服务人员介入产品推销对企业销售业绩的影响

目前,很多服务企业认为服务人员介入产品推销,通过服务顾客的机会扩大产品销售会起到一石二鸟的作用,服务人员会努力服务到顾客满意,感动顾客购买更多的产品,从而提升销售业绩。论文以具有代表性的美容、美体、理发及健身等典型传统服务企业作为研究对象,基于服务营销三角模型,探究服务人员介入产品推销对服务企业销售业绩提升的影响机制。论文通过研读相关文献,提出研究假设,通过对服务人员与顾客的问卷调查收集第一手资料;运用主因素分析法、判别式分析法进行数据分析和研究,在分析研究与假设检验的基础上提出相关结论与建议。     

顾客参与新产品开发的绩效影响:产品创新类型的调节效应

顾客参与企业新产品开发对新产品开发绩效有着重要影响,在处于转型经济背景下的中国进行相关研究更有着极为重要的战略意义。文章以B-B市场中的制造企业为研究对象,构建了以产品创新类型为调节变量的顾客参与对新产品开发绩效差异化影响的调节效应模型。研究表明,顾客参与对新产品开发时间绩效与创新绩效的积极影响会受到产品创新类型的调节作用;但产品创新类型对顾客参与和财务绩效关系的调节影响不显著。     

探析钢材营销的思变

本文在分析钢材贸易特点和销售习惯的基础上,提出了变简单销售产品为整合不同客户间的需求;变按需供货为引导顾客使用新产品;变销售现成产品为向顾客提供定制化产品等钢材营销的新策略。     

授权与销售绩效关系研究

在网络成长环境下,企业的成长和发展离不开顾客。企业销售人员如何把握与顾客接触的瞬间,提高自身的销售绩效至关重要。本文从授权视角研究企业销售人员销售绩效;构建了企业销售人员授权与销售绩效关系的结构模型;通过问卷调查,验证了理论假设。研究发现:上级主管授权行为对销售人员授权感知有正向的显著影响,销售人员授权感知对其现场接触质量有正向的显著影响,而销售人员现场接触质量对其销售绩效有正向的显著影响。研究结论初步揭示了企业销售人员授权与销售绩效之间的作用机理。     

基于营销过程中创造长期成功的因素研究

企业营销过程中能够实现利润长期的增长,新产品的开发和使用是主要因素,新产品以及服务的改进和更新对保持和增加企业的销售具有决定性的影响,所以,当前的企业营销过程是对企业提出新的挑战,同时开发新的产品吸引顾客,给顾客带来新的惊喜和新的服务。由于信息和交通的发达,整个世界的产品共享也在加速。全球的文化经历多元化发展,所以企业在进行营销过程中其经营也要变得全球化,创造更多的利润。     

管理好顾客的“心理账户”

<正>在终端销售实战中,销售人员特别是终端一线的导购员、促销员对卖高价格的商品都有一种本能的恐惧。怕推介贵的产品、高价格的产品会把进店的顾客吓跑,不能成交或成交率比较低。一般导购员或促销员习惯于介绍价格相对适中,推介起来顾客阻力比较小的中、低位的产品,认为顾客接受度比较高,成交率也高。     

如何在销售外交上赢得顾客的心

当今,顾客越来越成熟了,对产品、对销售人员更加挑剔了。对此,销售人员若不能转变观念,真正站在顾客的立场上,为顾客着想,必将在未来激烈的市场竞争中失去顾客和市场。因此,高层次的市场营销并不是产品之间的简单竞争,而是一种心理的无声较量,营销的真谛就是最大限度地赢得顾客的“芳心”。     

让铺货有效执行

为了使新产品能在竞争激烈的市场上脱颖而出，厂商往往会特别强调产品的市场铺货率。这样，在公司销售人员受市场铺货、销售指标和考核等因素的影响下，一时间可能会达到处处可见自己产品的情况，殊不知盲目的铺货会给企业造成很大的资金沉淀，坏账和呆账就会增加。因此，新产品的铺货一定要结合市场业务员、经销商、产品、促销和市场等情况综合考虑。     

产品生命周期在销售人员薪酬设计中的应用

任何一件产品都有自己的生命周期,产品在生命周期的不同阶段会采用不同的营销手段和营销策略,而销售情况又与销售人员的薪酬密切相关,所以将生命周期应用于销售人员的薪酬设计中具有十分重要的现实意义。本文从产品生命周期理论入手,介绍了生命周期在市场条件下对销售人员薪酬设计的影响以及如何将其应用于薪酬设计之中。     

浅议导购员与顾客购买行为的关系——以服装行业为例

随着社会经济的迅速发展,市场竞争变得越来越激烈,各行各业也越来越重视自己产品的市场占有率和营业额。要提高市场占有率,企业在做好质量服务、新产品开发的同时,最主要的是掌握好销售环节,即终端店铺的销售情况。而终端店铺销售情况的好坏直接取决于店铺内导购员的素质。因此,正确认识导购员的导购素质与顾客购买行为的关系、合理优化导购人员素质就显得尤为重要。本文以服装行业为例,结合实际的问卷调查,分析导购人员的导购素质对顾客购买行为的影响情况,并指出除了对导购人员素质的培养需注重服装、能力、体质、相貌等方面,还应增强导购人员的形象意识、提高心理素质等。     

The impact of mood on customer behavior: Staff mood and environmental factors

This review looks at the effect of staff/server mood on customer/client mood and various outcome behaviours such as such as product and service evaluation. It also looks at the role of other stimulus factors such as scent, sound and light on customer affect and cognitions and thence the effects on purchase behaviours. Based on the service-profit chain model, this review considers the scattered research which empirically demonstrates the impact of staff mood upon customer mood and behaviour. The review then goes on to discuss the various ways in which a customer's mood influences their buying behaviour, as well as considering why and when this occurs. Other physical factors that influence customer mood are also considered. Implications for the management of sales staff and sales environments are considered.     

销售标准化的创建执行及对销售绩效的影响

通过描述与分析销售标准化对销售绩效的影响,认为企业实施销售标准化有利于提高销售绩效;产品、顾客群体及销售渠道影响销售标准化的创建;销售人员的选拔、培训与考核及销售管理与控制体系影响销售标准化的执行,销售标准化、销售人员选拔培训与考核及销售管理与控制体系综合影响销售绩效;企业应根据所处的发展阶段及市场环境的变化,不断调整销售标准化的流程与构成要素,实现销售流程再造,实施新的销售标准化。     

Customer and selling orientations of retail salespeople and the sales manager's ability-to-perceive-emotions: A multi-level approach

Drawing from the mental ability framework and information processing theory, two studies embedded within the B2C retail setting investigate the role of the sales manager's ability-to-perceive-emotions in the complex non-linear relationships between salespeople's customer and selling orientations on one side, and its outcomes (sales performance and customer re-purchase intention) on the other. Using multilevel data from salespeople and their managers, Study 1 tests a theoretical model of salesperson orientation and performance, while Study 2 further verifies the results of Study 1 from the customer's perspective. Both studies find strong empirical support for a curvilinear, inverted U-shaped effect of a salesperson's customer orientation on sales performance and customer re-purchase intention. This effect is, however, reversed for the link between selling orientation and performance/re-purchase intention, where results indicate a U-shaped curvilinear relationship. Furthermore, we show that the sales manager's ability to perceive emotions facilitates the effect of salespeople's customer orientation on sales performance.     

Utilizing the access value of customers

Customers are critical resources for the success of any business, not only because they bring in sales and profits directly, but also because of their access value in a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected. However, the mechanisms by which the customer access value may be exploited and the implication for management has not been well understood. Access value can be defined as the worth of utilizing patrons for further marketing and sales of value-added or third party products. The access value, which mainly results from the aggregation of the customer base and customer data, is essentially a corporation's internalized asset. This article shows that the size of the customer base and the extent of engagement have a significant impact on the customer access value. To develop and gain the benefits of customer access value, traditional business models often need to be transformed: firms and platforms should provide free or subsidized products to attract people and then embed value-added products to make money. The success of the new business model depends on not only the right pricing and product strategies, but also an embedding strategy.     

Driving Trucks and Driving Sales? The Impact of Delivery Personnel on Customer Purchase Behavior

This study investigates how and under what conditions delivery persons, specifically truck drivers of a supplier firm, affect customers’ purchase behavior in industrial customer–supplier relationships. Drawing on service quality and customer contact literature, we test a proposed theoretical model that suggests a positive direct effect of personal contact quality (provided by a delivery person) on sales as well as three situational constraints that determine the occurrence and strength of the direct effect.     

User Reviews Variance,Critic Reviews Variance,and Product Sales: An Exploration of Customer Breadth and Depth Effects

Online user reviews constitute a new element of the marketing communication mix that can significantly affect product sales. A general consensus holds that positive user reviews valence benefits product sales, yet the effect of variance is less intuitive and current findings are mixed. We propose that user reviews variance actually constitutes a double-edged sword that can either hurt or help product sales, depending on the variance of critic reviews and other quality signals. Three complementary studies in multiple industries (movies, digital cameras, and books) with multiple methods (secondary data analysis and behavioral experiment) reveal three key insights in this setting. First, after recognizing a high variance in user reviews, many potential buyers may simply exclude the focal product from their consideration sets for fear that it does not match their needs and preferences, which is termed the customer breadth effect. Second, high user reviews variance, in combination with high critic reviews variance, can elicit a sense of uniqueness and thus enhance purchase intentions of some consumers, which is termed the customer depth effect. Third, quality signals (e.g., product cost and product extension) can strengthen the positive customer depth effect. The overall effects of user reviews variance, therefore, can be negative, insignificant, or even positive. These findings have important theoretical and managerial implications.     

Does online observational learning matter? Empirical evidence from panel data

The information presented on a product sales page plays an important role in consumers' purchase decisions. This study examines the persuasive effect, whether a customer's choice is heavily driven by information inferred from others' behavior, and how these impacts are moderated by market age and product type. Results show that online customer choice was significantly affected by historical cumulative sales and times saved. Positive cumulative sales and shop service quality have a significant positive impact on product sales. The times saved have no direct impact on product sales. For different types of products, the times saved of experiential products has a significant impact on product sales, while the shop service quality information of search products has a greater impact on product sales. The influence of online observation learning on product sales will be significantly moderated by a combination of product type and market age. These findings not only offer important theoretical contributions to e-commerce research but also provide practical implications for online sellers and managers of social commerce platforms.     

All pain,no gain? Why adopting sales force automation tools is insufficient for performance improvement

The dawning of the 21^st century brought a wave of research into the phenomenon of sales force automation (SFA)—technology tools aimed at enabling sales organizations to better practice customer relationship management. While the academic literature has offered great insight into how an organization can increase the likelihood that its sales force will adopt a new technology system, a great majority of research stops there. This is unfortunate in that companies mistakenly infer that use of an SFA system is the major hurdle and that simply motivating SFA use will be the key to unlocking improved performance. However, this is often not the case; many organizations are able to get their sales force to use an SFA system but do not see improvements in performance. As such, after briefly providing an overview of the factors affecting SFA use, this research provides insight into why use alone may not contribute to long-term improvements in a firm's sales performance. Key empirical findings and theoretical arguments from the extant literature are considered and a list of best practices is offered here to help managers bridge the gap between SFA use and improved sales effectiveness and efficiency.     

Changing Perceptions and Changing Behavior in Customer Relationships

We formulate a theoretical model in which we postulate that if customers' behavior is perceived as not optimal, customers will adjust this behavior based on their current satisfaction and payment equity. Furthermore, customers will also include new experiences. In our empirical study we particularly investigate customer referrals and the amount of services purchased. Our results show positive effects of current satisfaction and payment equity on referrals, while also changes in satisfaction and payment equity affect customer referrals. With respect to the amount of services purchased, our estimation results reveal a positive significant effect of only changes in satisfaction.     

Does managing customer accounts receivable impact customer relationships,and sales performance? An empirical investigation

The impact of accounts receivables on the performance of salespersons is largely ignored in sales literature. However, in many sales contexts, managing customers' accounts receivables is directly managed by the salespeople, and therefore substantially impacts their sales performance. Towards such sales contexts, in this empirical study, we study the effect of customer account receivables and salespersons' customer orientation on their relationship orientation and customer-related performance. We further analyse the direct impact of relationship orientation on customer-related performance. Using survey-based data from 224 salespersons based out of India, we empirically test the proposed model using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Our findings suggest that accounts receivables from customers and salespersons ‘customer orientation strongly impact relationship building and also improves customer-related performance. The salespersons’ relationship orientation also partially mediates the relationship between customer account receivables and customer-related performance. Therefore, this study provides much-required evidence to establish the salience of salesforce appropriately managing customers' account receivables so that its impact on their sales performance customer relationships are not adversely affected.