Week 9 Flashcards
Public Relations
Building good relationships with the company’s various
publics by obtaining favourable publicity, building up a
good corporate image, and handling or heading off
unfavourable rumours, stories or events.
Public Relations includes
- Press / Media releases
- Sponsorship
- Special events
- Experiential
- Networking
Public Relations departments
• Press relations or press agency • Product publicity • Public affairs • Lobbying • Investor relations • Development (Not for profit)
Public Relations advantages
• Highly credible • Able to reach many prospects • Can “dramatise” the message • Is very effective when used with other types of promotion
Public Relations disadvantages
- Tends to be under-utilised
* Used as an after-thought
Public relations uses several tools:
- News
- Special
- Written materials
- Audio visual materials
- Corporate identity materials
- Storytelling and engaging using online materials
Publicity
Unpaid exposure in the media.
Personal Selling
Personal presentation by the firm’s salesforce for the
purpose of making sales and building customer
relationships.
Personal Selling includes
- Sales presentation
- Trade shows
- Tele-sales
Personal Selling advantages
• Effective for building preference, conviction and action • Interpersonal communication • Retains consumer interest for longer • Cost effective in markets with high ticket items or where there are few buyers
Personal Selling disadvantages
• Requires long term management commitment • Cost: US & Australian companies spend 3 times as much on personal selling as on advertising
Salesperson
An individual representing a company to customers by performing one or more of the following:
- Prospecting
- Communicating
- Selling
- Servicing
- Information gathering
- Relationship building
The Role of the Salesforce
Linking the company with its
customers, and customers with the company
Coordinating sales and marketing
Linking the company with its
customers, and customers with the company
• Identifying sales opportunities • Managing the buyer-seller relationship • Providing customer intelligence • Carrying out market research • Promoting the company to its target market • Act as customer ‘champions’ inside the company
Coordinating sales and marketing
Working together - inter-department
Sales / Marketing relationships
Designing a sales force structure
A salesforce can be divided along multiple lines of responsibility
Territorial
Product
Customers
Complex
Territorial
Assigns each salesperson to an exclusive geographic area to sell the company’s full line
Product
the salesperson specializes in selling only a portion of the
company’s products or lines
Customers
the salesperson specializes in selling only a portion of the
company’s products or lines
Complex
combining several types of salesforce structures
Salesforce size
Calculating the size of the
sales force
Group accounts into classes based on size, status or other factors related to the effort required to maintain them. Determine the number of salespeople required to call on each class of account.
Workload approach in practice
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