Media & Entertainment
How to Improve Your Ad Sales Process
Reading time: 4 minutes
Do you know where your fax machine is? Probably stuck back in the ’90s with your CD player and VCR. While some industries still rely on faxes, the media industry is not one of them. They have moved on to automated, digital processes. Or have they? Some media companies have taken steps to modernize but...
Media & Entertainment
How to Excel at Leveraging Data in Media
Reading time: 4 minutes
Let’s say you’re tired of shoveling all that snow, and it’s time to buy a snow blower. You hop online and start visiting a few home improvement store websites, read reviews on a home magazine’s site, and compare prices across a few local big box stores. You finally find your perfect snow blower and are...
Media & Entertainment
Why Ad Sales Strategy is Undergoing a Massive Transformation
Reading time: 4 minutes
Let’s talk about the so-called TikTok Feta Effect. If you’re part of Gen Z or a millennial, you probably already know the phenomenon we’re referring to. For all of you that were born before 1981, let us explain. Versions of a baked pasta recipe made with a big block of feta started to pop up...
Marketing Cloud
Media at Dreamforce: Salesforce CDP, Genie, and Slack for Ad Sales
Reading time: 5 minutes
The Silverline Media team conquered another Dreamforce this year, returning to the event in person after two years of virtual engagement. The days were full of informative sessions and enlightening client conversations, and the nights brought events like the Silverline happy hour before the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and a closing afterparty with Salesforce...
Media & Entertainment
Empower Your Clients with a Media Self-Service Portal
Reading time: 4 minutes
The origins of the term “white-glove service” can be traced back to the mid-20th century and comes from the uniform traditionally worn by English butlers and footmen (think Downton Abbey). White-glove service refers to providing an elevated level of care and attention to detail. It means anticipating a person’s every need before it arises. And...
Marketing Cloud
How to Get Started with Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization
Reading time: 4 minutes
Maybe you’re known among your friends as the one who loves Flamin’ Hot Cheetos or the one who is constantly on TikTok – or perhaps it’s only posting on TikTok about Cheetos! Whatever your friends identify with you, that thing tends to turn up in all their interactions with you, like getting a Cheetos hoodie...
Media & Entertainment
How a Media Organization Used Salesforce to Redefine Ad Sales
Reading time: 4 minutes
Imagine you’re making a sandwich. You walk into the kitchen, grab two slices of bread and then pause; “Where are all of the other ingredients?”. Then you remember, the lettuce is in your living room, the meat is down in the basement and the cheese is over at your neighbour’s house (if there’s even any...
Media & Entertainment
The Top 3 Salesforce Customizations Essential for Media Companies
Reading time: 2 minutes
There are many customization options available on Salesforce implementation. Making it work for your unique business needs is critical to realizing its magic. In this blog, we’re going to narrow down the top three customizations that are essential to media companies. The ever-changing landscape of Media Relationships: Buying media is a collaborative process with multiple...
Media & Entertainment
Media Sellers now have an Automated and Unified way to Manage Goals
Reading time: 2 minutes
Budgets. Targets. Quotas. Goals. Regardless of the nomenclature, you use they all mean the same thing; As a salesperson, how much revenue am I accountable for closing? The Media industry brings additional complexity to this process in the way that these budgets are set, assigned and subsequently managed. While most people will be familiar with...