{"id":120,"date":"2011-03-09T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2011\/3\/9\/115107.html"},"modified":"2011-03-09T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:51:07","slug":"best-you-can-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/best-you-can-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Best You Can Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><font face=\"Arial\">Being the Best That You Can Be<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">I can&rsquo;t read statistics without smiling.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">I once scanned the websites of four different health-related charities like the Cancer Society and the Diabetes Association. &nbsp;Each claimed the disease they were trying to cure was the number one cause of death. &nbsp;When I added up the percentages of their claims, these four diseases alone caused more than 600% of deaths. &nbsp;(I guess no one falls victim to accidents, natural causes or the other ailments I didn&rsquo;t scan)&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">The point is, everyone has research which &lsquo;proves&rsquo; they are number one at something.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">I recently read statistics from the Ad Specialty Institute (the promotional product people&rsquo;s equivalent to our RAB or TVB) that claimed, among other things:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 81pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&#8211; Promotional products generate a cost-per-thousand impressionof $0.004 &nbsp;&nbsp;compared to $0.033 for magazines and $0.019 for TV<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 81pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&#8211; 84% of consumers remember advertisers based upon a free ad specialty product they received.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: -9pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 81pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">&#8211; 62% of those surveyed have done business with an advertiser after receiving a promotional product.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">The study contained many more &lsquo;statistics&rsquo; about the power of promotional products, but I think you get the point. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">According to a study conducted by my company, ENS Media Inc., the average independent business owner is approached by 16 vendors like you, every week claiming to be the most cost-effective way to increase their sales. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">Sales people in fields from promotional products to newspaper, customer relations management software to coupon envelopes, from signage companies to yellow pages, and from billboards to sales trainers are showing your&nbsp;prospects statistics which &lsquo;prove&rsquo; their products are the best choice to increase sales.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">To varying degrees, each alternative your clients have to choose from, really could be their best choice. &nbsp;But they can&rsquo;t afford to buy all 16 every week!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">SO, here is the question. Which companies win amidst all of these claims and statistics?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">The answer is unequivocally, <b><u>&lsquo;<\/u><i>the companies with most convincing sales people!&rsquo;<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">The media companies which employ the most credible, consistent and convincing sales practices are those which take the confusion out of media buying and make the advertisers&rsquo; decisions easy. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">Are your salespeople the most credible, consistent and convincing in your market? Could they be even better?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-top: 1pt\">\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; padding-bottom: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; border-top: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0in\"><i><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt\">P.S. If your answer is &lsquo;no&rsquo; or &lsquo;I&rsquo;m not sure&rsquo; let&rsquo;s talk about how we might be able to help. There is always room for improvement.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the Best That You Can Be I can&rsquo;t read statistics without smiling. 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