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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 105 Sales Productivity

Measurement Need

Sales management needs to know how productive its salespeople are.

Solutioni

Productivity can be measured in the following ways:

–Sales (revenues) per person (measured in dollars)

–Profits per person (measured in dollars)

–Volume sold per person (in units)

Most sales productivity measures focus on revenues per person.

SP= S t S p

Where

SP = sales productivity

ΣSt = sum of total sales for all sales people

ΣSp = total number of sales people

Assume a company sells real estate data and software to title companies, real estate firms, appraisers, and financial institutions. The company’s revenues are $11 million, generated by seventy-five salespeople. Sales productivity was as ...

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