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House Accounts
A house account is an account not assigned to an individual
salesperson but one handled by executives or home office personnel .many are
extremely large customers ,most of whom prefer-indeed, sometimes demand-to deal
with the home office. most companies prefer to minimize the number of house
accounts .however ,some large customers refuse to do business any other way.
Zip code areas: A basic geographical unit increasingly used by U.S. companies is the
zip code area. Using zip code areas as the basic geographical units has advantages.
The zip code system permits a precise definition of markets according to economic and
demographic characteristics.
Metropolitan statistical areas: companies whose markets have expanded beyond city
limits and into suburbs and satellite cities find the metropolitan statistical area a good
choice for basic geographical control unit. These statistics emphasize the highly
urbanized nature of the national market and explain why an ever-growing number of
companies assign territories consisting of metropolitan areas personnel and either use
“country salespersons” to cover nonmetropolitan.
Trading areas: A logical choice for a geographical control unit is the trading areas, since
it is based upon the natural flow of trade. formally, a trading area consisting of the
geographical region surrounding a city that serves as the dominant retail or wholesale
center or both for the region.
Many customer products, including most specialty and shopping goods, are available
almost entirely in large regional shopping malls. The main problem in using trading as
control units are defining them and estimating sales products.
States: states, as basic geographical control units, provide a rough basis for subdividing
the national market. The main difficulty in using states as basic control units is that they
are political rather than economic subdivisions.
Territory shape: The planner now consider territory shape. The shape of a territory
affects the shape of a territory affects both selling expenses and ease of sales
coverage. the wide appropriate for territories containing both urban and nonurban
areas.
1. Determine number, location and size of customers and prospects in each tentative
territory: customers are identified and located through sales records; size is
measured in terms of sales potential.
2. Estimate time required