Channel sales and management in distribution

Channel sales and management in distribution
Author: Robert Hastings
Publisher: Businessman 101
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2011-05-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146098448X

OVERVIEWDistribution is the largest business in the world! It is bigger than mining or food or clothing and this book offers valuable insight and information regarding how to be a successful sales professional and manager in a channel business.Channel is the market layers through which distribution takes place and this book is designed to give the necessary skills in the distribution and channel market on sales and management with a rounded view of the required skills and knowledge. What makes this book unique is the insight and experience of the author who has been involved in the distribution market for over 30 years and he understands what makes it work and what makes a successful channel sales person and manager.This book Successful Channel Sales in Distribution offers a range of informative chapters which will guide you through distribution systems and the multi layers from the distributor down to the Value Added Reseller, System Integrators, Agents and appointed representatives.The book reviews the all important 80/20 principle in setting up a national channel market. Successful Channel sales reviews distribution partners and how they work, how relationship management works and what is the most successful and tried methods in partner retention programs. Several of the chapters are devoted to understanding the sales drivers in distribution channels and how to maximise the earnings and capability in your market of choice.THe book offers advice on how to understand the role of marketing and promotions including the 'push and pull' effect on the distributor to the reseller. There are sections on finance and 'channel metrics' as well as human resources and overall channel management techniques.How can you be successful within a channel structure? Who are the significant players in a channel structure and what skills do you need to understand and drive channel sales? All these questions are answered with informative advice on how to succeed and progress in a distribution market business.This book offers a professional approach in how to create a long term career in the channel business no matter if the distribution is aircraft or widgets!If you want to understand a channel sales cycle, relationship management, marketing and promotions, human resource, stockholding and the financial side of credit and credit management these subjects are all listed in easy to understand jargon and how each interlinks in the distribution chain.If you want to understand channel or you are an educated channel manager this is the book for you as it is written for those seeking a better understanding of channel management and sales expertise or are looking for a role in distribution.

Sales and Marketing Channels

Sales and Marketing Channels
Author: Julian Dent
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 074948215X

Analyze, plan and manage profitable channels to market with this economic framework, ensuring maximum leverage of channel partners at every stage of the go-to-market process, with this fully revised third edition of the global bestseller, Distribution Channels - an essential toolkit for strategizing new and existing routes to market. Unprecedented upheavals in routes-to-market are challenging businesses of all types. Products are becoming services, online and offline channels are integrating, and new distribution channels are dictating terms to producers. Placing market access at the heart of business and marketing strategy, this revised edition of Sales and Marketing Channels (originally Distribution Channels) addresses emerging business models and buying behaviours with practical steps, offering an efficient structure to extract tangible commercial value from partner relationships. Often referred to as the "Place" P in the marketing mix, this book and its host of downloadable resources integrate innovative case studies like AirBNB, the largest seller of rooms without ownership of any; Transferwise, the peer-to-peer Forex; plus, the rise of online retailers like Amazon and ASOS versus the decline of traditional stores like Macy's or BHS. Other updates include: -The impact of cloud technology -Advancing consumer channels -Monetizing the distribution of intellectual property -Plus the evolving 'gig economy', led by Uber and Deliveroo

The Hybrid Sales Channel: How to Ignite Growth by Bridging the Gap Between Direct and Indirect Sales

The Hybrid Sales Channel: How to Ignite Growth by Bridging the Gap Between Direct and Indirect Sales
Author: Rich Blakeman
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 007184533X

Customers are changing the way they buy. Why aren't you changing the way you sell? Today's customers have more buying options than ever before. They don't care if it's direct or indirect. They don't mind if it's not your preferred sales model. And they don't like it when you try to tell them how to buy from you. If you want your customers to keep buying—and your company to keep growing—you need to rethink and retool the way you're selling. You need to go "hybrid." The Hybrid Sales Channel shows you how to integrate, invigorate, and maximize the direct and indirect sales channels you already have—so you'll be able to: SELL MORE. Grow your sales organically and exponentially faster. SELL MORE EFFICIENTLY. Align the right resources from all sales channels to the right selling opportunities. SELL IN THE WAYS THAT CUSTOMERS WANT TO BUY. Focus on how your customer buys, not on how you want to sell. Developed by the sales performance leaders at MHI Global, this test-driven, customer-based approach to selling will revolutionize your sales channels, reenergize your sales teams, and reignite your sales growth—efficiently, holistically, and rapidly. This is the future of direct and indirect sales, a newly organized, easily implemented sales model inspired by a changing market and empowered customer base. With The Hybrid Sales Channel, you'll have the best of all worlds—and get the best of all results. If you're like most companies, you probably think your direct and indirect sales channels are more than sufficient for handling customers' needs—and you don't need to spend time or money developing a "hybrid" version of what you already have. But the truth is: you do. The truth is: a higher and higher percentage of customers are buying through partners and less through direct channels. The truth is: You need to adapt to the market—and you need to do it now—using The Hybrid Sales Channel. This fully intergrated, fully operational approach to selling is built on the same concept as a hybrid car with dual engines. This step-by-step guide shows you how to put it all together—quickly and easily. Learn how to: Merge two methodologies to ignite new growth Drive more sales, better sales, and faster sales Speak to your core customer using The MHI Global Sales System (TM) Remove competition and confusion between routes to market Prepare for territory level execution and larger market coverage Improve company alignment—and make extraordinary things happen However you decide to sell your products or services, the customer will ultimately decide how they want to buy them. The Hybrid Sales Channel gives you the tools you need to adapt to changing customer habits in the fastest, most efficient way possible. You'll find sales-targeted tips for choosing the right coverage for the right opportunity, money-saving strategies to avoid duplicate work, and cross-checking techniques to keep direct and indirect sales running smoothly. You'll also discover fascinating real-world examples of hybrid sales in action, and learn the best practices of the biggest sellers across the globe.

Sell Like Crazy

Sell Like Crazy
Author: Sabri Suby
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-01-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648459903

In this groundbreaking book, Sabri Suby, the founder of Australia's #1 fastest growing digital marketing agency, reveals his exclusive step-by-step formula for growing the sales of any business, in any market or niche! The 8 phase 'secret selling system' detailed in this book has been deployed in over 167 industries and is responsible for generating over $400 million dollars in sales. This isn't like any business or marketing book you've ever read. There's no fluff or filler - just battle-hardened tactics that are working right now to rapidly grow sales. Use these timeless principles to rapidly and dramatically grow the sales for your business and crush your competition into a fine powder.

Building Successful Partner Channels

Building Successful Partner Channels
Author: Hans Peter Peter Bech
Publisher: Tbk Publishing(r)
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9788793116160

"Building Successful Partner Channels" is a book laying out the roadmap for achieving global market leadership through independent channel partners in the software industry. When Microsoft acquired Navision in 2002 there is no doubt that the price they paid was heavily influenced by the value of our channel partner eco-system. I can think of no one better suited than Hans Peter to write a book with the title Building Successful Partner Channels. Preben Damgaard, Co-founder and CEO of Navision Predictable growth and market leadership through independent channel partners are on every software industry CEO and sales executives' mind. However, it is rarely achieved. With "Building Successful Partner Channels" Hans Peter Bech provides a great tactical approach toward reaching this goal. Torulf Nilsson, Product Executive, Visma Retail, Oslo, Norway Hans Peter Bech has been at the forefront developing indirect channels in the software industry for more than three decades and his track record is impressive. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone searching for the route to global market leadership in the software industry. Yusuf Soner, School of Management at the Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Building Successful Partner Channels provides a powerful, practical approach to building a strong network of independent channel partners, so as to optimize sales and marketing activities. The book helps senior sales and marketing executives understand how to work in concert to achieve global market leadership through the indirect-channel approach. Toke Kruse, Founder and CEO at Billy, San Francisco, USA

A Mind for Sales

A Mind for Sales
Author: Mark Hunter, CSP
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400215765

For salespeople feeling stressed and disappointed that their customers don’t want to hear from them, this guide is the key to developing the mindset and habits required to reach a new level of sales success. The world of sales can be tough, so it’s easy to get discouraged when the rejections start piling up and your customers stop answering the phone. This allows the wrong thought patterns to start developing, soon you aren’t making quotas and then you begin looking at job listings waiting for your next downfall. Sales expert Mark Hunter can relate as his start to sales was discouraging. The lessons he’s learned throughout his career are revealed in A Mind for Sales. He discovered that sales can be incredibly rewarding, such as customers calling you for advice, thanking you for improving their business, and referring you to colleagues. The difference is simply developing mindset and momentum habits. In A Mind for Sales, you’ll learn how to: Feel energized by renewed purpose and success in your sales role by following the success cycle approach. Receive practical strategies on how to change your mindset and succeed in sales. Learn the daily habits needed to maximize productivity and make hitting the ground running strategy #1. Gain real-world insights from Hunter’s vast experience as a successful sales professional and sales coach. Let this book inspire and prepare you to form the new habits you need to succeed and to realize the incredible rewards that a successful life in sales makes possible.

Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell

Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell
Author: Mike Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781925648973

How do the best salespeople connect, influence and persuade? With stories. 'Seven Stories Every Salesperson Must Tell' takes you on a high-stakes sales journey, using stories to establish rapport and trust, deliver insight, inspire action and close the deal, and in doing so win new friends and collaborators. When you share purposeful stories in your client conversations, you'll create more new business than you thought possible. Sharing more than 50 stories from around the world, Mike draws on his diverse international sales career to teach and demonstrate the power of storytelling -- from first hello to signed contract. You'll learn stories to help you: Establish rapport and trust Present challenging insights Differentiate your solution Share your company values Unstick negotiation stand-offs Create better business outcomes. This book will change the way you think about selling. Rather than seeing your role as that of a transactional deal closer, you'll become a story master, creating new stories for your clients.

SPIN® -Selling

SPIN® -Selling
Author: Neil Rackham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000111482

True or false? In selling high-value products or services: 'closing' increases your chance of success; it is essential to describe the benefits of your product or service to the customer; objection handling is an important skill; open questions are more effective than closed questions. All false, says this provocative book. Neil Rackham and his team studied more than 35,000 sales calls made by 10,000 sales people in 23 countries over 12 years. Their findings revealed that many of the methods developed for selling low-value goods just don‘t work for major sales. Rackham went on to introduce his SPIN-Selling method. SPIN describes the whole selling process: Situation questions Problem questions Implication questions Need-payoff questions SPIN-Selling provides you with a set of simple and practical techniques which have been tried in many of today‘s leading companies with dramatic improvements to their sales performance.

Sales 2.0

Sales 2.0
Author: Anneke Seley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008-12-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 047048280X

Two Silicon Valley insiders reveal the emerging Sales 2.0 trend and how companies can profit from it Sales 2.0 explores the emerging Sales 2.0 phenomenon, how it is characterized, why it is imperative for a company’s long-term success, and how anyone can get started with this new approach to generating revenue. Driven by an explosion of online products and changing customer buying preferences, Sales 2.0 is the marriage of Web 2.0 technologies with innovative sales processes. The book shows readers how to redeploy their sales teams for greater bottom-line results and reveals all the differences between Sales 2.0 and traditional selling. Through real world case studies, readers will learn how industry leaders achieved phenomenal results and a competitive advantage. Applicable to sales teams in any industry, Sales 2.0 presents the future of sales today.