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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phantom freight

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A freight charge imposed upon a customer in excess of the true freight cost incurred by the supplier, for example, in the base-point pricing approach, a local customer will be charged a phantom ...

memorandum of understanding

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A formal agreement in principle between two parties.

contests

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A form of sales promotion in which consumers are induced to buy earlier, or in greater quantity, by the offer of prizes of cash or merchandise to be won in a competition.

sales promotion

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A form of promotion which encourages customers to buy products by offering incentives, such as contests, coupons, sweepstakes, samples, free gifts and so on, one of the four major elements (with ...

personal selling

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A form of promotion utilising the services of a sales team, one of the major controllable variables (with advertising, sales promotion and publicity) of the promotion mix, see promotion mix.

cluster sample

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A form of probability sample where respondents are drawn from a random sample of mutually exclusive groups (usually geographic areas) within a total population, also called an area sample, see ...

A form of promotion used to support personal selling and advertising, displays, consisting of packages, signs, display cartons and so on (more common in the marketing of consumer goods) are used to ...