As advertising sales professionals, we all recognize we’re selling in a media landscape that’s tougher than ever before. So what are we going to do to control the conversation with advertisers? How will we command that conversation? And then, ultimately, convert the conversation to a sale?

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…