The effectiveness of verbal prompts on sales

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 169-176

  Ebster, Claus ^a   Wagner, Udo ^a   Valis, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERSTE GROUP BANK AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Prompting; Sales promotion; Suggestive selling

Indexed keywords

RETAILING;

EID: 31344442020     PISSN: 09696989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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