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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Udeagha,
I. (1999, 227), defined personal selling as a process of conversing the
sale of a company products or service by salesman or woman, it is a
dynamic process involving direct contract between the seller of a
product or services and the prospective buyers through oral or face to
face or telephone discussion or written mail exchange of ideas through
opinion.
Luncaste rand Messinghen (2002), simply puts personal
selling as involving oral presentation in a conversation with one or
more purchasers for the purpose of making sales. No doubt we can
decompose personal selling as involving oral communication between a
seller and a buyer.
Personal selling has the intention of creating
exchange. Personal selling can be beneficial to both seller and buyer.
It can also help in discharging need states to create satisfaction.
Kotler
(2004) avers that personal selling is the most effective tool at later
stages of the buying process, particularly in building up buyer
preference, conviction, and action. He identified three (3) distinctive
qualities.
Personal Confrontation: Personal selling involves an
immediate and interaction relationship between two or more persons, each
party is able to observe the other’s reaction at close range.
Cultivation:
Personal selling permits all kinds of relationship to spring up,
ranging from a matter of fact selling relationship to a deep personal
friendship sale representatives will normally have customer’s best
interest at heart.
Response: personal selling makes the buyer fell under some obligation for having listened to the sales talk.
Stanton
(1981) in making a deep analysis in to personal selling vis-à-vis other
promo elements argues that the goals of all marketing efforts is to
increase profitable sales by offering want satisfaction to the market
over a long run. Personal selling is by far the major promotional method
used to reach these goals. The number of people employed in advertising
is in thousands. In personal selling the number is in millions. He
argued further that in many companies, personal selling is the largest
single operating expense, often equaling 8 to 15% of net sales.
Expenditure
for sales peoples salaries, commissions, and the expenses of managing
these sales people all add up to a tidy sum. To develop, maintain and
sustain a competent team of sales personal needs high degree of
investment (money, time, energy, etc) in all the nation’s in general and
developing ones in particular like India (skiera and Albers), 2008).
This investment is huge and claims a lion share of marketing budget in
the case of any brand belongs to any product category in any type of
industry.
Menchande and Chintagunta, 2004). The costs of recruiting,
training, developing and developing a professional team are all time
high-(Cespedes, 1990, (Erevelles et al 2004) further, the personal
Selling element is the most expensive mode of communication among all
the efforts in marketing mix on a straight cost-per contact basis in all
sectors (Murthy and Mantrala, 2005). In addition, the sales personnel
turnover ratio is continue to be high due to their low level of
organizational loyalty added substantial costs to maintain a competen
sales force team (Jackson et al., 1994, sager et al., 1988, 19989).
Previous studies suggest that the managers have been investing resources
in personal selling effort due to its versatility of application on
different activities simultaneously (Thevaranjan and Joseph, 1999).
Moreover, personal selling usually offers a relatively quick response of
sales as compared to other efforts as well as it may not have to be
adopted in the contexts of dynamics environment, customers and
trade-partners requirements (Cardozo and ship, 1987) cravens et al 1990,
plank and Dempsay, 1980, verbeke et el., 2004). Further response is
intending to increase in sales sometimes but do not always profitable
(power, 1989, person and Abeele, 1981). The selling effort is sometimes
failed to generate desired response because there might be a lack of
adequate support from the top management, customers, situational
variables as well as the difference between self-reported past
performance and self-generated expectation of future performance
(Decarlo et al, 1999, 2007) Ingram et el, 1992, Jaramillo and Mulki,
2008) Krishna et el, 2002, Roberts et el, 1994).
Personal selling is a
branch of marketing that is also broad which is expedient for continued
existence of every marketing company. Most marketing organization today
does not take into consideration the impact of personal selling; it has
to do with person – to person of communication of which an immediate
feedback is provided to the audience. To achieve and gain more customers
personal selling needs to be strategically planned to be effective in
today highly competitive market place. The tactics implementation of the
selling strategy takes place in a process according to Adirika
(1998:19). Preparation, prospecting, qualifying, pre-approach and
planning, approach, presentation and demonstration, trial closing,
handling objective follow up and post sales activities.
Personal
selling as known as a matter of persuasion i.e persuading others to buy
your proposition, when we persuade people we do not merely change their
thinking on the subject, we crass them to do something, their actions
are modified as well as their thought. People are motivated by their
desire for the benefit you offer them, therefore every sales
presentation must convince them. In the same view of Edoga and Ani
(2000, 293) personal selling serves major roles in firm over all
marketing efforts, sales people are the critical link between the firm
and its customers, this role requires that sales people match company
interest with customer needs to satisfy both parties in the exchange
process. In the eyes of consumer they represent what a company attempt
to be and affair the personal contract, a customer has with the company.
Odo
(2003): 121) noted that for personal selling to be effective the
personal salesman has to have an in-depth product knowledge which is
indispensable in handling the highly technical and professional
customers that abound in the industrial sectors. In communicating face
to face with these customers, the industrial salesmen use such aids less
calendar, cardholders and other small gift items as reminders to the
customer of himself, his product or service offering.
General steel
mill and General pipe industry is located at Asaba. The company products
and marketing building rode, build wire, pipe, cooking gas e.tc. The
company markets its product through the industrial sales persons.
The
importance of these sales people in information gathering and selling
functions need not to be over emphasized. It is in the realization of
this that the researcher critically looks at the effectiveness of
personal selling in the marketing of industrial products.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Most times, most
companies be it large or small do not realize that personal selling is
part of the marketing team and that, identify them. It is the key to
continuous existence of any organization. Also it was observed that this
problem is worsened by the fact that some of the sales persons are half
back and lack the ability to express their sales properly and also lack
the ability to possessing self-confidence. Furthermore, it was observed
that sales people are not good listeners and do not listen to customers
complaints. And also do not consider the customer analysis; aid the
handling of objections, ignored. General steel mill and general pipe
industry in Asaba is not an exception because their sales people lack
adequate training and motivation which will help them to perform well on
their job.
The company, which started very well, is now faced with
competition that is fierce and cut through couple with the income of the
customers of General Steel mill and General pipe industry in Asaba,
thus no doubt have impacted negatively on sales of the comparing.
This
research work is focused on the marketing of industrial product by
personal selling specifically General Steel mill and General Pipe
Industry in Asaba Delta State Nigeria.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The main purpose
of the study is to appraise the effectiveness of personal selling
strategy on the marketing of industrial product using General Steel Mill
and General Pipe Industry as company, other objectives are:
1.
To determine the effectiveness of personal selling strategies in the
marketing of industrial product in General Steel Mill and General Pipe
Industry
2. To determine the contributions of personal selling to the total sales volume
3. To aware whether the sales forces are properly motivated
4. To assess the condition training of industrial sales men.
5. To what extent selling impacts on the profit of the company
6. To assess the problem encounter by sales representative in the course of doing their job.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION
1. In what ways does personal selling strategy affects the marketing of industrial products?
2. How could personal selling influence the increase in sales volume and not profit of industrial products?
3. What are the benefits of sales representative in the marketing of industrial products?
4. What are the problems encounters by sales representative in their personal selling effort?
5. In what ways does your organization organize training for sales representative?
6. What types of motivation are given to industrial sales man?
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