Business Glossary

20 Sales representative terms

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Account
Noun
Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company.
Example: Used as a noun, credit means the normal balance of a liability, net worth, income, or contra debit account.
fr: compte
Base salary
noun
Base Salary refers to an agreed-upon amount of payment an employee received as compensation for work rendered.
Example: Each employee receives a like base salary.
fr: Salaire de base
Bonus
noun
A bonus is a gift or additional compensation given on top of the standard pay or fee, often serving as a reward for outstanding performance or for achieving certain business targets.
Example: A bonus will be paid on satisfactory completion of the contract.
fr: Prime
Customer
Noun
Customer is an individual or an organization that purchases a product or signs up for a service offered by a business.
Example: With no customer in sight, the small business owner decided to shut his doors for the day.
fr: Client
Direct sales
Noun
Direct Sales is the method of selling a product or service in a location other than the associated retail stores or offices, wherein the seller personally engages a prospect in a physical or face-to-face environment such as a home or a cafe.
Example: The result has been an explosion in direct sales.
fr: Les ventes directes
Discount
Noun
Discount means a promotional reduction in the cost of a product or service, commonly deployed to speed up sales.
Example: The store will discount 5% for cash payment.
fr: Rabais
Draw on Sales Commission
Noun
Draw on Sales Commission is a form of compensation for sales professionals that is released in advance against expected commissions or earnings. Also known as “Draw Against Commission” or simply “Draw.”
Example: the customers knew that they would get excellent service at the car dealership because the salesman was paid on commission
fr: Tirez parti de la commission de vente
Employee engagement
Employee Engagement is the state, level, or process of building employee commitment to an organization, reflected in how much they strive to improve the company’s image, well-being and profitability.
fr: Contrat d'employé
Enterprise
Noun
Enterprise (in the context of sales) is a relatively large organization typically composed of multiple levels, locations, and departments which need multi-layer software systems that support collaboration across a large corporate environment.
Example: A joint enterprise between French and Japanese companies.
fr: Entreprise
General Manager
Noun
General Manager is an executive with varying levels of importance and range of responsibilities depending on corporate structure, but who generally leads a company unit or a branch, overseeing its performance, profitability and daily operations.
Example: She deputizes for me as general manager while I am on holiday.
fr: Directeur général
Marketing
Noun
Marketing is the field, set of actions, or practice of making a product or service desirable to a target consumer segment, with the ultimate aim of effecting a purchase.
Example: The bakery doesn’t spend much money on marketing since most people hear about their delicious cakes through word of mouth.
fr: commercialisation
Negotiation
Noun
Negotiation is a strategic dialogue, discussion, or bargaining process between two or more parties with the goal of reaching a mutually acceptable agreement.
Example: The problem should be resolved through negotiation.
fr: Négociation
Objection
Noun
Objection refers to a position, statement or view of a prospect which indicates reservation about or disagreement with a particular aspect or the entirety of your sales pitch, lessening the likelihood of a purchase.
Example: At the meeting Smith made some objection to my plan which I was able to shoot down in flames with no trouble.
fr: objection
product
noun
Product refers to anything (an idea, item, service, process or information) that meets a need or a desire and is offered to a market, usually but not always at a price.
Example: The company is boosting a new product.
fr: produit
Profitability
noun
Profitability is the potential, degree, metric, ability or relative efficiency of a business to yield financial gain (i.e., profits) after all relevant expenses and costs have been deducted.
Example: Their development is thus crucial to potential profitability.
fr: rentabilité
Recruiter
Noun
Recruiter is a person or agency whose primary purpose is to find, assess, hire and onboard people as employees in a company or as members of an organization.
Example: Once applies for the job the relationship between he and recruiter starts.
fr: Recruteur
Revenue
noun
Revenue is the amount of money a business generates during a specific period such as a year or a quarter; also called sales.
Example: Revenue sales for the car lot were down this month so the boss required his sales staff to work overtime.
fr: Revenu
Sales Director
Noun
Sales Director is a senior-level executive who oversees an organization’s sales operations by 1) leading the formulation and execution of strategies, plans and policies for national or international sales 2) proposing and rationalizing departmental budgets; 3) supervising regional sales managers; and 4) ensuring continuous sales growth for the company.
Example: Outside of sport, he worked as sales director for Norvic Shoe Limited.
fr: Directeur des ventes
Segmentation
Noun
Segmentation is the process of subdividing a large market into distinct partitions (or segments) based on demographics and other factors, with the aim of formulating and implementing separate strategies to better engage the consumers in each segment.
Example: The company dominates this segment of the market.
fr: segmentation
Solution
Noun
Solution is a combination of ideas, strategies, processes, technologies and services that effectively helps an organization achieve its goals or hurdle its challenges.
Example: We must come up with a solution that our shareholders will find acceptable.
fr: solution