Broadcast And Cable Selling

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

Capture and Retain Your Media Audience!

Students can succeed in broadcast and cable sales with the proven strategies they learn in this book. This second edition has increased emphasis on practical concerns, an important new section on sales ethics, a description of legal issues and updated information throughout.

"Selling is identifying and satisfying customer needs profitably. Profitable for you, profitable for them." Diane Sutter, President and CEO of Shooting Star Broadcasting , owner of KTAB-TV, Abilene, Texas This is the definition of sales used throughout Ed Shane's comprehensive and timely textbook Selling Electronic Media. This new definition reflects the customer-orientation of today's marketing environment as well as the product-orientation of selling. Today's selling is a win/win proposition, a win for the seller and a win for the customer. Using interviews with industry leaders and reports of their selling experiences, Selling Electronic Media shares insight and practical advice in the basics of selling: · prospecting · qualifying · needs analysis · presentations · answering objections · closing · relationship management Focusing on the merging and converging of electronic media and the need for branding of media at all levels, this highly readable book offers complete coverage of advertising sales for radio, television and cable, plus the new and emerging mass communication technologies, primarily those generated by the Internet. Selling Electronic Media is enhanced with review highlights and discussion points and illustrated throughout with visuals used by media outlets to market commercials and their audience reach. Students pursuing sales and marketing careers in electronic media and professionals wishing to reinforce their understanding of the merging and converging media environment will find what they need in the pages of this book.

For the right person, a career in media sales can be glamorous, rewarding, and lucrative. But without the right guidance, it can also be challenging. Author Paul Weyland has decades of experience working with local direct clients. Now, in Successful Local Broadcast Sales he shares his hard-won wisdom, showing television, radio, and cable salespeople how to get more sales. This invaluable resource gives readers the tools they need to: • get appointments • write great proposals and presentations • sell against other media like newspapers and the Internet • overcome rate resistance • close sales without alienating their clients • create genius creative without being a creative genius • calculate ROI for the client’s advertising dollar • land long-term contracts with local businesses • negotiate more effectively Honest, practical, and accessible, this is the one handbook that shows novice and veteran salespeople how to thrive—not just survive—in the media business.

Promotion and marketing are key to communicating the attractiveness of media goods and services to the public in a free society. Promotion and Marketing for Broadcasting, Cable and the Web, Fourth Edition explores the scope and goals of media promotion from the perspective of radio, network and local television, and cable and public broadcasting. The third edition of this highly-regarded textbook was updated to encompass the immense structural, technological, and economic changes in the industry since the early 1990s. The role of the World Wide Web and of global and international promotion and marketing were introduced to bring the most current theory and practice to students and media professionals. The fourth edition brings the ever-evolving mission of the web into even greater focus with a new chapter on internet commerce and competition, and the widespread use if the internet as an advertising medium. Other topics covered in this book include: goals of promotion; research in promotion; on-air, print, and web message design; radio promotion, TV network and station promotion, and news campaigns; noncommercial radio and TV promotion; cable marketing and promotion; research and budgeting for promotion; and syndicated program marketing. Promotion and Marketing for Broadcasting, Cable and the Web has been endorsed by Promax, the national association for marketing executives in electronic media. Promax has provided a companion video for classroom use, containing examples of the many ways in which the media promote themselves.

From on-air talent contracts and FCC regulations to syndicated program amortization to music licensing fees, electronic media deal with financial principles and jargon that are unique to American business. Understanding Broadcast and Cable Finance helps explain all the financial complexities of a modern electronic media enterprise. Whether you are a news director, sales manager, engineer or any other non-accounting professional that has a stake in the success of your company, this book will bring you up-to-speed on the essentials of financial management for broadcasting and cable.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.