Digital Chameleon Blog

Digital media sales proposals

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Because of the speed at which media planning and buying happens these days (especially online/digital), we’ve showed you the ultimate planning/buying process and the main steps that should be followed assuming there is enough time. Of course this compressed timeframe adds pressure to the sales effort and the traditional notions of pre-sales activity (doing some vertical industry research on the advertiser and their competitors, etc) falls by the wayside and we find media companies providing the trade with things such as online media centres where ratecards are often found; enewsletters that highlight the latest opportunities and maybe some case studies; and maybe even some research on who the audience is, how they use the site, how often they visit, etc. More

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Who buys digital media?

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Since the digital media industry is still evolving, there are a variety of models on the “buy” side of the equation.  More

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How digital media is different

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

If you’re making the transition from buying or selling other media channels, you may be in for a surprise! In some ways online/digital media buying and selling involves a similar process to other media channels, but in other ways it’s far more complex and time consuming. More

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Challenges of buying and selling digital media

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Buyers and sellers of advertising  face challenges as digital media evolve. More

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Accountable AND sustainable

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

We hear a lot about "the flight to accountability," and the benefits of the online medium for advertisers. Many of our clients are selling cross-platform solutions – i.e. a newspaper, magazine, TV, radio brand as an integrated solution. How often we are asked the question, “How do we compete with the performance networks?” The answer is you don’t.  More

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Do you know who you're selling?

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Do you know your audience?
If you’re selling a cross-platform brand, can you articulate the differences between your online/offline audiences? Are they different people? How many of them consume all of your products v. simply via one channel? How do they use the different channels? Do the demographics skew differently for your online v. print Entertainment sections? Have you gone beyond demographics online to understand the psychographics (or at least the interests and behaviours) of your audience?
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Friction between online advertising buyers and sellers

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Something troubling that we're seeing in our training sessions is increased annoyance on the part of online media sales reps with agencies – almost to the point of animosity. It seems to come from frustration, and not understanding how to work with agencies due to cumbersome structural issues on both sides. And I know the agency side has its issues with reps as well. More

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Should we be looking beyond media for good online salespeople?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

t’s a fairly easy step forward for a media professional (whether seller or buyer) to add digital to their skillset More

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