So is it a philosophy of some sorts? Mental mindset?
Why is it called "sales"? To be purposefully easily confused with what a regular person understands the world "sales"?
This is all so strange to me. Every time I ask about "sales" I get this very non specific, vague, metaphoric answer...
Both kinds of sales are "sales" as there is not just one kind. What you will see is that the popular media ("regular") sales is not actually regular, that there are also different types of sales people, and so on.
Basically your exposure and sales vocab are still underdeveloped, so reading some books will aid you greatly.
Do you happen to be monetizing an OSS project?
I am getting good traffic and now I am looking for monetization options that would be non-invasive to the project (for example. I don't want crappy, non-relevant adds).