Sales

What Do You Use as a Base For Commissions?

  A Billboard Insider reader is currently looking to change the way they pay their salespeople. The reader asks “Do outdoor companies typically pay commission to salespeople on advertising rental which billed that month, advertising rental amounts that were collected that month, or on the contract total of all that […]

8 Tools to Help You Sell Out of Home

Where can you find resources to help you sell out of home?    Here are 8 tools to assist you in selling out of home. Visit the Sales Page of Billboard Insider.  Lots of articles on how to sell out of home.  And watch this space for further developments because […]

Lamar’s Tommy Teepell on Selling Out of Home

Lamar has started an out of home podcast called Digital and Dirt.  Some highlights from Ian Dallimore’s interview with Lamar CMO Tommy Teepell On an early OAAA presentation contrasting out of home with radio and newspapers and TV. I come out there and I am getting blown away by stuff […]

Proof of Performance Language in an OOH Ad Contract

A reader of What’s in a Good Out of Home Ad Sales Contract? asked Billboard Insider what proof of performance language should be in an ad contract.  Here’s the proof of performance language in the OAAA sample bulletin contract on the OAAA website. Proof of Performance.  A photograph will be […]

Using a Service Guarantee as a Sales Tool

While you are proposing the ideas and elements of an advertisers’ OOH campaign, particularly to a new prospect, in the back of their mind their biggest concern is, “will I be satisfied?” You can alleviate fears and close the deal is by putting your service and fulfillment plan in a […]

What’s In a Good Out of Home Sales Contract?

What’s in a good out of home sales contract?   There’s a tension between keeping a short term ad agreement to one page and the need to avoid conflict by being specific.  Here’s a one-page static billboard ad contract.  We’ve added our comments in italics explaining the importance of each section. […]

Collecting Delinquent Out of Home Accounts

By Kevin Gephart Part of being a good out of home sales rep is knowing when and how to turn up the heat on an account.  Here’s a sequence of collection letters which does that in a thorough and direct way. AFTER 45 DAYS: Dear (client): Thank you very much […]

11 Rules for Sales Driven Team Meetings

Highly effective sales meetings require critical management self-examination: a.) would you attend your sales meetings if it wasn’t required? b.) consultants determine everything they need to know about a sales team by attending a sales meeting, what does your sales meeting say? These meetings belong to your team, not you. […]

Apple privacy update means no more training wheels for CMO’s

By James Munnerlynn, President and Co-Founder, Blip Billboards Apple released the much-anticipated iOS 15 in September, and with it came a number of user privacy features. Although advertising and marketing professionals and even the platforms – including Facebook and Instagram – are concerned about how this will impact their long-standing digital ad […]