees called “LiveCard.” This is an example of horizontal related diversification. Their competitive advantage is low cost. They achieve product differentiation by providing updated and almost live information on each
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www.hbr.org The organization and goals of a sales force have to change as businesses start up‚ grow‚ mature‚ and decline. Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle by Andris A. Zoltners‚ Prabhakant Sinha‚ and Sally E. Lorimer Reprint R0607F The organization and goals of a sales force have to change as businesses start up‚ grow‚ mature‚ and decline. Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle by Andris A. Zoltners‚ Prabhakant Sinha‚ and Sally E
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Sales Contests Work if they are implemented correctly Sales contests provide a great tool for the sales manager to motivate his sales force in both the short and long-term. However‚ in order to work for the sales manager and provide value to the sales force the objectives of the sales contest must to be carefully defined. Pitfalls‚ like a "coin operated sales force" and unmotivated salespeople can be the result of a thoughtlessly designed sales contest. Lastly‚ there are a great variety of sales
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Company is catering the demand of its product W within a local community. However the Company wishes to analyse the implications if a decision is made in respect of launching product W at the state level. As a consulting firm‚ we will perform a cost-volume-profit [CVP] analysis whereby we will examine where the Company stands now and where the Company intends to be. CVP analysis is extension of break-even analysis – a situation where a business earns no income and incurs no loss. From the analysis we
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additional justifications to the cognition to reduce the conflict between them. This theory can be well explained in Mark’s behavior. The two cognitions when he was vice president of sales are: Cognition 1: Mark was held sole responsible of the sales department Cognition 2: He was an executive team member for making sales policies. These two cognitions created a dissonance. Therefore to reduce the dissonance between the two cognitions‚ he explicitly showed the unwillingness to work with the new team
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Case – Sales Oranisation ABC & Company started manufacturing Soya Chunks at Bhopal in 1995. They put up a small Extractor Plant comprising of Mixer‚ Blender‚ Extractor‚ Driver at a cost of Rs. 15 Lacs. They were buying Soya powder from Indore. Initially the sales was in bulk. They used to sell in bags of 20 Kgs each only In 1997 Sales was 500 Tonnes amounting to approx Rs. 1 Crore. There were 1 Sales Manager and 2 Sales Executives. Mostly Sales was confirmed through the wholesale Market in
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UG2 Marketing Sales Promotion Sales promotion is one of the five aspects or elements of promotional mix. Promotional elements are advertising‚ personal selling‚ public relations‚ sales promotion and direct marketing. Sales and promotion is the fourth one. Sales promotion is a fast process that makes the people to be aware of some kind of good and services and increases their interests in buying those good or service‚ sales promotion is for all kind of customers. Sales promotion is one of
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Sales Promotion Sales promotion is any initiative undertaken by an organisation to promote an increase in sales‚ usage or trial of a product or service Sales promotions are varied. Often they are original and creative. Buy-One-Get-One-Free (BOGOF) - which is an example of a self-liquidating promotion. For example if a loaf of bread is priced at $1‚ and cost 10 cents to manufacture‚ if you sell two for $1‚ you are still in profit - especially if there is a corresponding increase in sales.
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SALE OF GOODS Nature and Sources of Sale of Goods Law It is principally to be found in the Sale of Goods Act Cap 31 and certain propositions of the English Common Law. The Kenyan Sale of Goods Act is a replica of the English Sale of Goods Act of 1893 as passed in 1963. In addition to the Sale of Goods Act‚ the general rules of contract law apply to contracts for sale of goods. Contract of the Sale of Goods S.3 (1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a contract for the sale of goods as ‘a contract
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UNIT 20: SALES PLANNING AND OPERATIONS Unit 20: Unit code: QCF level: Credit value: Sales Planning and Operations Y/601/1261 5 15 credits • Aim The aim of this unit is to provide learners with an understanding of sales planning‚ sales management‚ and the selling process‚ which can be applied in different markets and environments. • Unit abstract Selling is a key part of any successful business‚ and most people will find that they need to use sales skills at some point in
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