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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
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Canalside's The Thread [mailto:office@thethread.org.uk] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 04 February 2015 14:55<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'David Duffy'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [cma-l] Community
Radio Spot Rate</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear All (David)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>True. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Once again, don’t take this too
literally. I don’t in the memory of man think I would ever do that,
regardless of the amount to be honest. It’s merely the thought of doing
it that kind of calms the water. We’re not a bad bunch here you know, and
we have been shafted on about 25 occasions over the past 10 years
…… this is because we don’t have
(PIA) this backs up what you are saying here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>To prove that this type of rhetoric was
more of ‘letting steam off’ ‘huffing and
puffing’ ‘hot-air’
you will see that the phrase ‘’once bitten twice shy’’
has gone completely out the window LOL
this is either = folly or simply backs up
that WE ARE COMMUNITY and WE ARE GOODWILL, and regardless what is lobbed at us
we are not going to be removed from that task and vision. This is what we are,
and if it means we leave ourselves wide open or slightly open, then so be it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I would much prefer to work on goodwill,
but as I mentioned in my previous e-mail not all folk are like us. What you see
is what you get, some don’t like it, some do … you can’t win
em all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>These guys to be honest for £123 quid
…. It’s their loss and certainly not ours, plus, we can hold our
heads up high as we have done nothing wrong. It is extremely irritating though.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As for being dragged down, you’re
right. And lots of things can detract you and can drag you down. I think with
the experiences of restrictions and all this sort of stuff, at times we have
been dragged that low we could have crawled under a snakes belly with a top Hat
on </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> LOL<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Keep smilin’ </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>
onwards and upwards or
sidewards (round in circles
?) LOL
whichever ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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David Duffy [mailto:david@theradiopeople.co.uk] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 04 February 2015 14:23<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Canalside's The Thread<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [cma-l] Community
Radio Spot Rate</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I would recommend that everyone should operate a 'payment in
advance’ (PIA) policy these days. PIA for comprod and PIA for the
airtime, monthly in advance. If you use voice artists or external
compared I would also recommend that you ask them what their tariff would be if
you paid them in advance. I can’t believe the number of VO artist that
spend hours each week on the phone chasing payment after a session. It would
help them and should help you get a better price from them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>As for taking someone to the Small Claims court - for what it’s
worth, Nick, walk away. Apart from the financial cost of taking someone
to court (which admittedly is low) there is an emotional cost. It drags
you down and takes you away from all the good stuff you are doing. Sure, it
sends out a message that ‘we are not to be messed with’ but that
not always the strong arm image that a community organisation want to portrait.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 3 Feb 2015, at 19:29, Canalside's The Thread <<a
href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk">office@thethread.org.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you read my e-mail re :- pricing, you
will see that our price is actually the same … it is the duration or payments
that change, except the actual amount is the same ie:-
£102.80p so this figure can equate to £5000 grand
or £500 quid or £50 quid … well maybe not, but you catch my drift
? then of course you add on the amount of spots per rotation
and then the customer is actually choosing their own rate according to what
they can afford.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The only danger that we do face is if the
ones advertising are doing exactly that <>
ADVERTISING if there isn’t a shred of
goodwill and the fact that they are supporting a community project then there
can be issues ….. if they only come on for £200 quid and don’t get
any leads (which has happened the odd time) then even though the figure is low,
it is still in their opinion a wasted £200 quid.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Having said that, we have some on with us
who have been with us for 11 years on £250 quid ….. they support us for
the right reasons<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We’ve gotten one bunch off Doughnuts
at the moment who came on for £123.36p
we’ve done the advert, we’ve had it playing out for 3 – 4 months,
advert on the website, newsletter, they’ve even been in the studio for
free on two occasions before the advert and they haven’t paid. The guy is
now playing aloof, he’s rude, a coward and completely out of order. I
have even said to him, if he doesn’t want to do it anymore just say so,
give us £50 quid and call it quits end
result nothing<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’s not the £123 quid, it’s
now a moral issue and we have over the years had the odd one or two of these
types ………. I take a dim view to this type of thing as I come
from the era of ‘’pay, and be paid’’
if everyone behaved like this, the Economy would grind to a halt.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am very busy at the moment, in fact too
busy, and there are not enough hours in a day, but I seriously am thinking of
taking this buffoon to the local small claims court and banging on all the
costs and expenses.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What stops me and what actually makes me
want to put him on a very small adhoc now and then rotation is the business he
runs is for kids .. I’m not going into detail, but it is good in the
community and I don’t want it to fail. The fact he hasn’t
communicated is the issue …… he could be making a fortune, he might
be struggling … if he is, then I’ll run it for nowt because some of
the project you could say is a community project, it’s a tricky one. For
goodness sake though £123 quid and free access to what’s ons and studio
interview time and adverts ……….er ? NO BRAINER !<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Moral of the story …… go back
to point number one ………………we are worth what
we can get and we are worth or valued ??? at what they
value us at and not what we actually think our value is.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Whilst I was typing out this e-mail First
Steps Nursery came on the Radio …. They have been with us for 11 years,
never faltered on payments and a breath of fresh air. We operate on goodwill,
not signed documents and we return goodwill for goodwill. I live my life like
that and I try to encourage our team here to the same.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>With regards to Mr Doughnut who owes £123
quid ……. I suppose the best bet really is to feel sorry for him,
it’s to be pitied really when you can’t see goodwill even when it
is staring you in the face …….turn the other cheek says one side of
me.<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Has anybody else got some
good IOU stories ? cheques’ in
the post and all that jazz ? or simply been taken to the cleaners ?<u1:p class=""></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This is from my own
experience:<br>
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- If you tell a company that your adverts are worth £300 a year, they'll
believe you. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>
- If you tell a company that your adverts are worth £3,000 a year, they'll
believe you. They might not be willing to pay for it, but they'll believe it's
worth it.<br>
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Although we all know that the lower the price, the higher the demand, it's
definitely NOT 10 times easier to sell for £300 than £3,000. I can name
two former local community stations - TGR and Link FM - who got their pricing
wrong. One advertised packages from £100 a year on their website.
Re the other, we were approached by a local company who were offended when I
asked them for £2,000 a year to sponsor a show as they were sponsoring the
equivalent show on the other station for £4 a week!<br>
<br>
I rarely do deals for less than £1,000 unless it's for a short term advertiser
who can give me both the finished advert and the payment up front. It's
just too much hassle. Ignoring these occasional ones, my average sale is
now £4,000. Other radio and newspapers locally have been putting prices
up too so we're lucky not to suffer from cut-throat competition. Oh, and
get a salesman who DOESN'T want to be a superstar DJ and does his job, it WILL
pay for itself and more!<br>
<br>
I've also found that the people who are likely to cause problems with payments
in the middle or end of a campaign are the ones who pay hundreds, not
thousands. I don't know why - maybe if you pay a higher level you've made
a business decision and it's easier to justify sticking to it, whereas if you
pay a small figure you're expecting a much quicker return. Definitely
something to do with small businessman psychology.<br>
<br>
A lot of local businesses believe that if you charge low prices, you're telling
them that even YOU don't think it's worth much, and whether that's fair or not I
tend to agree with them.<br>
<br>
Apologies to those stations who do charge low prices because I know there's a
variety of other reasons why you could do that and that it would work for you -
it wouldn't work for us though.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Paul<br>
<a href="http://www.phoenixfm.com/">www.phoenixfm.com</a><br>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>David,<br>
<br>
Interesting to read "the 6 pricing strategies".<br>
<br>
We've had 17yrs as a Community weekday evenings only opt-out from the local ILR
station and the agreement with them only allowed limited sponsorship, no
advertising.<br>
<br>
Once we were running on our own licence (& transmitter etc) in 2014 the
situation changed. Several people in the industry advised us to take advantage
of all the "go-live" publicity and for a while to charge "Rate
card + a premium" - exactly the opposite of the "Penetration
Pricing" strategy!<br>
<br>
As regards some people saying that "that's too much" - you will
always get that. One that we had - I bought all the various local papers in our
broadcast area one week.<br>
<br>
I phoned several firms that week where I knew people well enough for off the
record enquiries to see if it had been a busy or quiet week for the papers - ie
had adverts been booked a long time ahead or were they last minute ones, were
people paying full rate to the papers or was there much discounting to sell
white space (appeared not so that week - not 100% accurate, I know, but.......)<br>
<br>
I know that white space affects papers rather than radio but we wanted to
guesstimate how much the firm was spending a week.<br>
<br>
We were then able to decide that if the firm were paying that much, even a
half-decent campaign with us would still cost far less than they were paying
the papers, & that we shouldn't/wouldn't devalue our product. They had
admitted that being on KCR had increased their footfall and were, frankly,
having a laugh......<br>
<br>
There are times to turn down business!<br>
<br>
In contrast, we have had several non-commercial organisations happy to take a
block of adverts at what they felt was a very reasonable rate compared to the
ILR / newspaper charges - "No-brainer" was one comment..... (That's
not charities etc BTW - we have free Community Corner / Community Announcements
slots for them)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Eddie<br>
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style='font-size:11.5pt;color:#333333'>I've done a lot of work on product and
service pricing over the years and it often bears no relationship either to
worth or value. We have </span></font><font size=3><span style='font-size:
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simple table</a><font color="#333333"><span style='color:#333333'> which
you might find useful. It shows </span></font></span></font><a
href="http://www.theradiopeople.co.uk/pricing" target="_blank">the 6 pricing
strategies</a><font size=3 color="#333333"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;
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