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fo·cus

(fō′kəs)n.pl.fo·cus·es or fo·ci(-sī′, -kī′)1.
a. The distinctness or clarity of an image rendered by an optical system.
b. The state of maximum distinctness or clarity of such an image: in focus; out of focus.

Showing approval concentrating on a particular aim and not wasting time or energy on other things I’m much more focused this year. We need a more focused approach to finally eliminating polio. Synonyms and related words.

c. An apparatus used to adjust the focal length of an optical system in order to make an image distinct or clear: a camera with automatic focus.

Find 39 ways to say FOCUSED, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. ‘We make deliberate, focused - deliberately focused attack.’ ‘In nineteenth-century America, racial uplift ideology focused on the civilization of the African Diaspora.’ ‘Right now everybody is focused like a laser beam on the economy.’ ‘Recent antitumor research has been focused. Concentrated, concentrating, attentive, absorbed, engrossed, fascinated, enthralled, enrapt, rapt, earnest, intense, studious, fixed, steady, steadfast, occupied. Focused is a crazy good sports romance between Noah, a singularly focused, uber successful football player and Molly, a career driven football family princess. The plot is predictable but the writing is exceptional, funny and believable.

2.
a. A point at which rays of light or other radiation converge or from which they appear to diverge, as after refraction or reflection in an optical system: the focus of a lens. Also called focal point.
3.
a. A center of interest or activity: 'Precisely how diet affects E. coli in livestock is the focus of current research'(Cindy Engel).
b. Close or narrow attention; concentration: 'He was forever taken aback by [New York's] pervasive atmosphere of purposefulness—the tight focus of its drivers, the brisk intensity of its pedestrians'(Anne Tyler).
c. A condition in which something can be clearly apprehended or perceived: couldn't get the problem into focus.
4. Medicine The region of a localized bodily infection or disease.
6. Mathematics A fixed point whose relationship with a directrix determines a conic section.
v.fo·cused, fo·cus·ing, fo·cus·es or fo·cussed or fo·cus·sing or fo·cus·ses
v.tr.
1. To cause (light rays, for example) to converge on or toward a central point; concentrate.
2.
a. To render (an object or image) in clear outline or sharp detail by adjustment of one's vision or an optical device; bring into focus.
b. To adjust (a lens, for example) to produce a clear image.
3. To direct toward a particular point or purpose: focused all their attention on finding a solution to the problem.
v.intr.
1. To converge on or toward a central point of focus; be focused.
2. To adjust one's vision or an optical device so as to render a clear, distinct image.
3. To concentrate attention or energy: a campaign that focused on economic issues.
Focused cost leadership
[New Latin, from Latin, hearth (probably in reference to the fact that a lens or parabolic mirror can concentrate sunlight on a single point to start a fire).]
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focused

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Focused Synonym

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focussed

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approving having or showing a clear and definite purpose
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Intensely Focused Synonym

Adj.1.focused - being in focus or brought into focus
unfocused, unfocussed - (of an image) not being in or brought into focus; 'at their edges things were pretty much out of focus'
2.focused - (of light rays) converging on a point; 'focused light rays can set something afire'
convergent - tending to come together from different directions
3.focused - of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image
adjusted - altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation; 'an adjusted insurance claim'; 'the car runs more smoothly with the timing adjusted'
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focussed[ˈfəʊkəst]adj
(= targetted) → ciblé(e)focus group n → groupem de discussion
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

focus(s)ed

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Techniques > Sales > Closing Techniques

One of the most important stages of selling is closing the deal, which is the actions taken by the sales person to gain agreement to the sale. There are many closing techniques in sales, which are prescribed actions that sales people take to persuade the customer to make the necessary commitment. Here are some of these:

  • 1-2-3 Close - close with the principle of three.
  • Adjournment Close - give them time to think.
  • Affordable Close - ensuring people can afford what you are selling.
  • Alternative Close - offering a limited set of choices.
  • Artisan Close - show the skill of the designer.
  • Ask-the-Manager Close - use manager as authority.
  • Assumptive Close - acting as if they are ready to decide.
  • Balance-sheet Close - adding up the pros and the cons.
  • Best-time Close - emphasize how now is the best time to buy.
  • Bonus Close - offer delighter to clinch the deal.
  • Bracket Close - make three offers - with the target in the middle.
  • Calculator Close - use calculator to do discount.
  • Calendar Close - put it in the diary.
  • Companion Close - sell to the person with them.
  • Compliment Close - flatter them into submission.
  • Concession Close - give them a concession in exchange for the close.
  • Conditional Close - link closure to resolving objections.
  • Cost of Ownership Close - compare cost over time with competitors.
  • Courtship Close - woo them to the close.
  • Customer-care Close - the Customer Care Manager calls later and re-opens the conversation.
  • Daily Cost Close - reduce cost to daily amount.
  • Demonstration Close - show them the goods.
  • Diagram Close - Draw a picture that draws them in.
  • Distraction Close - catch them in a weak moment.
  • Doubt Close - show you doubt the product and let them disagree.
  • Economic Close - help them pay less for what they get.
  • Embarrassment Close - make not buying embarrassing.
  • Emotion Close - trigger identified emotions.
  • Empathy Close - empathize with them, then sell to your new friend.
  • Empty-offer Close - make them an empty offer that the sale fills.
  • Exclusivity Close - not everyone can buy this.
  • Extra Information Close - give them more info to tip them into closure.
  • Fire Sale Close - soiled goods, going cheap.
  • Future Close - close on a future date.
  • Give-Take Close - give something, then take it away.
  • Golden Bridge Close - make the only option attractive.
  • Goldilocks Close - three options, middle best.
  • Handover Close - someone else does the final close.
  • Handshake Close - offer handshake to trigger automatic reciprocation.
  • Humor Close - relax them with humor.
  • Hurry Close - go fast to stop them thinking too much.
  • IQ Close - say how this is for intelligent people.
  • Minor points Close - close first on the small things.
  • Never-the-best-time Close - for customers who are delaying.
  • No-hassle Close - make it as easy as possible.
  • Now-or-never Close - to hurry things up.
  • Opportunity Cost Close - show cost of not buying.
  • Ownership Close - act as if they own what you are selling.
  • Price-promise Close - promise to meet any other price.
  • Puppy Close - acting cute to invoke sympathy and a nurturing response.
  • Quality Close - sell on quality, not on price.
  • Rational Close - use logic and reason.
  • Repetition Close - repeat a closing action several times.
  • Requirements Close - write down what they want as a formal requirement.
  • Retrial Close - go back to square one.
  • Reversal Close - act as if you do not want them to buy the product.
  • Save-the-world close: - buy now and help save the world.
  • Selective-deafness Close - respond only to what you want to hear.
  • Shame Close - make not buying shameful.
  • Shopping List Close - tick off list of their needs.
  • Similarity Close - bond them to a person in a story.
  • Standing-room-only Close - show how others are queuing up to buy.
  • Summary Close - tell them all the things they are going to receive.
  • Testimonial Close - use a happy customer to convince the new customer.
  • Thermometer Close - they score out of ten, you close gap.
  • Think About It Close - give them time to think about it.
  • Treat Close - persuade them to 'give themselves a treat'.
  • Trial Close - see if they are ready for a close.
  • Valuable Customer Close - offer them a special 'valued customer' deal.
  • Ultimatum Close - show negative consequences of not buying.
  • Yes-set Close - get them saying 'yes' and they'll keep saying 'yes'.

This is a big list, but the real list of closing techniques is almost endless. You can go to each need, for example, and invent several closes around satisfying or threatening them. Here are closing tips to help you further.

'Sell on the tangibles, close on the intangibles' is good general advice. Note how many of these methods follow this rule.

Don't forget the caveat in all of this. If people feel tricked or otherwise betrayed, they will not only not buy from you now, they may well never buy from you ever again or even turn all their friends against you. In particular beware of using unsubtle techniques with professional buyers, who can usually see them coming from miles away.

See also

Closure, Closing tips, Sequential requests, Negotiation tactics