1.  Sales promotion supports other sales efforts by providing incentives to both consumers and traders at the point-of-sale.

2.  Special designs, trial runs and samples were all part of winning the order as the production unit and design studio lent support to the sales effort.

3.  The selling firm must be aware of the cultural variations in social organisation when targeting sales efforts on to a particular social segment of the population.

4.  A working group will announce next month whether the banks will move forward with the joint sales effort, a spokesman for the eight-member association said.

5.  Despite an extensive sales effort, no one was willing to pay for the Examiner.

6.  Dell will triple consumer marketing budget to include extensive television and magazine advertising and will enhance its Internet-based sales efforts.

7.  Neither company has reached the half-way point in its sales efforts.

8.  Now, retailers like Sears are reporting that their online marketing and sales efforts are helping to create hundreds of millions of dollars in offline sales.

9.  Raytheon and Teradyne said their own technology and sales efforts won the customers over, but both have high praise for the Commerce Department.

10.  Sprint would effectively be making a deal with an agent to sell its services and outsourcing the sales effort, Reynolds said.