State Of The Nose Ferret

[docwebster]

I'll make this relatively short and sweet: we need advertising, and we need it quick. Just about the first thing somebody's going to ask is what are our listener numbers. To be blunt, that's not something we really need to be emphasizing right now if you catch my drift. What can be said is we have listeners all over the world. Which is true. We're apparently one of the darlings of the South African gothic community, and we've got dedicated listeners in Hungary, Japan, Russia and other pretty exotic locales. Plus, we've got a fair amount of extremely dedicated listeners here in the states who listen for hours on end, just not a whole bunch *of* them. That last part, of course, you can leave out. Thus their ads would be heard quite a few times. Plus we're linked on a fairly good sized list of gothic sites, and we're media partners with a couple of big stations - GotBlack and IPM Radio so people would be brought in by those stations to hear out station and thus their ads.

Plus I need places to promote the station where they're not going to lose their minds over somebody promoting something even vaguely commercial so we *can* increase that listener count.

I say all this because it's quickly reaching a crisis point for the station. I just don't know how much longer I can keep it up. But I want to give it time to try and round some good paying advertising up so I don't have to make the next birthday the last one.

If they need a PayPal addy, have them get in touch with me at docwebstr at radionosferatu dot com and I'll give them the account to use until I get a proper payment/donation button set up.

If you enjoy Radio N and what we bring to the table and the music and programming we provide, it's time to help out because we need it.

Comments

I'll donate

[rubber-shirt.livejournal.com]

I know how it is to run these things, everyone wants to listen, no one wants you to go commercial, but no one wants to donate. I'd hate to be a victim of my own success. We are getting over 1gb of downloads at the webpage per day. So point me toward your donate button and I'll donate what I can. And I hope others will too... I'll try to listen tomorrow night too. You put on some great stuff man. Thanks for all your hard work.

Re: I'll donate

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

It's not a button, yet, but you can paypal to tigermask5 at mchsi dot com . I'm sure you can appreciate why I didn't write the email address out in the usual manner, but that's the one to send to.

Re: I'll donate

[rubber-shirt.livejournal.com]

right on sorry you're having c drive problems man :/

Re: I'll donate

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Eh, it happens. Could you do me one more favor? Maybe record a promo of some sort for the station? I'm trying to get as many promos as I can together. No worries if not, I just thought it would be neat.

Re: I'll donate

[rubber-shirt.livejournal.com]

What kind of promo do you need? :)

Re: I'll donate

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

Surprise me. Seriously, you can do just about anything you want so long as it has "You're listening to Radio Nosferatu" in it.

What'd be beyond fabulous is if it could somehow be worked and mashed up to have Bush saying that. Heh.

Re: I'll donate

[rubber-shirt.livejournal.com]

;) I will have to wait til the next creative wave comes by I'm going through a bit of a dry spell at the moment. Just have to get through this. But will keep it in mind. :)

Polyglottal Goodness

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

My company doesn't have a website yet and can't even take internet orders, let alone international ones. So I'm sorry I can't really buy an ad right now. :(

But, still, sweet! Hungary, Russia, Japan and South Africa? I think I can write you some call-sign blurbs in Magyarul, Ruski, Nihongo, and Afrikaans. I'll have a heavy American accent, though. Still, I think I can manage to write and say blurbs that say something like "Thanks for listening to Radio Nosferatu." and even "See, not all Americans are culturally ignorant! We apologize for the other 49%." Or whatever. If you have an idea that you want translate, just drop me a line, give me the language(s) and the phrases, and I'll see what I can do when I get a spare hour with my tutorials, tapes, and books.

Can you imagine the surprise when suddenly, on an American internet station, you get a hello in your own language? :D I bet I'd message all my friends and tell them to check it out... ;)

Re: Polyglottal Goodness

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

This is random, but I totally just thought your icon was Boy George.

[yobadself.livejournal.com]

I really wish at this point that I had a job so I could help you out. :(