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WEEK 2
9/20/15- 3 hours (7 PM-10 PM)
Met with Amanda and Rob at their other radio station and show. Same type of show
on KRMA. Met with Amanda an hour prior to the show to discuss the sales packet.
Brainstorming on the pages needed to be included in package such as rates and
summary of radio station. Need to research statistics about internet radio to give
audience a reason to buy advertisements on KRMA.
9/21/15- 3 hours (7PM-10PM)
Meeting with Amanda and Rob today for their weekly Monday night show. Found
program software to create sales package. Starting to design it. Amanda needs me
to stop being symmetrical on first two pages. Will need to design pages about the
profit shares of the advertisement.
9/22/15- 3 hours (12 PM-3 PM)
Met my other boss Jack Kiser. Funny man and knows how to review writing in the
media. Will need to meet up with him more so I can grab more advice about the
sales packet. Gave me some opinions on what to say and the information that
should be included in the title page.
9/23/15- 3 hours (6 AM-9 AM)
Met with morning show host Shannon Steele for the first time. She is very friendly
and has a knack for social media. Describing to me that there should be a directory
created for all the KRMA employees contact information. I was willing to help her
out.
9/24/15- 3 hours (12 PM-3PM)
Visited Jack Kiser during his radio show. I asked him questions about my persuasive
messages about internet radio. Had plenty of mistakes to fix. Amanda met with us
later and was able to discuss further about the sales package. The design doesnt
seem professional. Will need to research more on sales packets online.
9/25/15- 2 hours (12PM-2PM)
Visited Jack during his show. Gave him the updated pages that needed to be fixed.
More small mistakes are made that need to be addressed. Got to know him more as
a person and share similar interests. Knew where Burton is located.
WEEK 3
9/28/15- 3 hours (7 PM-10 PM)
Visited Amanda and Rob at the station during their Monday show. She provided me
with a few examples other radio stations use as a selling tool for advertisements.
Designs were simple but had to figure out how to use a similar approach to the
design. Watched tutorial videos of the design software to get a better knowledge on
some of the tools in the program.
9/29/15- 3 hours (3 PM- 6 PM)
Met with Maggie and Allister for the first time during their radio show. Maggie gives
very good advice on what she wants in the sales package. Allister just goes with
the flow. I will be taking her advice about statistics of the radio station. Gave me
the contact person Bill to grab all the statistics.
9/30/15- 3 hours (3PM-6 PM)
Met with Maggie and Allister again today. I wanted to show her my drafts and the
updated information. Bill gave the statistics about the age range of listeners, how
many people use smart phones rather than laptops to listen to the radio shows. Not
many old individuals like to listen online but have to since its an internet station
only.
10/1/15- 9 hours (10 PM- 6 AM)
Was allowed to work at home today to work on the sales package. Been up since 10
pm. Had to go to Sheetz for coffee. The software programs shutting off on me for
no reason. Making the time go longer than it should. The design of the packet is
much improved. Trying to finish it before Jacks show so I can print it out for him.
10/2/15- 3 hours (12-2 PM)
Working at home today. Got responses from Amanda about the updated package. A
lot of simple mistakes were made on packet. Frustrated that I created so many
grammar errors. Decided that the lines in each section of the rate pages needed to
be erased because it would distract the prospects.
WEEK 4
10/5/15- 3 hours (7 PM-10 PM)
Visited Rob and Amanda today. Deleted the lines as noted by Amanda. The spacing
of the text boxes are uneven. Need to fic every page in order to get equal amount
of spacing. Did not know there was a grid system where I could even the text boxes
evenly. Wish I knew that a long time ago. At least Im learning more about the
software as I go.
WEEK 5
10/12/15- 5 hours (5 PM -10 PM)
Met with Amanda few hours prior to her Monday night show. Wanted to ask her
about a few suggestions about the pie chart page and all the prices of the
advertising packages. She told me to create an eye opening color scheme to grab
the prospects attention.
WEEK 6
10/19/15- 5 hours (5 PM- 10 PM)
Needed to meet with Amanda about the sales packet. We discussed about the
difficulty with the resolution of the packet. Very grainy when its converted to pdf.
Need to create the resolution higher somehow. Met with one of their special guests
at Mikes place for dinner before the show started.
10/21/15- 5 hours (6 AM- 9 AM) (3 PM-5 PM)
Met with Shannon, Jack and Maggie during their shows today. Asking for their last
opinion about eh sales packet before it is completely finished. Gave Shannon the
first draft of the flyer. Loves the design the logo needs to be at higher resolution.
Tweeted today on the KRMA twitter.
WEEK 7
10/26/15- 5 hours (6 AM-9AM) (5 PM-7 PM)
Finished the flyer over the weekend. Wanted to give to Shannon to check if the
Flyer was professional and if there were any other mistakes. Was able to get to
know her a little better personally. Wanted me to get ahold of another intern from
Akron that works here. Wants me to use social media branding for KRMA. Met with
Amanda later that night to discuss the sales packet being finalized. She talked to a
woman named Kathie Sykes, who is a marketing specialist. Will be meeting her for
lunch to discuss the sales packet.
10/28/15- 5 hours (12 PM- 3PM) (8 PM- 10 PM)
Met with Jack and Frank Stams today. Jack found more errors in the sales packet.
Wanted to rewrite the content introducing the commercial advertising rates. Found
out Frank doesnt want to sell because he does not have enough time to do so. Will
need to come up with other options for him to get advertisers for his show.
WEEK 8
11/2/15- 3 hours (6 AM 9 AM)
I met with Shannon and delivered her the final flyer copy. She was thrilled and said
she would make copies for everyone in the station to give out to the public. The
messages came out better than expected.
WEEK 9
11/16/15- 5 hours (12 PM- 2 PM) (3 PM-6 PM)
Met with Jack. Discussed high school football playoffs. Wanted to tell me that there
were t shirts made and gave me one. Met with Maggie and Allister to see what kind
of prospects they are looking for their show.
WEEK 10
11/24/15- 5 hours (6 AM-11 AM)
Met with Shannon in the morning to say goodbye. Asked her if there was anything
else she needed to help her out on anything during the week. Listened to her show
wrote suggestions for her to give to upcoming interns. Wrote suggestions with for
the whole radio station because there are improvements to be addressed. Met Will
for the first time today. New radio host need to guide him through the sales packet.
someone else because they owned better software. I dont know why the
information had to be changed but thats my opinion.