The Newspaper Sales Pro® programs have been designed and delivered by executives who have sold advertising on the street to Mom and Pop retail stores and the largest retailers in the country. We also have extensive experience selling advertising to auto dealers, realtors, builders, human resource departments, agencies, and the nation’s largest media buying agencies. Through the implementation of The Newspaper Sales Pro® systems we help your sales staff to increase top line revenue and margins.

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We will help you to accomplish your sales and staff development goals by introducing The Newspaper Sales Pro® personality based selling method. We have received high marks from even the most difficult sales veterans that believe "they know it all". You can select from a number of courses below and then we’ll customize that program to complement your sales culture. We have helped thousands of media sales professionals to optimize their strategies for selling and managing. By helping you to develop a winning business strategy your sales organization will positively change your relationship with your customers into “customer for life” partnerships.

Personality Based Selling Skills - With the aid of a personality profile that is customized for each participant, they learn about their own particular style and how they are perceived by others. Learning about style will help to identify the style of those you work for, work with, prospects you approach and customers you presently have. Understanding “style” will enhance the students’ personal and professional lives.  This is a very entertaining and informative session.

In addition to the industry’s ultimate personality based programs, The Newspaper Sales Pro® series also delivers a solid development program with an industry skill set focus. These programs go beyond the customer relationship that’s enjoyed through The Newspaper Sales Pro® personality series (see above) and concentrates on advanced selling techniques that will challenge your seasoned staff along with your fresh new hires.

Multi-TASK Sales Process – Organize your selling efforts of the entire sales team.  This program includes step-by-step follow up guidelines for the salespeople and managers.  A process that is designed to build advertiser loyalty by utilizing skill sets for Targeting, Assessing, Selling, and Karing.  Also identifies which accounts have the most potential and where to direct your time.

Strategic Selling - A system of selling that helps the newspaper sales pro to always understand what they are doing, and why they are doing it, with every prospect / client that they are working with. This well-proven system allows the seller to understand who the “real” decision-maker is and who all the others who have influence on the outcome of their sales proposal are. This session is a great forum to review all of the topics in the curriculum, in relation to real accounts. Strategic Selling puts theory into practice.

New Business Development: Qualifying, Prospecting and Cold Calling - Covers all the basics along with some skills not taught before in newspaper training. They learn how to make time in their busy schedules and the benefits of filling the “funnel” that keeps new business flowing.

Business and Media Math – It’s surprising how most newspaper salespeople fail to use, or don’t realize how, math is the key to understanding the business of prospects and clients, and the root of all solution-based presentation.  Covers the math basics that are essential to manage and service a sales territory.  Complete with exercises and follow up.

Questioning and Listening Skills - Going against the stereotypical image of a “Let me tell you what I have for you today,” sales person, into a greater capability of professional communications. Learn how to listen better and ask questions in a manner that, at times, replaces the need for “closing”.  Gathering the appropriate information is critical. As the sales guru G.I. Joe says, “Knowing is half the battle”.

Presentation Skills - Learn how to prepare and write compelling newspaper presentations that describe the benefits to a prospect/client. Using a well-structured and focused written presentation, learn how to improve the actual presentation across the desk, to a small conference room full of “influencers”, or to an auditorium full of potential prospects.

Making Advertising Accountable - A training presentation that easily converts to a presentation the newspaper sales pro can use to inform advertisers. Step-by-step, what advertisers (and advertising sales people) need to know about how, what, where, when and why they should advertise. Learn how to manage the expectations of an advertiser, using a proven mathematical pro forma for advertising success and accountability.  This program helps reduce advertiser churn and provides skill sets that make your salespeople go from “good to great”.

Key Advertising Categories - Being A Marketing Consultant - Learn what marketing really entails and how to create value for newspapers for marketers in the top advertising categories. Detailed reports on industries that provide the insight needed to identify problems, concerns, difficulties and dissatisfactions that prospects/clients have, and how newspapers can help them.

Creating Value with Superior Customer Service - Create a customer service perception that distinguishes you and your newspaper from other media resources.  Create the “WOW” factor in terms of retaining customers.

Selling At The Top - How to Identify true decision-makers at the top of marketing organizations; approach them; gracefully work through the “gatekeepers”; gain an appointment; and establish yourself as a “business partner”, rather than just another ad sales person.

Time Management - Learn to understand the difference between “urgent” and “important” and set priorities in order to maximize the use of one of our most valuable commodities.

Account List Management - Classification of accounts in order to understand what needs to be done to maximize existing accounts, secure new accounts and achieve quota.

Give us a call and let’s discuss your newspaper’s unique needs and how The Newspaper Sales Pro can help you reach your revenue and staff development goals.

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