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Notes from a Media Sales Roundtable

01.22.2010 Marketing

In truth, our get-together yesterday afternoon to discuss our frustrations with media ad reps and potential fixes for those frustrations took place at a rectangular table.
Sorry.
I’ve sent the 46 minutes of audio off to the nether-regions of the Internet for transcription. Yes, this is one of many things about the nether-regions of the Internet that rocks.
Some [...]

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7 Habits of Highly Defective Radio People

01.18.2010 Marketing

Wow. Friday was one of our biggest days here at the Blur. I guess lots of people are concerned about radio advertising … or the sales folks who peddle it.

First, of course there are exceptions to every rule, but the exceptions do not disprove the rule. Like I said and will say another million times, [...]

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2010 Vision: The Short-Sighted Radio Advertising Sales Business

01.15.2010 Radio

Next week, two other former radio advertising professionals are joining me to discuss why the radio advertising industry is jacked up. We’re going to tape, transcribe, and share it with you and others.
It stems from frustration. We’re not getting together to spitefully kick an industry when it’s down. Several of my clients successfully use radio, [...]

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A Local Business Wake-Up Call

01.06.2010 Social Media

Do you like the idea of supporting local businesses?
Is that like asking a politician if he’s for more jobs and against crime?
But … and it’s an awfully big but … your locally-owned business has got to meet me MORE than halfway. Sorry if that seems unfair. Heck, it is unfair.
Get over it.
One local restaurant urges [...]

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The Love of a Lifetime Customer

11.19.2009 Marketing

Read a simple-but-startling angle this morning on customer value.
Have you calculated what a customer’s worth over the course of her lifetime?
What if – just one time – you calculated your marketing budget off that amount?
In Embracing Lifetime Value, Seth Godin suggests this simple challenge:
So, a chiropractor might see a new patient being worth $2,500, [...]

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Are You This Flexible?

08.23.2008

This month, the trend-setting state of Utah established flex hours for their employees. This morning, the Washington Post has a good article about its momentum as a movement in business.
Such scheduling arrangements, in which employees work longer hours but
fewer days, share jobs or stagger start or quitting times, have been a
part of the U.S. workplace [...]

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