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...
The “Mall Idea”

The “Mall Idea”

Shopping malls are the great undiscovered venue for audience research. Seriously? When was the last time you went out and talked to people as opposed to hovering over a TPS report? Wild 107.7/now-94.9 was a flailing enterprise as they tried to figure out their niche...
Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo

Most stations acknowledge this with a St. Patricks Day-ish club gig: just changing the name of their Saturday night bar gig and adding in “Corona specials ‘till midnight!”. Yee hah. [divider divider_type=”colored”][/divider] Obviously, if there is a local...