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Personnel Selling: "Everybody Lives by Selling Something."
Personnel Selling: "Everybody Lives by Selling Something."
Careers in Sales
High demand but not a career for everybody,
but, good experience early in any career…
Negative perceptions
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Personal selling
Personal presentation by the firm’s sales force for the purpose of making sales and
building customer relationships.
Personnel selling is a method in which one party uses skills & techniques to build
personnel relationship with another party that results in both parties obtaining
value.
Personal Selling
Order getting
Order taking
Support Personnel
Comparison----Order Taker & Order Getter
+
Follow up after the sale is made.
=
Customer Value.
Personal Selling Objectives
Quantitative objectives:
Advantage:
1. 2 way from of communication can adjust message & gain
feedback. Other forms are inflexible.
2. Interactive nature builds relationship.( Trust & Confidence)
3. Most practical where other method can’t reach.
Disadvantage :
1. Perceived as overly aggressive & down right annoying.
2. High cost/call .
3. Trg.Cost.
4. Sales not for everyone. High turnover.