Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel

At a glance

الوصف Sell services to individuals or businesses. May describe options or resolve client problems.

Alternate titles
  • Accounts Manager
  • Accounts Representative
  • Automobile Club Membership Sales Agent
  • Automotive Sales Consultant (Auto Sales Consultant)
  • Business Services Sales Representative
  • Business-to-Business Sales Representative
  • Client Relationship Consultant
  • Customer Service Representative (Customer Service Rep)
  • Customer Service Sales Representative (Customer Service Sales Rep)
  • Field Sales Consultant
  • Field Sales Representative
  • Independent Sales Representative
  • Inside Sales and Customer Service Representative (Inside Sales and Customer Service Rep)
  • Inside Sales Representative
  • Marketing Representative
  • Member Services Representative (Member Services Rep)
  • Membership Representative (Membership Rep)
  • Membership Solicitor
  • Outside Sales Representative
  • Pest Control Service Sales Agent
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  • Product Specialist
  • Route Sales Representative (Route Sales Rep)
  • Sales Agent
  • Sales Associate
  • Sales Consultant
  • Sales Coordinator
  • Sales Development Representative
  • Sales Representative (Sales Rep)
  • Sales Specialist
  • Salesman
  • Technical Sales Representative
  • Wireless Sales Specialist
متوسط الأجر بالساعة دولار22.71 - دولار38.02 (دولار47,240 - دولار79,070 annually)*
إجمالي عدد الوظائف الشاغرة سنوياً260
إجمالي عدد الموظفين2,809

A day in the life

  • Maintain records of customer accounts.
  • Calculate costs of goods or services.
  • Answer customer questions about goods or services.
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  • Advise others on business or operational matters.
  • Estimate costs or terms of sales.
  • Distribute promotional literature or samples to customers.
  • Monitor market conditions or trends.
  • Attend events to develop professional knowledge.
  • Prepare sales or other contracts.
  • Identify potential customers.
  • Assess the cost effectiveness of products, projects, or services.
  • Negotiate prices or other sales terms.
  • Explain technical product or service information to customers.
  • Recommend products or services to customers.
  • Advise customers on the use of products or services.
  • Develop content for sales presentations or other materials.
  • Contact current or potential customers to promote products or services.
  • Monitor market conditions or trends.
  • Study product information to acquire professional knowledge.
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  • Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
  • Conventional: Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
  • Social: Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
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  • Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
  • Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
  • Realistic: Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
  • Answer customers' questions about services, prices, availability, or credit terms.
  • Attend sales or trade meetings or read related publications to obtain information about market conditions, business trends, regulations, or industry developments.
  • Compute and compare costs of services.
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  • Consult with clients after sales or contract signings to resolve problems and provide ongoing support.
  • Contact prospective or existing customers to discuss how services can meet their needs.
  • Create forms or agreements to complete sales.
  • Develop sales presentations or proposals to explain service specifications.
  • Distribute promotional materials at meetings, conferences, or trade shows.
  • Emphasize or recommend service features based on knowledge of customers' needs and vendor capabilities and limitations.
  • Identify prospective customers using business directories, leads from clients, or information from conferences or trade shows.
  • Inform customers of contracts or other information pertaining to purchased services.
  • Maintain customer records using automated systems.
  • Monitor market conditions, innovations, and competitors' services, prices, and sales.
  • Negotiate prices or terms of sales or service agreements.
  • Quote prices, credit terms, contract terms, or fulfillment dates for services.
  • Develop sales presentations or proposals to explain service specifications.
  • Contact prospective or existing customers to discuss how services can meet their needs.
  • Monitor market conditions, innovations, and competitors' services, prices, and sales.
  • Monitor market conditions, innovations, and competitors' services, prices, and sales.
  • Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
  • Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
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  • Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
  • Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
  • Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
  • Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
  • Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
  • Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
  • Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
  • Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
  • Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  • Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
  • Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  • Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
  • Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
  • Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
  • Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
  • Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
  • Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Foreign Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
  • Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
  • History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • Oral Comprehension: Listening and understanding what people say.
  • Written Comprehension: Reading and understanding what is written.
  • Speech Clarity: Speaking clearly.
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  • Oral Expression: Communicating by speaking.
  • Speech Recognition: Recognizing spoken words.
  • Near Vision: Seeing details up close.
  • Written Expression: Communicating by writing.
  • Inductive Reasoning: Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.
  • Information Ordering: Ordering or arranging things.
  • Category Flexibility: Grouping things in different ways.
  • Problem Sensitivity: Noticing when problems happen.
  • Deductive Reasoning: Using rules to solve problems.
  • Fluency of Ideas: Coming up with lots of ideas.
  • Selective Attention: Paying attention to something without being distracted.
  • Originality: Creating new and original ideas.
  • Far Vision: Seeing details that are far away.
  • Speed of Closure: Quickly knowing what you are looking at.
  • Number Facility: Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
  • Mathematical Reasoning: Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.
  • Flexibility of Closure: Seeing hidden patterns.
  • Perceptual Speed: Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
  • Time Sharing: Doing two or more things at the same time.
  • Memorization: Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.
  • Visualization: Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
  • Trunk Strength: Using your lower back and stomach.
  • Visual Color Discrimination: Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.
  • Auditory Attention: Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.
  • Wrist-Finger Speed: Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Hearing Sensitivity: Telling the difference between sounds.
  • Control Precision: Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness: Keeping your arm or hand steady.
  • Manual Dexterity: Holding or moving items with your hands.
  • Finger Dexterity: Putting together small parts with your fingers.
  • Dynamic Strength: Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.
  • Depth Perception: Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.
  • Glare Sensitivity: Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.
  • Peripheral Vision: Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.
  • Spatial Orientation: Knowing where things are around you.
  • Stamina: Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.
  • Gross Body Coordination: Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.
  • Sound Localization: Noticing the direction that a sound came from.
  • Reaction Time: Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.
  • Gross Body Equilibrium: Keeping your balance or staying upright.
  • Explosive Strength: Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.
  • Static Strength: Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.
  • Rate Control: Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.
  • Multilimb Coordination: Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.
  • Speed of Limb Movement: Quickly moving your arms and legs.
  • Response Orientation: Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.
  • Dynamic Flexibility: Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Extent Flexibility: Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Night Vision: Seeing at night or under low light.
  • Active Listening: Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
  • Speaking: Talking to others.
  • Reading Comprehension: Reading work-related information.
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  • Service Orientation: Looking for ways to help people.
  • Negotiation: Bringing people together to solve differences.
  • Writing: Writing things for co-workers or customers.
  • Active Learning: Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.
  • Time Management: Managing your time and the time of other people.
  • Social Perceptiveness: Understanding people's reactions.
  • Persuasion: Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.
  • Critical Thinking: Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
  • Monitoring: Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
  • Complex Problem Solving: Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
  • Coordination: Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
  • Systems Analysis: Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
  • Systems Evaluation: Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
  • Mathematics: Using math to solve problems.
  • Instructing: Teaching people how to do something.
  • Management of Personnel Resources: Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.
  • Learning Strategies: Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
  • Management of Financial Resources: Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.
  • Management of Material Resources: Managing equipment and materials.
  • Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
  • Programming: Writing computer programs.
  • Technology Design: Making equipment and technology useful for customers.
  • Operations Analysis: Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.
  • Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.
  • Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.
  • Equipment Selection: Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.
  • Quality Control Analysis: Testing how well a product or service works.
  • Operation and Control: Using equipment or systems.
  • Troubleshooting: Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.
  • Science: Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

Education & Training

Education High school diploma or equivalent

Licensing Some professions require a specific license to work in Maine. For information on any licensing requirements for this and other occupations, visit the Maine Office of Professional and Financial Regulation.

Training Moderate-term on-the-job training

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Regional Occupation Data

Data provided by CWRI
Total number employed 2,809
Average annual wage* $47,240 - $79,070
Annual total openings 260
Average hourly wage* $22.71 - $38.02
Total number employed 623
Average annual wage* $45,770 - $74,970
Annual total openings 65
Average hourly wage* $22.00 - $36.04
Total number employed 702
Average annual wage* $39,210 - $71,230
Annual total openings 73
Average hourly wage* $18.85 - $34.24
Total number employed 1,585
Average annual wage* No data available
Annual total openings 178
Average hourly wage* No data available

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