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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 104 Break-Even Sales Volume

Measurement Need

To determine the break-even sales volume.

Solutioni

The formula for break-even sales volume is common across industries, although the formula’s variables will vary, sometimes dramatically, by industry, and even within an industry.

B E sv = CPC×NCC C s

Where

BEsv = break-even sales volume

CPC = cost per call

NCC = number of calls to close

Cs = sales costs, expressed as a percentage of sales

There are no universal rules governing the number of calls to close a sale. Selling consumer perishables, such as canned foods, is very different from selling mainframe computers. The canned foods salesperson may be able to close a sale in two or three calls since the buyer regularly needs to ...

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