Personal Selling A Strategy Guide Ali Al-Kubaisi 12-F Intro Personal selling is a form of selling that many companies rely on heavily to promote and move their products. The personal selling process involves seven steps that a salesperson must go through with most sales. Understanding these seven steps can help improve your individual sales or the sales of your company. Personal selling is especially important in large‚ sometimes even multi-million‚ business deals because if a corporation
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Sales Force of a company is often called the ’face of the company’ because they are the ones who actually face customers on the behalf of their business. And in terms of an insurance company‚ the sales force would be considered an important aspect of the business. Therefore‚ the need of effectively managing the insurance sales force also rises in importance. Effectively evaluating the performance of the sales force is necessary to figure out the loopholes in the performance and to devise ways to
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A Five Stage Personal Selling Process. Stage One - Prospecting. Prospecting is all about finding prospects‚ or potential new customers. Prospects should be ’qualified‚ ’ which means that they need to be assessed to see if there is business potential‚ otherwise you could be wasting your time. In order to qualify your prospects‚ one needs to: Plan a sales approach focused upon the needs of the customer. Determine which products or services best meet their needs. In order to save time‚ rank the
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Introduction. Sales Force Automation is a technique of using software to automate the business tasks of sales‚ including order processing‚ contact management‚ information sharing‚ inventory monitoring and control‚ order tracking‚ customer management‚ sales forecast analysis and employee performance evaluation(Thomas‚ M.S & Michael‚ S.M 1996). This revolution that is sweeping through society is changing the nature of selling. For last 150 years‚ traditional selling process bases on the two ways communications
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Personal sales is executed with a combination and deep understating of the marketing approach‚ persuasion techniques and utilizing emotional intelligence to match specific needs of the product-customer relationship. Building a service based product such as most in the hospitality sector‚ personal sales happens along every step from a guest booking a reservation to the check out ensuring in quality relationship. By the use of sales management with organized structure and personal selling with the
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The Selling Process Objectives Objections Why objections Types of objections Handling objections Closing the Sale When to close the sale How to close the sale Problems with closing the sale The Eight Steps of the Selling Process. Pre-Approach. Looking for customers and getting ready for the sale. Approaching the Customer. Greeting the customer face-to-face‚ or in the case of electronic sales‚ through a Live Discussion Thread or Live Chat.
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No sales person in an organization is an island. The concept of team selling has become the trend in today ’s business environment because it is successful. Team selling utilizes each sales person ’s strengths‚ enhances one ’s contribution‚ increases productivity and reduces turnover. Success in sales happens as the result of planning and effective execution. Careful coordination o f many resources are required on the selling side and the customer ’s side throughout the sales process. The goal of
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Introduction Managing sales is not difficult while a company is small. However‚ when sales start to grow‚ it is very hard to manage enlarged sales workflow as effectively as before. It is because the increasing number of sales tasks‚ the number of regions‚ customers and products. It is taxing for salespersons to handle sales grows without a special system for planning‚ tracking‚ analysing‚ reporting‚ and controlling all aspects of sales activity‚ projects and tasks. Therefore‚ various sales management systems
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Advantage and Disadvantage of Sales Force Automation. SFA is one of the applications of information technology to support the process in sale functions (Buttle. 2006). Managers and salespeople were require to use SFA technology in marketing actions such as use computer and telecommunication technology in their sale or promotion actions (Morgan et al. 2001). Some organizations believe the SFA means adding fax machines‚ automate the sales process by prepare the salesperson with a laptop‚ cell phones
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Jefferson Pilot: Growing the Sales Force Discussion Questions 1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a career sales force versus an independent sales force? A career sales force that the company hires‚ trains‚ supervises‚ and compensates likely will be more loyal than an independent sales force. As the case notes‚ these career salespeople sell only JPF policies. They also learn and contribute to establishing and maintaining the organization’s “culture.” They learn how things work
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