{"id":970,"date":"2015-05-26T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-02-05T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:04:31","slug":"canadian-radios-fear-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/canadian-radios-fear-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Radio&#8217;s Fear Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<table id=\"content_LETTER.BLOCK6\" class=\"BlockMargin\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"left\">\n<h4>\u00a0In the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve learned one of the reasons why we don&#8217;t have an industry organization promoting radio to advertisers in Canada.<\/h4>\n<h4>I&#8217;ve long been a proponent of the merits of industry organizations like Canada&#8217;s defunct Radio Marketing Bureau and the Radio Advertising Bureau in the U.S.<\/h4>\n<h4>I remain a firm believer that a rising tide lifts all boats. The more radio advertisers we sell, the more radio stations they&#8217;ll buy when it works. And almost weekly, I speak to broadcasters who agree we need a Canadian Radio Marketing Bureau.<\/h4>\n<h4>But over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve learned why a bureau probably won&#8217;t be resurrected. We are doing a small part to help radio account executives sell more radio by facilitating an event on June 4th that we&#8217;ll actually lose money on, by design.<\/h4>\n<h4>The June 4<sup>th <\/sup>event is sold out, so this is not a sales pitch.<\/h4>\n<h4>But working on this project has taught me why our industry has no advocate organization. Part of our June 4<sup>th<\/sup> agenda includes station executives sharing success stories and strategies to sell more radio advertising, and frankly, to bolster their confidence in radio.<\/h4>\n<h4>Can you believe some have said they don&#8217;t want other stations to know how to sell more radio? \u00a0It&#8217;s true!<\/h4>\n<h4>In spite of all of the new media and digital platforms nipping at radio&#8217;s heels, there are still station executives who consider other radio stations to be their biggest threat and fear helping the industry to grow by sharing their knowledge.<\/h4>\n<h4>I share sales tips in these weekly ENS on Sales every week, at no cost to the recipients, in part because I know if I can help our industry to succeed, I&#8217;ll succeed by osmosis.<\/h4>\n<h4>The good news is, I believe our sold out event proves the folks who don&#8217;t want to help the industry grow are in the minority. \u00a0So maybe, just maybe, the industry can get its&#8217; act together and create a tide to raise the radio ship.<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><a name=\"LETTER.BLOCK7\"><\/a><\/h4>\n<table id=\"content_LETTER.BLOCK7\" class=\"BlockMargin Article2BG\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"15\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"Article2Text\" colspan=\"1\" rowspan=\"1\" align=\"left\">\n<h4>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/fac4cac7201\/f5a065d9-6c44-4f16-a7c3-883ca38ef685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"68\" name=\"ACCOUNT.IMAGE.19\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"left\"><a href=\"mailto:wayne@wensmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Wayne@wensmedia.com<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve learned one of the reasons why we don&#8217;t have an industry organization promoting radio to advertisers in Canada. 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