Two 1-Day Intensive Classes in Media Selling
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
March 19 - 20, 2012

Master Your Sales Universe

More sales calls.  More persuasive presentations.  More business.

Get from More Calls to More Business.

March 19, 9AM to 5:15PM:  Today there are too many media sales people calling on too few major accounts.  How will you rise above the noise?  Media Masters will teach you how to get more appointments and turn them in to more business with Prospecting and Planning, Probing, Handling Objections and Closing skills.  We don’t teach you to parrot an overbearing salesperson, but to understand the principals you can apply to your own personality, style, and industry to win more business.

Begging and Shouting don’t Work.  Let us educate you on how to change the mind of your Prospects with a Master Presentation.

March 20, 9AM to 5:15PM:  How can you change someone’s mind?  They already know they don’t need your brand or they’d already be your customer. So they think they don’t need  to see you, but you persuade them to make time.  What are the principles of persuasion that will allow you to open the mind of the prospect to the possibility of change;  moving money to your media. In the Masters of Media Selling, you’ll learn how to structure your sales presentation and persuasion to open the prospect’s mind, achieve agreement that things are changing, and that they should be considering your media.

Two Days of Intensive Advertising Sales Skills to Elevate Your Sales Results to Mastery. Choose Day 1, Day 2, or Both.

Best Practices Sales skills for advertising sales boiled down from 20 years of star salesmanship and 15 years of training sales people.
 
Three skills make Sales Masters:

Do you believe your media should be getting a bigger share of the buys?  Are you having trouble getting appointments with the right buyers?  Do your potential customers have you on a pointless RFP treadmill?  These are all common complaints of media management.  The Media Masters sales course will give you skills to solve every one of these problems and more.
 
After this class, you or your sales people will have more success getting higher level appointments with decision makers, BEFORE the RFP is issued.  You’ll know how to create a presentation that gets your prospects to AGREE FROM THE START, and you’ll understand how great sales people get their clients to change their mind.  That is right.  How often do you hear your prospects say “I didn’t buy from you last year, but I was wrong.  Now I’m giving you the order?”  Media Masters will show you how to open up your client’s mind to a different view.
 
Who is this class for?  For entry level sales people it will be a revelation; so much clarity to open up the black art of sales, clear plans and benchmarks to set their sights upon, and clear strategies to juggle many clients and focus on the big opportunities, and a clear persuasion strategy that is proven to work.  For sales managers it will give you a multitude of solutions to teach your sales people.  For experienced sales people it will help them learn how to build on your strengths and shore up your weaknesses.

Master Plan for Selling Advertising Media

The first requirement of sales is getting to the right place at the right time with the right information to make a sale.  Whether your “right place” is on the phone or in person, sales masters organize themselves to juggle hundreds of accounts and still call the right people at the right time.  And they do it with the right ideas and information at their fingertips to make sales.    Failing to get to the right time and place is the first way to fail…no matter how charming and convincing you are.

Master Plan will cover how to prospect for leads, qualify which leads to work most intensively, and how to develop a sales cycle of selling, and renewing business.  Master Plan will make you the master of your territory; showing management your plan on key accounts and where they come in to help you advance big accounts.

Master Persuasion to Win Advertising Sales

Persuading like a Master will help you understand how to create shared agreement at the beginning of your sales persuasion so that you can lead the buyer from agreement to agreement to a sale, making logical objection hard to voice.  Master persuaders know how to open buyers minds to change, to make the purchase the buyer didn’t, at first, think they want.

Master the Jargon

Master Media will teach you the concepts and language to master competitive media;  if you are a print seller we’ll help you understand digital and broadcast terminology to prepare you to go nose to nose with a media director discussing how your media is the right place for the investment.  You are likely selling a multiple media package of two or three media.  You can no longer be most successful understanding only your property.

Master Closers are Master Probers and Objection Handlers

Almost all sales people know they should ask more questions in their sales process, but they don’t do it.  One reason is that they are afraid to ask dumb questions. But we know that if we ask the right questions, the client will tell us what they want in a way we can work with to sell them what they want (or in the language they want to hear it in).  The master sales class will give you the structure to probe better for opportunities and for objections, and to handle objections in a simple, natural, and systematic way.  Today, objections start with getting appointments.  So objection handling skills are critical at every stage of the sales process from prospecting to closing deals.