{"id":1250,"date":"2017-10-04T12:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2017-10-04T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T12:52:38","slug":"disruptors-fill-a-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/disruptors-fill-a-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Disruptors Fill a Void"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology by itself is not the real disruptor.<\/p>\n

Not being customer-focused is the biggest threat to any business. Technology only fills the void left by poor performance and high costs.<\/p>\n

Robots didn’t kill assembly line jobs: \u00a0High wages, careless quality control and the pursuit of profits did.<\/p>\n

Uber isn’t killing the taxi industry:\u00a0 Limited access, poor service, and poorly maintained cabs left an opening for Uber.<\/p>\n

Apple didn’t kill the music industry:\u00a0 High prices and being forced to buy full-length albums drove customers to purchase only the songs they wanted.<\/p>\n

Ariel Durant, author of, ‘The Story of Civilization’, said, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”<\/p>\n

Is your company providing enough value to your listeners and your advertisers to circumvent the appeal of new technologies and platforms?<\/p>\n

We have room to conduct one more Local TOMA Survey in your market this year to jump start your sales next year.\u00a0 Contact Angela@wensmedia.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0These surveys consistently prove local radio’s effectiveness, and help radio\u00a0account executives to close more new business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technology by itself is not the real disruptor. Not being customer-focused is the biggest threat to any business. Technology only fills the void left by poor performance and high costs. Robots didn’t kill assembly line jobs: \u00a0High wages, careless quality control and the pursuit of profits did. Uber isn’t killing the taxi industry:\u00a0 Limited access, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[373,374,375,79,121],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-disruptors","tag-high-prices","tag-poor-quality","tag-surveys","tag-value"],"yoast_head":"\nDisruptors Fill a Void - ENS on Sales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/disruptors-fill-a-void\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disruptors Fill a Void - ENS on Sales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Technology by itself is not the real disruptor. 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