Live With Jay – Oh I Was Lost!
Posted Thursday Jan 10 2008 | Anne Haynes | Traditional Media - Marketing |
Today I was interviewed by Jay Liebenguth on Live with Jay Hot Talk 1510 AM. It was an interesting and great experience! First, I’m new to the Kansas area and still, after a year of living in the area, I was lost in the strip malls. My destination was Union Broadcasting and I found it, but it took time!
As I watched the time from my car clock and on my cell phone it became clear that I wasn’t going to be on-time for the 3:30 PM show. I understand radio programming from my KSJS 95.3 AM days at San Jose State University. If you’re ever going to be late for anything, never be late for radio or television spots. Even though I text messaged Jay from my cell phone on the way to the station, it wasn’t cool!
After breaking many traffic laws, I arrived at Union Broadcasting at 3:35 PM. Jay went to commercial and I walked into the studio. We had a few words and he was back on the air. We started talking about my skills to surf the web and not navigate the Kansas streets. It was natural.
Before the show I was head high in paid search management campaigns, so I had little preparation time and well, we just started talking about reputation management. It’s easy to talk about reputation management because I’ve been successful in fixing several clients’ reputations in the search results.
The conversation was great and soon enough after 15 minutes,Jay brought in Mark Stevens via phone; author of GOD IS A SALESMAN: Learn from the Master. Mark had a great story about playing tennis, going into heart surgery and writing his book. Honestly, I couldn’t compete with that guest!
But overall, it was an amazing day in my life and I’m thankful for Webster Jorgenson text messaging me throughout the interview! Webster has started the Kansas City SEO . ORG Club to bring all the search marketers in the local area out to join.
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5 Responses to “Live With Jay – Oh I Was Lost!”
What Ms. Haynes leaves out of her story, is she had to stop for gas along the way. Truly, she had her head in her search marketing work this day. And yet, she still managed to furiously text me during her mad dash across town, giving me frequent updates on her progress.
With my feeble attempts to fill time discussing her topic while waiting for her to arrive, I felt like little more than a piker. But seriously, she is such a big talent in what she does, we look forward to having her on again and again to share her knowledge with our listeners. We’ll just have to send someone to pick her up to make sure she gets there on time.
I submit the following evidence of Anne’s communication skills while driving. This sequence of texts covers approximately 17 minutes of real life “search” on her part and frantic filling on-air, for me. The numbers are the cross streets as she was coming South, which gave me real hope…she was making progress.
The turning point was the message “left on 121″ which because of a concern for safety and the inconvenience of punctuation in the world of T9, Anne left out an important question mark. At 3:23 pm, she’s technically only a few minutes late, but then all communication broke down and frustration ensued, as you can see. I’ve spared the readers some of the more colorful and yet, not very helpful language.
In the end, we were able to deliver some important information to our listeners and a valuable lesson about allowing plenty of time when you have travel plans.
You sounded great. Nice job dude. Thanks for the shout
out. Can’t wait to nuke your concentration with another barrage of text messages next time you’re on the air :)
Sorry I missed it, sounds like you did a great job. Maybe you got lost because you don’t have the Pacific Ocean on the west and mountains in the east to keep you oriented. Good luck getting those Kansas City SEO’s together.
David – I was just telling Jay the same thing! I’m use to the ocean being my “West” mark! Thanks for your comment!