Sales occupations

Plan reductions: We have many different products that we sell during the school year. The busiest time of the year for selling is our school homecoming. Homecoming influences students, parents or businesses to purchase articles of clothing with names and numbers that support the football players. One of the biggest sellers that we have at our school year-round is “The Crew” t-shirts. Our student section at the different sport activities are referred to as “The Crew” because it is related to our…

I met a young man, he was about the age of 17, who became a part time sales associate at a store I worked at. I was not in a leadership position at the time but I noticed the young man’s work ethic was non- existent. He bounced a lacrosse ball through the store and talked to other associates (ignoring customers). His appearance…

Many years ago, I remember hearing someone say, “Business would be easy if it weren’t for all the PEOPLE involved!” This pithy, humorous statement certainly captures the universal frustration experienced by professionals in industry. Very often, the most difficult and painful challenges in business are the interpersonal ones, not the technical ones. Given this reality, it’s amazing how many professionals enter their careers lacking even basic interpersonal skills. Thankfully, for those of us who…

The workplace I choose is a cosmetics shop. It is a retailer that provides beauty products as well as considerate customer service. I have been to the cosmetics shop for several times and I enjoy the shopping experience there. Before I learnt knowledge about discourses, I just focused on their products and service. This time, I paid much attention to their vocabulary, behaviors, and dress-code when I observed the shop and the employees and I found that it was a unique discourse which was…

developing and testing. Sales are often quite low to begin with and may increase only quite slowly. SuperBed’s introductory stage will be about 1 year, as people will still be getting the hang of the product and what the overall goal of selling the product is. The growth stage, depends on the promotional strategies that the company uses in order to get their product out there, this stage leads the product to the next stage, business owners wish this stage could last forever, as their sales grow…

and the business continued to grow and evolve many changes took place. During the fourth year I began to realize if there were more sales people in the business it would likely double or triple its performance. I contemplated over the details of this decision and it was apparent I would need to hire contracted sales people in the cities where the highest amount of sales were taking…

Federal Express (FedEx) was founded in 1971 and handles many package requests daily. In order for them to remain competitive they use their website FedEx.com to field questions received by customers on a daily basis. FedEx has managed to reduce cost by almost $2.00 using the website. Customers are still able to speak with a Customer Representative if questions are not easily answered on the website. FedEx has many strengths using the latest technologies offered. First, customers are able to get…

effective sales force structure would be territorial sales. This way the sales focus on a specific line of products to many different contractors, which can be in numerous locations. This sales force assigns each salesperson to an exclusive territory in which the salesperson sells the full range of the company’s products. However, now that the company is expanding and changing, it seems that there may be a more appropriate sales force. The new, most appropriate structure is customer/market sales…

Networking Part 9 – Setting Up Presentations Even though the ultimate goal is to get in front of your prospects in a one-on-one meeting, you want to make sure that you work towards becoming an expert in your field. The easiest way to become an expert in your field is to hold seminars and meetings where you can give your presentation to a group of people who are part of your target market. You need to be very clever to title your event in a way that attracts an audience of truly interested…

What does it mean to fake it till you become it, and is it good advice? You’ll never get a second chance to make a first impression” Therefore, ”Fake it till you make it” makes perfect sense. The saying “Fake it till you make it” has been used for over a hundred years, its originator William James believed that “physiology and activity influence our mood”. Productive flourishing (2014) Amy Cuddy agrees in influencing our mood by using “power posing” as a way to achieve “faking it till you become…