Session 7 DISTIBUTION CHANNELS By the end of this unit‚ you should be able to: • Explain why companies use distribution channels and discuss the functions these channels perform. • Discuss how channel members interact and how they organize to perform the work of the channel. • Identify the major channel alternatives open to a company. • Discuss the nature and importance of marketing logistics and supply chain management. • Describe the major types of retailers
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Channels of Distribution Lesson 20 Channels of Distribution Are you aware that the study material of Business Studies‚ which is now in your hands‚ is prepared at the headquarters of the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) situated at New Delhi. How did it come to your hands? Was it available at your study centre or you bought it from the market? If you got it from your study centre‚ then just think for a while: how did it reach your study centre? Actually‚ after publishing the
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overcoming poverty in the long-run. Then‚ it will be discuss further in what sectors and in which ways (the strategies)‚ do the companies selling into emerging country. We choose selling soap in India as an example to illustrate this idea. Part 1: Selling to the poor‚ the problem and its potential benefits The problem: The greatest misperception is that selling to low-income is not profitable. Even worse‚ sometimes those companies were condemned for exploiting low-income community as cheap labour
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Bibliography: M. Johnson‚ G. Marshall. Relationship Selling (2010). Third Edition. Google
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Personal Selling & The Marketing Concept Personal Selling - A Definition and a Philosophy Personal Selling is a process of developing relationships; discovering needs; matching the appropriate products with these needs; and communicating benefits through informing‚ reminding‚ or persuading. The development of a personal selling philosophy for the information age involves three prescriptions: 1) Adopt marketing concept. 2) Value personal selling. 3) Assume the role of a problem solver or partner
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for your product to be known in the market. Lastly‚ the place or the channels of distribution. A product should be offered in a convenient place where the buyers will have easy access to those products or services. Today‚ a lot of ways of distributing the products to the buyers for consumption are being developed. Businesses are establishing channel design or decisions associated with forming new or altering existing channels. But some companies do not have the right structure for the distribution
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right quantity. The process of making goods available to the consumer needs effective channel of distribution. Therefore‚ the path taken by the goods in its movement is termed as channel of distribution. The goods may be sent to the consumer directly or indirectly through middlemen. The channel of distribution may be classified as: Selling through direct channels This is the oldest‚ shorter and the simple channel of distribution. The producer sells the product directly without involvement of any
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DISTRIBUTION DEFINITION A distribution channel is a set of independent organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available to the consumer or a business user. IMPORTANCE OF DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS The main function of a distribution channel is to provide a link between production and consumption. Organisations that form any particular distribution channel perform many key functions: Information Gathering and distributing market research and intelligence - important
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Personal Selling‚ relationship building and sales management Personal selling‚ unlike advertising or sale promotion‚ involves direct relationships between the seller and the prospect or customer. In a forma sense‚ personal selling can be defined as a two-way flow of communication between a potential buyer and a salesperson that is designed to accomplish at least three tasks: (1) identify the potential buyer’s needs; (2) match those needs to one or more of the firm’s products or services; (3) on
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Question 1 Personal Selling Process My personal selling process consists of the following nine steps: 1. Prospecting 2. Pre-approach 3. Approach 4. Presentation 5. Trial Close 6. Objections 7. Meeting objections 8. The Close 9. Follow up and Service Step 1: Prospecting Prospecting‚ involves the Money‚ Authority‚ Desire (M.A.D) approach. Firstly I analysed my prospective clients to ensure that they had the money‚ authority and desire to purchase the products I was selling. Upon analysis I
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