{"id":309,"date":"2007-12-05T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2007\/12\/5\/172102.html"},"modified":"2007-12-05T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T22:21:02","slug":"when-advertising-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/when-advertising-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"When Advertising Doesn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: black\"><font face=\"Arial\">I&rsquo;m going to share a powerful secret with you which I discovered by observing&nbsp; successful businesses across North America.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><font face=\"Arial\"><b><i>If your customers don&rsquo;t like their customers, your advertising campaign won&rsquo;t work!<br \/>\n<\/i><\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In today&rsquo;s increasingly fragmented media world, your customers can NOT get a profitable return on their advertising investment if they do not generate happy customers, repeat business, word of mouth promotion and referrals from every customer your campaign generates.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After studying literally thousands of proprietorships over the span of my career I came to an amazing realization&hellip;&hellip;if the proprietor does not like his or her customers, their customers probably won&rsquo;t like them!<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If your customers don&rsquo;t genuinely like their customers and have a passion for serving them they won&rsquo;t go the extra mile that it takes to make your advertising pay off.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ray Crock, of McDonalds Restaurants fame, once said, &ldquo;You can tell how a business feels about their customers by the way they take care of their customer restrooms&rdquo;. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s true, everything from a businesses return policies to their staff incentive programs, and from store cleanliness to management access, speaks volumes about the way they feel about their customers. And if they don&rsquo;t like their customers, they won&rsquo;t have the patience nor the passion to super-serve them.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, if staff incentives revolve around one-time sales and give no recognition or reward for high customer-satisfaction levels, then the culture the business establishes will be one of high-pressure sales. And as I&rsquo;ve pointed out before, customer satisfaction levels are decreased directly proportionate to sales pressure levels.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So what does all of this have to do with selling media?<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The average media rep needs less than twenty-five consistent fifty-two week clients to make a very good living. You don&rsquo;t need the businesses that don&rsquo;t care about keeping your audience happy!<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Not only is it more enjoyable and rewarding helping customers who sincerely care about their customers, your campaign will give these businesses a higher return on investment. When the customers you bring to the counter return often and help you spread the word about the business, your campaign will work.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;When you hear a prospect who conveys the attitude that his or her customers are not valued assets to the business, walk away. When you hear expressions like &ldquo;buyers are liars&rdquo; or &ldquo;most of my customers are &nbsp;_ _ _ holes&rdquo;&hellip;. walk away! <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your customer&rsquo;s attitude towards your audience, their customers, should become one of your pre-qualifying criteria.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m going to share a powerful secret with you which I discovered by observing&nbsp; successful businesses across North America. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If your customers don&rsquo;t like their customers, your advertising campaign won&rsquo;t work! &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In today&rsquo;s increasingly fragmented media world, your customers can NOT get a profitable return on their advertising investment if they do not [&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-309","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\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}