For today’s Business English Podcast lesson, we’re going to focus on the “classic sales” approach to selling products and services. This approach is based on explaining the features, attributes and benefits of your products using the “FAB” technique.

The FAB technique is useful for people working in the manufacturing and retail trade – anyone who has to present products. 尤其, 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.

在對話方塊中, 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, 狐步舞, 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.

聽力問題

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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在此商務英語播客中, 我們將研究在非正式場合向潛在客戶展示您的產品和服務的語言.

繼我們主持現場訪問的劇集之後, 我們回到鐵路隧道的朋友身邊. Stanley Wang是中國西部鐵路建設項目的現場代理. 他剛剛帶走了馬特和保羅, 來自美國小型公司的銷售工程師, 遊覽隧道時. 現在, 晚上, 史丹利和他的老闆比爾張正在為馬特和寶拉舉辦晚宴. 集團正在討論未來合作的可能性.

在世界上許多國家和文化中, 非正式場合 – 例如友善的用餐或打一場高爾夫球 – 對於銷售流程來說比在董事會的正式演示更重要. 所以在這一集中, 我們將學習在這種隨意的情況下展示我們產品的語言. 尤其, 我們將了解您如何向客戶銷售您的產品’ 需要一些軟性銷售技巧.

聽力問題

1) 馬特和保拉能夠前往隧道掌子麵嗎, 那是, 隧道的盡頭?
2) Matt 和 Paula 在討論中關注的主要興趣點是什麼?
3) Matt和Paula的設備相對於傳統測量方法有哪些優勢?

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