Personal selling involves face-to-face interactions between salespeople and customers to promote products and make sales. It allows for customizing messages to individual customer needs, two-way communication, and demonstration of complex product features. The personal selling process typically includes prospecting, pre-approach research, approaching customers, presenting to them, overcoming objections, closing the sale, and following up.
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2. Definition:
Oral presentation in a conversation with one
or more prospective purchasers for the
purpose of making sales American
Marketing Association.
3. Relatively high level of customer attention
Customize the message to a customers specific
interests and needs
Two way communication gives immediate
feedback
Enables a salesperson to communicate a larger
amount of technical and complex information
than other promotional methods
Greater opportunity to demonstrate a products
functioning and performance characteristics
Helps to build a long term relationship
4. o Quantitative
objectives:
To get order and execute
orders for customer satisfaction
To meet sales target and profit
and expense norms
To maintain present and add
new customers
To achieve sales volume and
satisfy cos product mix norms.
To submit mgt reports regularly
as per cos policies
o Qualitative
objectives:
To do entire selling job
To serve existing accounts
To generate new enquires and
new prospects
To convert new prospects in
long term customers
To co-ordinate with distribution
channel members
To collect information
6. Prospecting:
Pre- approach
Approach
Presentation
Overcoming
objection
Closing the sale
Follow up
Before planning a sale, a
salesperson conducts
research to identify the
people or companies that
might be interested in her
product.
A prospect is a lead that is
qualified or determined to
be ready, willing, and able
to buy.
7. Prospecting
Pre- approach:
Approach
Presentation
Overcoming
objection
Closing the sale
Follow up
The pre-approach is the
doing your homework part
of the process. A good
salesperson researches his
prospect, familiarizing
himself with the customers
needs and learning all the
relevant background info he
can about the individual or
business.
8. Prospecting
Pre- approach
Approach:
Presentation
Overcoming
objection
Closing the sale
Follow up
First impressions (e.g., the first
few minutes of a sales call)
are crucial to building the
clients trust.[
This usually involves
introductions, making some
small talk, asking a few
warm-up questions, and
generally explaining who
you are and whom you
represent. This is called
the approach.
9. Prospecting
Pre- approach
Approach
Presentation:
Overcoming
objection
Closing the sale
Follow up
The presentation should be
tailored to the customer,
explaining how the product
meets that person or
companys needs.
It might involve a product
demonstration, videos,
PowerPoint presentations, or
letting the customer actually
look at or interact with the
product.
10. Prospecting
Pre- approach
Approach
Presentation
Overcoming
objection:
Closing the sale
Follow up
After youve made your
sales presentation, its
natural for your customer to
have some hesitations or
concerns called objections.
Good salespeople look at
objections
as opportunities to further
understand and respond to
customers needs
11. Prospecting
Pre- approach
Approach
Presentation
Overcoming
objection
Closing the sale:
Follow up
Eventually, if your customer is
convinced your product will
meet her needs,
you close by agreeing on
the terms of the sale and
finishing up the transaction.
Sometimes a salesperson has
to make several trial
closes during a sales call,
addressing further objections
before the customer is ready
to buy.
12. Prospecting
Pre- approach
Approach
Presentation
Overcoming
objection
Closing the sale
Follow up:
The follow-up is an important
part of assuring customer
satisfaction, retaining
customers and prospecting
for new customers.
This might mean sending a
thank-you note, calling the
customer to make sure a
product was received in
satisfactory condition, or
checking in to make sure a
service is meeting the
customers expectations