Oh,

This prompted a recent, personal, real-life experience that might be worth JPFer's time to hear/read, even though it has nothing to do with music or movies or books....But does involve radio and Producers and how the world works:

My Spousal Unit is a therapist with 15 years of her own private practice...& yeap, that comes in handy for me:-)

She is one hella-therapist!!! Was voted, last year, as one of the top three therapists in the Tri-City-Triangle here in a magazine's Annual Poll!!!

YAY her, eh?

In the last six months, she's received three phone calls and she spent a lot of time talking to the callers and then doin' some Googling...

The third call, was from a local magazine that just wanted to interview her for an article...THAT was KEWL!!!

But the first two phone calls were from radio station "PRODUCERS"...One an AM station, and the other an Internet station...

BOTH wanted to offer her her own weekly show.

Gosh, ya think she wasn't excited? To have a radio show, where she could take calls and hopefully help people with real-life issues???

What she learned:

First came the internet station. She spent hours on the phone with the producer, I think it was three calls all told.

It was during the 3rd phone conversation that she learned that she would have to spend around $3,000 to help "produce" her weekly broadcast for 6 months.

It wasn't a (total) scam, by any means...Although it would have been nice if they'd mentioned the $3,000 during the first call!!!

It was a real internet station with a definite "following", and they told her to research them, so she & I did, and realized:

Most of the folks, mostly therapists, who had their shows produced, had something to sell...Often, a book that they had self-published. In other words, they had already published a book, and thought that the additional $3,000 would help them reach an audience that might want to buy the book.

The second phone call was from a "local" AM station that promised to help her reach her "local" audience and bring in more clients.

Spousal Unit had learned, from her first experience, to ask during the first phone call: What price is attached?

Ya'll see where this is goin', right?

I'll sum up the important part of that conversation because she had it on speaker phone so we could both listen in.

PRODUCER: Well, yes, you will have to pay for your on-air time, but think of this as an opportunity to build your business with more clients.

INSERT VISUAL HERE: Midnite shaking his head violently from side to side, followed by Spousal Unit hitting the disconnect button.

SPOUSAL UNIT: Bobby, I've never hung up on a phone call before. Was I rude?

Midnite: Don't lose any sleep over it.

....So, that's all I've got to offer at this moment:-)






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