Broadcast Selling Is Always Evolving – Are You? – Part 8 – Q&A

LBS Digital Expert, Greg Gibbons, answers LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • In your opinion, what’s better, digital selling specialists or integrated sales?
  • We are just getting started at selling digital for a new station, what is the best thing we can do to get going?
  • What changes do you expect in digital targeting with the new privacy settings coming from Apple?
  • In your opinion, should each radio group have one key person that only works on proposals and metrics and would be considered a specialist who can go on calls with the sales team to explain the numbers?

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Broadcast Selling Is Always Evolving – Are You? – Part 7 – Q&A

LBS Digital Expert, Greg Gibbons, answers LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • What do you feel are currently the best industries to pursue as digital prospects?
  • If we have not offered digital and don’t have a digital department, where do we start?  Do we partner with a digital company to combine with our traditional radio?
  • I have a couple advertisers that don’t want me to provide them digital as they don’t want to spend all their budget with one company.  How can I address this objection?
  • What is the most significant change a radio rep needs to make in prospecting and maintaining business since the Pandemic?

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Broadcast Selling Is Always Evolving – Are You? – Part 6 – Q&A

LBS Digital Expert, Greg Gibbons, answers LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • Are there circumstances where digital advertising is more effective than radio or TV when it comes to getting the message out to the entire market?
  • There are two ex-radio sales reps in my market who have started a digital agency.  Is this common and how do I combat their presentations that recommend less radio and more digital?
  • It seems like some digital solutions take more time to sell than radio does.  Is this typical and something I just have to accept?
  • I’m a manager of a radio station that is just getting ready to start selling digital through a partnership with a digital agency.  How do I maintain proper focus on traditional sales with a much better profit margin and getting the team motivated to sell digital which is necessary but has much smaller profit margins?

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Broadcast Selling Is Always Evolving – Are You? – Part 5 – Q&A

LBS Digital Expert, Greg Gibbons, answers LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • In general, what digital services are stations finding success with?
  • Is there a best practice for what percent of my monthly sales revenue should come from traditional and what percent should come from digital?
  • If business owners are shrinking their marketing rep circle, and we’re not already in that circle, is there hope for us? What do I say when they tell me they already have their marketing people and plan in place?
  • How do I get over the hurdle where my clients feel like they need to speak to a digital pro when they buy digital and they think of me as only a broadcaster?

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Digital Marketing: Assisting Your Clients as They Reopen in Today’s Environment! – Part 9 – Q&A

Digital Expert Greg Gibbons takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • Can you talk briefly about click bait on click-through logos, how you get people to not just see the sponsorship logo but click to their website?
  • Is it best to show all options with both on-air & digital together?  How about also showing an on-air only option for comparison?
  • What are some of the social channels we should be sure that we are a part of and that we should then consider offering to our clients?
  • Do you recommend itemizing invoices by breaking out the different products and costs for each or should that still be presented as one lump sum?

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Digital Marketing: Assisting Your Clients as They Reopen in Today’s Environment! – Part 8 – Q&A

Digital Expert Greg Gibbons takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • How would you present your marketing plan when you have separate teams for broadcast and digital?
  • How do you encourage your staff to get excited about digital?
  • We are a small company and have no corporate or digital dept. Would you recommend working with a white label company to fulfill digital needs?

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Digital Marketing: Assisting Your Clients as They Reopen in Today’s Environment! – Part 7 – Q&A

Digital Expert Greg Gibbons takes LIVE broadcaster questions! In this session:

  • Can you elaborate on FaceBook ads a bit? What would you charge to create a sponsored post for a client? How often would you run a sponsored post and how long should a sponsored post run?
  • How can we know if our digital pricing is fair?
  • What is your opinion regarding stand-alone digital sales reps?

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Digital Marketing: Assisting Your Clients as They Reopen in Today’s Environment! – Part 6 – Q&A

Digital Expert Greg Gibbons takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • What would you do if your GSM says “sell out our radio inventory first, we will worry about digital later”?
  • Our digital manager is smart, but she’s not very good on sales calls. How can I benefit from her knowledge, but keep her away from my clients? I’ve actually lost two accounts because of her interactions with my clients.
  • If I have a client or if I’m prospecting and the business is already doing digital (ie SEO / SEM) how would you suggest trying to have them switch the vendor?

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