The Center for Sales Strategy Blog

This Sunday there’s a football game, and many of us be talking more about our favorite commercial than our favorite team. Advertisers will be using traditional media’s biggest stage to springboard to digital media and fans will be holding a beverage in one hand and texting and tweeting with the other.

At The Center for Sales Strategy, we have a number of distance runners, cyclists and triathletes on staff--more than what you might expect from a company our size. At first, I thought it seemed unusual that we’d have such a high concentration of endurance athletes. As I've thought more about this, I've concluded it makes perfect sense. We turn talent into performance for our clients every day; it's logical we'd use the same tools to achieve success in our personal lives.

The Center for Sales Strategy launched a new service called the Digital Revenue Generator that takes a different approach to helping companies build their digital revenue--a sequential approach combining training, coaching, and on-going support to help traditional media salespeople become more comfortable and effective selling digital. Matt Sunshine will run the Digital Division for The Center for Sales Strategy. As former Director of Digital for Susquehanna, and now Executive Vice President at The Center for Sales Strategy, he sees a large gulf between those who speak digital and those who speak analog.

MTV, the station that gave us the VJ in the 80s, recently named their first TJ, or Twitter Jockey. Prior to August, Gabi Gregg was not famous; she was discovered through a contest MTV hosted to select the first TJ. And, in recent weeks, she has gained quite an online following (23,966 followers on Twitter).