{"id":321,"date":"2010-10-27T06:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2010-11-20T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T20:07:04","slug":"sales-blinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/2010\/10\/27\/sales-blinders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Blinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much sales training is enough? Personally, I believe a Radio sales rep cannot get enough training. With over 30 years in the business, I was always learning something new&#8230;for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Then, after a period of time, I found I was hearing the same training but from different sources. Certainly there were variations on the theme, but overall few new concepts were introduced by the established &#8220;experts&#8221; in Radio sales training.<\/p>\n<p>It was only when I moved to the world outside Radio that I started being exposed to new and different sales ideas. Suddenly, I was hearing some startling sales techniques, and immediately thought of how they could be applied to Radio sales.<\/p>\n<p>One excellent resource for sales ideas is the field of Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) &#8212; otherwise known as network marketing. If there is a more difficult sales field than Radio, it&#8217;s MLM. If you haven&#8217;t yet, you might want to look into the techniques espoused by MLM experts Tom &#8220;Big Al&#8221; Schreiter, Todd Falcone, Art Jonak, Kim Klaver, and the terrifically-named Tim Sales. It&#8217;s not a perfect fit, but Radio &#8212; and your personal sales &#8212; can definitely benefit from MLM&#8217;s innovative approaches.<\/p>\n<p>For too long, Radio sales training has been limited to the same pool of experts. It&#8217;s time to cast off the blinders and look to other fields for ideas on how to sell more Radio in 2011 and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much sales training is enough? Personally, I believe a Radio sales rep cannot get enough training. With over 30 years in the business, I was always learning something new&#8230;for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/2010\/10\/27\/sales-blinders\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","category-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio3k.com\/rblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}