{"id":214,"date":"2008-10-20T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2008\/10\/20\/091207.html"},"modified":"2008-10-20T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T13:12:07","slug":"power-of-the-paper-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/power-of-the-paper-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of the Paper Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 22pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">Harness the Power of the Paper Trail<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><u><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><o:p><span style=\"text-decoration: none\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: &quot;Comic Sans MS&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\">If the only tangible your customers receive from you is a presentation and an invoice, you are missing the boat.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">The value equation is simple;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Value =<\/b> Your Customer&rsquo;s Expectation + or &ndash; Your Customer&rsquo;s Actual Experience.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Here is the good news. YOU control both ends of this important equation. Value is a perception rather than a reality, and you have the tools to create realistic expectations and take credit for over-delivery on those expectations.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Many sales people, however, in a frantic effort to capture a sale, make promises and build expectations they can not possibly exceed. And just meeting the customer&rsquo;s expectation does not deliver the positive value perception you need to build strong customer relationships.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>What is even sadder, some sales people who do deliver an experience greater than the expectation do not take credit for doing so!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Do you deliver an impressive written wrap up report after each of your major campaigns, complete with photos of customer traffic and outlines of what you did over and above what was contracted for? Do you conduct a post campaign analysis to make each campaign better than the last? Do you ALWAYS under promise and over deliver and have a paper trail to prove it?<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Radio has often been defined as an &lsquo;intangible&rsquo;. The dictionary defines tangible as &lsquo;able to be perceived by a sense of touch&rsquo;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>Delivering comprehensive wrap up reports to your clients, with scripts, schedules, photos and more, can actually make their radio investment tangible!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Tahoma\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>Account executives who deliver tangible evidence of their over-delivery in the form of a written wrap up report soon find themselves immune to pressure from competitors who do not manage the experience side of the value equation. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-right: 4pt; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-left: 4pt; padding-bottom: 1pt; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-top: 1pt; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-element: para-border-div; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"border-right: medium none; padding-right: 0in; border-top: medium none; padding-left: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; border-left: medium none; padding-top: 0in; border-bottom: medium none; text-align: center; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt\" align=\"center\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><font face=\"Tahoma\">Budgeting for next year? <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span>Consider including our &lsquo;Making Radio Tangible&rsquo; seminar for your team!<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Tahoma\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harness the Power of the Paper Trail &nbsp; If the only tangible your customers receive from you is a presentation and an invoice, you are missing the boat. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The value equation is simple; &nbsp; Value = Your Customer&rsquo;s Expectation + or &ndash; Your Customer&rsquo;s Actual Experience. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Here is the good news. YOU [&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-214","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\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}