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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

Non-monetary awards

Professional careers; Sales

Compensation that is not cash, such as travel and merchandise, it includes other non-taxable items such as gifts and plaques/pins.

Non-price competition

Professional careers; Sales

Competition in which an element other than price (e.g. Prestige, convenience, taste etc) is the major means of differentiating the product of one company from that of a rival.

Deal

Professional careers; Sales

Common business parlance for the sale or purchase (agreement or arrangement), it is rather a colloquial term so avoid using it in serious company as it can sound flippant and unprofessional.

Canvass / canvassing

Professional careers; Sales

Cold-calling personally at the prospect's office or home or by telephone, the objective being to set an appointment or present a product, or to gather information.

Cognitive pyschology

Professional careers; Sales

Cognitive psychology is a theoretical perspective that focuses on the realms of human perception, thought, and memory, it portrays learners as active processors of information - a metaphor borrowed ...

Directories

Professional careers; Sales

Classified lists of names and addresses of individuals and organisations used in selling for prospecting for new accounts and in marketing research as sources of secondary data.

Decision making

Professional careers; Sales

Choosing between alternative courses of action using cognitive processes - memory, thinking, evaluation, etc, also called problem solving.

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