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Sales and Distribution

Management 2e

Tapan K. Panda
Sunil Sahadev

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Chapter 2

Selling Skills and Strategies

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Learning Objectives
Understand the different buying and selling styles
Understand and internalize the selling skills
Comprehend the process of building effective communication
skills
Know how to improve listening skills
Understand conflict management and resolution skills
Know how to bargain and win in sales
Understand the negotiation and bargaining skills
Understand the problem solving skills

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Selling and buying styles

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Selling situations
Sales task and function
The forms of selling include maintenance vs developmental
selling, contacts, technical expertise, and important personal
characteristics.

Maintenance selling
Involves the act of servicing the existing accounts, securing
promotional cooperation, counting inventory and taking
replenishment orders, and delivering the products.

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Selling situations
Developmental selling
Salespeople engaged in developmental selling are called
business development sales executives as they try to contact
the potential customers and build business for the firm the
real salespeople.

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Selling skills
Problem-solving
Communication
skills
skills

Selling
Skills
Negotiation Listening
skills skills

Conflict management
and resolution skills

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Communication process

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Communication process
Managing body language:
Personal Appearance
Posture
Gestures
Facial Expressions
Eye Contact
Space Distancing

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Process of listening
Attendance

Interpretation

Remembrance

Evaluations

Response Action

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Levels of listening
Feedback

Paraphrasing

Clarifications

Emphatic listening

Active Listening

Barriers to Listening!

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Conflict management skills
Models of conflict
Components of conflict
The conflict resolution process:
lumping
avoidance
coercion
meditation
conciliation
arbitration
adjudication
negotiation

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Conflict management skills

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Negotiation skills
Situation and timing for negotiations

Formulation for a bargaining strategy

The theory and strategy of principle negotiations

separate the people from the problem


focus on interests, not on positions
invent options for mutual gains
insist on objective criteria

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Negotiation process
Bargaining tactics

The best tactic is to know ones BATNA

Questions to ask oneself before making an offer:


Should I give the first offer?
Should I start with a high offer?
Should my preparation lead to a strategy?
Should I sketch an agreement from the beginning?
Should I construct a framework for agreement?
Should I move towards the commitment gradually?

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Negotiation Strategies
Let the other party have it in your own way

Step to their side

Reframing rather than rejection

Let them take ownership

Educating them to senses

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Negotiation Tactics
Acting crazy Deadline
Auctioning Sticks and stones
The good guy-bad guy routine Stall for time
Big pot Take it or leave it
Budget bogey Veiled threat
Get a prestigious ally Play the Devils advocate
Escalations Trial balloon
The well is dry Surprises
Limited authority Whats the rock bottom price
Whipsaw/auction Adversarial negotiating tactics
Divide and conquer
Reunion

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Problem solving skills
Habit 1: be proactive
Habit 2: begin with an end in mind
Habit 3: put first things first
Habit 4: think winwin
Habit 5: seek first to understand, then to be understood
Habit 6: synergize
Habit 7: renewal

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Problem solving process
Define the problem

Generate alternative solutions

Decide the solution

Implement the solution

Evaluate the solution

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Problem definition techniques

4. Dunkers
diagram
3. Present
5. Statement desired
and state
restatement analysis

Problem
definition
techniques 2. Explore
6. Evaluate the
problem problem
statement

1. Find out
origin of the
problem

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Dunkers diagram

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Generate Solutions: Statement restatement
technique

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Components of a decision on the future
course of action
Situation analysis
(where are we now?)

Potential problem analysis


Problem analysis Past Decision analysis Present
Future
(what is the fault?) (How to correct the fault?) (How to prevent future faults?)

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Solution implementation process

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