Daniel M. Ambrose


About Daniel M. Ambrose

Ambrose, launched ambro.com, corp. in 1994 to provide sophisticated strategy consulting and advertising sales training to advertising-driven media clients in the U.S. and abroad. Starting with the founding of About.com and iVillage in 1995, ambro.com has worked with hundreds of clients to help accelerate advertising revenue growth.

Are You Using Media Research All Wrong?

News recently broke that Kantar, the media research company, is being shopped around with a billion-dollar-plus price tag. Media research is valuable. But too many media companies don’t get their money’s worth out of the their subscriptions to MRI or Neilsen or ComScore or name-the-syndicated-research for your medium. Most ad-sales […]


A True Story: Overcoming Objections for a Big Ad-Sales Win

Big sales come from hurdling big objections. “You are too small,” is one of those common, big, objections in the world of advertising sales. Big advertisers with big budgets want to make a few big purchases to accomplish their objectives. They often feel like buying your smaller, but very nice, […]


Sales Skills = Leadership Skills

Too often salespersonship is equated with manipulative tactics or worse. Real sales skills are leadership skills that are simple, available to all, and that work especially well in media sales. Yes, sales is leading customers like discussed in Selling Power on leadership mindset. But it’s much more than that. After all, leadership […]


These Five Myths Miss a Key Point

Many have written about the “Original Sin” of traditional media making the mistake of giving away their content online, sealing their fate. Too few understand that it was the entire Internet competing for time that drew audiences away from online newspapers. While internet media re-invested their profits in making themselves […]


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Why Ad-Sales is Different (And You Need a Specialized Ad-Sales Trainer)

Sales is sales, right? Not so fast my friend. Advertising sales is different from most other business-2-business sales for several reasons. Let’s review. Advertising media and sponsorship purchase decisions are public decisions. The public sees what a company decides and will have a point of view; approval or displeasure – […]