Overview
Workers in other sales related occupations sell goods or services during home demonstrations or by telephone soliciting, retail exhibitions or street vending. They are employed by a wide range of retail and wholesale establishments, manufacturers, telemarketing companies and call centres, or they may be self-employed.
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Demonstrators and direct distributors
Contact potential customers by phone or through personal contacts
Arrange sales demonstration appointments, and show, describe and sell goods or services at wholesale, retail and industrial establishments, at exhibitions, trade shows or directly to individual customers or at sales parties in private homes
Deliver purchased goods to customers.
Door-to-door salespersons and street vendors
Solicit sales and sell merchandise to residents of private homes
Set up and display merchandise on sidewalks or at public events to sell to the public.
Telephone solicitors and telemarketers
Contact businesses or private individuals, by telephone, to solicit sales for goods or services.