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SEM unit 7
terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Business-to-business (B2B) marketing | : Involves activities one business makes in effort to sell their products and services to another business, rather than to the individual consumer. |
| Cold Calling | : a sales professional’s effort to generate new business through outgoing telephone calls without any previous communication with the prospective customer. |
| Collaborative Selling: | where the salesperson and client take time to understand one another and develop a relationship according to the salesperson’s offer and the client’s needs. |
| Customer Benefits: | the advantages or personal satisfaction a customer will get from a good or service. |
| Customer Retention: | the process of building loyalty and trust to maintain a solid base of core customers. |
| Customer Service: | The action taken by the seller to make the relationship between the organization and its customers satisfactory. |
| E-Commerce: | the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet or other digital platforms. |
| Event promotions:. | promotions that focus on a single event, as opposed to multiple events |
| Feature-Benefit Selling: | Involves matching specific product attributes to a customer’s needs and wants. |
| Full Menu Marketing: | the selling of a variety of products or services that meet virtually any customer needs and/or wants. |
| Full season promotions: | promotions that take place at every game, match or event throughout an entire season. |
| In-game promotions: | promotions that take place on the playing field and typically occur when there is a break in the action, like half-time. |
| In-venue promotions: | promotions that take place at areas within a facility not directly associated with the playing field. |
| Media promotion: | any promotional activities that involve a media sponsor or tie-in. |
| Networking: | when a group of like-minded business professionals gather to help each other to cultivate sales. |
| Objections: | A prospective customer’s concerns or hesitations in making a purchase decision. |
| Offsite promotions: | any promotional activities that occur away from an organization’s facility, venue, or offices. |
| Onsite promotion: | promotions that take place at or around a venue on game or event days. |
| Personal Selling: | Any person-to-person communication in which the seller has an opportunity to influence the consumer’s buying decisions. |
| Product Attributes: | (or features) are the basic, physical, and extended characteristics of an item. |
| Promotion Mix: | Any combination of advertising, sales promotion, publicity, direct marketing, and personal selling. |
| Promotion: | Any form of communication used to inform, persuade, or remind people about company products or services. |
| Proposal: | A written recommendation of products or services his or her organization may offer to meet those customer needs uncovered in the needs analysis. |
| Prospecting: | the process of consistently researching for and seeking out new customers for an organization’s products and services. This is a very detail-oriented process requiring careful research and analysis. |
| Referrals: | when an existing customer recommends another organization or individual to a sales professional as a potential customer. |
| Sales promotion: | activities or communications that encourage consumers to purchase products or services. |
| Sales: | The process of determining customer needs and wants through planned, personalized communication intended to influence purchase decisions and ensure satisfaction. |
| Team Selling: | a variation of collaborative selling that includes multiple people from the selling or buying organization, or both. |
| Transactional Selling: | where the salesperson and client have limited interaction and the sale is based mostly on price or a specific element |
| Upselling: | The process of selling additional products to a customer at the time of the order. |