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Meaning of "soft sell" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOFT SELL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOFT SELL

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determiner
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Soft sell is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOFT SELL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Soft sell

In advertising, a soft sell is an advertisement or campaign that uses a more subtle, casual, or friendly sales message. This approach works in opposition to a hard sell. Theorists have examined the value of repetition for soft-sell versus hard-sell messages, in order to determine their relative efficacy. Frank Kardes and others have concluded that a soft sell, with an implied conclusion rather than an overt hard sell, can often be more persuasive. Soft sell is also less likely to be irritating to consumers.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOFT SELL

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soft roe
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soft sawder
soft science
soft shoulder
soft sign
soft skills
soft soap
soft solder
soft spot
soft steel
soft target
soft tick
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SOFT SELL

agreement to sell
ainsell
Bussell
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hard sell
hard-sell
Jack Russell
Mansell
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outsell
oversell
presell
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Russell
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supersell
undersell
unsell
up-sell

Synonyms and antonyms of soft sell in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «soft sell» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOFT SELL

Find out the translation of soft sell to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of soft sell from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «soft sell» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 软性推销
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

venta sutil
570 millions of speakers

English

soft sell
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नरम बेचने
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

لينة بيع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мягкая продать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

venda de forma não agressiva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরম বিক্রি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

promotion douce
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jualan lembut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

weiche Verkaufstaktik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

穏やかな売り込み
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 온건한 판매 방식
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lembut ngedol
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bán mềm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையான விற்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मऊ विक्री
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yumuşak satış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

persuasione all´acquisto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miękkie sprzedam
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

м´яка продати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vinde moale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαλακό πωλούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sagte verkoop
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mjuka sälja
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

myke selger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of soft sell

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT SELL»

The term «soft sell» is normally little used and occupies the 108.853 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT SELL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about soft sell

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT SELL»

Discover the use of soft sell in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soft sell and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Soft Sell: The New Art of Selling
Soft Sell gives you: --An in-depth, self-analysis questionnaire to get you started --Exercises to expand your possibilities and help rid yourself of imaginary ceilings and self-imposed limitations --The 20 qualities found in the most ...
Tim Connor, 2003
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Social Psychology Alive
We previously described the hard sell, which involves promoting a product by stressing its positive characteristics and performance. Advertisers do not always try to sell products in this manner, however. In fact, they probably use the soft sell  ...
Steven Breckler, James Olson, Elizabeth Wiggins, 2005
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The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and ...
Advertising: The "Soft" vs. the "Hard" Sett Two approaches taken to the advertising of products involve the "hard sell" and the "soft sell" (Fox, 1984). The soft sell is based on images consumers may be able to project as a result of using a ...
Bernardo J. Carducci, 2009
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Advanced Design and Technology for Edexcel: Graphic ...
Soft sell On the other hand, soft sell advertisements promote a product's image, with which consumers can identify. This approach takes for granted the benefits of the product and focuses on creating positive emotional associations with the ...
‎2004
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5,110 Days in Tokyo and Everything's Hunky-dory: The ...
THE MYTH OF JAPANESE "MOOD" ADVERTISING The debate on the merits of Western-style hard-sell advertising versus Japanese-style soft-sell advertising has raged for years. Japanese-style soft-sell advertising has often been called ...
Sean Mooney, 2000
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Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. 2): Breaking New ...
They content analyzed a total of 1,267 ads from seven countries and found that ads employing GCCP indeed did utilize soft-sell messages more frequently than hard-sell ones. In fact, 56.3% of the GCCP ads employed a soft-sell approach, ...
Shintaro Okazaki, 2011
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Soft Selling in a Hard World: Plain Talk on the Art of ...
WHY THE SOFT SELL WORKS Living well is the best revenge . . . The "hard sell" approach has developed as a natural outgrowth of the American culture. It sounds normal to us as Buyers because our defensive agents are calloused to the ...
Jerry Vass, 1998
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Doing Business With Japan: Successful Strategies for ...
The Japanese sales approach is almost always a "soft sell" rather than a "hard sell." This is again based on the commonly accepted business philosophy in Japan that the buyer is king. The Japanese generally dislike the typical American  ...
Kazuo Nishiyama, 2000
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Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. III): Current ...
Gender. and. Age. as. Factors. Influencing. Consumer. Responses. to. Soft-sell. Ads. –. A. Multi-country. Comparison. Sandra Diehl, University ofKlagenfurt, Austria Barbara Mueller, San Diego State University, USA Shintaro Okazaki, ...
Tobias Langner, Shintaro Okazaki, Martin Eisend, 2012
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Advertising and Societies: Global Issues
Unlike Western ads that state the benefit in the headline, the "soft-sell" approach has historically been more common in Japan. Comparative advertising, which is quite common in the United States (and, in fact, encouraged by the Federal ...
Katherine Toland Frith, Barbara Mueller, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT SELL»

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Jan Corey Arnett: Contemplating the soft sell
We needed a couple of things from the grocery store. Milk. Bread. The usual. The problem is that a couple of things have a way of ballooning in to a dozen…or ... «Battle Creek Enquirer, Jul 15»
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The Soft Sell
ECO-ROOFS AND BIKE LOCKERS are regularly found in Portland's new apartment buildings, largely because "green" Portlanders demand such amenities. «The Portland Mercury, Jun 15»
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Soft sell: Some facts about eiderdown and the industry around it
Value: About $330 a kilogram. It takes about one kilogram of eiderdown to make a cold-weather parka. Why it's so expensive: Rarity. Entire world production is ... «680 News, Jun 15»
4
Soft sell: Why we buy into booze
Soft sell: Why we buy into booze. The drink giants have succeeded in stopping restrictions on ads and sponsorship with their "responsible drinking" campaigns. «Irish Independent, Apr 15»
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Hard Sell Vs. Soft Sell
Soft selling is based more on relationship building. Salespeople find passive methods to show potential customers what they have to offer. This is a non-direct ... «Business 2 Community, Apr 15»
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UI and soft sell is key to F2P retailing, says Deep Loot dev
“I don't know where to start,” says Dan Griffiths, founder and one half of indie mobile development outfit Monster and Monster. He's trying to put into words the ... «Pocket Gamer.Biz, Mar 15»
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Soft sell: Why sponsorship rules insurance marketing
Insurance companies arguably have some of the most abstract products to sell – products which need plenty of explaining – and which are hard to market ... «Marketing Interactive, Mar 15»
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Dealership groups give soft sell a Hollywood twist
As dealers' use of Facebook and Twitter can show, the fastest way to a vehicle sale isn't always a hard sell in the showroom. Sometimes, charitable events and ... «Automotive News, Mar 15»
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Groups use soft-sell of a booming Israel to entice wavering would-be …
“It's not a hard sell. It's a soft sell,” she said. “At the end of the day, they're an investment.” But the collective, overall pitch – that Israel is a different place since ... «Jerusalem Post, Nov 14»
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Catalogue retailer tyring its soft sell at Paramus Park
The new Paramus Park location of Soft Surroundings – a women's clothing chain that groups its products not by size but by softness rating – was awfully hard to ... «NorthJersey.com, Nov 14»

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