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Usage examples of sales.

The Cyberbooks project had reached the point where they could brief the sales force.

Y'see, what you're doing with this Cyberbooks idea, basically, is asking the sales force to learn a whole new way of doing their job.

The other editors and most of the sales force were up in arms over the Cyberbooks project.

Why didn't they all have pocket computers, so they could punch up the sales figures and have them in hard numbers right before their eyes?

How's the sales force going to tell how many copies he ought to sell if he's never had a book out there before?

His stories about his youthful adventures in the sales end of the publishing business had been a way to pass the time, and to hide the terrible smoldering jealousy he felt burning in his guts.

It looked much smaller in the sales manager's longfingered, big-knuckled hands.

Not when my sales people are out there trying to get the wholesalers and bookstore managers to order the title.

Every once in a while I forget that sales managers aren't supposed to know anything about literature.

But he saw that the sales manager was genuinely concerned, truly worried about the conflict that was about to break over his head.

But it seems to me that this Cyber-thing is gonna mean you won't need us sales people.

Bunker explained to them that since sales were bound to increase, the company would have to hire more sales people, which meant that most of the present sales personnel would get promoted, they expressed a cynical kind of skepticism that bordered on mutiny.

What it meant was, if your sales figures for the week were good, your office got bigger.

Just about the only person who seemed to understand what was going on, really, was the sales manager.

Can you imagine the sales people on this ship going out and selling Crime and Punishment or Bleak House?