2. Introduction
• A sales territory comprises a number of
present and potential customers located
within a given geographical area. It is assigned
to a salesperson, branch, or intermediary.
6. Procedures for developing Territories
1. Indentify Objectives and Criteria for Territory
formulation.
2. Bases for developing Territories
-Geography
-Service requirements
-potential
-workload
3. Assigning Territories
7. Operating the Territory
• Routing
-- Cloverleaf pattern
-- Hopscotch method
-- Straight line method
• Scheduling
8. Effective ways of territory coverage
• Coverage of accounts
• Knowledge of the decision makers
• Balanced between types of accounts
• Updating
• Search for new prospects
• Knowledge of strategies adopted by a
competitor
9. Conclusion
• Without the T and T mgt. the company will
not assign its plans and may not get its
objectives.