| sales campaign | an advertising campaign intended to promote sales |
sale cutate sale
sales event | an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices, they held a sale to reduce their inventory, I got some great bargains at their annual sale |
| sales resistance | resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices |
mercantile establishment
retail store
sales outlet
outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
| stall stand sales booth | a booth where articles are displayed for sale |
sale
sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
sales talk
sales pitch
pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
| sales promotion | promotion that supplements or coordinates advertising |
sales department
sales division
sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
| sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
| sales finance company | a finance company that buys (at a discount) the installment sales contracts of retail merchants |
| demonstrator sales demonstrator | someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer |
salesperson
sales representative
sales rep | a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) |
gross sales
gross revenue
sales | income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time |
| net sales | gross sales reduced by customer discounts, returns, freight out, and allowances |
| sales incentive | remuneration offered to a salesperson for exceeding some predetermined sales goal |
sales tax
nuisance tax | a tax based on the cost of the item purchased and collected directly from the buyer |
stagnation
stagnancy
doldrums | a state of inactivity (in business or art etc), economic growth of less than % per year is considered to be economic stagnation |
| stagnation stagnancy | inactivity of liquids, being stagnant, standing still, without current or circulation |