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November 15, 2011

Radio Promotions Versus Media Buy

For the right brand, radio promotions can work great as a stand alone.  For example, if you have a concise benefit or message, there’s nothing better […]
November 11, 2011

10 Things Radio Can Do THIS Holiday Season That It Couldn’t Do Last Year

Target listeners by zip code.  For single-location retailers, this means using radio to reach consumers living within a five-mile shopping radius of their store.   Download […]
November 8, 2011

Radio’s Halo Effect

Why do so many companies silo their marketing efforts, maintaining separate departments for online and traditional marketing?  Quite often, the online marketing department has no idea […]
November 4, 2011

Radio Gets Social

Let’s face it.  We’re living in a social media world these days.   A quick glance at my Facebook newsfeed will inform me of any breaking news […]
November 1, 2011

Hey Sports Fans…Listen Up!

Have you ever been listening intently to your favorite baseball team when the play-by-play radio announcer breaks out into “advertising man” right in the middle of […]
October 28, 2011

Internet Radio is a Game-Changer for Regional Banks

I recently attended the American Banking Association’s Marketing Conference in Baltimore.  Hundreds of banking CMOs and VPs of Advertising and Marketing gathered to compare notes and […]
October 25, 2011

We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 1992

Hey…have ya heard about this thing called the “Internet?”  I don’t want to scare anyone, but a few friends of mine in high places just turned […]
October 21, 2011

Smart Advertising in Tough Times

During tough economic times, companies tend to cut their advertising budgets.  That kind of thinking might actually hurt companies in the long run. In America, where […]
October 18, 2011

If Pandora and Spotify Had a Baby…

It would be totally rad. I guess that’s why Thomas McAlevey created Radical.FM. This newborn personal online radio service came to town in early June and […]