{"id":271,"date":"2007-12-17T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2007\/12\/17\/143144.html"},"modified":"2007-12-17T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T19:31:44","slug":"too-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/too-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Busy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As summer ends and we refocus on <u>maximizing our revenues<\/u>, one of the most productive things you can do is to facilitate a major account re-alignment to keep everyone &ldquo;productive&rdquo; rather than just &ldquo;busy&rdquo;. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Very often I hear account executives talk about being &ldquo;too busy&rdquo; to pursue corporate initiatives or special projects introduced by management.<br \/>\nIf this is the case at your station, you are only skimming the cream in your market.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Account executives who are too busy to capitalize on new revenue-generating projects are also too busy to drill deeper or to super-serve your key accounts.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The solution? &nbsp;A strict but fair account list management policy that prevents your best sales people from acquiring account lists that keep them too busy to sell. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The lack of a strategic account list management policy poses a number of problems which all restrict your revenue potential:<br \/>\n1. Your most senior people really are &ldquo;too busy&rdquo; to stretch themselves or their accounts. They inadvertently find themselves relegated to making re-&nbsp;active submissions rather than pro-active presentations.&nbsp; Can you say&#8230; &ldquo;comfort zone?&rdquo;<br \/>\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span lang=\"EN-US\">2.) Your entry-level staff turn-over rate is high because these new career&nbsp;hopefuls do not have the opportunity to work with high-potential accounts&nbsp;or enjoy the taste of success.<br \/>\n<\/span><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--><span lang=\"EN-US\">3.) You, and your sales people, can fall into the trap of thinking your top&nbsp;&ldquo;biller&rdquo; is your top seller.<br \/>\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span lang=\"EN-US\">4.) The people who would be the best at closing new business for you end up filling their day servicing &ldquo;entitlement accounts&rdquo;&hellip;..accounts your station is entitled to regardless who serves them.<br \/>\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span lang=\"EN-US\">5.) The account executives best-suited to take a leadership role in new&nbsp;initiatives and revenue development are not setting the example for the&nbsp;pack.<br \/>\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span lang=\"EN-US\">Strategic account list management is never an easy task. But if you have a written account management policy and quarterly account review that is applied equally and fairly to everyone, it can be one of the most productive management tools you have.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><!--[endif]--><span><span lang=\"EN-US\">To learn how your organization can install the ENS Media account list management system as part of our <\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"\/media\/media-workshops\/SalesFitnessSeries.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Total Sales Fitness program<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">, Call Wayne Ens at 705-484-9993<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As summer ends and we refocus on maximizing our revenues, one of the most productive things you can do is to facilitate a major account re-alignment to keep everyone &ldquo;productive&rdquo; rather than just &ldquo;busy&rdquo;. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Very often I hear account executives talk about being &ldquo;too busy&rdquo; to pursue corporate initiatives or special projects introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":false,"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":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Too Busy? 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