Title: Customer Management Process
1Personal Selling, Database Marketing, and
Customer Relationship Management
- Chapter 12 with Duane Weaver
2Personal Selling - Retail
- The retail sales connection to the IMC plan is
vitally important to marketing successthe
salesperson is the companythe last 3 feet of
the marketing effort
34 Categories of Retail
- Shops and stores
- Single transaction (one to one assistance/negotiat
ion) to order taker - Personal selling and services
- Sales rep sells service and may lead to repeat
selling relationship - Sell and then also provide the service
- Telemarketing
- Inbound
- Outbound
- Other retail sales activities
- Add-on sales/service initiatives to enhance sales
profit or customer value
4Business to Business Selling
- Field Sales
- Order Getters
- Continuum of Buyer Seller Relationship
Strategic Partnership EDI relationship
Trust Relationships Contractual Agreements
Repeat Transactions Occasional
Transactions Single Transactions
5Managing Business to Business Sales
- Identify (fill the pipeline)
- Qualify (filter/ripen the pipeline)
- Knowledge Acquisition (Needs Analysis
understanding the buyer) - Intrinsic (commodity price focused place order)
- Extrinsic (product as solution -consultation)
- Strategic (vendors willing to be partners to
satisfy customer needs) - FOLLOW UP intrinsic to building long term
relationships and maintaining brand loyalty
6Sales Approaches
- Stimulus-response (canned)
- Need-satisfaction (skilled open-ended
questioning) - Problem-solution (similar to above, yet
identifies communicates pains related to
solutions) - Mission-sharing (borderline joint venture sale
e.g. business development)
7Sales Cycle
8The Basic Sales Cycle
- Needs Analysis
- Recommendation
- Preparing the Close
- Closing
- Repeat/Referral Business
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9Learning and Practicing Skills Identifying Needs
- Closed-Ended Questions (example?)
- Advantage / Disadvantage?
- Open-Ended Questions (example?)
- Advantage / Disadvantage?
- Exercise in 2 minutes write down two open-ended
questions you could use when you first speak to a
customer. Turn to your neighbor and ask him the
question. Note his response.
10Database Marketing
- Determine Objectives
- Collect Data
- Build Data Warehouse
- Data Mining
- Develop Marketing Programs
- Evaluate Programs/Evaluate Data Warehouse
11Direct Marketing
- Mail
- Catalogues
- Mass Media
- Alternative Media
- Internet
- E-mail
12Permission based Marketing
- Obtain customer permission
- Offer curriculum to consumer over time
- Reinforce the incentive to continue relationship
(provide value) - Increase level of permission (gain trust and
maintain integrity) - Leverage permission to the benefit of both parties
13Frequency Programs
- Incentive program designed to create repeat
purchases
14CRM(Customer Relationship Management)
- Designed to build long-term loyalty and bonds
with customers through the use of personal touch
facilitated by technology (ACTetc) - METRICS OF CRM
- Lifetime Value of Customer
- Share of the Customer ( of potential customer
lifetime value accessed)
15Discussion Questions
- Question 3 on page 392
- Question 4 on page 392
- Question 8 on page 393
16Thanks
- Be prepared for a quiz at anytime