Day 1 + 2 Flashcards
Describe the Sales Management Model
1) Describing the Personal Selling Function
2) Defining the Strategic Role of the Sales Function
3) Developing the Salesforce
4) Directing the Salesforce
5) Determining Salesforce Effectiveness and Performance
Define Personal Selling
-occurs when a sales rep. meets with a potential client for the purpose of transacting a sale
From Transactions
To relationships
fron individuals
to Teams
From Sales Volume
to Sales Productivity
From Management
to Leadership
From Administrative
To Entrepreneurial
From Local
to Global
Explain from Transactions to Relationships
- transaction selling model -> relationship-oriented sales approaches
- salespeople build relationships by solving problems, providing opportunities and adding value over a period of time
- some customers demand a relationship approach -> suppliers must adhere to that
- may lead to higher customer acquisition costs
- but through that the customer is bound longer to the company/supplier -> it´s cheaper to gain revenues from an existing customer than acquiring new ones
- customer tailored solutions
Explain from individuals to Teams
-in many situations, no one person possesses the knowledge and skills needed to
identify and solve als customers problems
-may be a combination of salesperson, technician and account manager
-teamwork may be among individuals, sales and marketin dep. or functions within the business
-75% of componies utilize some type of sales teamwork
-often bigger customers are serviced from a bigger sales team
Describe Core Selling Team
- relatively permanent and customer-focused
- membership determined by job assignment to a pecific buying organisation
- membership rel. stable
- one team per buying unit
- mission is strategic with respect to buying organization
Describe a Selling team
- rel. temporary, transaction-focused group
- membership determined by involvement in sales transaction for a particular good or service
- membership very fluid
- mission is tactical with respect to the sales opportunity
Describe from Sales Volume to Sales Productivity
- sales productivity includes the costs associated with generating sales and serving the customers
- good measure might be the contribution margin
- keep costs for training etc. low (e.g. digital learing)
- try to shift from transactional to relationship based sales
- to do more with less
Describe from Management to leadership
- many organizations are hierarchical and bureaucratical structured
- all levels of the sales structure have to report to the level above them and are responsible for the supervised sales people
- sales manager should lead their subordinates
- help salespeople perform better and less control and evaluate people
How can a sales manager lead?
collaboration instead control coaching instead criticism empowerment instead domination sharin information instead witholding it adapting to individual salespeople instead treating everyone the same
Describe from Administrative to Entrepreneurial
- proactiveness, risktaking, innovation
- do not just respond to whatever happen but make things happen
- look for and pursue opportunities and leverage resources in unique ways
characteristics of an entrepreneurial sales organization
- creativity
- innovation
- empowerment
- strategy
- technology
- collaboration
Describe how an entrepreneurial sales organization might look like
- have a flat (no) hierarchy
- work gets done by small teams
- sales leaders guide and coach their colleagues
- teams can develop their own strategies