{"id":333,"date":"2007-12-03T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2007\/12\/3\/170306.html"},"modified":"2007-12-03T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T22:03:06","slug":"good-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/good-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><font face=\"Arial\">Good News <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your sales people get beat up on the street all day long with &ldquo;Business is bad&rdquo; or &rdquo;Your rates are too high&rdquo; or &ldquo;Radio doesn&rsquo;t work&rdquo;.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes they are even beat up back at the station with &ldquo;Your accounts receivable are in terrible shape&rdquo; or &ldquo;That rate is not high enough&rdquo; or &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t do that for your client&rdquo;.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your sales meetings should be a haven of positive energy and optimism.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Positive energy is contagious and can be fostered at your sales meetings by requiring every sales person to share a piece of &ldquo;good news&rdquo; at every sales meeting.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qualifying good news could include:<br \/>\n1- Recounting a big or new sale they&rsquo;ve made.<br \/>\n2- Sharing a success a client had using your stations<br \/>\n3- Discussing a great new creative concept.<br \/>\n4- If none of the above occurred this week for a given account executive, they can share a news story or information they have uncovered about growth in your market, or an upbeat story about the local economy that every one can use.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bringing &ldquo;Good News&rdquo; to the sales meeting table should not be optional, it should be a requirement. 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