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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The selling of other products or services to an existing group of customers, often through a marketing agreement.

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Examples

  • Instead, Krawcheck said she despises the word "cross-selling."

    Forbes.com: News Forbes 2011

  • But they said she faced a difficult task in championing so-called cross-selling—or offering Merrill Lynch customers Bank of America products such as credit cards, deposit accounts and home mortgages, and vice versa.

    BofA Shakes Up Senior Ranks Dan Fitzpatrick 2011

  • The cornerstone of that franchise is a strategy called cross-selling, in which Wells tries to sell additional products to existing customers.

    In Tribute to Wells, Banks Try the Hard Sell Randall Smith 2011

  • But the Toronto-based bank is also pushing its U.S. branches to rev up so-called cross-selling—for instance, marketing mortgages or other financial services to plain-vanilla checking account holders.

    How Canada's TD Bank Is Invading U.S. Market Caroline Van Hasselt 2011

  • The firms could also lean more heavily on the practice known as cross-selling, or marketing services to existing customers, said Jason Goldberg, a Barclays Capital analyst.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • The goal of the changes: to have a sales force better at finding and retaining customers and more capable of cross-selling, that is, selling a bundle of products to each customer instead of just a single policy.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • The goal of the changes: to have a sales force better at finding and retaining customers and more capable of cross-selling, that is, selling a bundle of products to each customer instead of just a single policy.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Moreover, banks continue to push cross-selling as a business model, even though few financial institutions have seen move-the-needle growth from getting checking customers to open a brokerage account.

    An App For That? Five Ways Banks Could Learn From Apple's iPad David Weidner 2011

  • If Apple depended on cross-selling, it would be finished.

    An App For That? Five Ways Banks Could Learn From Apple's iPad David Weidner 2011

  • Yet Bank of America talked last week about cross-selling as a major engine of revenue growth in the future.

    An App For That? Five Ways Banks Could Learn From Apple's iPad David Weidner 2011

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