How to Use salesperson in a Sentence

salesperson

noun
  • The company is hiring new salespeople.
  • Or how about the cashier at the grocery store or the salesperson at a clothing store?
    Shep Hyken, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • 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
  • Lowe, who works in an auto shop as a parts salesperson, knows his way around a car.
    Amanda Taylor, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The content should help salespeople sell better and push prospects down the funnel.
    Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Customers scan menus of prices that Borja hands out, then place their orders in the back, where salespeople bring the goods to two square windows.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 May 2023
  • One of my first jobs was in retail marketing as a salesperson on the storeroom floor.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • All mycelium products were sold out before most of the salespeople even got to see them in person.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Roughly half of the 15 buyers at the project so far are foreigners, according to a salesperson for the project.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • From the article: Anyone who takes the bait gets connected to a real salesperson who tries to close the deal.
    Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Dore shared a story of a salesperson who tried out a new hobby: starting a podcast.
    Anne Sugar, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • But there also [have] to be salespeople who are productive in the office.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Think of the sales leader as the occupant of the all-important space between the salesperson and the rest of the organization.
    David Mattson, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Here are a few: Don’t trust door-to-door salespeople or unexpected emails or phone calls from vendors.
    Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Jones lived with his single mother, a department store salesperson, and her mother on the near South Side.
    Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2021
  • When in doubt, ask a salesperson or write to the manufacturer on their website.
    Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The price slide is likely to continue, experts and salespeople said.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Patia Borja, the salesperson roaming the floor, said some people don’t seem to notice any of that and just waltz right in asking for ibuprofen.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 May 2023
  • Google has just begun rolling out the RFP tool to its salespeople and expects to save tens of thousands of hours of labor annually.
    Paresh Dave, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The driver serves as the face of the operation, the salesperson, but the real leadership lies in the navigator.
    Jonathan Kleeman, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
  • This also builds trust and enables the salesperson to table objections with more ease.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Skip getting up for early morning sales, stay away from the crowds, and, best of all, avoid having to deal with a pushy salesperson who doesn’t have your best interests in mind.
    Deirdre Mundorf, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • As the business was expanding into a small cluster of retail shops, Ms. Trajano took a job as a salesperson at one of the stores as a teenager.
    New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
  • As a salesperson, your personal brand and the corporate brand are intertwined in a unique way.
    William Arruda, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • You’re not supposed to worry whether Converse salespeople lost their jobs.
    Noah Berlatsky, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • An in-store salesperson will gather and bag your items, saving you time and reducing impulse buys.
    Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The salesperson kept coming by with the same bottle of wine, desperately hoping that Beau Rapier would stock it in his shop.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023

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