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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

Indirect costs

Professional careers; Sales

Costs that cannot be traced directly to a particular product, commonly called overheads.

Giveaway

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Direct premium given free of charge or obligation to generate awareness and/or goodwill.

Door-to-door selling

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Direct selling in which a salesperson calls on prospective buyers at their homes without appointments.

Selective demand

Professional careers; Sales

Demand for a specific brand within a particular product class.

Negative demand

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Demand for products which consumers dislike and would prefer not to have to purchase, negative demand for a particular product exists when consumers, generally, would be prepared to pay more than the ...

Derived demand

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Demand for raw materials in a producer market which is based on the demand for consumer products, see primary demand.

Fluctuating demand

Professional careers; Sales

Demand in the industrial sector which rises and falls sharply in response to changing economic conditions and consumer spending patterns.

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