Selling Today: Partnering to Create Value, Global Edition, 15th edition

Published by Pearson (13 September 2024) © 2024

  • Gerald Manning Des Moines Area Community College
  • Michael Ahearne University of Houston
  • Barry L Reece Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Title overview

For courses in selling.

Cutting-edge personal selling techniques to succeed in today's competitive business world.

Selling Today helps students understand the value of developing personal selling skills. The text incorporates academic theory, roleplay scenarios, real-world applications and ethical dilemmas. With the largest number of 'learn by doing' materials of any personal selling text, Selling Today offers a wealth of tools to help students develop an ethical, customer-centred mindset.

With new discussions, scenarios and videos, the 15th Edition prepares students to succeed as members of a new generation of sales professionals.

Table of contents

  • PART 1: DEVELOPING A PERSONAL SELLING PHILOSOPHY
  • Relationship Selling Opportunities in the Information Economy
  • Evolution of Selling Models That Complement the Marketing Concept
  • PART 2: DEVELOPING A RELATIONSHIP STRATEGY
  • Ethics: The Foundation for Partnering Relationships That Create Value
  • Creating Value with a Relationship Strategy
  • Communication Styles: A Key to Adaptive Selling Today
  • PART 3: DEVELOPING A PRODUCT STRATEGY
  • Creating Product Solutions
  • Product-Selling Strategies That Add Value
  • PART 4: DEVELOPING A CUSTOMER STRATEGY
  • The Buying Process and Buyer Behavior
  • Developing and Qualifying Prospects and Accounts
  • PART 5: DEVELOPING A PRESENTATION STRATEGY
  • 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
  • PART 6: MANAGEMENT OF SELF AND OTHERS
  • Opportunity Management: The Key to Greater Sales Productivity
  • Management of the Sales Force
  • APPENDICES
  • Reality Selling Today Role Plays and Video Scenarios
  • NewNet Systems Regional Accounts Management Case Study
  • Partnership Selling Role Play

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