It’s incredibly tough to get meetings with potential advertisers today. Everyone in media sales knows this! So prospecting, and learning to do it well, is a critical component of ad sales training. I’ve figured out six steps to perfect prospecting that work for me. Put these into practice, and watch…

Consider this:  You are a busy, dedicated, ad sales professional. Every minute of your working day is committed to doing the best for your advertisers and the media company you work for. When you’re not actually seeing clients or prospects you are researching them or designing effective ad campaigns for…

So you live in the USA and you think the new GDPR regulations do not impact you?  You could not be more wrong! If you’re questioning whether GDPR will effect you, it takes one simple question to know the answer, Does your company or do any of your clients collect…

It’s a wonderful feeling, isn’t it, that heady, addictive moment when you close a deal! In every ad sales training workshop, I teach, I loudly proclaim, after 28 years and thousands of sales, that feeling just never goes away. For me, it is just as fresh today as it was…

In my ad sales training and coaching, I am asked about categories vs. territories all the time.  My collegue Lou DeLone wrote his views on this topic and I thought I would share his insights with you here in our monthly ad sales training blog.   The Case for Sales…

Let me begin this month’s ad sales training post with a question: Is there any part of the selling process that scares you? Cold-calling maybe? The close? Or perhaps it’s the part where your prospective client hurls a metaphoric wrench in your up-to-now perfect presentation by raising an objection. An…