If you are considering advertising sales jobs then you are about to embark on an exciting career. An advertising sales executive sells advertising for a company to new and existing customers. The customers that you will associate within an advertising sales job would be retailers, businesses, wholesalers and manufacturers.
As an advertising sales executive you are responsible for the success of companies, you may even work with high-profile brands.
Advertising Sales Job – Typical Work Activities
- Relationship building with potential companies and businesses that will buy advertising.
- Presenting the advertising and its benefits to customers in a professional manner to seal a deal.
- As an advertising sales executive, you need to listen to customers requirements and adapt your sales technique to suit them.
- Maintain relationships with existing customers.
- Arrange meetings with potential new customers.
- Negotiating prices and deals with businesses and closing the deal.
- Inform and advise customers on any special offers on advertising.
- Make accurate and fast calculations on how much the advertising will cost.
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A key skill that will contribute to your success – Self Talk
Often self-talk happens without you even realising it and can be a subtle running commentary going on in the background of your mind. But what you say in your mind can determine a lot of how you feel about who you are, as a sales person or as a sales manager
Do hobbies help or hinder a sales CV?
Opinions are divided on whether there is any purpose to the ‘interests’ section of a CV. The traditional view is that your hobbies and pastimes show something of you as a person and demonstrate how rounded you are which could help in your sales job application.
I’ve tailored my CV but still can’t get a sales job interview
We all know how important it is for job applicants to tailor their CV or online application to the specific sales job, rather than send generic details about themselves. But increasingly – as more and more people apply for each advertised vacancy – those who apply for sales jobs they are fully qualified for, are finding that even this isn’t working in their favour.
