أفضل الممارسات البيئية 133 – المبيعات والمقابلات: مصعد الملعب باللغة الإنجليزية

في هذا البث الصوتي للأعمال الإنجليزية, we’re going to look at delivering an elevator pitch.

A sales pitch is a presentation designed to introduce a product or service in order to convince people to buy it. An elevator pitch is a very short presentation designed to do the same thing in 60-seconds or less and often theproductbeing presented is أنت. An elevator pitch should be short enough that you could complete it during an elevator ride. A key point being that you’re not asking the person to do something for you, you’re telling them what you can do for them.

In today’s lesson, we’ll be listening to two pitches. First up is Jonathan, a university student visiting a job fair in search of his first job. Then we’ll hear Dominic, a manager for a logistics company, make his pitch to a potential customer while attending a local Chamber of Commerce meeting.

أسئلة الاستماع

1) What does Jonathan highlight as his key strengths in the first dialog?
2) في الحوار الثاني, how does Dominic get Graham’s attention?
3) What’s the key advantage of Dominic’s company?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 128 – الاتصال الهاتفي: التعامل مع مكالمات المبيعات

لقد بحثنا من قبل في كيفية إعداد موعد على الهاتف مع شخص تعرفه بالفعل (أفضل الممارسات البيئية 119), ولكن ماذا لو لم تقابل الشخص أو أنشأت علاقة معه حتى الآن? في البودكاست الإنجليزية للأعمال اليوم, سننظر في كيفية الاتصال بعميل محتمل و, على الطرف الآخر من الخط, سنفحص اللغة التي يمكنك استخدامها لرفض طلب المعلومات أو الاجتماع بأدب.

لقد التقينا بالفعل ماريو من أزياء فيفا في الحلقات السابقة. يريد ماريو الآن مقابلة المشتري الرئيسي لسلسلة متاجر أمريكية مملوكة لشركة DeBourg Brands ولكن, عند هذه النقطة, حتى أنه لا يعرف اسم المشتري. Mario is going to “cold call” the company and see if he can reach the buyer. أول, يحتاج إلى اسم, ثم يحتاج إلى محاولة التحدث إلى المشتري لتحديد موعد.

أسئلة الاستماع – First Call:
1) ما هي التقنيات التي يستخدمها ماريو للحصول على معلومات من جوان?
2) لماذا تعتقد أن جوان يوافق على مساعدة ماريو?

أسئلة الاستماع – Second Call:
1) Why does Mario keep saying “thank you” instead of “please” after making a request?
2) ما اللغة التي يستخدمها ماريو عند ذكر سبب دعوته, و لماذا?
3) طوال المحادثة, يستخدم ماريو لغة غير رسمية لتقليل طلبه. هل يمكنك تحديد بعض الأمثلة?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 120 – الاتصال الهاتفي: التحقق من الطلب

Doing business across borders requires precise coordination, especially in the era ofjust-in-timedelivery where goods need to be shipped to the customer at exact times. When a product is made in one country, assembled in another, and sold in a third, the companies involved need to be in constant communication from start to finish. يعد التأكد من أن الطلبات يتم تسليمها وتسليمها في الوقت المحدد جزءًا أساسيًا من الأعمال الدولية, and a lot of the monitoring will be done by phone. لذا, في هذه الحلقة ، سننظر في طرق للتحقق من تقدم الطلب عبر الهاتف.

A while back in BEP 92 & 93 we met Bill, a buyer for Bancroft’s, a chain of women’s clothing stores in the U.S. He’s placed a large order with Viva, an Italian fashion company, which is being coordinated by Catherine Traynor, Foxtrot’s shipping manager. Foxtrot is Viva’s U.S. distributor.

It’s now several months later and the order is due to be delivered. But Bill has just received a call from Bancroft’s warehouse to let him know that only half the order has been delivered so far. Now he’s calling Catherine to check on the rest of the delivery.

أسئلة الاستماع:

1. How does Catherine let Bill know she’s looking for information about his order?
2. Where is the second part of the shipment?
3. What does Catherine offer to do to avoid separate deliveries in future?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 93 – اللغة الإنجليزية للمبيعات: أخذ الأمر

في هذا الدرس اللغة الإنجليزية للأعمال, we’ll be focusing on the language of taking an order and discussing standard terms, such as delivery time, payment method, وما إلى ذلك وهلم جرا.

The listening takes us back to the Foxtrot showroom in Las Vegas. As you’ll recall, Foxtrot is the American distributor for Viva, an Italian clothing, or Apparel, manufacturer. Bill is a buyer for a chain of department stores, who has now decided to purchase from Viva. Foxtrot representative Adrianne and her Viva partner, Mario, discuss Bill’s order with him.

Before we get started, it’s important to emphasize that this conversation is not really a negotiation, but rather a situation where most parts of the deal are already agreed to. لذا, in this episode, we’ll be studying vocabulary for summarizing the terms of a typical commercial order and learning phrases for managing customer-vendor relationships, for example by reassuring the customer to build goodwill.

أسئلة الاستماع

1) When he says, “We operate on a narrow window for deliveries,” what does Bill mean?
2) The term chargeback refers to all or part of a fee being refunded, or returned, to the buyer. For what situation is Bill quitestrict on chargebacks?”
3) When would Bill like the first delivery to be made, و لماذا?

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أفضل الممارسات البيئية 92 – اللغة الإنجليزية للمبيعات: المميزات, مزايا, فوائد (أو عرض FAB)

For today’s Business English Podcast lesson, we’re going to focus on theclassic salesapproach to selling products and services. This approach is based on explaining the features, attributes and benefits of your products using theFABtechnique.

The FAB technique is useful for people working in the manufacturing and retail tradeanyone who has to present products. بخاصة, we’ll look at how this approach can be applied in the Merchandizing business. Merchandizing is the trade name for businesses involved in the design and manufacture of clothing and household items.

In the dialog, we rejoin Marco and Francesca on their trip to a fashion trade show in the U.S. Their company, Viva, has just created an exciting new line of clothes. With the help of their American partner, فوكستروت, they are hoping to get a couple big sales contracts with U.S. department stores.

The listening takes place in the Foxtrot showroom. We’ll hear Francesca speak to a potential customer, Bill, who is a buyer for Bancroft’s, a retail chain store that targets professional women.

أسئلة الاستماع

1. What is the key feature of Viva’s fall colors this year? Can you name some of the colors?
2. Why is the Viva Professional line more expensive?
3. As described in the dialog, what are the main benefits of Viva’s clothing line?

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