Just because we’re
in the twenty-first century doesn’t mean that all the earlier avenues of
Sales and Marketing are obsolete. Some consumer goods companies still
spend a good chunk of their marketing budget on conventional mass media
marketing. Sometimes a seller’s marketplace is still your best bet for
items with a limited number of producers, or where the production is
highly regulated by the government or controlled by monopolies or
duopolies. And traditional marketplaces continue to flourish today in
some regions of the world.
The point is that
sales and marketing isn’t anything new—it’s not even replacing earlier
marketing practices. You can think of sales and marketing approaches as a
continuum along which recent innovations co-exist with earlier
practices. And any given company’s sales and marketing teams are the
ones to make the strategic decisions that will work best to achieve the
company’s wishes and needs. To do this, they need to keep in mind what
works best with their potential consumers.
Sales and marketing
students can find it tough to wade through various authors’ and
teachers’ perspectives, which can come across as unpractical or
outdated. The truth is that any authority on sales and marketing will
vary according to individual or industry preferences and experiences on
both the timeline and the map.
The SMstudy® Guide aims to simplify these biases by not limiting the concepts to the perspective of any particular author or industry. The SMstudy® Guide was
developed by VMEdu, Inc., a professional education provider that has
educated over 400,000 students worldwide in more than 3,500 companies.
The fifty plus authors, advisers and reviewers of this book have worked
in multiple marketing environments and geographic regions across an
eclectic variety of industries. Thus, the insights provided in this book
provide a comprehensive detail of the principles and concepts related
to sales and marketing. It also articulates an action-oriented process
approach that can be used by sales and marketing practitioners to gain a
better understanding of the subject, and then construct a comprehensive
and effective Sales and Marketing Strategy for their companies,
including all relevant Aspects of Sales and Marketing.
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