Here’s Dick Marshall receiving the Lifetime Communicator Award from the Missouri Corn Growers Association. With Dick is family members including his brother Gary (far right) who is the Executive Director of MCGA. The award was presented at last yesterday’s MCGA Annual Mtg. in Jefferson City, MO. Dick used to work for me at the Brownfield Network. He was a longtime …
How To Get More Publicity Than The “Others”
A friend told me about a comment he heard the other day from an ag group leader here in Missouri who was complaining that the Missouri Corn Growers Association (MCGA) seemed to be quoted and heard in the news more than his group. The reason is pretty simple. MCGA is doing more media outreach, which includes sending Talking News Releases …
Blogging Services & New Rate Card
I know we’ve told you that we offer blogging services but what does that mean and how much does it cost? Let’s first of all say that the cost is determined by what you want us to do so we’ll provide you with a quote after you describe what you want us to do. To address this new service we’ve …
How About the St. Louis Ag Club Mtg Monday
Here’s another meeting of note. The St. Louis Agribusiness Club, along with the Gateway NAMA chapter have a meeting Monday: ++++++Looking to the Future What’s on the horizon? How will it effect you and/or your business? The Gateway NAMA will host a join meeting with the St. Louis Agribusiness Club featuring Carl Casale, Monsanto Executive Vice President Commercial, North American …
Do You Know About the Kansas City Agricultural Business Council?
You may not be aware of this recently formed organization in Kansas City. They’re having a great program coming up you might want to attend though:++++++ The Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City will be hosting nationally-renowned speaker Steve Kopperud for breakfast on Friday, February 25, 2005, 8:00 a.m. The event will be held at the American Royal. Members’ cost …
Jazz Up That E-Newsletter With Audio!
This is one of those “duh” why didn’t I think of that ideas. You can listen to me talk about this here: ZimmComm Podcast. If you’ve got an e-newsletter why not insert hyperlinks to audio that your subscribers can listen to on their computer? Let’s say you’ve hired ZimmComm to produce a Talking News Release. We have to do an …
Missouri Beef Industry Council Takes The Stage
One of our charter client’s the MBIC just sent out this Talking News Release today. This a general consumer release that was sent to radio, tv and publication reporters. There are hyperlinks in the release to audio and image files. The subject is MBIC’s sponsorship of the cooking stage at the St. Louis Women’s Show. Addtionally, we produced a self-contained …
Podcasting In The News
Even CNN is recognizing podcasting. Here’s a great story published today: ‘Podcasting’ takes broadcasting to the Internet. We’ll begin regular podcasts here from ZimmComm very soon so stay tuned!
Latest Talking News Release
We’ll begin posting links to our latest Talking News Releases as they are sent out and as long as our client is okay with it. They might give you some creative ideas for projects we can do for you. You’ll be able to click on the audio file links just like a reporter would and who knows what you’ll learn. …
NAMA – Convention Coming Up In Phoenix
Many of the people who are aware of this blog and I hope are paying attention, are members of NAMA – National Agri-Marketing Association. However, not all of you are. A great place to learn more about it and network with people from across the country is the annual Agri-Marketing Conference and Trade Show. This year it’s in Phoenix, April …