Sales

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.

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horizontal diversification

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A growth strategy in which a company seeks to add to its existing lines new products that will appeal to its existing customers.

concentric diversification

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A growth strategy in which a company seeks to develop by adding new products, also called convergent diversification, to its existing product lines to attract new customers.

diversification

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A growth strategy in which an organisation takes on new products and new markets at the same time.

draw

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A form of monetary compensation paid in advance of commissions earned and then applied against the balance of future commissions earned, can be recoverable or non-recoverable, generally used to ...

researcher-controlled sampling

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A form of nonprobability sampling in which the researcher selects the respondents in a marketing research study, it may result in researcher bias.

sales party

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A form of non-store retailing in which a manufacturer's products are displayed, for group selling, at an in-home party.

direct-response marketing

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A form of non-store retailing in which customers order merchandise by mail or telephone and the goods are shipped direct to their homes, also referred to as direct-response selling.