Selling: Building Partnerships

Selling: Building Partnerships, Tenth Edition remains the most innovative textbook in sales, featuring distinct role-plays, mini-case studies, and a focus on knowledge and skills critical to the partnership process and successful business professionals. Emphasized throughout is the need for salespeople to be flexible and adapt strategies that address customer needs, buyer social styles, and other relationship needs and strategies. This approach is followed by a thorough discussion of the salesperson as manager and how planning and continual learning enable effective selling and career growth. The text's emphasis on value creation makes it applicable for students who may not be interested in a sales career. As has been true of every edition since the first, the integration of ethics continues to be emphasized.

Stephen Castleberry received his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Alabama. He is professor of marketing and head of the Marketing Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In addition to personal selling, he teaches marketing principles, marketing ethics, and marketing research. He has also taught at Northern Illinois University and the University of Georgia. He has published more than 45 referred national and international journal articles and is the past marketing editor of the Journal of Applied Business Research.

John F. Tanner, Jr. earned his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia and is dean, Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University. Before entering academia, he spent eight years with Rockwell International and Xerox Corporation as a salesperson and marketing manager. Dr. Tanner has received several awards for teaching effectiveness and research, including the Distinguished Teacher award from the Society of Marketing Advances. He has been named Reviewer of the Year and Co-author of the Paper of the Year by the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management. Dr. Tanner has authored or co-authored 15 books and has published more than 80 articles. He has received research grants from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the University Research Council, and the Walmart Foundation. Currently, he is the editor of Marketing Educators' Review.