{"id":140,"date":"2010-06-24T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2010\/6\/24\/125043.html"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:50:43","slug":"do-you-fear-great-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/do-you-fear-great-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Fear Great Creative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 22pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">Do You Fear Great Creative?<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some misguided radio account executives fear counseling their key clients to pay for outsourced creative. They believe that every dollar invested in creative is a dollar they lose from their airtime budget.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The opposite is true. Once clients have invested in great creative, creative that works, they invest MORE on radio, not less!<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Many radio stations do have excellent creative resources in house. The problem is the same writer is often saddled with writing commercials for four or five competing car dealerships or furniture stores. <\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Couple that potential conflict of interest with the fact that same writer&nbsp;writes hundreds of commercials each month, and the likelihood that they&rsquo;ll knock the ball out of the part every time is dramatically diminished. <\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Great creative ultimately results in happier clients and bigger broadcast orders. The myth that radio advertisers should use &lsquo;free&rsquo; creative has caused&nbsp;more advertisers to conclude &ldquo;radio doesn&rsquo;t work&rdquo; more than any other factor. <\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When presenting to local business owners, focusing on the creative instead of your station, achieves a number of objectives;<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">1.) <b><u>Customer Focus<\/u><\/b> Your media presentation is all about you, the commercial message is about the client&hellip;.which do you think is more interesting to the client?<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">2.) <b><u>Differentiation&nbsp;<\/u><\/b>&nbsp;Advertisers with increasing media choices and a growing list of competitors know they need a message that clearly differentiates them from those competitors. <\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">3.) <b><u>Results<\/u><\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your prospects can buy spots and space anywhere, and most of them are weary of every media&rsquo;s claim to be &lsquo;number one&rsquo;. They want results, and need help crafting messages that will create those results, regardless which media they buy.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Are you looking for a proven creative outsource for your key accounts? We often work with, and recommend, Jeffrey Hedquist of Hedquist Productions.&nbsp;Jeffrey can be reached at &nbsp;<\/font><a href=\"mailto:Jeffrey@hedquist.com\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">Jeffrey@hedquist.com<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Fear Great Creative? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some misguided radio account executives fear counseling their key clients to pay for outsourced creative. They believe that every dollar invested in creative is a dollar they lose from their airtime budget. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The opposite is true. Once clients have invested in great creative, creative that works, they invest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}