creating value. sales departments purpose = maximize revenue sales departments mission = get and...
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Creating Value
Sales department’s purpose = Maximize revenue
Sales department’s mission = Get and keep customers– To accomplish these, an organization must
create value for its product/service with a meaningful value proposition
A value proposition that is customer focused and solutions based.
For example:– “We are committed to partnering with our
advertisers (and their agencies) by providing innovative solutions for connecting them to our audience in a way that delivers advertiser-defined results and jointly builds both of our brands.”
Sales department’s objectives1 To get results for advertisers2 To develop new business3 To retain and increase current business4 To increase customer loyalty
- “Under-promise” and “over-deliver”
Sales department’s strategies To sell solutions to advertising and marketing problems
Intense customer focus Not your bottom-line focus
To reinforce the value of advertising and your medium To create value for your product To become the preferred supplier
To establish, maintain, and improve relationships at all levels of the client and agency (keep agency informed)
To provide the best research, information, and advice
How To Get and Keep Customers Agencies = Want CPPs/CPMs/CPCs
– They are experienced specialists who want only price and service.
Know how they want to be serviced.
Direct clients = Want results– They are often inexperienced generalists who
want to know how to buy and use your medium.
Know marketing.
Marketing is more complex.– Takes more time.– Requires more knowledge of the
customer’s business. Look at Ad/Sales Ratios.
– Library - www.charleswarner.us/artindex.html Look at 100 Leading National Advertisers (Ad Age
Web site Data Center)
– Use Discovery Questions Papers by CW - www.charleswarner.us/indexppr.html
Sell the value of advertising vs. promotion.– Advertising tells consumers why to buy a
product – long term branding effect.– Promotion tells consumers when to buy a
product – short-term effect – like a drug high. Increasing advertising by 1% is more
profitable than lowering price by 1% to increase volume.
Creating Value Sell advantages
– Company Advantages– Medium Advantages– Product Advantages– Service Advantages
Sell benefits – Position according to personal needs.
See Human Needs List See Benefits Matrix
Creating Value: Selling Solutions Know your customers’ marketing objectives (or
help define them). See Discovery Questions.– Increase market share– Increase traffic– Increase sales– Increase profit margins– Increase share of mind– Increase stock price– Increase share of voice
Position your offer to fit customers’ objectives.
Creating Value: Selling Solutions Know your customers’ primary marketing
strategy (or help define it).1 Differentiation2 Focus (niche)3 Low-Cost Producer
Position your offer to fit customers’ strategies (marketing and creative).
The Objectives Of Advertising To Inform
– Specific information To Persuade
– Creating the perception of advantages.– Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
To Remind– Continual reminders of benefits
Advertising Objectives Informing
– Create awareness– Communicate information
Persuading– Try the product– Use more of the product
Advertising Objectives Reminding
– Adoption of a product (habit)– Reinforcement– No loyalty
Brands must stay competitive every day, continuously.
Position your offer to fit customers’ advertising objectives.
Create Value
EV = Q + R + S P
To increase the Economic Value to the customer, raise the numerator (Quality, Results [ROI], and Service), don’t lower the denominator (Price).
Value Signals
Value, like reality, is a perception– The price paid is a combination of real and
perceived value. Buyer perception is reinforced by value
signals:– Brand and company reputation– Cumulative advertising and promotion
(differentiation)
Value Signals– Sales promotion material and media kits– Case studies of advertiser success – Advertiser list– Telephone courtesy– Ethical practices– Price (high = quality)– Management visibility, credibility
Strategy = Create Value
– Spend time in client’s business– Client brainstorming– Creative ideas (campaigns, positioning,
brand extensions, production)– Sales presentations – Salespeople
What Buyers Want
Ideas Communication (targeted, helpful) Respect for their time Run as ordered Responsiveness (speed, accuracy)
Ad Age 2007 Sales Survey Report
Advertising Age Reported on an Advertiser Perceptions Survey of 2000 Media Decision Makers:– “In addition to brand knowledge, media buyers
and planners are also looking for good communication skills, professionalism, and understanding of marketer needs and priorities.”
– “…least important characteristics in a sales rep identified by marketers were sales presence and entertainment.”
In other words, what buyers and clients want are salespeople who create value with:– Thorough knowledge of their business and priorities– Thorough knowledge of the salesperson’s industry– Thorough knowledge of the salesperson’s product– Superb, concise communication skills– Outrageously good, fast service
… not always the lowest price.