Marketing & Sales

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

Shopper paying by QR code on a smartphone with a delivery scooter leaving
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: M-commerce is buying and selling through smartphones and tablets. Its advantages are anytime, anywhere access, easy mobile payments

Two teams measuring their bar charts against each other with a giant ruler
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Benchmarking types by comparison partner: internal, competitive, functional, generic, collaborative and international. By what is compared: performance, process,

Manager presenting an employee with a trophy, bonus and career ladder
Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Employee reward systems combine financial and non-financial rewards. Financial: bonuses, incentives, profit sharing and long-term incentives such as

Shopper scanning a loyalty card with points, tiers and rewards around
Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: The main types of customer loyalty programmes are points-based, tiered, paid membership, cashback, punch card, value-based, coalition, partner,

Manager at a crossroads of decision-making signposts
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Decisions can be made rationally (step by step), intuitively, incrementally, with heuristics or rules of thumb, by satisficing

Logistics team coordinating trucks, warehouse and customs from a planning desk, illustrating the logistics department
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: The logistics department plans and runs the flow of goods from suppliers to customers. Its responsibilities include forecasting,

Shopper with an overflowing cart of impulse buys and packaging, illustrating grocery store disadvantages
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Grocery stores are convenient, but buying there has drawbacks: produce may be less fresh, store layouts encourage impulse

Shopper with a cart passing fresh produce and discount signs in a grocery store
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: Buying from a grocery store gives you convenience, a wide variety of products in one place, regular discounts,

Supermarket owner looking at flat sales while customers go to a rival store
Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: A supermarket usually stops growing because it looks like every other store, does not understand its local customers,

Marketer adjusting channel sliders with a rising conversion chart
Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Sales

Quick answer: To optimise a marketing strategy: define a clear target audience and value proposition, choose the channels where those