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Marketing Management, 4/e
Harper W Boyd
Orville C Walker, Jr
John W Mullins
Jean-Claude Larreche

Personal Selling Decisions Build Relationships that Satisfy Customers

Chapter Outline

I. Selling Contact Lenses for Chickens
A. Chicken behavior
B. Solving the pecking order problem Olson’s task

II. Marketing Challenges Addressed in Chapter 15

III. The Strategic Role of Personal Selling
A. Determining the role of personal selling in the promotion mix
B. Marketing objectives for the salesforce

IV. Planning the Sales Program to Meet Customer and Seller Needs
A. Salesforce organization
B. The sales cycle: planning the sales program in an early-stage company
C. Organizing the sales effort in global markets
D. Account management policies
E. Territory design and deployment
F. Setting quotas
G. Customer service: An increasingly important personal selling function

V. Using Technology to Enhance Sales and Customer Service Performance

VI. Recruiting, Training, and Compensating Salespeople: The Keys to Salesforce Performance
A. Recruitment and selection
B. Training
C. Compensation and rewards

VII. Evaluating and Controlling Salesforce Performance to Ensure Deliver of Budgeted Results