The Hard Sell: The Language and Lessons of Street-Wise Marketing

by Colin Clark and Trevor Pinch

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Street traders use some of the oldest and most successful selling techniques. This book analyzes the reasons for their success, and shows how people involved in selling or marketing can benefit from their skills. Street sellers use rhetoric skillfully, dealing directly and at a personal level with their customers. Their skills, at attracting an audience, demonstrating their goods, building up customers' perceptions of the value of these goods, encouraging people to purchase, and coping with trouble-makers, are needed by business people at every level on a daily basis. Using real-life examples of "pitching" routines, the authors illustrate how these techniques can work in a wide range of contexts: from sophisticated negotiating to high-street retailing. This book should be of interest to businesspeople, advertisers, marketeers, and those in sales.
  • ISBN10 0957534701
  • ISBN13 9780957534704
  • Publish Date April 2013 (first published 30 June 1988)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Sociografica Publishing Ltd
  • Edition 2nd edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 344
  • Language English