Welcome
Hello all, hope you’re well.
Welcome to the latest edition of RARE News.
Just wanted to show you a new site - Lastminuteage.com Many people are unsure as to what Bid4Spots actually is and what it does, so we’ve put together a new landing page to help explain the concept a bit better! It was good fun to make as we did it all in house using RadioWorks staff for the images and yes it is me doing the mockney, east-end voiceover!
Have a look and let us know what you think!
Speak to you soon.
Aaron Page, Marketing & Client Services, RadioWorks
Dear Si
"A colleague told me about your ‘Radio Insight’ training
sessions. I’d like to come but hear that it’s half a day and
at the moment I just can’t take that time out of the office.
Is there any other sort of training I could do?
"
The Radio Insight training sessions can be very flexible and need not last as long as half a day.
The half day sessions often include a number of sections and can also include studio and station tours, so if time is short it is easy to whittle them down.
If it helps we are also more than happy to come to you – and if needed we can be out again within the hour!
If the training sessions are something that interest you why not give me a call on 0207 90-70-6-70.
A word from Maple Street Studios
Another update from Golly at Maple Street Studios, plus a
little teaser question for our upcoming quiz!!!
RARE talks to…
This month we’re talking to Eve from Euro RSCG Riley. Read more to see why she likes Geordie voices! Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Eve and I work as a Trainee Account Manager at Euro RSCG Riley.
What's keeping you busy at the moment?
Keeping me busy at the moment is planning and implementing student recruitment campaigns for one of our university clients and general client development and queries. Oh and contributing to our drive to increase innovation.
Favourite industry memory?
I’ve only been in the industry for 10months but have had a few good memories. I think my favourite would be Rock Climbing with the Financial Times, I was new to the industry of recruitment and advertising and it was a great way to push myself out of my comfort zone and start to really get to know my reps and colleagues.
Favourite COMMERCIAL radio station and why?
Hmm favourite commercial radio station!? I would have to say my commitment to my homeland means that Galaxy 105-106 North East tops the chart. Steve and Karen made my university mornings more bearable and nothing better than a Geordie voice to make you feel at home.
If you were invisible for a day, what would you do?
If I was invisible for a day, hmmm! I think I would sneak onto a plane to Vegas and wreak havoc freaking people out and hopefully come back rich!
Oh and why do you use RadioWorks?
RadioWorks makes radio advertising easy, cost effective and provides a great solution to present to clients. Their flexible and extensive product range means the radio advertising needs of pretty much every client can be satisfied with a strategic offering coupled with a friendly and personal service.
7 OF THE BEST!
Football or rugby?
Football
Tequila or Sambuca?
Brown Tequila
Hot dog or burger?
Chicken burger – not an option but close
Australia or New Zealand?
Never been to either but going with my gut and a debate with a colleague…. Australia.
Jezza (Kyle) or Jerry (Springer)?
Jezza Kyle for sure, even been in the audience
Sky+ or Virgin?
Sky+
Peggy or Dot?
Peggy!!!
Rec Addled #3
*The Rec Addled guide to leaving dos…and don’ts.*
During my time as a terry towelled giant in this crazy, mixed-up world of recruitment advertising, I’ve shown my blistered face at more than my fair share of leaving dos. Some have been good. Some have been bad. And others have been emotionally fraught affairs where bitter tears of regret have flowed just as quickly down cheeks as the booze has down collective gullets.
However different these assorted leaving dos have been though, they’ve all shared something in common – and that’s that I’ve ended up completely plastered at virtually each and every one, more often than not saying grossly inappropriate things to anyone who’ll listen.
Now I’ve decided that enough is enough. So it is for my benefit as much as it is yours that I’ve compiled this handy, cut-out-and-keep guide to leaving dos…and don’ts.
DON’T moan about the choice of venue. Unless it’s your leaving do, you have no grounds of complaint regarding the long queue at the bar, the way you have to pay £1 to have a man wash your hands every time you go to the toilet, and the pounding chavvy music polluting your delicate little ears. And DON’T vent your frustrations by scrawling lewd and infantile graffiti all over the inside of the toilet cubicle (the hand washy man will hear the squeaking of your marker pen and you will be in lots of trouble, possibly with the police).
DO offer to buy the person who’s leaving a drink of their choice, as soon as possible. Please DON’T do as I sometimes do – that is, wait until towards the end of the night to find a half-finished beverage left at an empty table, then discreetly top it up with assorted odds and sods of other discarded drinks before pretending you got it them from the bar. It is wrong to do that (unless you have always hated the person and are secretly pleased they are going away at last).
DO propose a hearty farewell toast to the person who is leaving. They will like this, and it will briefly make you look both thoughtful and caring in the eyes of your colleagues.
DON’T forget to spend a few moments reminiscing on the good times you shared with the person who’s leaving…even if there were no good times whatsoever. And do bear in mind that sometimes, just sometimes, it’s possible to dress up a bad time as a good time. However, now is probably not the best point to bring up when they got into trouble for bullying the one-legged man who works in the Accounts department. That sort of thing can never be dressed up as a good time.
DO feign disappointment in the person’s decision to leave when later speaking to the CEO on the sidelines of the party. Your slight air of disgust at their supposed betrayal will demonstrate your deep-seated commitment to forwarding the cause of the business, and reflect well on you come pay review time. DON’T accidentally sneeze in the CEO’s face though, as that may result in your own poorly-attended leaving do being the next one down the line.
DON’T buy the person who’s leaving a separate goodbye and good luck card containing a super slushy, gushy message from you and only you. This may send out completely the wrong signals, and later lead to them attempting to give you oral sex behind some bins near Chancery Lane tube station.
DON’T allow the person who’s leaving to give you oral sex behind some bins near Chancery Lane tube station. The next day you might feel sad and hollow, then end up in the toilets at lunchtime, weeping worthlessly into a bit of scrunched up tissue.
Finally, DO try to have fun – even if it does mean you wet yourself on the last tube home. Remember, there are clean, dry pants you can change into when you get back to your house.