If a middleman is eliminated from a marketing channel, under what conditions will costs decrease? Under what conditions will costs increase? Will the middleman’s functions be eliminated? Explain.

The role of marketing distribution is to facilitate the production of products without direct customer feedback to help a company develop a direct channel selling system to buy small quantities of products from producers and break them down into narrow assortments for customers to increase the amount of work that must be done by producers and consumers to transform the assortments of products made by producers into the assortments wanted by consumers E O O O O

Describe the four sales channels. Over-the-counter (retail) selling takes place in a retail location and usually involves providing product information and completing a sale. Field selling involves making personal sales calls on customers. Under certain circumstances, telemarketing is used to provide product information and answer questions from customers who call. Inside selling relies on phone, mail, and e-marketing to provide sales and product services for customers on a continuing basis.