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Measuring Marketing
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Measuring Marketing

by John Davis
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
7h 51m
English
De Gruyter
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Chapter 98 Breakdown Approach

Measurement Need

They must determine how many salespeople are needed to service existing customers and also attract new customers.

Solutioni

To determine sales force size using the breakdown approach, sales professionals must know their previous sales history, projections of their own new sales for the upcoming year, and market forecasts.1 It is calculated using this formula2:

SFS= FS SPP

Where

SFS = sales force size

FS = forecasted sales

SPP = average sales per person

To determine sales force size, sales management must first develop total forecast sales for the year. To illustrate,3 let’s assume that a beverage company specializing in herbal soft drinks has sales of $100 million. Due to the nature of the ...

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