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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Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion Emek Basker ∗‚† University of Missouri - Columbia November 2002 Abstract The phenomenal expansion of Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market effects of increased efficiency. I estimate the effect of Wal-Mart entry on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates and possible endogeneity of the timing of entry‚ I find that
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What it takes to be a Good Sales Rep I chose to write about what it means to be a good sales representative. I have always wanted a career in sales and am very good at it. Since I was 21 I have been involved in some type of sales career. The most interesting of all was being a sales representative for Roadshow Marketing and traveling to different parts of the United States. Of all of the places I have traveled‚ Atlanta was the coolest gift mart I attended. A sales representative can make a
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Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales‚ but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that‚ in field tests‚ deliver customer benefits that are many times CMI’s manufacturing costs. Joseph Fernandez and Rajiv Sanwal of CMI’s Engineered Products Division are responsible for formulating a strategy for the new product. A key issue is the price to charge for the pads. The case raises issues of analyzing market potential‚ aligning price with business strategy‚ and the implications
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Relationship Management The aim : v to manage customer relationships v in an organized way supported by the salesprocess v based on v methodologies v softwares v collaboration : open/web‚ integrated/company server‚ ... vResource SDRC : “0 Sales Process” PLM software 21/10/2012 2 Why do a company need a salesprocess? ? 21/10/2012 3 1 27/10/2012 Why do a company need a salesprocess? 1. “To guide company and salespeople the way to success 2. To appear a customer
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2 TOWS analysis……………………………………………………3 Country specific and Firm specific advantages……………………5 Value Chain……………………………………………………..6 Potential Market Assessment ……………………………………..7 PESTEL analysis………………………………………………..7 Porter’s Forces…………………………………………………..8 Recommendation…………………………………………………..9 Marketing Mix………………………………………………….9 Analysis the Brazilian market…………………………………..10 Conclusion ……………………………………………………..12 6. References…………………………………………………………13
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Apply quality function deployment model in after-sales service improvements: case company X Logistics Master ’s thesis Ye Tian 2011 Department of Business Technology Aalto University School of Economics Abstract This study is to apply the quality function deployment (QFD) model in the Chinese heavy construction equipment market to improve the after-sales service. The main objectives of this study are to find out how to translate the customers’ needs into technical measurements by this
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Pierre Chandon‚ Brian Wansink‚ & Gilles Laurent A Benefit Congruency Framework of Sales Promotion Effectiveness Are monetary savings the only explanation for consumer response to a sales promotion? If not‚ how do the different consumer benefits of a sales promotion influence its effectiveness? To address the first question‚ this research builds a framework of the multiple consumer benefits of a sales promotion. Through a series of measurement studies‚ the authors find that monetary and nonmonetary
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