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Chapter 18
Personal Selling
and Sales
Management
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Role of personal selling in a promotion program
When a firm is likely to utilize personal selling
Forms of personal selling
Variety of personal selling jobs
Developments in how personal selling is performed
Personal selling process
Strategic role of sales-force management
Challenges in staffing, operating, and evaluating the sales
force
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Personal Selling
Personal communication
of information to persuade
somebody to buy something.
The major promotion tool
Selling
16 million
people
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Advertising
500,000
people
Personal Selling as Promotion
Flexible
Focused
Minimize
waste
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Goal is
sale
Costly
Difficult to
attract quality
people
When Personal Selling is Used
PRODUCT
MARKET
Value not apparent
Concentrated:
High unit cost
Geographically
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Technical
Requires demonstration
In few industries
Fitted to customer’s need
In several
Introductory stage
large customers
of the Product Life Cycle
Scope of Personal Selling
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Variety of Sales Jobs
Delivery Sales
Inside Order Taker
Missionary
Sales Person
Sales Engineer
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Outside Order Taker
Consultative
Sales Person
Personal Selling
Professional Sales Person
Cost of Personal Selling
Uniqueness of Sales Jobs
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Changing Patterns in Personal
Selling
Selling
Centers
Systems
Selling
Global
Sales Teams
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Changing Patterns in Personal
Selling
Relationship
Selling
Internet
Selling
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Telemarketing
Automation
Scope of Personal Selling
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Staffing and Operating a Sales
Force
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Recruitment and Selection
Determining Hiring Specifications
Recruiting Applicants
Matching Applicants
with Hiring Specifications
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Compensating a Sales Force
Salary
Commission
Combination
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Evaluating a Sales Person’s
Performance
Quantitative
Qualitative
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Key Terms and Concepts
 Personal selling
 Internet selling
 Inside selling
 Sales force automation
 Outside selling
 Personal selling process
 Selling center
 AIDA
 Systems selling
 Methods of sales-force
compensation
 Global sales teams
 Relationship selling
 Telemarketing
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 Quantitative evaluation bases
 Qualitative evaluation bases
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