[Boston-print] Time to sell Advertising!!!

[timothy ledwith]

Hi Sofia I'd like to talk to you about ad sponsors etc.. give me a call if 
ud like @339-933-1809 (i think i gave you it the other day) ill be at the 
office today until around 4:30. otherwise ill call u later or just talk to 
you tomorrow. ill also be at the office tomorrow all day after 1-2pm.
-tim led


>From: Sofia JarrinT <sofiajt at yahoo.com>
>To: Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com>,IMC Print 
><boston-print at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Boston-print] Time to sell Advertising!!!
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi there (anyone? anyone?),
>
>Thanks Pete for sending this out. Please come to our next Print meeting 
>(Thursday 7:00pm Meeting at the Junebug Café) to get a list of Ad Sponsors 
>that you can target when trying to get dough for our paper.  I will also 
>have a list ready for you guys at the Boston Indy office.
>
>As Ad Coordinator of the group, I would like to set some rules so 
>everyone's on the same page. Ad Sponsors should be contacted ideally only 
>by ONE person.  I don't want them to be contacted by multiple people or 
>contacted again after they have already agreed to sponsor us.  If we're 
>organized and professional about this, we'll be treated as such. Ground 
>rules:
>
>- if you want to contact an Ad Sponsor (because you know someone there, 
>etc)., please CONTACT ME FIRST so I can add you to our database;
>- if you have any new Ad Sponsors standing in line to support us, sent 
>their name and contact to me so I can add them to the database;
>- be assertive but polite, this is about getting our news going with the 
>widest distribution possible and to include as many voices as possible;
>- be very clear about our message: "We're an independent news media that 
>was created as an answer to corporate media."  We want our Ad Sponsors to 
>know what we are about, BUT don't go on a political tirade of your own. 
>Remember, you are representing the collective.
>
>That's pretty much it.  I think you guys can live with it...  Thanks a 
>MILLION for being a part of this.  We won't be able to pull it off without 
>you.
>
>Peace,
>Sofia Jarrin-Thomas
>cel 617-803-7496
>
>
>Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Thanks to Robert for making our underwriting rate cards (in the office file 
>cabinet now!) and Sofia for compiling a list of potential advertisers, 
>right now we are fully prepared to hit the streets.  EVERYBODY should be 
>involved.  Each of us I'm sure has the ability or connections to sell at 
>least one ad or get a donation of some size.  Without people's cooperation 
>on this effort we will not be able to make our deadline, I hat this 
>position of being the whip cracker, and I don't want to be seen as any kind 
>of leader, so please interpret this as encouragement to become your own 
>leaders.
>
>(short pep talk follows, please skip it if its not neccessary)
>In my travels around the city, my forays into the world of funding, and my 
>perusal of the world's media sources i have sensed an ENORMOUS potential 
>for the growth of Indymedia in Boston.  I'm dead serious here.  People in 
>the other independent media look at us as a natural meeting place.  Because 
>we have an open membership and an open post policy there is more POTENTIAL 
>for trust with us than any one else.  Our audience has been expanding and 
>will continue to expand as we distribute our stuff in more ways (i.e. web 
>streaming radio and the paper).  In the funding world, more and more money 
>is being funneled into media projects but there are things you have to do 
>to get it, mainly meaning building on success and really reaching and 
>serving a wide audience.  Potential for change.  If we can hold it together 
>here, and get through what is really a simple task of creating and 
>distributing a paper.  We can grow beyond any news source currently serving 
>Boston, and certainly any independent
>  one.  We are more efficient, more truthful, more open, and more 
>transparent.
>
>The catch is, we have to work for it.  This may mean making a few 
>sacrifices for the paper.  Instead of reading that engrossing pulp novel, 
>get out and write about what's happening, instead of watching the latest 
>kick ass film come help us get the office rolling, instead of wandering 
>through boston's winding streets come down and try and sell some Ads in the 
>shops along them.  I personally find it more entertaining to try to take 
>over the information highways from the corporate media as a member of a 
>collectively run media source than to do pretty much anything else, so I'm 
>not asking for anything I would not do myself.  So let's empower ourselves 
>and others by getting active now, not later.  Let's get it together and 
>save this hellbound world.  call me to get plugged in 617-620-1989.
>
>-Pete
>
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