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Objectives
❧ Building Product Awareness
❧ Creating Interest
❧ Providing Information
❧ Stimulating Demand
Field selling
Telemarketing
Inside selling
❧ 12 million people are engaged in personal
selling in the United States
❧ Represents about 10% of the work force
Relative Importance of
Advertising and Personal Selling
Pre-transaction:
Pre-transaction:
❧ Create
❧ Create recognition
recognition and
and Post-transaction:
Post-transaction:
info
info understanding
understanding ❧ Reminder and
❧ Reminder and
reassurance
reassurance
Personal
Personal
selling
Transaction:
Transaction: selling
Advertising ❂
❂ Persuasion
Persuasion Advertising
Personal
selling Advertising
Characteristics of Personal Selling
Pro
Con
Flexibility
❧ Can not reach mass
❧ Adapt to situations
audience
❧ Engage in dialog
❧ Expensive per contact
Builds Relationships ❧ Numerous calls
❧ Long term needed to generate
❧ Assure buyers receive sale
appropriate services ❧ Labor intensive
❧ Solves customer’s
problems
Types of Salespersons
ORDER ORDER SUPPORT
GETTERS TAKERS PERSONNEL
❧ Cross-functional
❧ Account service rep
You are part of the total product
FOLLOWING UP
HANDLING OBJECTIONS
Pre-approach (Qualifying)
✔Finding and analyzing
information about prospects
✔Evaluating a prospect’s
potential
Approaching The Prospect
HOW DO WE MAKE THE
INITIAL CONTACT & BUILD
RAPPORT
Handling Objections
● Questions
● Reservations
❧ Understand Concern
❧ Counterarguments
❧ Acknowledge concern
❧ Clues to process
Iceberg Effect
10% Simple (S – R)
is visible
Consumer Competition/deals
Preferences 90%
Personal emotions
is
Technology
invisible
Complex Interactions
Overcoming Objections
IF HE HADN’T TOLD
ME WHAT HIS
OBJECTION
WAS, I NEVER WOULD
HAVE BEEN
ABLE TO HELP!
Creative Selling Process
Closing the Sale
❧ Closing signals
❧ Trial close
❧ Asking the
prospect to buy
Creative Selling Process
Following Up
❧ Commitments met
● Shipment
● Performance
❧ Reinforce L-R relationship
❧ Satisfied customers rebuy
& recommend
❧ Job quality: do it right the first time Servic
e
❧ Prompt warranty work Awa rd
Stay Close to
Your
Customer
and
LISTEN!