So, what will the candidate actually be doing :

- Persuading clients to buy advertising space or time

- Finding out who controls the advertising budget in target organisations and contacting them

- Explaining the benefits of your medium, using statistics on readership or viewing figures

- Offering a price and negotiating around it

- Closing the deal and recording the details

- Most importantly, building creative and innovative branding strategies to propose long term brand building solutions around our offerings

- Bring great Agency and Brand contacts from your previous experience and build and manage new ones

OK, You are interested... But is it really the job for you-

For a career in advertising sales, you'll need :

- Communication skills

- A good telephone manner

- Persuasive ability

- Confidence and an outgoing personality

- The ability to build relationships with customers

Diplomacy and patience

The ability to work under pressure and meet targets

Be good with numbers and achieve your targets

In theory you may have a 9 hour workday - but practically you will be spending much more time than this. The job includes local travel, long sit-outs at clients receptions, building on creating great relationships & key champions within the client organization. You will be spending a lot of your time over phones and you will have the flexibility to be your own boss as far as targets are met and quotas are achieved. Having existing relationships in agencies are very valuable - these will help you hit the ground running. As an organization, we also conduct awesome events like Miss North India, Miss India Plus, Lakshya (Educational) etc. This are large events which will help you meet your quotas quickly by bringing large ticket sponsorships.

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