{"id":988,"date":"2015-07-21T11:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T11:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/ens-on-sales\/?p=988"},"modified":"2016-02-05T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T20:05:38","slug":"three-ways-your-prospects-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/three-ways-your-prospects-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Ways Your Prospect&#8217;s Say &#8216;No&#8217;"},"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>The three most polite ways to stop a rookie radio rep in their tracks are to say;<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h4>My budget is allocated for this year, come back next year.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>I&#8217;m too busy and can&#8217;t handle any more business.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4>Send me your media kit.<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Number one, the budget excuse, is never true. If you&#8217;re talking to the person who established the budget, they can change that budget whenever they want to.<\/h4>\n<h4>What they are really saying is &#8216;I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ll get an adequate return on my investment with you.&#8217; If they did believe, they&#8217;d either revise their budget, or pay for your schedule with the additional business you attract.<\/h4>\n<h4>Number two is either not true, or you now know a category where a competitor can be sold a campaign to capture the business Mr. Busy &#8220;can&#8217;t handle.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>Number three, the media kit, is just a polite way of saying &#8216;get lost.&#8217; No one has ever bought from a media kit. Media kits all say the same thing&#8230;.&#8221;we&#8217;re number one at something.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>When a prospect asks for a media kit, the seasoned professional will respond by opening the door to more productive questioning.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0The professional will tell their prospect that they don&#8217;t want to bombard them with irrelevant information, and dig into what specifically they would like to see in &#8216;the media kit&#8217;. The questions and answers that follow can result in delivering a customer-focused presentation instead of a generic media kit.<\/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>The three most polite ways to stop a rookie radio rep in their tracks are to say; My budget is allocated for this year, come back next year. I&#8217;m too busy and can&#8217;t handle any more business. Send me your media kit. Number one, the budget excuse, is never true. If you&#8217;re talking to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,44,41,43,40],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buyers","tag-customer-focused","tag-excuses","tag-media-kit","tag-prospects-say-no"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}