How to Use salesperson in a Sentence
salesperson
noun- The company is hiring new salespeople.
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Leave the store and think it over — away from the gaze of your salesperson.
— Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2020 -
But the salesperson pulled out a top and handed it to me.
— Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2020 -
Or how about the cashier at the grocery store or the salesperson at a clothing store?
— Shep Hyken, Forbes, 7 May 2023 -
Once a salesperson asked if my fiancée had any say in the dress.
— Melissa Kravitz, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2019 -
The salesperson steered me to what had been the case for matching pocket squares.
— Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 4 July 2020 -
Michelle, 39, from the southern city of Jérémie, used to worked as a teacher’s aide and as a salesperson in Haiti.
— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024 -
The new salesperson doesn’t know that this is my fifth visit.
— Andre Aciman, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2018 -
Every good salesperson knows that the point of a sales call is not to close the sale, but to encourage the next sales call.
— William Vanderbloemen, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022 -
Don’t fall for a salesperson’s charm or too-good-to-be-true promises.
— Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022 -
And if a salesperson or cashier wants to wear a mask to work because of health concerns, that’s fine, too.
— Dallas News, 27 June 2021 -
As any savvy salesperson knows, video calls are the new handshake.
— Tony Uphoff, Forbes, 17 June 2021 -
Lowe, who works in an auto shop as a parts salesperson, knows his way around a car.
— Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022 -
Once done with your test drive, ask your salesperson to give you a few minutes to reflect on the drive.
— Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018 -
There are salespeople with lousy products that have to over-sell.
— ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024 -
Airbus’s top salesperson, John Leahy, said at the time.
— Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2018 -
In Japan, busy bosses will take a new salesperson with them on a couple of sales calls.
— Greg Story, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022 -
That salesperson needs to be made aware of the impact of her bad behavior.
— Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2024 -
So the princess thanked the salesperson and found a pair of those same exact shoes at a second-hand shoppe, lightly worn, for a mere ten shillings.
— Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024 -
Barth was chatting with a Nordstrom's salesperson when a wave of shoppers ran through the store.
— Evan MacDonald, cleveland.com, 19 Mar. 2018 -
The salesperson stressed that reporters would call the shots on some articles, while the client would have a say on others.
— Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2020 -
The content should help salespeople sell better and push prospects down the funnel.
— Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 5 May 2023 -
And yet, a study found that 48 percent of salespeople were actively afraid to do so!
— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024 -
That's handy for salespeople who don’t want to repeat the same message every time for cold calls.
— John Brandon, PCMAG, 17 Oct. 2024 -
Don’t trust a good-looking website or a salesperson who sounds friendly on the phone.
— Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020 -
Always shop the sales, and don't be afraid to negotiate with the salesperson.
— Amy Roberts, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2018 -
Ask if the salesperson has checked in with the city and gotten proper licensing.
— Leah Napoliello, Houston Chronicle, 16 June 2019 -
That way the salesperson can instantly guide you towards, say, the perfect pair of jeans.
— Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018 -
Like the rest of Dell's workforce, Dell's salespeople have previously been allowed to work remotely two days per week.
— Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024 -
Home Depot also demystified the mechanics of plumbing, electrical wiring and construction, staffing stores with knowledgeable salespeople who could answer shoppers' questions and guide them to the proper equipment.
— Lee Habeeb, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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