Relationship marketing is growing in importance, but academia has been slow to find methods of incorporating it into existing courses. Partnering, a form of relationship marketing, involves personal selling strategies designed to build relationships. This article presents methods by which traditional, single-transaction role-playing in professional selling courses can be redeveloped into partnering role-playing, which more accurately reflects the nature of professional selling in the relationship marketing paradigm.
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