Better Advertising Campaigns Aren’t Just Essential, They’re Existential! – Part 10 – Q&A

LBS Broadcast Selling Expert, Paul Weyland, takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • You mentioned a formula for schedules: 1. Have one idea, 2. rotate the spots around it…was there an additional point?
  • How do you get started with jingles? 
  • I am working with a newly-opened independent wine market/liquor store with a foreign owner who wants to get new clients to come to the store.   They also sell lotto tickets and have a Fireball February special.  How can we set him apart on our country radio station? 
  • What is your opinion on creating spec copy from client websites? 
  • We have a few bed and breakfast/wedding venues that are advertising on a promotion we are doing.  What’s the best way to advertise them differently so it does not get redundant?   I want each business to benefit equally but have different messaging.

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Better Advertising Campaigns Aren’t Just Essential, They’re Existential! – Part 9 – Q&A

LBS Broadcast Selling Expert, Paul Weyland, takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • We have a meeting this week with a furniture store that sells unique and unusual pieces. Their furniture is hand-selected and rather expensive. Do you have any ideas or questions for the client? 
  • What do you suggest for clients that need to use co-op, but the copy they have from the manufacturer is full of cliches?
  • Has there been a time when you worked on a script for a client and on the day the commercial airs, the client decided to change it completely, and their new idea is bad?  When that happens, do you go with the original script or try to make the new script “passable”?
  • Just confirming that you recommend that the client voice the commercial instead of our announcer, correct?

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Better Advertising Campaigns Aren’t Just Essential, They’re Existential! – Part 8 – Q&A

LBS Broadcast Selling Expert, Paul Weyland, takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • What is your opinion of radio jingles?  Do they telegraph the fact that a spot is coming?  Do they turn listeners off who are not interested in that product?
  • Do you have a preference for using on location footage or stock footage?
  • Where did you get the research that educated shoppers spend more?  Don’t get me wrong, it’s perfectly logical to me, but is there a survey that would back this up?

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Better Advertising Campaigns Aren’t Just Essential, They’re Existential! – Part 7 – Q&A

LBS Broadcast Selling Expert, Paul Weyland, takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • Can you repeat the primary things that a commercial should do for our clients? 
  • I’m not very creative.  How can I improve my own ability to make my customers’ commercials better? 
  • Super Bowl ads are obviously talked about every single year.  Can I get that kind of impact for a local business without a huge budget?

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Better Advertising Campaigns Aren’t Just Essential, They’re Existential! – Part 6 – Q&A

LBS Broadcast Selling Expert, Paul Weyland, takes LIVE broadcaster questions!  In this session:

  • How should I deal with a client who insists on using terrible scripts that she is getting from a different station?  She even admits that the other station got her good results once, but hasn’t done it again since. 
  • What is the best way to come up with a good headline?
  • Please share your thoughts about the role of artificial intelligence in marketing. Our company has access to an artificial intelligence program which can write and voice ads.
  • I have a client who always wants to be in their commercials, but she’s not very articulate.  Can you help me to talk candidly with her so we can get her better results?

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