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Soft Sell/Medium Sell/Hard Sell

English translation: subtle persuasion / medium sales pressure / aggressive and forceful pressure

22:22 Feb 17, 2006
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations
English term or phrase: Soft Sell/Medium Sell/Hard Sell
This pertains to a website demo script and the text relates to the advertisement of cars. The Soft Sell/Medium Sell/Hard Sell are headings and contain the particulars related to a specific car under them, e.g. interiors, price, finance rates etc. What exactly is meant by Soft Sell/Medium Sell/Hard Sell?

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Sanjiv Sadan (X)
Local time: 02:02
Selected answer:subtle persuasion / medium sales pressure / aggressive and forceful pressure
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Refugio
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4 +6subtle persuasion / medium sales pressure / aggressive and forceful pressure
Refugio
4 +1soft/medium/hard - degree to which...
Robert Kleemaier


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
soft sell/medium sell/hard sell
soft/medium/hard - degree to which...


Explanation:
It's the business of attracting attention to your product/service and the degree of forcefulness you use to achieve that goal.

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Note added at 6 mins (2006-02-17 22:28:06 GMT)
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additional references:
http://www.speakersroundtable.com/salestraintony8.html
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/sellhttp://www.m-w.c...


    Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hard+sell
Robert Kleemaier
Canada
Local time: 13:32
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  Jack Doughty
1 min
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
soft sell/medium sell/hard sell
subtle persuasion / medium sales pressure / aggressive and forceful pressure


Explanation:
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Refugio
Local time: 13:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks so much

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agree  NancyLynn
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agree  Elizabeth Lyons
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agree  Lia Fail (X)
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agree  Can Altinbay
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agree  Alfa Trans (X)
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