{"id":73,"date":"2011-12-08T02:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2011\/12\/7\/212928.html"},"modified":"2011-12-08T02:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:29:28","slug":"alternate-choice-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/alternate-choice-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Choice Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><b><u>Alternate Choice Closes<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My wife asked me to pick up some cream at the store the other day. Have you<span style=\"color: black\"> been there lately? There was low-fat cream, table cream, light cream, whipping cream , no-fat cream and a host of other creams from which to choose. By the<\/span> way, isn&rsquo;t &lsquo;no-fat cream&rsquo; just milk? <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was confused which one to choose!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"color: red; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Your clients today are confused by all of the media choices they have; daily deal sites, coupon envelopes, bus backs, radio, TV, social media, email, search engine optimisers, newspapers&hellip;.you know the list, it goes on and on. There are way too many choices.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Busy multi-tasking<span style=\"color: black\"> business owners are <\/span>looking for media consultants like you to help them make their choice easy. But if you play salesperson instead of consultant, you&rsquo;ll lose them!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Salespeople don&rsquo;t care what the advertisers buy, as long as they buy. So they stoop to old &lsquo;alternate choice closes&rsquo;, giving the prospect a number of solutions to choose from. The alternate choice close simply sends the signal you are there to sell, not to help. You don&rsquo;t care which choice they buy, you just want them to buy.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The consultant, on the other hand, transfers confidence to the advertiser by having the conviction to recommend one solid solution based upon their research, knowledge and expertise.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Often they have alternate solutions as a bac<span style=\"color: black\">k-<\/span>up in the event their proposal is rejected, but they never present a laundry list of solutions in the hope that the client chooses one.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a world of too many media choices, advertisers are looking for a trusted advisor to recommend a solution that is specifically designed for their situation, rather than picking a generic solution from a laundry list of choices.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><u><span style=\"color: blue; font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"mailto:wayne@wensmedia.com;%20angela@wensmedia.com?subject=Please%20contact%20me%20to%20discover%20SoundADvice%20so%20our%20stations%20can%20present%20more%20customer%20focused%20solutions\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> if you would like to discover how our SoundADvice radio e-marketing system can help you present more customer-focused solutions.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alternate Choice Closes &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My wife asked me to pick up some cream at the store the other day. Have you been there lately? There was low-fat cream, table cream, light cream, whipping cream , no-fat cream and a host of other creams from which to choose. By the way, isn&rsquo;t &lsquo;no-fat cream&rsquo; [&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-73","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\/73","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=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}