Download or read book Rethinking the Sales Force Redefining Selling to Create and Capture Customer Value written by John DeVincentis and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-02-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's markets, success no longer depends on communicating the value of products or services. It rests on the crucial ability to create value for customers. Sales forces need to retool current strategies by recognizing the customer's dominant power in today's economy and what that means for those who sell. Capitalizing on research into the practices of cutting edge companies, the authors show how the successful sales force breaks away from traditional thinking and transforms themselves into complex business processes with multiple sales approaches and selling mdoels that meet the demands of today's sophisticated customers.

Download or read book Pricing and Profitability Management written by Julie Meehan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practical guide to using pricing and profitability management to build a better business A comprehensive reference for any business professional looking to understand the capabilities and competencies required for effectively managing pricing and profitability, Pricing and Profitability Management explains how to determine the right approach, tools, and techniques for each of six key categories (pricing strategy, price execution, advanced analytics and optimization, organizational alignment and governance, pricing technology and data management, and tax and regulatory effectiveness). Exploring each category in detail, the book addresses how an integrated approach to pricing improvement can give a sustainable, competitive advantage to any organization. The ultimate "how to" manual for any executive or manager interested in price management, the book presents a holistic, comprehensive framework that shows how integrating these pricing categories into a cohesive program leads to impressive gains that cannot be achieved through a single-pronged approach. Presents a comprehensive framework for more effectively managing pricing and profitability Identities the six key categories of pricing and profitability management Shows you how to gain a competitive edge by managing pricing and profitability Taking a comprehensive view of pricing, companies can position themselves to tap a vast source of shareholder value—the ability to set and enforce profitable prices, not just once, but again and again in response to marketplace changes and evolving business needs—and this book will show you how.

Download or read book Major Account Sales Strategy written by Neil Rackham and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Arsenal of Shrewd Tactics and Winning Strategies to Make You a Major Account Sales Success Knowing how to get to the decision maker, deal with the competition, understand buyer psychology, and service the client--these are the keys to success when you need to nail down major accounts. Now, for the first time, here's a book of practical, proven-effective strategies and tactics for the entire major account sales cycle. Based on Neil Rackham's exhaustive research, the strategies you'll find here will enable you to . . . Tailor your selling strategy to match each step in the client's decision-making process. Ensure that you won't lose your customers because you'll know the psychology of the buyer and how to respond to their doubts. Gain entry to accounts through many different windows of opportunity. Deal with competitive situations, take on bigger competitors, and win using strategies that the author's meticulous research shows are employed by the most successful salespeople. Handle negotiations, concessions on price, and term agreements skillfully and effectively. Offer the ongoing technical and maintenance support that keeps your major accounts yours. From a world-renowned sales innovator, this first-of-a-kind A-to-Z presentation of major account strategy puts sales success in your hands. Make it yours today. Read Major Account Sales Strategy.

Download or read book Global Brand Strategy written by Jan-Benedict Steenkamp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steenkamp introduces the global brand value chain and explains how brand equity factors into shareholder value. The book equips executives with techniques for developing strategy, organizing execution, and measuring results so that your brand will prosper globally. What sets strong global brands apart? First, they generate more than half their revenue and most of their growth outside their home market. Secondly, their brand equity is responsible for a massive percentage of their firm’s market value. Third, they operate as single brands everywhere on the planet. We find them in B2C and B2B industries, among large and small companies, and among established companies and new businesses. The stewards of these brands have a set of skills and knowledge that sets them apart from the typical corporate marketer. So what’s their secret? In a world that is globalizing, but not yet globalized, how do you build a powerful global brand that resonates universally but also accommodates local nuances? How do you ensure that it is dynamic and flexible enough to change at market speed? World-class marketing expert Jan-Benedict Steenkamp has studied global brands for over 25 years on six continents. He has distilled their practices into eight tools that you can start using today. With case studies from around the world, Steenkamp’s book is provocative and timely. Global Brand Strategy speaks to three types of B2C and B2B managers: those who want to strengthen already strong global brands, those who want to launch their brands globally and get results, and those who need to revive their global brand and stop the bleeding.

Download or read book Selling Your Value Proposition written by Cindy Barnes and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A value proposition is created from the combination of a company's products and services, and the value gained by the customer. It is used to drive better business, and is essential to success for any business - without it, companies are at risk of losing customers and being drowned out in crowded marketplaces. Selling Your Value Proposition is a practical, user-friendly guide to establishing a streamlined customer-centric selling process to communicate and express value propositions, enabling companies to convey their value-creating stories to customers consistently. Featuring case studies and interviews with renowned business leaders and influencers, Selling Your Value Proposition demonstrates how value propositions adeptly position a business across a range of industries. The techniques and skills shared have all been honed through the authors' experience with more than 600 companies around the world, and clear, step-by-step guidelines will empower all readers to effectively focus their value propositions for competitive success.

Download or read book Contemporary Selling written by Mark W. Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in previous editions as Relationship Selling, the latest edition of Mark Johnston and Greg Marshall’s Contemporary Selling: Building Relationships, Creating Value continues to set the standard for the most up-to-date and student-friendly selling textbook available anywhere today. The latest edition incorporates a new chapter on social media and technology-enabled selling, as well as a new chapter on selling globally. To support student engagement, the book also features: ‘Expert Advice’ chapter openers showing how each chapter’s sales concepts are applied in the real world In-chapter ‘Ethical Dilemmas’ that help students identify and handle effectively the numerous ethical issues that arise in selling Mini-cases to help students understand and apply the principles they have learned in the classroom Role-plays at the end of each chapter enabling students to learn by doing Special appendices on selling math and developing a professional sales proposal Video material available on the Companion Website, featuring new content with sales experts discussing best sales practices from a recent PBS special on selling produced by Chally Group Worldwide. Further resources for instructors and students are available at www.routledge.com/cw/johnston-9780415523509 .

Download or read book A Reader in Marketing Communications written by Philip Kitchen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining seminal papers on marketing communications with incisive commentary and overviews from the editors, case studies and student question and answer sections, this text provides a uniquely global perspective on this topical subject. It can be used as a supplement to textbooks on marketing communications, or as an excellent stand-alone text to give greater instruction and insight into key elements of the twenty-first century promotional mix. Providing a one-stop reference for all those studying marketing communications, this reader tackles the subject from an international perspective. Each chapter is introduced by one of the four editors, each editor being from a different core geographic area – the USA, the Pacific Rim, mainland Europe, and the UK. At the end of each paper questions are posed to test the student readers. Academically rigorous, this essential book contributed to by recognized experts will be a valuable reference for undergraduates and graduates of marketing, communications, business and management.

Download or read book Rethinking Sales written by Marco Giunta and published by Rethinking Sales. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Sales One Relationship At A Time It's no surprise that the world of sale today is more challenging than ever. How, then, can you become that salesperson who stands out among the rest? How can you break through the sales stereotypes and improve client relationships? Salespeople all over the world all have one thing in common - the desire to make money. But also, they want to feel respected and confident in the work that they do. Rethinking Sales opens a new door into the sales arena, and encourages you to understand on a deeper level the entire sales process - from how to make that first impression, to keeping your clients coming back for more. It works for anyone at any stage in their career, and shows how each step of the "sales process" is important in reaching your goal, and ultimately, making the most money that you can. check out RethinkingSales.com and Marcogiunta.com

Download or read book Plan to Win Tweet written by Ron Snyder and published by Happy About. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sound territory/strategic account plan is essential to make the best use of your limited time and resources--especially in business-to-business selling. And, the effective execution of your plan will enable you to produce better results. To help accomplish your goals in this challenging environment, this book explores a broad range of sales strategy topics focused on developing and executing a winning plan, including: Leveraging industry trends in your market segment, geography, and vertical industry segment Growing high leverage customers Penetrating new accounts, such as high-probability target prospects Working with partners to improve results Developing and implementing your action plan Ensuring the right level of management engagement#PLAN to WIN tweet Book01" is designed to help new and experienced sales people and sales managers do a better job of territory planning, strategic account planning, and partner management. Further, the methods outlined will enable readers to dramatically improve their sales effectiveness and results. If you are an account manager, the material in this book will enable you to: Create insightful and achievable territory and target account plans Enhance or improve existing plans Develop and deploy winning strategies to penetrate and retain key accounts Improve your time and territory management for maximum returnIf you are a sales manager, this book will help you: Adopt/adapt proven planning tools into current practices Provide better sales coaching to your sales team on planning techniques Better monitor your sales team's leading indicators, wins and losses to respond quickly, and fine-tune your approach Improve sales and marketing alignment Manage change to enhance your team's sales productivity"#PLAN to WIN tweet Book01" is part of the THiNKaha series whose 112-page books contain 140 well-thought-out quotes (tweets/ahas).

Download or read book The Growth Leader written by Scott K. Edinger and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue. However you define business growth—total revenue, net income, margin expansion, number of products and services, or customer loyalty—sustained and strategic growth requires an organization to do more than sell by simply communicating the value of its products or services. It must create value in the way it sells by delivering a compelling experience that adds value beyond the product itself. As a leader, it’s your job to build and guide that experience. The Growth Leader reveals how top executives create profitable growth through the intersection of strategy, leadership, and sales. With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn’t come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value. In this leadership guide, you’ll learn how to ensure growth strategy is aligned at every level of the company, from boardroom initiatives to daily customer interaction. ​Best-selling leadership author and business growth consultant Scott K. Edinger helps CEOs and leaders intentionally and strategically engage with the customer experience to differentiate, innovate, cultivate loyalty, and grow. With this growth strategy mindset, your teams will know what they’re supposed to be doing, have the skills to accomplish their work at a high level, and be properly supported by systems, process, and environment. But they can only do all this if you lead them. Are you ready to be a Growth Leader?

Download or read book The Architecture Student s Handbook of Professional Practice written by American Institute of Architects and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by The American Institute of Architects, this is the definitive textbook on practice issues written specifically for architecture students. Specifically written for emerging architects, this is the first unabbreviated guide specifically for architecture students about to begin their careers. It is required reading in a professional practice course that architecture students must take within their final two years of school.

Download or read book Electronic Customer Relationship Management written by Jerry Fjermestad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a state-of-the art survey of information systems research on electronic customer relationship management (eCRM). It provides important new frameworks derived from current cases and applications in this emerging field. Each chapter takes a collaborative approach to eCRM that goes beyond the analytical and operational perspectives most often taken by researchers in the field. Chapters also stress integration with other enterprise information systems. The book is organized in four parts: Part I presents an overview of the role of CRM and eCRM in marketing and supply chain management; Part II focuses on the organizational success factors behind eCRM implementation; Part III presents cases of eCRM performance enhancement; and Part IV addresses eCRM issues in business-to-consumer commerce.

Download or read book How to Save the FMCG Industry written by Chris Leach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fast-moving consumer goods industry (FMCG), collaboration is often cited as the logical way for suppliers and retailers to create value. Yet, suppliers' experience has shown that doesn’t always happen, due in large part to the power of the retailer and a focus on the short term. In the last thirty years the industry has seen rapid change, with the growth of discounters, online shopping and consolidation of retailers. These changes have brought more opportunities to the industry but also more complexity, challenges and costs to manage for both sides. It’s no secret that retailers have sought to leverage their increasing power with suppliers with never ending discussions of cost reduction, while suppliers attempt to engage them with discussions for longer term growth. This results in tension, with the retailer interested in short term activity and the supplier interested in supporting medium term growth. How can these two parties work together to deliver value to the consumer and shopper and ultimately, support the industry? This book presents first-hand research on how to navigate through these challenges. It identifies new and relevant tools and techniques to develop better, and more valuable collaboration between retailers and suppliers in today’s challenging markets. In this notoriously secretive industry, the full value and opportunities of collaboration between retailer and supplier has yet to be fully accomplished. Traditional ways of working need to change if the industry has a chance of succeeding into the 21st century. With case studies, examples and practical frameworks, this book a brings a focus onto the industry, whilst at the same time providing implementable ideas, suggestions and solutions to improve value creation in this business-to-business context.

Download or read book Launching New Products written by John Westman and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goals of this book are to discuss critical topics in launching new products, and to distill successful approaches from hundreds of publications and experience from launching over 50 new products into a checklist for marketing leaders, CEOs, and board members. The function of this checklist is to force consideration and completion of tasks that drive a successful product launch.

Download or read book Managing Quality in Architecture written by Charles Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quality management book written for architectural design practices.

Download or read book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems OTM 2009 Workshops written by Robert Meersman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet-based information systems, the second covering the large-scale in- gration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. Eachofthesefourconferencesencouragesresearcherstotreattheirrespective topics within a framework that incorporates jointly (a) theory, (b) conceptual design and development, and (c) applications, in particular case studies and industrial solutions. Following and expanding the model created in 2003, we again solicited and selected quality workshop proposals to complement the more “archival” nature of the main conferences with research results in a number of selected and more “avant-garde” areas related to the general topic of Web-based distributed c- puting. For instance, the so-called Semantic Web has given rise to several novel research areas combining linguistics, information systems technology, and ar- ?cial intelligence, such as the modeling of (legal) regulatory systems and the ubiquitous nature of their usage. We were glad to see that ten of our earlier s- cessful workshops (ADI, CAMS, EI2N, SWWS, ORM, OnToContent, MONET, SEMELS, COMBEK, IWSSA) re-appeared in 2008 with a second, third or even ?fth edition, sometimes by alliance with other newly emerging workshops, and that no fewer than three brand-new independent workshops could be selected from proposals and hosted: ISDE, ODIS and Beyond SAWSDL. Workshop - diences productively mingled with each other and with those of the main c- ferences, and there was considerable overlap in authors.

Download or read book The Architect s Handbook of Professional Practice written by American Institute of Architects and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 1483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects must be proficient in a variety of business practices to contribute to, manage, or launch a successful firm. They are responsible for the same kind of legal, financial, marketing, management, and administrative activities as any other professional. Within these broad categories, however, there are many details, including professional standards and documents, that are unique to the profession of architecture.