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They notice because so few salespeople do it. Be different. Saying thank you and demonstrating your
appreciation is always a
winning strategy. People do business with people. People also like to
be appreciated. Remember that, and you will enjoy what you do and your
customers will enjoy doing business with you.
About the AuthorDaniel Sitter, author of both Learning For Profit and Superior Selling Skills Mastery, has garnered extensive experience in sales, training, marketing and personal development spanning a successful 25 year career. Experience his blog at http://www.idea-sellers.com More than one offer - caught off guard In a tight job market multiple offers sounds too good to be true. So, what's the problem? Choose the one that pays the most and move on. Wrong! If you don't take time to evaluate the offers you could find yourself right back in job search within a short time. Pat began his job search two months ago with minimum responses. He had interviews, even second and third interviews, but no offers. Then, all of a sudden, within one week, two companies called and made good offers. He is taken by surprise and caught off guard. How does he go about choosing the right one? He needs to get back to work and start paying off some bills, but he is anxious about the present economy. Which of these companies is going to survive and even thrive? He's done his research and knows the backgrounds of the companies, but there is something missing. Something he needs to do before he makes his decision. Assessing your wants and needs He seeks out the help of a friend who is in the recruiting business to get some advice. Together they lay out a strategy to evaluate the offers. They put together a spreadsheet with the companies names across the top. Down the left side of the page they list Pat's values and needs. Under each company's name they assign a score from one to ten for each 1. Security - Pat has been layed off twice in the past five years, and is looking for a home with a solid company. 2. Balance - One of Pat's top personal values is his family. In his last job he worked over 60 hours a week. He is not eager to get back into that work frenzy again. 3. Job Satisfaction - Pat wants to feel his work means something in the bigger picture; that he is contributing and making a difference. 4. Location - This goes hand-in-hand with balance. If he has to spend three to four hours a day commuting it will mean time spent away from his family. Telecommuting a couple of days a week may be a possibility. 5. Salary and Benefits - Important, but not as important as the other values. He wants to be paid what he is worth, but would be willing to negotiate to get some of his other needs met. After totaling the columns they compare the companies' total scores. The totals reveal that even though Vandaley offers more money, the risks are higher and the time away from his family will not be worth the extra dollars. Pat can see how his priorities will affect his decision and feels more confident having a tool to work with to make the best decision for him and his family. There are always variables that cannot be
predicted when accepting an
offer, but using an analytical approach can make the decision more
objective. Making a bad decision can result in your being miserable and
feeling unfulfilled, but unable to leave because you have only been in
the job for a few months. It is always best to evaluate any offer, but
if there is more than one offer to choose from - it is essential!
About the AuthorCarole Martin is a celebrated author, trainer, and mentor. Carole can give you interviewing tips like no one else can. Try her practice interview and pick up a copy of her FREE 9-part "Interview Success Tips" report by visiting Carole on the web at http://www.interviewcoach.com We in America live and prosper in a dynamic economy. Ours has been and is an economy of relative abundance which has succeeded in bringing about a material well-being never before known in history. It is an economy which emphasizes consumption! In this country consumption does not necessarily mean wearing out goods in a physical sense. We wear out goods psychologically as well. Our hats are discarded because they are psychologically worn out, not because they are physically done in. Usually our clothes are psychologically worn out and discarded while the material is still good. We dispose of our automobiles when they become obsolete rather than when they are physically worn out. How different is this viewpoint from the practices that are current in other nations, England and France, for instance! It is difficult for the European to understand the economic importance of the individual in our country and the American idea of psychological obsolescence. It is also incomprehensible to most that in America we spend nearly eight billion dollars a year for advertising! Why do we do it? What is advertising's role in our economy? What useful purpose does advertising serve? I shall undertake to develop my observations why advertising is essential to our dynamic way of life: First, advertising makes jobs. Second, advertising reduces selling costs. Third, advertising increases company profits. Fourth, advertising increases company security. and finally, our enormous and growing productivity needs advertising to speed up consumption. Advertising makes more jobs for more people. Yes, it is a fact that by creating a growing demand for new products, advertising makes jobs. A few examples. The automobile, of course, is the classic one. To be sure, it eliminated the village smithy, the buggy maker, and the livery stable, but it revolutionized our way of living and it opened opportunities never before possible. When you think what has been accomplished in the era of the automobile, when you think of all the jobs that are made possible by the five million and more automobiles sold in the United States every year, when you think what this has meant in the way of new jobs, ranging all the way from the thousands of motels, restaurants and gas stations, to the enormous development of our national parks, it gives some idea of what the automobile has contributed to our society. Was it the first automobile, or the first hundred, or the first thousand that brought this about? No! It was the mass production of customers for automobiles that has brought the automobile to its present importance in our economy. Mass consumption made mass production possible and advertising is largely responsible for bringing about mass consumption, and the jobs, that the development of the automobile has created. To cite another example in a totally different field, deodorants. Remember the day not so long ago when Lifebuoy was the only deodorant product with any appreciable volume? Today the deodorant business has grown to major proportions, and this has been accomplished without taking away from any other business, including perfumes! This is another example where demand created by mass consumption methods resulted in a new industry with attendant jobs, and one which has been developed without taking away from any existing business. The new instant dessert puddings can be cited as another example. Puddings have not moved as rapidly as they might have in recent years. Along came the instant pudding and look what happened. Sales of all dessert puddings are up one-third as the result of the introduction of something new, the instant pudding, which revitalized an old and somewhat static business by the introduction of a new product idea, extensively promoted through advertising. It all adds up to the fact that mass consumption makes mass production possible and mass production means more jobs. Advertising, because of its ability to accelerate the regular acceptance of new products and to lift the level of acceptability of established products, unleashes a tremendous flood of new demand, and new employment. The critics say advertising causes people to spend needlessly. By a narrow definition this may be true. But our whole economy, which has brought us so much prosperity, emphasizes consumption. And psychological obsolescence is a factor of importance in that consumption. What advertising does, and does well, is to
increase what might be
called the "want ability" of goods. The more want able goods become,
the greater the prospect that money will be exchanged for those goods,
and this in turn spells continued employment and more jobs. About the AuthorFREE information on Advertising -- Get the facts you need. It's FREE! Click here: www.AllAboutAdvertisingSecrets.com Why do you dislike the expression "spending money for advertising?" I think it matters whether you give the expression a positive or a negative twist. Spending almost implies "operation down-the-drain" whereas in handling an appropriation for advertising you are really buying sales. Indeed, any time you are not buying sales with your advertising, you are certainly in trouble! I much prefer the positive approach. The verb "spend" to me is far less attractive and more misleading than the verb buy. What do you consider the most important asset for an advertising agency man? I guess it's the old truism about having knowledge of the client's problems and objectives. No man in advertising can ever know too much about his market, his products, his competition and all other factors that touch on the foregoing. If that sounds corny, make the most of it! Incidentally, the word "corny" instead of being a word of opprobrium is really complimentary. Things that stand the test of time are really classics and the fact that they have been valid for so long is a tribute to the perennial quality of their virtue. Humility is a gracious trait in anyone. An open, inquiring mind is not merely rare, but it can be your most valuable asset. Is advertising becoming an exact science? I doubt if it ever will. In spite of all the systems, reports, and tests, advertising is not yet an exact science. Practically all final decisions are made by human judgment and are just as fallible as human judgment always is. Now for some points of advice to a younger advertising manager or his understudy. Cooperate with your agency, but don't just "yes" them. On the other hand, don't heckle. It's petty and unattractive, and it never produces results when overdone. Remember, most agency men know lots more than you do in their field. They generally have far greater and broader experience than you on die other side of the desk. There's a big reward for the agency guy who builds up dignity and respect for his agency. Mutual trust between agent and client will certainly bring out the best there is on both sides. To good agency men it isn't unfair heckling to ask, in matters where questions arise, for as much proof or evidence as possible. Remember your advertising reflects you, your company, its principals (as well as principles). Don't let any of them down This includes your character, your performance, your conduct at all times. Don't get tense; relax! Laughter is the greatest stimulant in the world. Dare to be different or advanced. I will give you an example from my own experience. In 1925 I was visited by a salesman for NBC who was selling time for Station WEAF. He was trying to sell the use of their station-advertising time for selling our Ipana Toothpaste which was beginning to grow on a national basis. I met resistance on all sides, within our company and within our agency too. Advertising a toothpaste over radio! Nonsense! It's preposterous! It's undignified! People will resent it! I took on three stations however, one in Boston, one in New York and one in Philadelphia. We put on Sam Lanin, an orchestra leader fairly well-known at the time. The orchestra assembled for the purpose was a good one. The selections were never too highbrow, but were tuneful and melodic with a few semi-classical numbers interpolated. Phil Carlin and Graham McNamee were the announcers and they introduced a little M.C. talk before each number and played much the role of a present-day disc jockey. I can say unqualifiedly that the whole idea worked
out splendidly. We
got a new surge of sales that could only be attributed to the new
medium, radio. Within a year, we were on a national network and have
been so almost continuously since, certainly until the advent of
television. About the AuthorFREE information on Advertising -- Get the facts you need. It's FREE! Click here: www.AllAboutAdvertisingSecrets.com What part does merchandising play in today's advertising? It is undoubtedly assuming an increased and even new importance. This is in large measure due to the self-service trend in more and more retail stores. This trend has reached the point where "take-it-off-the-rack-at-Klein's" type of selling dominates the food and variety stores and is growing in drug stores and hardware stores. Self-service increases the importance of merchandising. Why? Because now the purchaser is influenced more by point-of-sale material . . . special deals and offers . . . position of stock in store and displays. It is the job of merchandising to have all these factors in favor of your brand, and to achieve superiority to competitive brands. One surefire piece of strategy is to make sure that the point-of-sale material is a close, direct tie-in with the basic theme and main appeal in the product's consumer advertising. Nowadays, with the growth of shopping centers and the variety of products carried in these supermarkets, the housewife can emerge with a full line of cosmetics from the food store. Certain marketing facts are assuming a new importance. Suburbs are growing in population. As automobiles grow more common, shopping centers are luring the customer away from former sales haunts by providing ease of parking. For example, about twelve years ago, 90 per cent of proprietary articles in the drug field were sold through conventional drug outfits, i.e., retail drug stores, drug wholesalers, etc. Today, 70 per cent of many of these items are now sold through food stores, supermarkets, etc. With this trend, the factor of merchandising in the sense of getting display for your merchandise in these supermarkets is of paramount importance. No longer is there a clerk whose loyalty to your sales appeal could assert itself to the customer in your behalf. No, the pay-off nowadays is on the rack in the supermarket; there is where appeal in behalf of your products must pay off. The case for advertising prior to the store visit is being put to the acid test. How about scientific and technical research? Is this growing in importance? Yes, I believe it is in all areas, not only with the advertiser, but as a tool for the advertising agency as well. Scientific and technical research is the open door looking constantly to the future, years or months ahead of you. Through research, we make constant improvements in old products. Here also we have the discovery of invention of new products. Here's where stability and future growth really stem from. The best commercial bets are those companies and/or organizations which are maintaining and expanding their scientific research in both the area of fundamental research and the area of specific research addressed to specific objectives. How about marketing research? In these dynamic, changing days, research in the marketing area is more important than ever. It can provide much to check the accuracy of your direction, as well as the accuracy of the results. Figures can be misleading, so be sure this matter of marketing research and the interpretation of its findings are entrusted to the minds of professionals and not to the amateurs. Should one be concerned with trying to save
advertising dollars? I
interpret your question to mean the withholding of money from
advertising. This will soon prove a false economy. Obviously, a person
should make every dollar spent in advertising go further, especially he
should make it go further than his competitor's dollar. But never, as
long as you have a formula that is working, withhold any possible
available money that is earmarked for advertising. Remember,
advertising is fundamentally a spending operation, not a withholding
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