CPR Promotional Check-Up - Jan 9, 2017

"Artist Of The Year"

A very very wise OM has a trip to the Grammy's and didn't want to do some standard "qualify to win" thing. So he's going to award the trip to the "artist of the year", ie: the person who does the best and most visible design of the station logo in the community.

If You Have Jock Bios...

...you should occasionally spot check them to see what the airstaff has posted. From a competitions' PD/Morning Guy, when asked "What do you do when you're not at the station", he wrote, "Teaching my baby boy to hit the post."

Phone Juice

J and Shelly at B-96 hit gold with a topic about a woman who was complaining that her boyfriend was not attractive enough for her.

You REALLY want a hot button? Kids. I worked with a woman whose long time boyfriend had kids from his first marriage and she wouldn't marry him because his kids were ugly. (Her term) That? That would blow out the phone system.

Spring Fake

Possible Clients?

• Tanning
• Ski/Snow Shop
• Any local attractions that people would go to instead of spending money on a big trip

Concept

One of the CHR's has a tanning client who needed something for Spring Break. My suggestion? Spring Fake. Tanning packages that include a remote where you can get your photo taken, bronzed, smiling, mugging for the camera, sunglasses-holding-a-Senor Frogs-cup.

Promo geek then photo shops the pics into scenes from beaches and bars and emails them to the listener. She/he can then show all their friends their great surprise Spring Break trip mom and dad sprung for at the last moment.

The Family Winter Vacation version is pretty much the same thing. For people who are watching their money this 1st Q but want to "keep up with the Jones'" so-to-speak.

You tan. You go to a ski shop. Whatever. But you also get some digital photos of you taken and within 48 hours, there you are, on skis, beaming at the camera up at Whistler.

There is probably a way to tie in a wireless service. Maybe there's a forwarded message that goes on their voicemail. As if they got Verizon in Mazatlan. Somebody in Spanish talking about how "The party can not be reached. Their cell is on roaming. Please leave a message."

Urban Legends & Old Wives Tales

And don't forget: stuff that your parents would scare you with. Like, putting on clean underwear because you might be in an accident and they'd be embarrassed when the doctor came up to them in the ER and said "Are you the parents of the kid in dirty underwear?" True story: my last promotion as Marketing Director at Wild in SFO, I was taking winners to a concert and the brakes on the limo failed and we went under a semi in heavy traffic in the East Bay. I broke nine ribs. In the ER, heavily narc'ed up, the one thought that kept flashing through my head was, "Did I put on clean underwear this morning." Now that I've planted that mental thought...

There are so many Urban Legends and Old Wives Tales that it's one of those universals that all your listeners have come in contact with. Wild in Tampa did an Urban Legend Debunking Morning Show a couple of years ago and had people cross their eyes for ten minutes, eat a box of Pop Rocks and then drink a Pepsi and other things that people had been warned not to do. Funny bit. Steal it. But, as in all things post-Sacramento, with many of these, please please please talk to a doctor before hand. Just clear it. Make sure you don't actually have a listeners head explode from Pop Rocks and Pepsi.