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•Read the article below about product life cycles and the questions on tile opposite page. •For each question (13-18), mark one
•Read the article below about product life cycles and the questions on tile opposite page. •For each question (13-18), mark one
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•Read the article below about product life cycles and the questions on tile opposite page.
•For each question (13-18), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet for the answer you choose.
Sales Strategies .Vary with Product Life Cycles
One of the most important concepts in sales management and marketing is that of tile product life cycle. This is a historical record of the life of a product, showing the stage in its life the product has reached at a particular time. By identifying the stage that a product is in or may be heading towards, companies can formulate better marketing plans. All products have ’lives’ in as much as they are created, sell with varying profitability over a period of time, and then become obsolete and are replaced or simply no longer produced. A product’s sales position and profitability can be expected to fluctuate over time and so, at each successive stage in the product’s cycle, it is necessary to adopt different tactics.
The two main features of the product life cycle are unit sales and unit profit. The unit sales figures usually jump on introduction, as a response to heavy advertising and promotion, as customers buy the product experimentally. This is generally followed by a leveling off while it is evaluated -- the length of this period depending on the use to which the product is put. Then, unit sales rise steadily through the growth phase to the maturity phase, when the product is widely accepted, and so on to saturation level. By this time, competitors will have entered the market with their own version and, from this point, the sales team will have to work even harder to win all additional sales. Eventually, the product’s sales decline as better versions enter the market and competition becomes too strong.
In retrospect, most firms know what happened to their products from launch to withdrawal. They can compile this information from the records of unit sales.
Unfortunately, unit sales are not the complete story as it is unit profit that is the decisive factor, although this is not always recorded accurately. It is this figure that sales management has to monitor, though, to ensure an effective marketing strategy and to produce effective profits.
At launch, the product is costed accurately on the basis of production costs plus selling costs. Initially these remain fairly stable, but, when the product is proving successful, competitors will bring out their own ’copy-cat’ products. With a competitor in the field, the original firm has to respond in order to maintain its market position. It can run special sales promotions, improve deliveries, make more frequent sales calls and so on. Often the extra expenditure is not accurately charged to the product and the result is that, long before unit sales are noticeably falling, the unit profit has already fallen.
The product life cycle, then, presents a picture of what happened in the product’s ’lifetime’, so how can this be used as all ongoing aid to management decision- making? Every sales manager has a chart on which the progress of sales is plotted and this can be used as a guide to the stage of development each product is currently in. An essential management skill is being able to interpret sales results and draw in the stages as they occur. Deciding where each stage begins and ends can be a random exercise, though usually the stages are based on where the rate of sales growth or decline becomes pronounced.
What does the writer say about the charts that show sales progress?
选项
A、It is a matter of judgment where one sales phase finishes and another begins.
B、Managers should review policy when a sharp fall in sales is indicated.
C、It is difficult to see how sales charts can provide a sufficient guidance to managers.
D、Managers should get confirmation of the data they plot on the sales charts.
答案
A
解析
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