What changes could be made to improve their relationship with accounts to ensure improved results and develop a more substantial company position?
Task
• This is an individual task.
• Read the information below and answer the questions.
• Answer the question in report format but make sure you answer the questions, and you have clear structure.
Information:
You are the Sales Manager for an organisation that sells information to mostly to airports and transport companies. The company is 18 months old. The
company treats all accounts in a similar way.
Most of their communication with clients is done using e-mails and inbound tools (Jumplead). You have around 200 clients you work with. The balance of the
accounts is as follows: 80% of your clients account for around 20% of your sales revenue. The remaining 20% of your clients represent the remaining 80% of
your sales revenue but this proportion is falling.
The company currently operates on a European level with focus on UK, Germany and France,l with 3 telesales operators and 1 media (inbound/media)
manager. There is one consultant (a technician) that the company works with who is employed to personalise the software for larger clients. You cover
the CEO and General Manager roles.
Questions
- How does the current approach to sales fail to generate their true revenue potential and, therefore, hinder their contribution to the organizational and sales
strategy? - What changes could be made to improve their relationship with accounts to ensure improved results and develop a more substantial company position?
- Describe how a more integrated marketing communications (Sales/Marketing) might be adapted to enable positive performance.
- Describe how purchasing would work in this organisation with emphasis on how value would be delivered to clients?
• Formalities:
• Wordcount: 2000 words
• Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
• Font: Arial 12,5 pts.
• Text alignment: Justified.
• The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
