CPR Promotional Check-Up - Mar 19, 2018

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Kiss in Boise got some money from a client that sells and rents costumes for Halloween. Every day on the Kiss site, Michelle Heart from the morning show was featured in a new photo of her modeling one of the client's items. These were NICE studio quality photos.

With that said, you have gowns for prom just waiting to be modeled.

Private Acoustic Shows

One of the stations has the standard performance room show coming up. They're going to image it as how music always sounds better and more unique when done acoustically. To prove that, they're getting a nine year-old who is taking guitar lessons and have him play (butcher) some songs. ID the title, call and win tickets.

Group Contests

It's a safe bet that 90% of my US clients will be doing these in the next, well, forever.

These can actually work but only if you get creative with them. Seriously, with the next round of these, go and listen to other markets and it will scare you straight. THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME. (Sometimes you HAVE to use caps). In Cleveland two years ago there were four stations using "Free Money" and "$1000" in their names for the contests.

102 Jamz in Orlando? GOT actual damn numbers off these things. How? They repackaged them so they stood out and sounded like the station.

You need a character and/or a premise or it will just be another radio contest that 4% of people will play.

What's Local? Jamz used The Berglunds in a lot of their contests. If you lived in Orlando, you knew them. A large pale family from Minnesota who drove an RV slowly. In Cincinnati? Maybe it would be a fish fry. In Minneapolis? Maybe an insane hockey mom as the voice/premise of the promotion.

Vote (Station) It MIGHT be too early to throw this pitch but Wired in Philly, when people listened to them, did a Vote 96.5 campaign. All of the imaging was based on the morning guy running for mayor and buying votes. And thanks to Dom for putting this back on the radar.

Boss From Hell KSFM in Sacramento and Jamz in Orlando have used bosses from Hell as the focus of their contests. Why were they giving away $1000 an hour? Because Craven had created ghost winners for fake contests and embezzled millions from the company, and he needed to unload all the money or get sent off to the joint. I have copy.

Or Just Steal It Like Jamzron, Steal It Before You Can Buy It and Download The Dough, you don't have a budget so you get money for contesting the old fashioned way: you steal it.

Fun With Nigerians Like Hot in Houston when they had Chinese organ thieves do their contest imaging, have an internet scammer offering to give away a $1000 as a gesture of good will as you start the process of helping the royal family free up their seized funds.

WTF Win Thousands Free, as done by Power 96.

What Ails You? San Antonio and Denver used a doctor who wrote prescriptions of cash.

1-800-ASK-(Morning Guy) This is on the table at a station where they would parody radio spots for insurance companies by offering instant, $1000 settlements? Hangnail?? That's a tragedy. A life altering event that YOU DESERVE TO BE COMPENSATED FOR. Here's a $1000.

Cash....MAN!!!!! Radio NEEDS a Marvel-like super hero. Bills and liens are powerless against...CASH MAN. Kind of like KSON and Gas Man in San Diego. Without Gas Man, it would have just been another gas giveaway.

Green History The promos would be vignettes chronicling the history of money. "This Green History Month honors...Timmy Olson. This industrious 11 year-old in 1956, discovered that by using a magnet on a string, he could recover spare change that had fall into street grates."

Brunos Bucks Much like one of the Country stations that got Brad Paisley to cut all of their imaging for when they "siphoned all the gas off his tour bus and gave it away in big red 10 gallon cans". What if you got an artist's ATM card? We've given away their cars, why not their money?

Moneyville Make your contest a Facebook game, played by fanatical people who continually are asking their friends to play along with them.

App Maybe your promotion is an app with amazing benefits.

Free Money Gerbil The Cash Cow has been milked to death. San Antonio had the Free Money Dog. Gerbils are Comedy Gold.

But first, listen around and you will truly understand why taking two minutes and creating a character and some premise around it will actually take it to the next level.