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This is a guide to promotion and sales in the sport industry. Experts from the classroom and sports field offer insights and experiential data on the skills needed to succeed in sports promotion and sales.
A classic text providing thorough and sophisticated treatment of selling and sales management, with an emphasis on the international market.
This 11th edition of Sales Management continues the tradition of blending the most recent sales management research with the real-life "best practices" of leading sales organizations and sales professionals. Reflecting today’s emphasis on analytics and customer experience (CX), this edition focuses on the importance of employing different data-based selling strategies for different customer groups, as well as integrating corporate, business, marketing, and sales-level strategies and plans. Sales Management includes coverage of the current trends and issues in sales management, along with real-world examples from the contemporary business world that are used throughout the text to illuminate chapter discussions. The new 11th edition includes: Emphasis on data-driven decision making, ethics, the use of artificial intelligence, the customer experience, leadership, sales enablement technology, and new communication technologies; Updated end-of-chapter cases with application questions and role plays, along with skill-building experiential exercises with discovery investigations and focused role plays, which place students in the role of sales manager; Updated ethical dilemmas for students to practice ethical decision making; Revised ‘Sales Management in Action’ boxes; Multiple vignettes embedded in each chapter featuring sales management professionals and well-known companies discussing key topics from that chapter. This text is core reading for postgraduate, MBA, and executive education students studying sales management. An updated online instructor’s manual with solutions to cases and exercises, a revised test bank, and updated PowerPoints is available to adopters.
In a fast-moving era of increased international competition, frontier markets must devise innovative ways to meet demanding sales targets and maintain profitability. These efforts will only succeed when local businesses abandon the concept of sales as a checklist of persuasive arguments that lead a customer to make a purchase and accept that building enduring customer relationships is the key to achieving sales goals. To understand what it means to sell successfully, sales representatives must develop a solid foundation in selling skills and an understanding of the critical elements needed to achieve sales goals. By delving into the foundational concepts related to leveraging sales as a tool for organisational profit, the authors give readers important insights into the critical elements of the sales process, including consultative selling, sales force management, qualities of effective leadership in sales, and the use of technological tools such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) systems. This book includes insightful contributions from leading sales and marketing practitioners across the continent of Africa on characteristics of successful salespeople and how to recruit them, the crucial role of sales leadership, sales team training methods and strategies for developing customer relationship management programs. Case studies tie theory to practice and short quizzes help readers test their understanding of the material. Written in an accessible and reader-friendly format, this book is primarily aimed at undergraduate students with a secondary audience comprised of postgraduate students and business practitioners. ENDORSEMENTS: "Successful corporate marketing strategies are formulated around the delivery of value to consumers while maintaining a competitive advantage. Sales Management: A Primer for Emerging Markets offers innovative ways to locate, nurture, and develop long-term win-win relationships with key stakeholders. Readers will be rewarded with achievable concepts that will lay the foundation for developing a pattern of profitable sales. Highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate students as a well-crafted textbook drawing on real-world experience, for academicians as a reliable teaching tool, and for practitioners in the world of business seeking tested guidelines for marketing success." ~ Amon Chizema, Professor of Corporate Governance & Strategy; Birmingham Business School; University of Birmingham, UK "Sales Management: A Primer for Frontier Markets is a “must read” for future and current managers seeking innovative strategies for ensuring long-term repeat business with customers and consumers while maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Discussions on consultative selling, the role of ethics in sales, and the stages of the personal selling process have been specifically detailed and grounded in peer-reviewed case-study findings. A highly recommended read for undergraduate and graduate students, academicians, and business managers pursuing up-to-date insights into selling, customer service, marketing management, small business management, and retailing." ~ Patrick Awotwi, Commercial Director; The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana and Author of “Consider it Sold: A Seller’s Point of View”
This international textbook focuses on the strategic and operational aspects of sales management. With new material on coaching and motivating sales teams, sales skills and leadership are developed in this unique product. Sales Management teaches students how to gradually draw up a comprehensive sales plan: a process of analysing, learning, asking, brainstorming, writing, removing and reformulating. This comprehensive text provides core reading for students of sales and sales management globally.
Fast track route to mastering all aspects of sales management Covers the key areas of sales management, from techniques for managing sales people at a distance to sales planning, and from assembling a top-flight team to staying market focussed Examples and lessons from benchmark companies in hotel management, financial services and pharmaceuticals Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers. ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: 01 Innovation 02 Enterprise 03 Strategy 04 Marketing 05 Finance 06 Operations and Technology 07 Organizations 08 Leading 09 People 10 Life and Work ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.
A key challenge sales professionals confront is how to measure the various activities they perform in the sales planning, selling and execution, and post-sales review phases of the customer relationship. Magic Numbers for Sales Management: Key Measures to Evaluate Sales Success is a ready-reference for sales and marketing professionals who seek clear descriptions of over 50 of the most important sales metrics and formulas. Using clear descriptions and relevant examples from many of today’s leading companies, sales and marketing professionals will learn relevant measurement and evaluation techniques, including: Important metrics for measuring market conditions, sales forecasting, compensation, quotas, sales force-size, pricing, and customers Applying metrics to different phases of the selling process Key behaviors of the most successful sales people Magic Numbers for Sales Management is an important resource for the most demanding sales professionals who want to fully assess the success of their selling activities.
The Oxford Handbook of Strategic Sales and Sales Management is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in the area by leading international academics. The Handbook is suitable for academics, professionals, and those taking professional qualifications in sales and marketing.
EFFECTIVE SELLING AND SALES MANAGMENT is designed for anyone with a product or service to sell, from entrepreneurs and small business people to managers of corporate sales groups. The first chapters feature effective sales techniques; then the book deals with how to recruit salespeople and build a powerful sales team. The chapters cover these topics: -Creating sales materials -Getting started -Selling techniques -Finding Leads -Using the telephone effectively -Effective presentations -Recruiting others to sell for you -Recruiting a sales manager -Recruiting your own sales team -Interviewing sales people -Orienting new sales people -Organizing new sales people -Setting up a training program -Coordinating sales activities -Keeping your sales group motivated -Providing extra assistance and support -Training sales people to train others
Fact: 25% of sales representatives produce 90 to 95% of all sales. Clearly, most of the members on your sales team are not selling up to their potential and therefore not generating the revenues they could. That means neither of you are making the incomes you could! Why is this case? It’s not that the job can’t be done because 25 percent are doing it, and doing it well. It’s because the other 75 percent either are not in the right sales position or they truly don’t know how to sell. Until now, most sales managers have not had access to effective, affordable sales training. Action Plan For Sales Management Success is a proven, turn key program that will become the foundation of your sales management process. Action Plan For Sales Success will improve your sales management skills so that you and your team can achieve your true sales potential. What You Will Learn 1. The B2B Sales Process – The Sales Manager’s Role: Before you can lead, you must know the right direction! 2. Eagles or Turkeys? – Recruiting and Hiring The Right Sales Professional: Hiring the wrong sales person will cost you 3 to 5 times their annual compensation plan! We’ll show you how to recruit and hire right! 3. It All Starts Here! – Your 90 Day Sales Rep Success Plan!: "Welcome to the company, here’s your price book, now go and sell!" will not make your sales team successful. We’ll show you what will! 4. You Are The Coach! – Ongoing Management Tools: Properly managing your team is critical so that they produce results today and in the future. We will give you the proper coaching and reporting tools to make that happen! "Susan ...understands the sales process intimately and is able to create a management process around it that drives sales people to accomplish their goals." Action Plan For Sales Management Success – Proven Methods That Produce Measurable Results "Susan ...understands the sales process intimately and is able to create a management process around it that drives sales people to accomplish their goals." - Rob M. "Susan knows her stuff. She brings many years of great sales experience and success to anyone who wished to improve their skills in sales. She is very personable, and is not afraid to tell it like it is. I would recommend anyone (and I have) to Susan, her website, her books if you want to become a better sales person." - Fred B. "Your content, delivery and practical examples provided the students an excellent foundation to understand the complex topic of sales recruitment and socialization" - Jim N. "Susan really knows the selling world. She's honest, articulate, bright, giving, highly competent, personable and a top professional. Welcome her. It's the right thing to do." - Allan S.
