{"id":1984,"date":"2021-02-03T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:07:52","slug":"fishing-for-the-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/fishing-for-the-big-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for the BIG ONE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fishing is very much like advertising sales.\u00a0First, we must prospect or fish in the right spots, use the right bait and equipment, and then we must know what we are fishing for.\u00a0Are you fishing just to catch some fish, or are you trying to land the BIG ONE? And… how do you know when it\u2019s a BIG ONE?<\/h4>\n

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We know that furniture stores, car dealers, and grocery stores all have great potential, but they are not always the \u201cbig fish\u201d. In fact, sometimes you would just as soon throw some of these back!<\/h4>\n

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However, when you feel like you hooked on what you believe is a big one, there are a few lessons that we can learn from the fishermen.<\/h4>\n

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First, you need to let them nibble a bit, don\u2019t try to set the hook too quickly. Secondly, take your time reeling them in.\u00a0Just like setting the hook, if you reel too hard and too fast your chance of losing them increases.<\/h4>\n

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If you know you have a prospect with great potential (A BIG ONE), take your time, educate them on how you can help them, ask more questions, have additional meetings to make sure you have all the bases covered, and don\u2019t try to get them in the boat before they are ready.\u00a0A longer sales cycle typically reaps better success.<\/h4>\n

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The biggest fish, like the biggest prospects, need to be handled with great care.\u00a0Nearly every six-figure account that my sales teams landed took 3 to 6 months to get on the air, and in some cases, even longer.<\/h4>\n

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Patience is a virtue!\u00a0Once you have the hook set, guide them in with due diligence, but be prepared for sudden changes so you can adjust accordingly.\u00a0If they should decide to swim upstream one more time, give them some line (more information) and then steer them back towards the boat.\u00a0Your chances of getting them in the boat will greatly increase.<\/h4>\n

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If you would like your team to become better prospectors and learn how to land the BIG ONES, click here<\/a> and we can visit on how ENS Media can help train and motivate your team to have more success in 2021 and beyond.<\/h4>\n

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Happy Fishing – Happy Training!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fishing is very much like advertising sales.\u00a0First, we must prospect or fish in the right spots, use the right bait and equipment, and then we must know what we are fishing for.\u00a0Are you fishing just to catch some fish, or are you trying to land the BIG ONE? And… how do you know when it\u2019s […]<\/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":[544,543,395],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-educate","tag-fishing","tag-prospect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","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=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}