a soft sell is an advertisement or campaign that uses a more subtle, casual, or friendly sales message. This approach is the opposite of a hard sell. Theorists...

Morning Post, which specialized in printing malicious society gossip, selling positive mentions in its pages, and collecting suppression fees to keep...

advertising, a hard sell is an advertisement or campaign that uses a more direct, forceful, and overt sales message, as opposed to a soft sell. The term is also...

J. Schweppe, formed Schweppes in 1783 and began selling the world's first bottled soft drink. Soft drink brands founded in the 19th century include R...

feel of what I have come to regard as the "warm sell" as contrasted to the "hard sell" and "soft sell". This was his first agency job. After spending...

than double the cost of a typical album at the time. When it struggled to sell, the record company only allowed a budget of $11,000 for the follow up, which...

became a runaway hit". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2022. "Soft Sell: Emmanuelle in America" (DVD feature). Lionsgate Shipka, 2011. p.296 Shipka...

thought discredits new wave as a genre, deriding it as a marketing ploy to soft-sell punk, a meaningless umbrella term covering bands too diverse to be considered...

version of "Tainted Love" and their platinum-selling debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. In the United Kingdom, Soft Cell had twelve top 40 hits, including...

pp. 56–58 Constance Hays (July 22, 1999). "David Ogilvy, 88, Father of Soft Sell In Advertising, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 September 2015...

2014. Hays, Constance L. (22 July 1999). "David Ogilvy, 88, Father of Soft Sell In Advertising, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24...

"It's derivative and unpersuasive, and as pandering as any big studio soft sell" adding about the film's central romance: "Their relationship never makes...

shoot and don't look like infomercials – they look like real shows. The soft-sell approach is more appealing to corporate America". The Los Angeles Times...

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (/ˈjuːbisɒft/; French: [ybisɔft]; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé...

Christian ideas. However, some Christians object that The Chronicles promote "soft-sell paganism and occultism" due to recurring pagan imagery and themes. Gertrude...

announced it had agreed to sell Vodafone Japan to SoftBank for about US$15.1 billion. On 18 May 2006, the unit was renamed "SoftBank Mobile Corp.", effective...

2004). "MikeRoweSoft sell-off bids going, going...down". CNET. Retrieved March 7, 2024. Kotadia, Munir (January 26, 2004). "MikeRoweSoft settles for an...

Mother of All Candidates: Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, Practicing the Soft Sell". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-08-29. "Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky"...

the soft serve is stored below freezing temperature after dispensing for a substantial time, it will soon freeze solid. Thus, to sell and consume soft serve...

The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record...

This is a list of soft drinks in order of the brand's country of origin. A soft drink is a beverage that typically contains water (often carbonated water)...

(PDF). sell.fr (in French). Archived (PDF) from the original on November 13, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2023. "Top 20 des jeux 2019" (PDF). sell.fr (in...

Dr Pepper is the second highest-selling carbonated soft drink in the United States, and the sixth highest-selling in the United Kingdom. The name "Dr...

There is also a growing number of specialized internet sites that sell doujin soft. Additionally, more doujin games have been sold as downloads on consoles...

exemplifying a new "soft-sell" approach to advertising - with catchy slogans and witty humour contrasting the repetitive and hard-sell style in vogue until...

model of free". The Boston Globe. McAllister, Neil (15 January 2007). "Soft sell for open source apps". InfoWorld. "Aras Announces Digital Twin Core for...

licensing and region, that manufacture and sell soft drinks. Schweppes was one of the earliest forms of a soft drink, originally being regular soda water...

Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed...

reporter, writer and columnist at City People Magazine, a Nigerian popular soft-sell magazine owned and founded by Seye Kehinde. After a couple of years, Alfred...

as Majesco Entertainment in the United States (which projected it would sell 1.5 million) or Tec Toy in Brazil (listed separately). 10–13 million, not...