final Flashcards
customer service
the activities and programs that the salesperson provides to the client that make the relationship satisfying for the customer
what is the service recovery process
- research, isolate, describe problem
- try to understand client
- prepare action items
- implement plan
- dont let it happen again
account penetration
ability to work and contact people throughout the account discussing your products
3 levels of customer relationship marketing
transactional (one time), relationship (kinda stays in touch), partnering and consultative (continually works together)
steps to follow when you loose a customer
- visit and investigate
- be professional
- dont be unfriendly
- keep calling, treat them like a prospect
7 elements of territory management
- salespersons territory quota
- account analysis
- develop account objectives and sales quotas
- sales call allocation/territory time allocation
- customer sales planing
- scheduling and routing
- territory and customer evaluation
two approaches to account analysis
- undifferentiated selling approach –> same strategy cross all accounts
- account segmentation approach –> different selling strategies for different customers
ELMS system
divides customers into different sized (extra large, large, medium, small)
multiple selling strategies
1 selling strategy to multiple target accounts (usually of same ish size/category)
multivariable account segmentation
more than one criteria to characterize the organizations account
sales response function
relationship between sales volume and sales calls
territorial evaluation
making sure that a specific territory’s salespeople can meet specific quantitative results
sales manager responsibilities
- planning
- staffing
- training
- directing
- evaluating
golden rule of sales management
unselfishly treating salespeople as you would like to be treated, placing their interest first
phases of being promoted
- immobilization
- denial of change
- depression
- acceptance of reality
- testing
- search for meanings
- internalization