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MKTG 250 Ch. 21
Vocab Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personal selling | the two-way flow of communication between a buyer and seller, often in a face-to-face encounter, designed to influence a person’s or group’s purchase decision. |
| Sales management | consists of planning the selling program and implementing and evaluating the personal selling effort of the firm. |
| Relationship selling | the practice of building ties to customers based on a salesperson’s attention and commitment to customer needs over time. |
| Order taker | processes routine orders or reorders for products that were already sold by the company. |
| Order getter | sells in a conventional sense and identifies prospective customers, provides customers with information, persuades customers to buy, closes sales, and follows up on customers’ use of a product or service. |
| Personal selling process | Consists of sales activities occurring before, during, and after the sale itself, consisting of six stages: (1) prospecting, (2) preapproach, (3) approach, (4) presentation, (5) close, and (6) follow-up. |
| (1) Prospecting stage | Identify and qualify prospects. |
| (2) Preapproach stage | Preparing for the sales call. |
| (3) Approach stage | The initial meeting with the prospect. |
| (4) Presentation stage | At the core of the selling process. |
| (5) Close stage | Asking for the order. |
| (6) Follow-up stage | Solidifying the relationship. |
| Stimulus-response presentation | a sales presentation format that assumes that given the appropriate stimulus by a salesperson, the prospect will buy. |
| Formula-selling presentation | A sales presentation format that consists of information that must be provided in an accurate, thorough, and step-by-step manner to inform the prospect. |
| Need-satisfaction presentation | A sales presentation format that emphasizes probing and listening by the salesperson to identify needs and interests of prospective buyers. |
| Trial close | make decision on some aspect of the purchase |
| Assumptive close | Consider choices for delivery, warranty, and so on. |
| Urgency close | Emphasize the importance of timeliness. |
| Geography salesforce structure | Uses regions, simplest structure. |
| Customer salesforce structure | Used for different marketers and buyers. |
| Product salesforce structure | Specific expertise is needed. |
| Compensation | Straight salary, straight commission, combination, nonmonetary rewards. |
| Salesforce automation (SFA) | the use of computer, information, communication, and Internet technologies to make the sales function more effective and efficient. |
| Marketing automation | Applies systems and technologies, including AI algorithms, to provide insights to salespeople. |