⢠Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.⢠Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.⢠Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales.⢠Consult with clients after sales or contract signings to resolve problems and to provide ongoing support.⢠Contact regular and prospective customers to demonstrate products, explain product features, and solicit orders.⢠Identify prospective customers by using business directories, following leads from existing clients, participating in organizations and clubs, and attending trade shows and conferences.⢠Perform administrative duties, such as preparing sales budgets and reports, keeping sales records, and filing expense account reports.⢠Estimate or quote prices, credit or contract terms, warranties, and delivery dates.⢠Provide customers with product samples and catalogs.⢠Prepare sales contracts and order forms.⢠Plan, assemble, and stock product displays in retail stores, or make recommendations to retailers regarding product displays, promotional programs, and advertising.⢠Negotiate details of contracts and payments.⢠Negotiate with retail merchants to improve product exposure, such as shelf positioning and advertising.⢠Arrange and direct delivery and installation of products and equipment.⢠Check stock levels and reorder merchandise as necessary.⢠Prepare drawings, estimates, and bids that meet specific customer needs.⢠Forward orders to manufacturers.⢠Obtain credit information about prospective customers.⢠Buy products from manufacturers or brokerage firms and distribute them to wholesale and retail clients.