Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value / Edition 14 available in Hardcover, Other Format
Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value / Edition 14
- ISBN-10:
- 0134478347
- ISBN-13:
- 9780134478340
- Pub. Date:
- 01/04/2017
- Publisher:
- Pearson Education
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Overview
For courses in Sales and Personal Selling.
Utilize cutting-edge personal selling techniques to navigate the information revolution era
Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value helps you understand the value of developing personal selling skills by exposing you to a personal selling academic theory, role play scenarios, and real-world applications and ethical dilemmas. With the largest number of “learn by doing” materials available in any personal selling text, the 14th Edition offers tools to strengthen your learning process. As the developed nations of the world transition from a production focus to a sales 'and' service focus, this cutting-edge new edition prepares you to succeed as a member of a new generation of businesspeople.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780134478340 |
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Publisher: | Pearson Education |
Publication date: | 01/04/2017 |
Edition description: | Student |
Pages: | 568 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Gerald L. Manning is an international author, consultant, speaker and successful businessperson. Professor Manning's book Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value, now in its 14th edition, is today's international #1 selling textbook on negotiations and partnering. With Chinese, Spanish, International English–Speaking, Canadian, Croatian and US editions, millions have profited from the strategies and tactics presented. He is author of 4 additional books on management and sales, all published by large, international publishing companies. Manning also serves as a sales and marketing consultant to senior management and owners of more than 500 businesses, including both national and international companies. He appears regularly as a speaker at national sales and management conferences, and is featured regularly in training videos on sales and management. Professor Manning served as chair of the Marketing/Management Department of one of the leading colleges in the country for more than 30 years. In addition to his administrative duties, he has served as lead instructor in negotiations and sales. Manning received the “Outstanding Professor of the Year” award given annually by his college. He has also applied numerous negotiation and personal selling principles and practices as owner of a very successful commercial and residential real estate investment, development, and management company. Manning's speaking and classroom experience, along with his consulting, and the management of his company have provided him a unique opportunity to research, study, test, refine and write about personal selling. With this background, and a long-term partnership-type relationship with acclaimed training video producer Arthur Bauer, the Adaptive Selling Training Video Series was produced.
Barry Reece is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia Tech, he held faculty positions at Ellsworth Community College and the University of Northern Iowa. Over the years, he has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of Colorado, and Wayne State College. He is the author or coauthor of 6 college textbooks that have been through a total of 41 editions since 1980. Dr. Reece received his EdD from the University of Nebraska. He has been actively involved in teaching, research, consulting and designing training programs throughout his career. He has conducted more than 500 workshops and seminars devoted to leadership, human relations, communications, sales, customer service, and small business operations. He has received the “Excellence in Teaching Award” for classroom teaching at Virginia Tech and the “Trainer of the Year Award” presented by the Valleys of Virginia Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development.
Table of Contents
- Relationship Selling Opportunities in the Information Economy
- Evolution of Selling Models That Complement the Marketing Concept
- Ethics: The Foundation for Partnering Relationships That Create Value
- Creating Value with a Relationship Strategy
- Communication Styles: A Key to Adaptive Selling Today
- Creating Product Solutions
- Product-Selling Strategies That Add Value
- The Buying Process and Buyer Behavior
- Developing and Qualifying Prospects and Accounts
- Approaching the Customer with Adaptive Selling
- Determining Customer Needs with a Consultative Questioning Strategy
- Creating Value with the Consultative Presentation
- Negotiating Buyer Concerns
- Adapting the Close and Confirming the Partnership
- Servicing the Sale and Building the Partnership
- Opportunity Management: The Key to Greater Sales Productivity
- Management of the Sales Force
- Reality Selling Today Role Plays and Video Scenarios
- CRM Reports
- Selling Today