For the past two decades, Media Selling has served students and professionals in the broadcast and cable industries as an indispensable tool for learning, training, and mastering sales techniques for the electronic media. This newly revised and updated edition 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. This updated edition includes new chapters on sales ethics, emotional intelligence (discerning and then matching the emotional needs of a prospect), and interactive media selling. Praised by educators and sales training managers throughout the country, Media Selling: Television, Print, Internet, Radio, 4th Edition advocates a solution selling approach that one reviewer has called the best synthesis of behavioural psychology, common sense, and professional salesmanship Ive ever read.
Book Details:
- Author: Charles Warner
- ISBN: 9781405158398
- Year Published: 2009
- Pages: 616
- BISAC: BUS070060, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Industries / Media & Communications
About the Book and Topic:
For the past two decades, Media Selling has served students and professionals in the broadcast and cable industries as an indispensable tool for learning, training, and mastering sales techniques for the electronic media. This newly revised and updated edition 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. This updated edition includes new chapters on sales ethics, emotional intelligence (discerning and then matching the emotional needs of a prospect), and interactive media selling. Praised by educators and sales training managers throughout the country, Media Selling: Television, Print, Internet, Radio, 4th Edition advocates a solution selling approach that one reviewer has called the best synthesis of behavioural psychology, common sense, and professional salesmanship Ive ever read.
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
About the Author
Charles Warner is a media sales and management consultant/trainer, an active blogger at www.MediaCurmudgeon.com, teaches at The New School in New York, and is the Goldenson Chair Emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He was the Vice President of AOLs Interactive Marketing division until his retirement in 2002.