Ch 13: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion DSM
__________ is a sales promotion tool used to generate business leads, stimulate purchases, reward customers, and motivate salespeople.
A business promotion
________ is the sales step in which a salesperson asks the customer for an order.
Closing
__________ is the sales step in which a salesperson tells the "value story" to the buyer, showing how the company's offer solves the customer's problems.
Presentation
Personal selling __________.
consists of interpersonal interactions with customers and prospects to make sales and maintain customer relationships
A(n) __________ is salespeople who conduct business from their offices via telephone, the Internet, or visits from prospective buyers.
inside sales force
__________ is a sales promotion tool used to persuade resellers to carry a brand, give it shelf space, promote it in advertising, and push it to customers.
A trade promotion
__________ refers to creating a brand-marketing event or serving as a sole or participating sponsor of events created by others.
Event marketing
_______ is the sales step in which a salesperson follows up after the sale to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business.
Follow-up
__________ is using teams of people from sales, marketing, engineering, finance, technical support, and even upper management to service large, complex accounts.
Team selling
A(n) __________ is a sales force organization in which salespeople specialize in selling only to certain customers or industries.
customer sales force structure
A territorial sales force structure is a sales force organization ________.
that assigns each salesperson to an exclusive geographic area in which that salesperson sells the company's full line
During the approach step, _______.
the salesperson should know how to meet and greet the buyer and get the relationship off to a good start
__________ is a sales promotion tool used to boost short-term customer buying and involvement or enhance long-term customer relationships.
A consumer promotion
__________ represents a company to customers by performing one or more of the following activities: prospecting, communicating, selling, servicing, information gathering, and relationship building.
A salesperson
__________ is the sales step in which a salesperson meets the customer for the first time.
Approach
__________ is the steps that salespeople follow when selling, which include prospecting and qualifying, preapproach, approach, presentation and demonstration, handling objections, closing, and follow-up.
The selling process
A(n) __________ is a sales force organization in which salespeople specialize in selling only a portion of the company's products or lines.
product sales force structure
__________ is the sales step in which a salesperson seeks out, clarifies, and overcomes any customer objections to buying.
Handling objections
__________ refers to analyzing, planning, implementing, and controlling sales force activities.
Sales force management
________ is the short-term incentives used to encourage the purchase or sales of a product or a service.
Sales promotion