How to Use cross-sell in a Sentence

cross-sell

verb
  • Create a cross-selling concierge.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • And modern sports books try their best to cross-sell people into the casino.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The cross-sell aspirations may never come to bear.
    — Ron Shevlin, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Both of these, in turn, make the firm better positioned to cross-sell its offerings to its existing clients.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, Upgrade has also found a cheap way to grow by cross-selling customers on its other services.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The growth story is where things get interesting, as salespeople use AI to zero in on leads and cross-sell products.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • To get started, define how a cross-selling opportunity is identified, logged, handed off, closed and incentivized.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Incentivizing cross-selling among lower-level, non-sales staff can yield meaningful financial results.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • When staff know that cross-selling activity is visible to leadership, the behavior becomes part of the culture rather than an afterthought.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • When cross-sell is done with the customer journey in mind, and when partners are willing to flex to support that, the result is not just higher conversion but deeper trust and better long-term engagement.
    — Dan Caldwell, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Jester expects Navan to grow at least 23% in the coming year as the company cross-sells its broader platform beyond travel and as legacy providers fuel share gains.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Retailers must unify their feeds in order to slash discovery latency and encourage cross-sell recommendations.
    — Durga Krishnamoorthy, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That shift disintermediates ecommerce systems and removes the familiar checkout step, as well as any upsell or cross-sell opportunities.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The analyst pointed to near-term growth drivers such as expanding fresh and frozen products, frequent updating product sets and carrying more national brands as tailwinds for more traffic and cross-sell.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
  • When a cross-selling opportunity arises, your legacy staff must remember not only which services are available but also who to call to provide more information to the customer for each service.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Education alone may be insufficient for a successful cross-selling operation.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Context Builds Conversion If cross-sell fatigue is driven by poor timing and irrelevance, then the solution lies in better design.
    — Dan Caldwell, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The concierge takes responsibility for all the aspects of cross-selling that customer-facing staff may be reticent to undertake, such as conversion tracking and knowing all the key internal contacts.
    — Marty Dauer, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The super-app ecosystem also enables Grab to cross-sell services and increase per-user monetization, a benefit that competitors find challenging to replicate.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The hotel benefits could be a boon for the company’s Uber One subscription program, which has more than 46 million members globally and is one of the company’s main avenues for cross-selling its services.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Positioning Offers Around Customer Experience Even with better timing and design, cross-sell performance depends on how well an offer is positioned around the customer experience.
    — Dan Caldwell, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The business model for selling AI should also provide operational efficiencies in the quote-to-cash (Q2C) process and offer data insights that facilitate upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
    — Conal Gallagher, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • This layer analyzes pricing trends across similar accounts, identifies forecast bias patterns, detects early churn signals based on order velocity changes, predicts cross-sell opportunities by comparing product mix patterns and calculates account health scores using multiyear metrics.
    — Buyan Thyagarajan, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Additionally, Robinhood can cross-sell other financial products to guardians and minors, with Compass Point noting the company's target user base of Millennials & Gen Zs is already closer to prime parenthood age than Schwab's average account holder.
    — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Well-poised for the World Cup Macquarie expects the World Cup to produce a roughly 2% to 5% boost to 2027 operator EBITDA, with the biggest benefits going to companies with large soccer audiences, international exposure and the ability to cross-sell bettors into higher-margin products.
    — Contessa Brewer, CNBC, 10 June 2026

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