{"id":1601,"date":"2019-04-24T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2019-04-24T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:18:04","slug":"ask-deeper-questions-get-deeper-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/ask-deeper-questions-get-deeper-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Deeper Questions-Get Deeper Answers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>All too often in media sales, the conversations with clients or prospects are about our industry, our stations, our formats, our coverage areas, our demographics, our promotions, etc., etc., etc.!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>With any sales training at all, we know that our conversations should be more about the client and their business and less about us and our stations.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>The real information, the good stuff, and where you build credibility with your client, is when you start to ask questions that they have never been asked before.\u00a0\u00a0The questions that go deeper than normal and touch their emotional hot buttons;\u00a0questions about their hopes and dreams,\u00a0questions about what keeps them up at night,\u00a0questions about them and their customers,\u00a0questions that, frankly, make them feel like you really care about them and their business.\u00a0Ultimately, questions that confirm that you are a professional and not just another media rep looking for a quick sale.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>When radio doesn\u2019t work, the overwhelming reason is that the message was bad. If you only ask the surface questions, the same boring, you already should know the answer to questions, you\u2019ll only have the same answers as every other rep.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Once you start learning how to ask deeper questions, then and only then will you get deeper answers.\u00a0Deeper answers, help create better ads and ad campaigns.\u00a0Better ads equal better results for your clients, and better results equal happier clients and longer-term contracts for you and your stations!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>One of the best compliments you will ever get from a client or prospect is when they say, \u201cYou\u2019re different than the other media reps. You ask some really great questions\u201d!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Start asking Deeper Questions and start getting Deeper Answers!<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>ENS Media works with media companies to help brand and train media sales teams on how to become marketing and advertising professionals.\u00a0If you are considering outside training for your sales team and would like to visit about our revenue generating programs,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rick@ensmediausa.com\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>\u00a0or give Rick a call at (605) 310-2062.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All too often in media sales, the conversations with clients or prospects are about our industry, our stations, our formats, our coverage areas, our demographics, our promotions, etc., etc., etc.! With any sales training at all, we know that our conversations should be more about the client and their business and less about us and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[426,33,455,317],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-client","tag-media","tag-professionals","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}