Advertisement vs Salesmanship - What's the difference?
advertisement | salesmanship |
(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
A public notice.
A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
The skills and knowledge of how to sell.
:The professional dealer's salesmanship was incredible, I was just looking but he managed to convince me to buy three times what I was considering buying over the next six months.
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(UK, marketing, business) A position as salesman.
As nouns the difference between advertisement and salesmanship
is that advertisement is (marketing) a commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar while salesmanship is the skills and knowledge of how to sell.advertisement
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(wikipedia advertisement) (en noun)- Companies try to sell their products using advertisements in form of placards, television spots and print publications.
- The city council placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to inform its residents of the forthcoming roadworks.
- The people gave a good advertisement for Wiktionary.
Synonyms
* (commercial solicitation) ad, advert * (public notice)Derived terms
(terms derived from advertisement) * ad * advert * advertorial * classified advertisement * pop-up advertisementHyponyms
* commercial * infomercialsalesmanship
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(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.}}