- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who obtains leases to sites for outdoor advertising. Respnsibilities include:
* Persuades property owners to lease sites for erection of billboard signs used in outdoor advertising.
* Arranges price and draws up lease.
* May locate potential billboard sites, using automobile to travel through assigned district.
* May search legal records for land ownership.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells classified and display advertising space for publication. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares list of prospects from leads in other papers and from old accounts.
* Obtains pertinent information concerning prospect's past and current advertising for use in sales presentation.
* Visits advertisers to point out advantages of own publication and exhibits prepared layouts with mats and copy with headings.
* May collect payments due.
* Usually designated by type of advertising sold as Sales Representative, Classified Advertising; Sales Representative, Display Advertising.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who visits business establishments to solicit business for printing firm. Respnsibilities include:
* Interviews purchasing personnel and quotes prices on printed material from schedule or secures price from printing estimator.
* Explains technical phases, such as type size and style, paper stock, binding materials, and various methods of reproduction.
* Contacts prospects, following leads submitted by management, established customers, or developed through other sources.
* May prepare sales promotional letters to be sent to prospective customers.
* May submit formal bids on large orders of printed matter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells electric, cutout, neon, engraved, or painted signs, to be made according to customers' specifications, from materials, such as wood, metal, or plastic, utilizing knowledge of lettering, color harmony, and processes involved in making various signs.
* Performs other duties as described under salesperson master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contacts prospective customers to sell service of producing motion pictures or recordings designed to inform specific audiences about goods, services, or procedures, performing duties as described under sales representative Master Title. Respnsibilities include:
* Records customer's instructions and plans preliminary programs commensurate with customer's objectives and budget limitations.
* Obtains information necessary for production specialists to produce programs that accomplish customer's aims.
* Consults with production specialists to obtain cost estimate of program and submits estimate to customer for approval.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contacts representatives of government, business, associations, and social groups to solicit business for hotel, motel, or resort. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews information on sales meetings, conventions, training classes, overnight travel, and other functions held by organization members to select prospective customers for hotel services.
* Calls on prospects to solicit business, analyzes requirements of function, outlines available hotel facilities and services offered, and quotes prices.
* Verifies reservations by letter, or draws up contract and obtains signatures.
* Confers with customer and hotel department heads to plan function details, such as space requirements, publicity, time schedule, food service, and decorations.
* May serve as convention advisor or coordinator during function to minimize confusion and resolve problems, such as space adjustment and need for additional equipment.
* May select and release hotel publicity.
* May prepare and mail advance brochures to prospective customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solicits applications for enrollment in technical, commercial, and industrial schools. Respnsibilities include:
* Contacts prospects, explains courses offered by school, and quotes fees.
* Advises prospective students on selection of courses based on their education and vocational objectives.
* Compiles registration information.
* May accept registration fees or tuition payments.
* May be designated according to type of school as Sales Representative, Business Courses (education); Sales Representative, Correspondence Courses (education).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells electroplating services to manufacturers of formed metal and plastic products. Respnsibilities include:
* Visits industrial establishments that manufacture formed metal and plastic products, such as metal automotive parts and plastic radio and television control panels.
* Evaluates structural characteristics and properties of products and determines specifications of finishing process, such as plating, anodizing, and coloring, utilizing knowledge of electroplating processes on metal and plastic.
* Confers with production staff of electroplating establishment to analyze special problems related to customer's product.
* Performs other duties as described under sales representative Master Title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells maintenance service and engineering improvements for elevators, escalators, and dumbwaiters, applying knowledge of mechanical engineering. Respnsibilities include:
* Compiles list of prospective customers and schedules contacts according to sales potential and geographical location.
* Explains type of service available and quotes cost of servicing equipment, explains tasks performed to achieve maximum performance, such as lubrication, electronic testing, and inspection of cables.
* Writes service contracts for new customers and renewal contracts for current customers.
* Explains benefits of modernizing equipment, such as improved speed, safety, and appearance.
* Inspects equipment and tallies traffic in building.
* Writes report of equipment to be modernized and changes to be made, and submits to engineering department for cost quotations.
* Presents proposal to customer for approval.
* Prepares monthly report of contracts sold, details of business transactions, and customers contacted.
* May sell elevator, escalator, and dumbwaiter parts to owners who maintain own equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells burglar, fire, and medical emergency alarm systems and security monitoring services to individuals and businesses. Respnsibilities include:
* Contacts prospective customers to explain security monitoring services and to demonstrate alarm systems.
* Examines customer's home or business and analyzes customer's requirements to recommend security system to meet customer's needs.
* Explains operation of security system after installation.
* Performs other duties as described under sales representative Master Title.
Industry:Professional careers
