{"id":71,"date":"2011-12-08T02:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2011\/12\/7\/214331.html"},"modified":"2011-12-08T02:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:43:31","slug":"the-smartest-people-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/the-smartest-people-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smartest People in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 20pt\">The Smartest People in the World<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" align=\"center\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Have you ever noticed that you believe the most intelligent people are the people who think just like you? Those who differ, are often dismissed as out of touch or &lsquo;idiots&rsquo;.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, I&rsquo;ve long held Roy Williams, the Wizard of Ads, in high regard because he&rsquo;s been able to articulate exactly what I already believed.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The advent of everything from social media to streaming, and from satellit<span style=\"color: black\">es to t<\/span>he internet, and <span style=\"color: black\">rumors<\/span> about the death of traditional media have confused your clients.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They are looking for <i>intelligent<\/i> media advisors or account executives who can demonstrate how their media is a perfect fit for what they already believe to be true.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The largest part of selling today occurs long before your presentation. It includes asking meaningful open ended questions to uncover what your prospects already believe.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It includes learning who their mentors are, what books they read, and what other influences and influencers have formed their beliefs.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And it involves pre-selling with a minimum of five to seven value statements that perfectly align your solutions with your prospect&rsquo;s beliefs about marketing and advertising.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The old sales tactic of &lsquo;handling objections&rsquo; by changing a prospect&rsquo;s beliefs is dead!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Your advertisers have more choices today than ever before, and they&rsquo;ll choose the solutions that are most closely aligned with what they believe.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <u><span style=\"color: blue\">Click here<\/span><\/u> to inquire how our Becoming A Master Questioner workshop reveals the secrets to uncovering your prospect&rsquo;s beliefs, and how our SoundADvice e-marketing system helps align you with those beliefs to pre-sell your &lsquo;intelligence&rsquo; before you present your solutions. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Smartest People in the World &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Have you ever noticed that you believe the most intelligent people are the people who think just like you? Those who differ, are often dismissed as out of touch or &lsquo;idiots&rsquo;. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For example, I&rsquo;ve long held Roy Williams, the Wizard of Ads, in high regard [&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-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}