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  • Staples’ Formatics

    • 05/31/2006
    • Posted by: Mike O'Malley
    • Category: radio programming
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    Subtraction has led to a big addition at Staples. Last year, profits jumped 18% (Business 2.0, June 2006) at the office supply store, even though there’s a lot less to buy there these days. Customer research led Staples to simplify their in-store shopping experience. Gone are some 800 non-core items like Britney Spears backpacks. In

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  • “Caring” As A Strategy for Managers and Talent

    • 05/08/2006
    • Posted by: Mike O'Malley
    • Category: air talent, DJs, radio programming
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    My visit to see my parents this past weekend included a couple of trips to Starbucks and some local radio consumption. Saturday morning I was listening to WIOD’s Aron Bender interview author A. J. Scribante (“Shelf Life: How an Unlikely Entrepreneur Turned $500 into $65 Million in the Grocery Industry) – not because I have

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  • Avoiding TV’s Rerun Blues

    • 05/04/2006
    • Posted by: Mike O'Malley
    • Category: radio programming
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    It’s easy to simply blame new media competition for TV’s on-going ratings slump. But, postulates Media Life’s Kevin Downey (January 5, 2006), TV itself may be its own worst enemy by increasingly relying on reruns. Downey notes that reruns used to account for about 15% of programming in the early 1980s. Now, amidst and ever

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