This seeds doubt among the sales reps, lowering our announced print runs, and then the spiral.
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And Avon employs 42, 000 to manufacture all those cosmetics and to ride herd on the sales reps.
He has learned to believe the sales reps who are closest to their forecasts month after month, day after day.
This is a win-win as the supply chain builds what is being bought and the sales reps sell what is in stock.
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The sales reps these firms employ seem genuinely confused when asked whether the bank acknowledges it has a fiduciary duty to its clients.
Down in the breakfast area CNN is blaring, USA Todays are being read, and the sales reps and seminar camels are turning on their cell phones, pagers, BlackBerrys and ruggedized palmtops.
For years, inside sales has been relegated to generating leads for the more senior outside sales reps or merely closing the smaller accounts.
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In the past, sales reps designed products and services based on what the customer wanted, without consulting the technicians who were going to do the work.
Certainly, the network of sales reps and its success so far is giving Retalhos Cariocas a broader outlook for the future.
That information is dear to the stampede of sales reps who pitch pills in doctors' offices.
It quadrupled, to 600, the number of sales reps promoting Altace.
Chuang won't know how he is doing with 8.1 until the end of the fiscal quarter--that's when most large deals close in software--but says "the buzz in the field (from sales reps) is extremely high...so is the number of beta customers we're crossing" into actually purchasing the product.
The employer argued that the reps were outside sales contractors exempt from wage and hour laws.
Their marketing plan: selling through retail outlets, on the one hand, and sales reps who make house calls, on the other.
What we were most interested in was all the prototype technologies on show, but all the Haier reps were from the US sales department, so not a soul could talk about the demonstrations.
And after all, there is no better way to popularize a new test than to put it in the hands of drug sales reps who are marketing a drug that lowers it.
And, like many direct-sales companies, Tupperware has been able to spur growth by giving financial incentives to the reps who build the largest sales networks.
She slowly added sales reps around the country as her name and jewelry line has become better known.
About 5, 000 sales reps attended the company's annual convention.
The reason why all those accounting system sales reps vying for our business never got a sale is that they never addressed our fear of the regressive stage of change.
Hogan also changed the sales philosophy in his group, encouraging reps to court high-level executives at big accounts rather than the managers often relegated to buying hardware.
Boom Bags creator Mark Wright says the product is useful for people like sales reps and yoga instructors, who have to be able to give audio presentations or play music on the go.
An ideal solution for many small business environments, it's ideally suited for life outside the traditional office -- such as the portables found on many construction sites or for field sales reps that commute from location to location, visiting the home office only occasionally.
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This stat should scare the daylights out of every CMO who is generating leads and sending them to sales reps, and every CEO who approves the budget.
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Spokeperson Matt Graves recently told Wired that the company hastily hired 18 ad sales reps during that time and is planning to bring on more.
We know from our work last year that the average B2B customer is nearly 60% of the way through the purchase decision before engaging supplier sales reps.
Many of the class members have worked as sales reps.
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When sales reps push overpriced or inappropriate products onto trusting customers, the reps are generating bad profits.
Sales reps are descending on the college ranks, providing wood bats for summer leagues.
The company has thousands of sales and support reps, some of whom can be found in operating rooms programming implants.
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