Marketing & Sales

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

Scale weighing sales growth against lower profit, illustrating advantages and disadvantages of sales promotion
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Advantages of sales promotion: quick sales lift, product trial, clearing old stock, winning customers from rivals, easy targeting,

Store with discount tags, coupons and free samples, illustrating sales promotion
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Quick answer: Sales promotion is a set of short-term incentives, such as discounts, samples, coupons, contests and dealer schemes, used

Marketer mixing advertising, selling and promotion tools, illustrating determinants of the promotion mix
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Quick answer: The promotion mix is the blend of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion and publicity a firm uses. Five

Storekeeper viewing stock level lines on a tablet in a warehouse
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Quick answer: The main inventory control techniques are fixing maximum and minimum stock levels, setting a reorder level, ordering the

Organised storeroom with a stock gauge in the optimum zone
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Quick answer: Inventory management keeps the right materials available at the lowest total cost. Its objectives are uninterrupted supply for

Warehouse keeper handing documents to a transporter, illustrating documents used in transportation and warehousing
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Quick answer: Transportation documents include the lorry receipt, railway receipt, bill of lading, air waybill, e-way bill, delivery challan and

Logistics manager tracking road, rail, sea and air routes, illustrating transportation management
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Quick answer: Transportation moves goods from suppliers to factories to customers, creating place and time utility. The main modes are

Department store with salespeople beside a self-service supermarket, illustrating the difference between them
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Quick answer: A departmental store sells almost every kind of product under one roof, in separate departments staffed by salespeople,

Shoppers with trolleys in a self-service supermarket, illustrating supermarkets
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Quick answer: Advantages of supermarkets: wide choice, lower prices, freedom to browse, fixed prices, consistent quality, high sales volume, no

One large department store beside a row of chain shops, illustrating departmental store vs chain store
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: A department store is one large store selling a wide variety of goods in separate departments, usually in