{"id":484,"date":"2013-08-27T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=484"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:53:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:53:35","slug":"blasting-email-blasts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/blasting-email-blasts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasting Email Blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blasting Email Blasts<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

I occasionally receive station presentations in my inbox, and most of them clearly tell me why stations are not selling more.<\/p>\n

Of course, their first error is sending me the presentations in the first place. The sender has obviously not refined their e-marketing data base, nor custom tailored the cover message to be relevant to me\u2026 I\u2019m not a prospect.<\/p>\n

The senders merely send the same \u201cpackage\u201d to everyone in sight hoping something will stick\u2026 in the seventies we called that the \u201cspray and pray\u201d method of selling. (It didn\u2019t work then either!)<\/p>\n

I received one such email this week from a station selling local play-by-play broadcasts for a nationally-franchised sports team \u2026.the name has been withheld to protect the guilty.<\/p>\n

The cover note suggested three \u201cmarketing packages\u201d were attached, but I could find no such marketing package, only three packages of radio spot schedules at three investment levels; $500 a month, $1,200 a month and $3,000 a month.<\/p>\n

Here is a little secret about pricing!\u00a0 Rounded-off even-number pricing results in your prospects asking you to \u201csharpen your pencil\u201d. No one believes there has been any sophisticated rationale behind rounded-off pricing. If you want your prospects to feel you have sharpened your pencil in your \u201cpackage\u201d always choose odd numbers, like $565 instead of $500.<\/p>\n

Exposing three package levels in an email blast, rather than preparing a custom solution to fit the advertiser\u2019s objectives and budget, results in advertisers gravitating towards the smallest package.<\/p>\n

In a mass blast like that, why would you pre-suppose certain budget levels? An advertiser with a budget of $2,000 a month, in this case, would have reverted to the $1,200 a month package, leaving $800 a month on the table because the next package level was beyond their budget.<\/p>\n

The three \u201cmarketing\u201d packages said nothing about marketing at all, or what was in it for me to sponsor these packages or broadcasts. These packages only revealed X number of spots and sponsor credits for X number of dollars.<\/p>\n

Your prospects do not get excited about being presented the same cookie-cutter proposal that they know you presented to their competitors yesterday.<\/p>\n

Prepare a creative cover note that captures the advertiser\u2019s attention and opens the door for an appointment for you to make a custom proposal to achieve their marketing objectives\u2026.and do not call a spot schedule a \u201cmarketing plan\u201d.<\/p>\n

Next week, we will discuss how to prepare real marketing packages.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If you want to increase your local-direct revenues in 2014, email\u00a0wayne@wensmedia.com<\/a>, or make an appointment to see him in the Consultant\u2019s Corner at the RAB Radio Show in Orlando in September.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Blasting Email Blasts I occasionally receive station presentations in my inbox, and most of them clearly tell me why stations are not selling more. Of course, their first error is sending me the presentations in the first place. The sender has obviously not refined their e-marketing data base, nor custom tailored the cover message to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","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\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}