When you build a customized ad package in multiple channels, it not only serves your advertisers, but drives serious ad sales revenue. So what’s the best way to present these proposals for closing success? We consulted Nancy O’Brien, Associate Publisher of Aviation International Read More
When I started my career I was lousy at working a room. I could do a lunch meeting and nail it. Public speaking or a sales presentation? No problem. But I was terrible at large cocktail parties or receptions. I felt like Read More
For most ad sales professionals, the 4th quarter signals the beginning of the end of your ad sales year. And even if your fiscal year does not follow the calendar year, by the time you add the holiday season and New Year celebrations into Read More
Keep reading if… you’d like to know how we use a simple marketing automation to generate sales. I spend a lot of time chatting with other folks in the B2B events and publishing world, and it’s striking just how many don’t employ Read More
Native advertising has become wildly popular – but mostly for social media giants such as Facebook. eMarketer forecasts that spending on native digital display ads will grow 36% in 2017 to surpass $22 billion – with social platforms accounting for about 84% Read More
“…the times they are a-changin’..’” With those lyrics we realize that very little stays the same in our publishing businesses. Most of us are seeing the shift from traditional print revenue to digital dollars. As that trend continues, publishers keep adding more digital Read More
There are hundreds of books and ad sales training seminars to attend on improving your media ad sales career. But in this article, I want to share with you more about call volume or proposal writing strategies. I want to dig deeper. If you Read More
Carl Landau famously (or infamously) offered to send “cats in the mail” to his advertising clients. I’m known for sending burritos to get calls back. Every salesperson faces the same dilemma: how to get noticed by the decision-makers.
Let’s face it. Even ad sales rock stars can still leave money on the table. After all, we’re human beings, not machines. We need technology to see what the human eye can’t. Perhaps that’s why CRMs have become so popular.
For most media ad sales professionals, the fiscal year does not follow the calendar year. By late fall you are pretty much done with 2016. When you add the holiday season and new year celebrations to the mix, you have a double whammy Read More
