Company: Keystone Outdoor Advertising Markets: New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Headquarters: PO Box 202, Cheltenham, PA 19012-0202 Phone: (856) 767-5028 Keystone Outdoor is a operates a billboard plant which targets bridges, expressways and suburban roads in Southern New Jersey, Trenton and Philadelphia. The privately-held firm was started in 1977 by Dominick Cipollini when he secured a […]
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Out of the Office: Myron Laible
Myron Laible will retire January 1 after 33 years service at the OAAA. Myron has been a road warrior for the OAAA, traveling the country to help OAAA members understand and comply with local regulations. Insider fondly remembers dinner with Myron in downtown Indianapolis and breakfast in Chicago. Myron says […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds November 17, 2018
“The response has been excellent. Excellent investment.” Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…” David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up. […]
Haleigh Powell on Overcoming the 5 Sales Obstacles
Haleigh Powell, a client relations specialist at Huntington Outdoor, is writing a series of articles on how to thrive in sales at an independent out of home company. Today Haleigh talks about overcoming sales objections. Next week Haleigh will discuss how to improve your sales and work on your selling […]
New and Noted – November 16, 2018
Outfront and Clear Channel stocks rise after JCDecaux’s CEO says at Morgan Stanley’s Tech and Media Conference that he’s open to acquiring either company. Economist magazine likes out of home. See Billboards are an old but booming ad medium. Economist explains in concise, jargon-free english how data is transforming out of […]
Jim Poage On Contractors & The Darden Factor
While many business owners rely on contractors to work on their structures and feel the responsibility for working safely rest solely with them, I would caution the business owner about taking this approach. In many ways an owner can be found responsible under OSHA’s multi-employer workplace definition and suffer penalties […]
Company of the Day: Kentucky Outdoor
Company: Kentucky Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kentucky Address: 423 State Street, PO Box 917, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Phone: 270-842-6828 Kentucky outdoor owns over 100 billboards in south central and western Kentucky. David Sears is President. Thomas Connelly is vice President. Sears was named the 2017 small business person of the year […]
Company of the Day – Kessler Outdoor
Company: Kessler OutdoorHeadquarters: 2669 NATIONAL RD, ZANESVILLE, OH 43701Markets: Ohio, West Virginia & FloridaPhone: 740-453-0668Email: info@kessleroutdoor.comKessler Outdoor Advertising is a division of Kessler Sign Company , which was founded in 1972. Kessler Outdoor Advertising is owned and operated by Bob, Rodger and David Kessler. Kessler covers 14 counties throughout Ohio including […]
Stott Outdoor Employees Lose Homes in CA Fire
Stott Outdoor’s General Manager Jim Moravec tells Insider that Stott Outdoor employees have lost their homes in the California wildfires. Dave, You have not doubt heard about the devastation of the fires in northern CA particularly in Butte County. As of this writing it appears that Stott has a total […]
Four Life Lessons from Minnesota Business Icon Bob Naegele Jr.
By Nancy Fletcher, President and CEO, OAAA Forty years ago, Bob Naegele Jr. gave me my first job in out of home advertising, at age 23. I didn’t know much then, but I learned a great deal from this exceptional and decent man, who passed away November 7. I share […]