Hardly any station makes money from digital even in a world where advertisers have upped their digital budgets.
For radio, digital – whatever it is for their station – is an excuse to cut their radio rates. Not a revenue growth strategy.
Not this plan.
Here you do one thing really well and make more money than you’ve made in years.
Here’s the ideal digital strategy for radio.
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- What to do about your on-air digital stream.
- How to reimagine the station website making it less expensive but more focused on what will work best.
- The ad model vs. the subscription model – or a safe step in between.
- What’s the realistic minimal annual digital budget you should shoot for – less than this and you might as well not go there.
- If you can do only one thing, make it this digital content and don’t spend precious funds on anything else.
- The three things that if you truly do them well will guarantee financial success.
- What kind of content young eyeballs crave.
- Revolutionary way to cut digital expenses in the right places – this one suggestion will save you thousands of dollars or more.
- Have you thought about doing a digital curated music discovery countdown show? Here it is.
- The new thinking about radio station podcasts.
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