Marketing & Sales

Guides on marketing, advertising, sales management, distribution and retail, with Indian examples.

Manufacturer watching a campaign spread while production and sales rise, illustrating benefits of promotion
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Promotion helps producers reach more buyers, raise demand and sales, and produce on a larger scale at lower

Wall of billboard, print, TV, mobile and trade show ads, illustrating types of advertising
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Advertising can be grouped by purpose and audience: product vs institutional, direct vs indirect action, primary vs selective

Billboard, TV, radio and phone showing one ad to a crowd, illustrating features of advertising
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Advertising is a paid, non-personal form of mass communication from an identified sponsor that aims to persuade a

Brand shield cracking under discount tags, illustrating limitations of sales promotion
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: The limitations of sales promotion are short-lived effects, rewarding existing buyers, inability to fix a weak product, lower

Shoppers picking promotional packs from a display as sales rise
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Sales promotion helps producers lift sales quickly, launch new products, smooth out seasonal demand, win new markets and

Bar chart of coupons and gift boxes rising, illustrating rapid growth of sales promotion
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Sales promotion has grown quickly because companies want immediate profits and responses, traditional media is costly and cluttered,

Promoter handing samples and coupons to shoppers, illustrating functions of sales promotion
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Sales promotion offers short-term incentives such as discounts, samples, coupons and contests to push immediate sales. Its main

Supermarket aisle with coupons, samples and a timed offer, illustrating sales promotion
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Sales promotion uses short-term incentives such as discounts, coupons, samples and contests to speed up buying by consumers

Sales manager dividing a map into balanced zones, illustrating sales territory design
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Well-designed sales territories give each salesperson a fair share of market potential and workload, avoid overlap, stay flexible,

Sales manager dividing a map into territories, illustrating factors affecting sales territory size
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: The size of a sales territory depends on the product and sales job, demand and market potential, distribution