Description
This newly revised and updated edition of Media Selling addresses the significant changes that have taken place in media industries over the last few years, while continuing as a seminal resource for information on media sales.
- A classic in this field, this book has long served students and professionals in broadcasting and media industries as an indispensable tool for learning, training, and mastering sales techniques for electronic media
- Addresses the unprecedented consolidation and sweeping change faced by media industries in recent years, and now features greatly expanded coverage of the Internet, including video streaming and the impact of social network sites
- Covers a broad span of media industries and issues, including: electronic media, newspapers, magazines, outdoor/billboard promotion, sales ethics, emotional intelligence, and interactive media selling
- Fully updated to include much greater focus on national and international media sales issues, as well as expanded coverage of network-level selling, product placement, sales promotion use of market data
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: The Marketing/Media Ecology and Personal Selling:
1. The Marketing/Media Ecology: Charles Warner
2. Selling: Assumptions, Approaches, and Types of Selling: Charles Warner
3. Sales Ethics: Charles Warner
4. The AESKOPP System of Selling: Charles Warner
Part II: Attitude, Emotional Intelligence, and Skills:
5. Attitude and Goal Setting: Charles Warner
6. Emotional Intelligence: Charles Warner
7. Skills: Effective Communication, Effective Listening, and Understanding People: Charles Warner
8. Skills: Influence and Creating Value: Charles Warner
9. Skills: Prospecting and Identifying Problems: Charles Warner
10. Skills: Generating Solutions, Proposals, and Presentations: Charles Warner
11. Skills: Presenting: Charles Warner
12. Skills: Negotiating and Closing: Charles Warner
13. Skills: Servicing: Charles Warner
Part III: Knowledge:
14. Business and Finance: William Redpath
15. Marketing: Tim Larson and Ken Foster
16. Media Research: Roger Baron
17. Advertising: Charles Warner
18. Television: J. William Grimes and Ron Steiner
19. Newspapers: Thomas J. Stultz
20. The Internet: Vincent Thompson and Paul Talbot
21. Radio: Paul Talbot
22. Magazines: Phil Frank
23. Media Comparisons: Advantages and Disadvantages: Charles Warner
Part IV: Opportunities, Preparation, and Persistence:
24. Opportunities, Organization, and Time Management: Charles Warner
Appendix A. Selling Magazines to Agencies: Phil Frank
Appendix B. Writing Copy: Charles Warner
Index



