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Kotler on Marketing
The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products.
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Chapter Objectives
In this chapter, we answer the following questions:
What decisions do companies face in designing a sales force? How do companies recruit, select, train, supervise, motivate, and evaluate a sales force? How can salespeople improve their skills in selling, negotiation, and carrying on relationship marketing?
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Sales-Force Structure
Territorial sales force Product or market sales force
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The Internet has allowed many companies to shift sales support for small accounts to e-commerce sites and away from sales personnel. Additionally, many regularly occurring functions have become automated, allowing customers with any size organization to use web-based systems to place orders and submit warranty requests. Can you think of any other areas where Internet-based technologies could change the way a sales force interacts with their customers?
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$251,300 $253,200
423,200 674,500 95.6 120.4 $50,260 42,320 92,580 439,200 692,400 92.0 122.3 $50,640 43,920 94,560
$270,000
553,900 823,900 88.0 134.9 $54,000 55,390 109,390
$263,100
561,900 825,000 84.7 130.8 $52,620 56,190 108,810
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Big Pot
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For many organizations, relationship marketing is more important than any individual transaction, because these long-term relationships can yield greater overall profitability. Would it be easier to convince a company to enter into a long term supplier-customer relationship if you offered them savings through vertical integration of product offerings, or ease of use derived from a broad range of product offerings?
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