Social Marketing and Public Relations – A Boon Or A Bane

It took aviation and automobile industry more than 60 years to gain user base of 5 crores and the same feat was achieved by Twitter in 2 years and Pokémon-go in only 19 days!!! Such is the incredible power of digitization and social media in recent times.

I often refer to the first chapter of the bible of marketing, the Principals of Marketing Management book of Mr. Philip Kotler, to distinguish between the selling concept and marketing concept. While, marketing is a logical way to build services and products in a sustainable manner, an excessive usage of it, in today’s era of social marketing and public relations (PR), has its own benefits and drawbacks.

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Practical Guide – Distribution Sales – Chapter-1(Channel Partner Selection) (Part 2))

In the previous article we have covered the “Personal Profile” of the Distributor, which is the softer part of the assessment while appointing a new Channel Partner. Now, let’s discuss the “Business Profile” part, which would vary greatly based on product, industry, market strategy etc., however, generic factors are covered below.

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Distribution Sales Through Channel Partners (Part 1)

For many manufacturing companies, success in sales depends to a large extent on “Distribution Sales”, which is achieved through its network of Channel Partners. In this series of articles on the topic, let’s try to delve into some practical experiences & leanings on the subject, gathered essentially during actual field workings. Since these articles have not being written in a pre-planned manner, it would be shared in a free-flowing manner as a collection of short write-ups; hope the readers find the insights useful.

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Work-Life Challenges And How To Manage Them

In this article, we are going to look into the difficulties and the challenges a normal employee faces during their day to day job-life and we are also going to add few key points on how to manage it efficiently so that we can tackle those challenges with ease.

In this world of deep throat-cutting competition. standing out from others is a must to survive. Unfortunately, it is very hard to keep up with the constant work pressure without loosing our sanity. Managing the pressure and It!! November 2021 adapting to the new, challenging experiences is a hard to master skill. What you must do in these situations is to change the attitude and the approach towards those hurdles. Here are few helpful things you can implement in your day-to-day life to manage that pressure.

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Things Not To Do In Sales

Everyone tells us ‘How to crack a sale “How to make a Sales Call” how to improve your strike ratio but does anybody tell you “what not to do in sales “?

90% of sales call do not materialize because customer didn’t like what you offered but because the way you offered

It’s not important what you are selling its important how you are selling

Today we will discuss a few things which we should NOT do in sales in Luminaire Business1.Relationship is lifelong it’s not a one sale relationship …

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