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Sales

Sales is the process of selling goods or services. The process begins with the request to buy by a customer or a offer to sell by a seller. Then follows the payment and change of title.

Contributors in Sales

Sales

profit center

Professional careers; Sales

A division of an organisation with responsibility for generating its own income, and with accountability for profits.

competitive scope

Professional careers; Sales

The breadth or narrowness of a company's focus as measured horizontally by the range of industries, market segments, or geographical regions it targets, or vertically by the degree to which it is ...

functional costs

Professional careers; Sales

Costs associated with a specific business activity, such as selling, advertising, marketing research, etc.

strategic selling

Professional careers; Sales

Open plan selling in which seller identifies strategic business aims of the sales prospect or customer organization, and develops a proposition that enables the aims to be realized, the proposition ...

odd pricing

Professional careers; Sales

Pricing so that all prices end in an odd number, as in $7. 95, $19. 95, sometimes referred to as odd-even pricing.

intensive growth

Professional careers; Sales

Growth opportunities related to a company's current operations; intensive growth opportunities are market penetration, product development and market development.

listening

Professional careers; Sales

Critical selling skill - hearing what the prospect or customer is saying and what their needs are.

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