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The Promotion Mix: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
Personal selling involves inside and outside order takers and their primary responsibility to create a relationship with the buyer.
Practice this chapterPersonal selling involves inside and outside order takers and their primary responsibility to create a relationship with the buyer. Order getters are the highly trained salespeople, and missionary salespeople are the ones that facilitate experiences such as samples in the store.
Consider inside order takers as the clerks employed by a company to assist the customer and complete the final sale. Outside order takers are out making calls on customers and delivering inventory.
personal selling — communication between a buyer and seller. The primary responsibility is to build a relationship with the buyer. sales promotion — a short-term way of enticing the consumer to purchase a product or service. order takers — sales personnel that are responsible for taking orders from customers by identifying the customer and finding the right product fit. inside order taker — a salesclerk or order clerk that is employed for a company that address questions and complete the final sale.
Worked example
What does “personal selling” mean in The Promotion Mix: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for personal selling.
- 2The book says: communication between a buyer and seller. The primary responsibility is to build a relationship with the buyer.
- 3Do not use the meaning of sales promotion. That term means a short-term way of enticing the consumer to purchase a product or service.
Result: communication between a buyer and seller. The primary responsibility is to build a relationship with the buyer
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for personal selling.
Do not swap personal selling and sales promotion. personal selling means communication between a buyer and seller. The primary responsibility is to build a relationship with the buyer. sales promotion means a short-term way of enticing the consumer to purchase a product or service.
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