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customer relationships by solving customer problems and selling firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – Hypotheses were …‐oriented sales management programs, firm market and learning orientation, adaptive selling, and salesperson customer orientation …
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Purpose – Despite the necessity of close integration between marketing and sales, managers report less than satisfactory results in this area. This paper aims to examine what keeps the two functions apart. It proposes going beyond surface level behavior to examine the different sub‐cultural...
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Purpose – In the years since Saxe and Weitz developed a scale to measure the selling orientation and customer …
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seeks to explore one aspect of the key account manager's internal selling role which has not been addressed before … selling duties. Design/methodology/approach – The research uses the critical incident technique together with an interpretive … selling are that, while carrying out their internal selling duties, rather than adopting a single managerial style or single …
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A great deal has been written about the importance of marketers evolving into more relationship‐oriented selling …
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the personal selling process. Results demonstrate that attendee quality, attendee quantity and measuring trade show … impact positively all aspects of the personal selling process, the exhibitor′s ability to establish goodwill with customers … would significantly improve relative to all other personal selling dimensions. Additionally, significant improvements to …
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Many business‐to‐business buyers are building closer relationships with fewer sellers. When faced with the choice of which sellers to partner with, buyers often develop such close relationships with sellers who have made transaction‐specific investments (TSIs). TSIs are assets (both...
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The competitive bidding process is the method by which firms efficiently and effectively make purchases for necessary goods and services at a desired level of quality. Those firms with managers who understand the competitive bid process and are sufficiently sophisticated with regard to its...
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Examines the impact of selling behaviors on performance. The time spent actually selling and servicing clients is shown … esteem for selling and service, and a higher extrinsic reward orientation are antecendents to behaviors that relate to higher …
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Changes in market conditions and trends often point to the need for changes in the marketing approaches being used. Current market trends such as fierce competition and increasingly demanding customers bring into glaring focus the shortcomings of marketing approaches and vehicles developed in...
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