Swag With Some Swagger

Swag With Some Swagger

Radio is very much the follower when it comes to trends. Mark Adams at CBS in Houston is pretty enlightened and observant and is generally 3-6 months ahead of the rest of radio when it comes to stuff. He told me about youtube about a full year before I ever heard...
The Art Of Post-Promotion

The Art Of Post-Promotion

Radio has always been awful at promoting our “stuff” and I somehow have to believe that that factors into the ridiculously low percentage of people who play our contests. If I put an ad in my local paper and said “This Saturday at 1 pm, I’m going to give ONE THOUSAND...
Fishing For Meters

Fishing For Meters

We’re pretty passive when it comes to going after numbers. We try to play the best music, we try to entice some people to join in with contesting and marketing and we spam them on social media. With diaries and the ability to manipulate entries through top of mind and...
Criteria For A Great Promotion

Criteria For A Great Promotion

PPM has done a wonderful job of showing us what drives people away. But it doesn’t show us what brings them in. As a Promo Guy I like PPM because we can do something loud and noisy like a stunt and BING watch the meters pop.   This of course elicits a “Duh”. If...