Sales Management Demystified

BUILD and manage a SALES FORCE that's worth sell-ebrating Understanding that a sales force is only as successful as its management is the first step to improving overall sales performance. The rest can be found inside this hands-on guide that shows, step-by-step, how to train and retain a team of top sales professionals. Sales Management Demystified addresses every step of the process--including hiring, training, compensation, organization, deployment, forecasting, motivation, and performance management. Sales managers at every level and students of sales management will find helpful strategies and tactics for molding a team into an effective, cohesive unit. Featuring real-world examples, end-of-chapter quizzes, and a final exam, this incredibly useful guide will help you get the best from your sales force and put your career on the fast track. This fast and easy guide offers Ideas for sourcing, screening, and selecting the best candidates Tips for training salespeople in product, customer, and competitor knowledge, and in selling skills The model for choosing the most successful sales force organization and deployment Monetary and nonmonetary methods to reward positive sales force action and results Performance management techniques that evaluate results, actions, skills, knowledge, and personal characteristics Simple enough for a novice but challenging enough for a veteran manager, Sales Management Demystified is your shortcut to developing a successful sales team.

Sales Management is a complete and practical handbook for all involved in the field of selling. It is an essential source book, a complete sales management course and a consultant's detailed plan in one volume. The sales manager needs all the skills and qualities of the salesperson in order to get things done by effective management of an often quite diverse team of people. The emphasis in his or her role is on planning, controlling, monitoring, managing and motivating their sales force. Step-by-step, the book provides detailed guidance to the practicalities of organization and management, including selection, training, motivation, communication and control. The author also gives in-depth analysis to such vital topics as forecasting and sales promotions, the use of planning and control forms and alternative sales distribution methods, such as franchising. It will be key reference and reading for every practising sales manager at area manager level and above in large corporations, and the field or local manager in smaller companies with less structured organizations.

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This new edition comes fully updated with new case studies, using working businesses to connect sales theory to the practical implications of selling in a modern environment. It also contains the results from cutting-edge research that differentiates it from most of its competitors. The book continues to place emphasis on global aspects of selling and sales management. Topics covered include technological applications of selling and sales management, ethics of selling and sales management, systems selling and a comprehensive coverage of key account management.

The Textbook Is Primarily Written For Students Pursuing Sales Management As A Main Or As An Optional Paper In Marketing Course. The Book Covers Syllabus Of B.B.A., M.B.A. And P.G.D.B.M. Marketing Executives And Advertising Managers Can Also Appraise Themselves Of The Subject.The Book Has Been Written In An Easy Language And A Lucid Style. Latest Models And Theories Are Very Well Explained With Practical Examples. Questions Set In The Universities Are Given At The End Of Each Chapter. Even Professionals In Marketing, Sales, Finance And Production/Purchasing Would Find This Easy-To-Understand Book Valuable.The Main Topics Covered In The Book Include :Introduction; Salesmanship And Themes Of Selling; Sales Promotion; Marketing Management; Physical Distribution; Salesmen-Recruitment; Personal Selling; Wholesaling; Retailing; Cooperative Selling; The Sales Organisation; Marketing Strategy In Personal-Selling; Sales And Other Departments; The Sales Manager; The Sales Force Management; Training In Sales; Remuneration Of Sales Personnel; Motivation By Sales Management; Sales Field, Territories, Quotas And Salesman S Report; Marketing Policies; Market Measurement, Sales Forecasting And Sales Budget; Psychology Of Sales; Techniques Of Selling; Sales Talks; Sales Records.

Despite the widespread use of computer based inventory control systems, most companies are aware that they often cannot meet their customer demand, while still suspecting that their stock levels are higher than they should be.