Business School‚ University of Wales‚ Cardiff‚ UK Keywords Communication‚ Face-to-face communications‚ Sales‚ Salesforce‚ Performance Abstract While the effect of communication apprehension on a multitude of psychological and performance variables has been studied in many other disciplines‚ it has not been extensively examined by sales researchers. This article considers communication in the sales transaction from the perspective of communication apprehension‚ and investigates the role of communication
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SECTION I 1.1 Introduction Nowadays‚ data processing uses one or more database at one or more certain organizations. Databases are use in transaction processing where information are stored‚ retrieved and transmitted at certain time it is needed. Examples of transaction processing systems are airline reservation systems‚ billing system‚ payroll system‚ library system‚ online marketing and online transaction processing. Handling business is not an easy thing to do. In order to have a successful
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Brock McKinnon Feb. 12‚ 2004 Sales Ethics What are they and how can they be better Followed? To fully understand the nature of the question posed one must know the meaning of ethics. Webster ’s dictionary defines ethics as the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it; moral philosophy‚ the moral fitness of a decision‚ course of action‚ etc. Basically‚ I believe ethics is how one makes a decision according to the social
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Job Creation or Destruction? Labor-Market Effects of Wal-Mart Expansion Emek Basker ∗‚† University of Missouri - Columbia November 2002 Abstract The phenomenal expansion of Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market effects of increased efficiency. I estimate the effect of Wal-Mart entry on retail employment at the county level. Using an instrumental-variables approach to correct for both measurement error in entry dates and possible endogeneity of the timing of entry‚ I find that
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sign purchase orders. a. sales promotion‚ advertising b. price‚ personal selling c. advertising‚ sales promotion d. personal selling‚ sales promotion e. advertising‚ personal selling 2. An advantage of personal selling is not: a. two way communication. b. reaching a massive number of people quickly. c. detailed explanation. d. direction towards qualified prospects. e. all are advantages of personal selling 3. Compared to other promotional tools‚ the most important advantage(s)
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No witchcraft for sale Doris May Lessing (22.10.1919-17.11.2013.) She was a British writer‚ born in Iran. In 1925 the family moved to a farm in the British colony area of Africa. In the story “No witchcraft for sale” Lessing tells about a relationship between the Farquars‚ a Christian family and their servant Gideon‚ in a colonized Zimbabwe‚ and the native secrets‚ that no power can buy. The story is written with a 3rd person narrator with an omniscient point of view‚ where the happenings are
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Kelly Services 999 West Big Beaver Road Troy‚ Michigan (USA) 48084-4782 (248) 362-4444 April 6‚ 2013 Ford Motor Company Customer Relationship Center P.O. Box 6248 Dearborn‚ MI 48126 Dear Ford Motor Company: Here at Kelly Services‚ we believe in making your company the best company possible. Together we can accomplish this by forming relationships‚ not transactions. Our number one goal is to provide the world’s best staffing solutions. We are a global fortune 500 company and we work
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Apply quality function deployment model in after-sales service improvements: case company X Logistics Master ’s thesis Ye Tian 2011 Department of Business Technology Aalto University School of Economics Abstract This study is to apply the quality function deployment (QFD) model in the Chinese heavy construction equipment market to improve the after-sales service. The main objectives of this study are to find out how to translate the customers’ needs into technical measurements by this
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PUPPIES FOR SALE A store owner was tacking a sign above his door that read “Puppies For Sale.” Signs like that have a way of attracting small children‚ and sure enough‚ a little boy appeared under the store owner’s sign. “How much are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked. The store owner replied‚ “Anywhere from $30 to $50.” The little boy reached in his pocket and pulled out some change. “I have $2.37‚” he said. “Can I please look at them?” The store owner smiled and whistled and out of
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OF POINT OF SALE TERMINALS WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS THROUGH WEB SERVICES ERIK-JAN MONSHOUWER‚ RAUL VALVERDE University of Liverpool Concordia University ABSTRACT With the conventional POS payment transaction method‚ vendors are bound to a payment institute in their region and can only use relatively expensive dedicated or slow dial-up lines to their financial institute. This paper report covers the work to produce an architecture and a prototype that supports Point of Sales terminal
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