Marketing & Sales

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

Specialist salesperson visiting a few local clients without territory boundaries
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Some firms do not set formal sales territories because they are small or local, sell through personal relationships,

Sales manager assigning coloured map zones to salespeople
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Sales territories let a company match selling effort to market potential. Clear territories improve customer coverage, make sales

Sales manager pointing at a very high target while salespeople look stressed, illustrating sales quota problems
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Sales quotas are hard to set well. Sales estimates may be inaccurate or based on opinion, setting them

Manager and salesperson agreeing a fair target together, illustrating sales quota principles
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Good sales quotas are accurate, fair, challenging but attainable, objective, simple to understand, flexible yet stable, clearly defined

Sales director setting target bars from forecasts and territory maps, illustrating sales quota methods
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Companies set sales quotas in six main ways: from sales forecasts combined with territory potential, from forecasts alone,

Sales team reviewing target bars with one salesperson reaching the goal
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: A sales quota is a target set for a salesperson, team or territory for a period. Quotas give

Manager adjusting price tags balancing profit and market share, illustrating pricing objectives
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Firms set prices to reach a clear goal. The main pricing objectives are survival, maximising current profit, earning

Identical branded shops linked to one head office on a map, illustrating chain stores
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Chain stores are two or more shops under one owner and central management, selling the same lines of

Large supermarket with shoppers and parking, illustrating benefits and features of supermarkets
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: A supermarket is a large self-service store selling a wide range of groceries and household goods at low

Cutaway of a multi-floor department store with separate departments, illustrating departmental stores
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: A departmental store is a large shop, usually in a city centre, that sells almost every kind of