Sales Management

Benefit

  • Gives skills to understand the B2B sales process

Target Group

  • The training is suitable for anyone interested in the basics of sales

Learning objectives

After completing the course, the student

  • Understands the role of selling in the process of creating long-term customer value in relationships
  • Understand multichannel usage as part of the sales process
  • Knows the sales management process step by step
  • Is aware of the methods associated with leading a sales-team

Content

  • Quantitative approaches
  • Definitions and perspectives of personal selling
  • Relationship marketing and personal sellling
  • Value-based selling
  • Psyhology of selling
  • Communication for relationship building
  • Sales knowledge
  • Relationship selling process
  • Managing yourself, your career and others

Teaching Mode and Methods

Lectures, project work, cases. Online teaching.

Study Material

  • Futrell, C (2014): Fundamentals of Selling, McGraw-Hill
  • Other material provided by the lecture

Assessment

Numerical (0-5).

Schedule and Location

This course includes two different study group: one of them will be located on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 16-20 o’clock (possibly also on Saturday) and another group will be on Friday between 12-20 timespan and Saturday between 8-16 timespan.

Further Information

Heidi Skjäl

Senior Lecturer

School of Business | Business Economics

heidi.skjäl@vamk.fi | +358 207 663 616

Timo Malin

Senior Lecturer

School of Business | Business Economics

timo.malin@vamk.fi | +358 207 663 510