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This is a core textbook that provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to selling and sales management. Packed full of insightful real-world case studies, the fourth edition of this highly successful text has been fully updated and revised throughout to provide a truly contemporary overview of the discipline. This textbook offers a unique blend of academic rigour and practical focus based on the authors' invaluable combination of industry experience, expertise in sales consultancy and years of teaching and research in sales. Accessibly divided into three parts-'Strategy', 'Process' and 'Practice'-it presents a wide range of topics such as ethical issues in sales, key account management, international sales, recruitment, and compensation and rewards.
Sales Management is the definitive text for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of selling and sales management.

Sales Management: Strategy, Process and Practice

PART I: PRINCIPLES OF SALES MANAGEMENT 1. The role of selling and its development in the knowledge economy.- 2. Theories of buying and selling.- 3. Types of selling.- 4. Sales force organisation and deployment.- 5. Sales Leadership.- PART II: KEY PROCESSES IN SALES MANAGEMENT 6. Defining and implementing sales strategies.- 7. Selling in international markets.- 8. Key Account Management.- 9. Sales technology.- 10. Measuring sales performance.- PART III: SELLING AND SALES MANAGEMENT PRACTICES 11. Professional selling.- 12. Negotiation.- 13. Recruitment selection of sales professionals.- 14. Training, coaching and development.- 15. Forecast, target setting and compensation.