Personal Selling Flashcards

1
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Salesperson (6 activities)

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An individual who represents a company to customers by performing 1 or more activities: (6)
prospecting
communicating
selling
servicing
info gathering
relationship building

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Roles of salesforce 4

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  • Link company with customers
  • Represent company to customers
  • Represent customers to company
  • Coordinate marketing with sales
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3
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Represent company to customers role
3 main + 7

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  • find and develop new customers
  • comm. info about company’s products and services
  • sell by
  • engage customer + learn their needs
  • present solutions
  • answer objections
  • negotiate price and terms
  • close sales
  • service accounts
  • maintain accounts relationship
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4
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represent customer to company

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  • serve customers’ interest (work with others to increase customer value)
  • manage buyer-seller relationship
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5
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Sales force Management activities (APIC)

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Analyze + Plan + Implement + Control

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6
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sales force major steps
6

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  1. Design SF strategy and structure
  2. recruit and select
  3. train
  4. compensate
  5. supervise
  6. evaluate
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7
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Territorial sales force structure

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  • suitable for 1 product line to 1 industry with customers in many locations
  • assigned an exclusive geo. territory - sell the product in full-line
  • define each SP Job and responsibility
  • small travel expense
  • increase SP’s desire to build local customer relationship
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Product SF structure

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  • Suitable: numerous, complex products
  • SF specializes in selling only a portion of company product of lines
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Customer (market) SF structure

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  • Sp specializes in selling only to certain customers or industries
  • seperate sales force for different industries
    -> help build closer relationship with important customers
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10
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Complex SF structure

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  • wide variety of products to many types of customers over a broad geo. area
  • combines several types of organizations
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Workload approach to set SF sale

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  • group accounts into different classes according to classes/account status..
  • determine no. of SP needed to call on each class of accounts + desired number of time
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12
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Outside OR Field SF

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SP who travel to call on customers in the field

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13
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Inside SF

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conduct business from their offices via telephone, online and SM interactions, or visits from prospective buyers

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14
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Team selling

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Use teams of people from different departments to service large, complex account

> < competitive individual, hard to evaluate individual

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15
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4 key talents of salesperson

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  • intrinsic motivation (drive to excel + strong sense of purpose)
  • disciplined work style
  • ability to close a sale
  • relationship builders
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16
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3 things to train salespeople

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  • Types of customers (needs, behaviors, habits) and how to build relationship with them
  • how to sell
  • know and identify with company, products and competitors
17
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4 elements of compensation

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  • fixed amount
  • variable ammount (commission, bonus)
  • expenses
  • fringe benefit
18
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Goal of supervising SF

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Help people work smart by doing the right thing in the right way

19
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Goal of motivating SF

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encourage ppl to work hard towards goals

20
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ways to supervise 3

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  • call plan
  • time-and-duty analysis
  • sales force automation system
21
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Sales quota

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  • ways to motivate
  • a standard that states the amount a salesperson should sell and how sells should be divided among the products
22
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Social selling 3

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  • use online, mobile, SM to engage customers, build stronger customer relationships and boost sales performance
  • need to solve problems and give solutions
  • powerful tools in personal selling
23
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Selling process

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Steps that SP follow when selling
with 7 steps

24
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7 steps of selling process

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  1. prospect and qualify
  2. preapproach
  3. approach
  4. presentation and demonstration
  5. handle objections
  6. close sales
  7. follow-up
25
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Prospect

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  • identify qualified potential customer (appreciate and respond to value proposition)
26
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Source to find potential customers

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  • company’s leads
  • referal (best source)
  • from current customers
  • cultivate from suppliers/dealers/noncompeting SP/online, SM contact
  • cold calling
27
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Qualify leads (5 factors)

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identify good and bad leads based on
* financial ability
* volume of business
* special needs
* location
* posibilities for growth

28
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Preapproach (5 things)

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  • learn about prospective customers before making a sales call (characterisitcs, buying styles)
  • set call objectives
  • determine best approach (personal visit, email, etc)
  • ideal timing
  • sales strategy
29
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Approach (def. and 3 things)

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Meet the customer for the first time
- salesperson’s appearance
- opening lines: positive to build goodwill + key questions/sample
- follow-up remarks

30
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Presentation (Sales)

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Tell the “value story” to the buyer, showing how the company’s offer solves the customer’s problems

31
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Handle objections (4)

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  • Positive approach
  • seek out hidden objections
  • ask buyer to clarify objections
  • take objections as opportunities to provide more info
    => turn objections into reason to buy
32
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Close the sale (def. + 3 signals)

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ask the customer for an order
- recognize closing signals from buyers (physical actions, comments and questions)

33
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Closing techniques (5)

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  • ask for order
  • review points of agreements
  • offer to help write up the order
  • ask whether the buyer wants this or that model
  • note that buyer will lose out if order is not placed now
34
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Follow-up

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follow up after the sales to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business

35
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Value selling

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demonstrate and deliver superior customer value and capture a reurn on that value that is fair

= listen and understand needs and coordinate the whole company’s efforts to create lasting relationship based on customer value