Salesmanship
noun
The skill or ability to sell products or services.
His excellent salesmanship helped the company reach its annual sales target within 6 months.

Often appears as...
- extraordinary salesmanship
- proven salesmanship
noun
The activities a salesperson carries out to persuade people to buy something.
Successful salesmanship involves understanding the customer's needs and offering solutions.

Often appears as...
- good salesmanship
- poor salesmanship
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Technical
noun
The skill or ability to sell products or services.
His excellent salesmanship helped the company reach its annual sales target within 6 months.

Often appears as...
- extraordinary salesmanship
- proven salesmanship
noun
The activities a salesperson carries out to persuade people to buy something.
Successful salesmanship involves understanding the customer's needs and offering solutions.

Often appears as...
- good salesmanship
- poor salesmanship
Usage tips
Technical
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Personal Traits
Salesmanship often implies the person has specific traits like being persuasive, confident, and engaging.

Her natural charm and confidence displayed her salesmanship.
Not Just Selling
Good salesmanship isn't just about selling, but also about creating a good customer experience.

His salesmanship won loyal customers, not just sales.
Strategic Approach
Salesmanship can involve strategies like understanding customer needs and building relationships.

Her salesmanship involved strategic follow-ups and personalized advice.
Personal Traits
Salesmanship often implies the person has specific traits like being persuasive, confident, and engaging.

Her natural charm and confidence displayed her salesmanship.
Not Just Selling
Good salesmanship isn't just about selling, but also about creating a good customer experience.

His salesmanship won loyal customers, not just sales.
Strategic Approach
Salesmanship can involve strategies like understanding customer needs and building relationships.

Her salesmanship involved strategic follow-ups and personalized advice.
Personal Traits
Salesmanship often implies the person has specific traits like being persuasive, confident, and engaging.

Her natural charm and confidence displayed her salesmanship.
Not Just Selling
Good salesmanship isn't just about selling, but also about creating a good customer experience.

His salesmanship won loyal customers, not just sales.
Strategic Approach
Salesmanship can involve strategies like understanding customer needs and building relationships.

Her salesmanship involved strategic follow-ups and personalized advice.
Quote examples
Rishi Kapoor
Indian Actor
I don't think it is wrong when you - when an actor goes and sells his film. I mean, it's salesmanship; you got to tell the world what you have. You got to tell them, 'These are my wares; please see how do you like them. If you like to buy them, please buy them.' There's nothing wrong in that.

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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a 'propaganda' state like all the rest - distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship - is particularly hard to swallow.

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Margaret Heffernan
American Businesswoman
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

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Morris Hite
Businessman
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

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Erle Stanley Gardner
American Author
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

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Fred Wilson
American Businessman
It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

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Annette Bening
American Actress
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

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James Cash Penney
American Businessman
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

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James Cash Penney
American Businessman
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

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Rishi Kapoor
Indian Actor
I don't think it is wrong when you - when an actor goes and sells his film. I mean, it's salesmanship; you got to tell the world what you have. You got to tell them, 'These are my wares; please see how do you like them. If you like to buy them, please buy them.' There's nothing wrong in that.

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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a 'propaganda' state like all the rest - distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship - is particularly hard to swallow.

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Margaret Heffernan
American Businesswoman
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

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Morris Hite
Businessman
Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.

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Erle Stanley Gardner
American Author
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

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Fred Wilson
American Businessman
It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

Quote examples
Annette Bening
American Actress
I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

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James Cash Penney
American Businessman
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

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James Cash Penney
American Businessman
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.

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