1st Edition

Pocket Guide to Selling Services and Products

By Peter Morris, Malcolm McDonald Copyright 1991
    96 Pages
    by Routledge

    96 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1995. This pocket guide is a cartoon book with a serious message -it explores the world of commercial transactions: selling products and services. It will take the salesperson through the course of the sales process in an informative and entertaining way. Selling Services and Products begins by establishing an understanding of customers' needs and moves through getting an appointment to meet them, to the moment when the sale is closed. It examines the differences between selling services and products and consolidates that information by an exercise at the end of each chapter. Everybody constantly makes transactions of one kind or another, so the selling process embodies a fundamental human activity -the need to persuade somebody about something, so that both parties benefit. This book will profit not only sales executives, but everyone. This unique pocket guide is a must for sales and marketing managers and students.

    Introduction, The problems associated with selling, Reaching the customer, The interview, Benefit selling, Objectives, Closing the sale.

    Biography

    Malcolm McDonald is Professor of Marketing Planning at the Cranfield School of Management. Peter Morris was Manager of the Media Service Unit at the University of Sussex and now runs his own video production company in Brighton.

    'The amusing cartoon characters are shown in both sales and day-to-day situations, where the reader's confidence is questioned. If you want to close that sale,
    read on.' - Business Opportunity World, January 1996










































    'Reading Selling Services and Products is a half-hour well spent, an
    entertaining introduction to the key elements of sales.'