一、 商品销售 研究市场营销职能,经验的做法是从商品销售入手。美国市场营销协会定义委员会1960年曾发表过这样一个定义:“市场营销是引导商品或劳务从生产者流向消费者或其使用者的一种企业活动。”这个定义虽不承认市场营销就是销售,但是认为市场营销包含着销售,也包含着对商品销售过程的改进与完善。许多学者认为这个定义过于狭窄,不能充分展示市场营销的功能。然而,不论其是否恰当,这个定义清楚地揭示了市场营销与商品销售的关系。商品销售对于企业和社会来说,具有两种基本功能,一是将企业生产的商品推向消费领域;一是从消费者那里获得货币,以便对商品生产中的劳动消耗予以补偿。企业是为了提高人们的生活水平而采用先进生产组织方式进行社会化生产的产物。在资源短缺的现实经济中,它通过在一定程度上实现资源集中和生产专业化,能够利用规模经济规律来提高生产效率,创造和传播新的生活标准。商品销售是生产效率提高的最终完成环节,即通过这个环节把企业生产的产品转移到消费者手上,满足其生活需要。在另一方面,社会选择市场和商品交换方式,在企业转让产品给消费者的同时,通过让企业获得货币,是因为社会需要保持企业生产经营的连续,以便更多地获得提高生产效率的好处。通过商品销售,让商品变为货币,社会可以为企业补充和追加投入生产要素,而企业因此也获得了生存和发展的条件。 商品销售十分重要。企业需要尽最大努力来加强这一职能。其具体的活动包括:寻找和识别潜在顾客,接触与传递商品交换意向信息,谈判,签订合同,交货和收款,提供销售服务。然而,进行商品销售是有条件的。要顺利进行商品交换的有关条件包括:(1)至少有两个主体,他们分别拥有在自己看来是价值相对较低、但在对方看来具有更高价值的有价物(商品、服务的货币),并且愿意用自己所拥有之物来换取对方所拥有的有价物;(2)他们彼此了解对方所拥有的商品的质量和生产成本;(3)他们相互之间可以有效地进行意见沟通。例如洽谈买卖条件,达成合同;(4)交易发生后他们都能如意地消费和享受所得之物。但是常常发现,这些条件不是处处成立的,因此企业经常会面临销售困难的局面。为了有效地组织商品销售,将企业生产的商品更多地销售出去,营销部门就不能仅仅只做销售工作,还必须进行市场调查研究、组织整体营销、开发市场需求等活动,而且要等到后面这些工作取得一定效果以后,才进行商品销售。 First, merchandise sales Research marketing functions, experience from the practice of selling goods start. American Marketing Association definition of the Commission in 1960 had published such a definition: "Marketing is to guide producers of goods or services from consumers or users of the flow of a business activity." This definition does not recognize the marketing is marketing, But that marketing includes sales, also includes the sale of goods to improve and perfect the process. Many scholars believe that this definition is too narrow, can not fully demonstrate the functions of marketing. However, regardless of whether they are appropriate, this definition clearly reveals the marketing and merchandising relationship. Sales of goods for business and society, has two basic functions, the first enterprise to the production of consumer goods areas; First, from the consumer to obtain money, goods to the production of labor compensation to be consumed. Enterprises is to improve people's living standards and the use of advanced production organization conducted a product of social production. The reality of the shortage of resources in the economy, it adopted a certain extent, to achieve the concentration of resources and production specialization, to take advantage of economies of scale to improve productivity, create and disseminate new standard of living. Sales of goods is more efficient production of the final links, through this part of the production of products transferred to the hands of consumers to meet their needs. On the other hand, social choice markets and commodity exchange, the transfer of enterprise products to consumers at the same time, through which enterprises will be able currency, because society needs to maintain a continuous enterprise production and management, to improve access to the benefits of improved production efficiency . Through the sale of goods, commodities into money, social enterprises can add and additional input factors of production, and the corporate therefore also has been the survival and development conditions. Sales of goods is very important. Enterprises need to make the greatest efforts to strengthen this function. Their specific activities include: find and identify potential customers, contacts and exchange of goods intention to convey information, negotiations, contracts, delivery and collection, provide marketing services. However, sales of goods is conditional. To smooth the commodity exchange the conditions include: (1) at least two of the main, they were in their possession appears to be relatively low value, but on the other side seems to have a higher value of the price of (goods, services Currency), and is willing to use their own were owned by owned by the other party in exchange for the valuables, (2) by their mutual understanding of each other's product quality and production costs, (3) between them can be effectively conducted an opinion Communication. For example, negotiate terms, a contract, (4) After the transaction can be smug in their consumption and enjoyment of the proceeds. But often found that these conditions are not set up everywhere, and therefore enterprises often face the difficult sales situation. In order to effectively merchandise sales organizations, enterprises will be more production of goods sold, marketing departments can not be only on the sale, must also conduct market research, marketing organization as a whole, the development of market demand and other activities, but we have to wait until after these Achieved a certain effect, the only commodity sales.