Creating and maintaining a consistent flow of work is key to success in any business. In creative services workflow is complicated by the impact of cultural issues on the creative team. This final program in our series focuses on the process of selling to both existing customers and prospects. In it we examine in detail how to plan for sales, and how the roles of media relations and public speaking can help you get the word out in the most powerful and inexpensive way possible.
TOPICS
Getting prospects to call you
Differentiation
Targeting
Mailings
Case Studies
Media relations
Public speaking
The Branding revolution
Competitors or clients: the brand players
Creative briefs
Strategy and design
When the phone rings
Setting the stage
Making the presentation
Listening, learning their needs from their perspective
Studying the prospect’s business issues
The proposal
Pricing
Case study
How a craft based point of difference became an (almost) unbeatable sales proposition