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Download our free Guide to Making Great Radio Campaigns, Great. Now That You've Bought the Time, What Are You Gonna Do for a Spot?

It's a primer

You don't have to be an expert, although this guide will show you how it's done. By explaining the best way to plan campaigns, choose stations, write and produce the commercials, you then can talk intelligently in radio people's language about how to best design your radio advertising. The Guide helps you to know the kinds of questions to ask, the kind in information you should be giving to your media reps and the people who will produce your ads, so that all the parts works.

It's the ad, stupid

The Guide's emphasis is on the most important, and most overlooked, part of the campaign: what you say, and how you say it. It shows you how to arrive at powerful and compelling selling ideas, and irresistible ways of presenting them on the air. You'll realize that it no longer makes sense to simple give your rep your newspaper or Yellow Pages ad. You'll learn from examples.

The Guide is interactive

Bookmark this page, because you'll find the samples noted in the guide. As we explain what to do and how to do it, you can listen to actual examples by clicking on the appropriate player below. You can also send the Guide (it's a PDF file) to friends whom you think might benefit. It's free and its fun.

The examples are here below

From page 4 Brighton Hospital, "Dear God..."
From page 16 Avis Ford, "The Service Is Built In"
From page 18 Sveden House, "Chickens" and "Idaho Fish"
From page 19 Cueter Chrysler/Jeep, "Lewis and Clark" and "Hannibal"
From page 21 Goodwin and Scieszka "What If?" "You Never Know" "Shining Star" "My Sister"
From page 22 Goodwin and Scieszka, "Joe's Story" (All five spots)
From page 24 First National Bank of Gaylord (MI), "What Kind of People?"
From page 24 Team Recon Construction, "$189 Windows" Newport Farms, "Think About Something Hard" Auto Liquidation Center, "Neighbor"
From page 25 Jim Riehl Auto Group, "Ballads 1 and 2"
Lally Ford, "Henderson 1" "Henderson 2"
From page 31 More samples



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