• Listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails
• Cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business
• Responding to incoming email and phone inquiries.
• Acting as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets.
• Negotiating the terms of an agreement and closing sales.
• Gathering market and customer information.
• Representing the company at trade exhibitions, events, and demonstrations.
• Negotiating on price, costs, delivery, and specifications with buyers and managers
• Checking the quantities of goods on display and in stock.
• Recording sales and order information and sending copies to the sales office, or entering figures into a computer system.
• Reviewing your own sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets.
• Making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations.