{"id":1212,"date":"2017-05-03T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2017-05-03T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:59:13","slug":"your-real-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/your-real-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Real Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Digital media are not your competitors.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of all the new media hype, print still captures the lion&#8217;s share of local advertising budgets. Print, including the nearly defunct yellow pages, brochures, declining newspaper circulation, junk mail, flyers, coupon envelopes and more, \u00a0still capture the lion&#8217;s share of local budgets. And they are your most vulnerable competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Our Selling in the New Media Economy sales retreats can train your account executives to embrace all things online as more cost-efficient alternatives to print, and train them how to articulate the distinctly different but compatible roles of broadcast advertising and online advertising to the exclusion of print.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll make more money, and so will your advertisers when you teach them to abandon print for a broadcast and digital partnership.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:wayne@wensmedia.com;angela@wensmedia.com?subject=to%20inquire%20about%20scheduling%20a%20live%20in-market%20sales%20retreats%20for%20my%20sales%20team\"> Click here <\/a>to inquire about scheduling one of our live in-market sales retreats for your sales teams.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Digital media are not your competitors. 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