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Interrogate the Numbers

About 10 years ago REM released a greatest hits album titled “Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage”. I have always been a fan of their music and that[...]

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It Just Feels Right

Having been married for quite some time, and to the same person, AJH, I have over time learned a very valuable lesson in husband and wife relations. Some may agree[...]

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Appointments & Relationship Building · Prospecting & Lead Generation · Strategy & Customer Needs Analysis

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Are You A Media Sales Person or a Mechanic?

This month’s guest contributor is Stephen Pead. He is a 30 year veteran in all things media. He has worked closely with Mike Brunel over the last 12 month conducting[...]

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Close Up Your Media Company

Membership and exclusiveness need to drive our offers, and to collaborate with entrepreneurs like the Facebook friend I mentioned at the top of this article.

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The Love of Continuity

I was reading recently an article about direct mail and the selling of continuity. It related to a client who sold vitamins, their objective was of course to sell pills,[...]

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Ask Their Opinion

One of the best pieces of advice I was given to help remove the barriers to success with an advertiser, is to ask them their opinion on something. How I[...]

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66 Ways To Eliminate Weak and Wasteful Advertising

Over the next few months we will be publishing excerpts from one of our newspaper contributors Graham Barr’s report – 66 ways to eliminate weak and wasteful advertising. We will[...]

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Cupcakes For Your Advertisers?

We often do not get a lot of opportunity to make good impressions, with the pressure of real time targets, management and ownership pressure these types of ideas get lost. So, next time stop, take a deep breath and make that little bit more effort and “surprise” your clients with the little things, they do work and are appreciated.

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Soup Anyone?

This week’s success story is about soup, or more specifically, how a media company got an advertiser to think outside the box and make soup for his customers. Get the[...]

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What You Think Does Not Matter

“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesperson, not the attitude of the prospect” –William Clement Stone. I get to hear good stories from all over the world as[...]

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