The use of Internet or Web-based applications for the recruitment and selection process is becoming increasingly used so that hiring companies can measure applicants on their knowledge and skills. Further, Web-based recruitment and selection applications can also measure the judgment of applicants by asking them to respond to a variety of selling scenarios. That way, the hiring company can see what level of selling skill the applicant has today.

Sales Forecasting Forecasts, budgets and evaluations are critical for business for a few different reasons. The first is that it allows for better allocation of firm resources. By using forecasts, managers are able to ensure that the firm is able to meet demand where it exists, and not have resources being wasted where it isn't. New product managers may prefer to operate without forecasts, but the process of building a forecast

Sales and Marketing Project Scope In order to make Winsome and its sister company more effective and more profitable players in the industry, a better integration of the two companies' operations and goals needs to be undertaken. A large part of the communication and operational independence that goes on between these companies is the direct result of sales and marketing knowledge and methods, and this these two departments are amongst the

The exclusivity of these higher-end products and their cost structures also are deliberately now being created to ensure barriers to entry from mass merchandisers. The threat of a mass merchandiser dominating the supply chain and driving down costs to sell on brand equity alone continues to force marketers of key brands in this industry to concentrate on defensible differentiation. As a result of all these strategies and the inherent

The club employees will have to simultaneously meet two pivotal conditions -- they must be highly skilled, trained and able to perform their job, and secondly, they must be obliging and polite with the customers. Since the company does not offer a material product but a service, its employees represent the link to customers and they are the ones able to generate client satisfaction. This in turn materializes in returns

The assumptions of industry structure and pricing are based on the market shares of the leading competitors in the motorcycle market including Harley-Davidson with 65% and Honda with 12.9%. There are over 40 different manufacturers of motorcycles globally who comprise the remaining 22% of the worldwide market (Murphy, 2008). Gaining distribution for a new motorcycle model will be challenging given the concentration level of competitors in the market. As