Business

Company of the Day – Busby Companies

Company: Busby Companies Headquarters: 1734 Wansley Road, Laurel, MS  39440 Phone: 601.428.4014 Markets: Mississippi, Louisiana, Northwest Florida and Indiana Busby Companies is a local family owned and operated billboard advertising company in Laurel, Mississippi with over 30 years of experience in the industry. They also specialize in the design and manufacturing […]

Messimer on Getting Your First Out of Home Client

Last week Insider wrote about how to get your first out of home advertising client.  Today, out of home sales expert Andrea Messimer gives her thoughts on what to do after you’ve bought or erected your first billboard and need a client: #1   First step is to get professional […]

Out of the office: Patti Reeves

Patti Reeves sells US outdoor advertising space for several US companies and owns a billboard plant in Turks and Caicos. Patti and her husband Dean also own Reeves Thoroughbred Racing   Here Patti and Dean escort their Breeders Cup champion Mucho Mucho Man into the winners Circle. What’s your hobby out of […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds – May 12, 2018

“FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  Y’all are awesome” Billboard Insider Classified customer Evan Metrock, Billboard Alerts. “Got several calls and sold the trivisions to the first one.” Billboard Insider Classified customer Michael Grace, Ace Outdoor. Billboards for sale ads cost $120 […]

How to get your first out of home advertising client.

This week a reader asked Insider “I purchased my first billboard a few months ago and have not been able to get any advertisers.  Do you have a post on how to approach advertisers?”  Here are Insider’s thoughts. Compile a ride sheet.  The ride sheet should be 1 page and […]

Vinyl Strength – Is Lighter Better?

By Sarah Davis, Blue Sky Digital Printing We have had a lot of people ask us “Which product performs better, the 7 oz. or the 13 oz.?” One might say because the 13 oz. is heavier, it must be stronger, right? Not necessarily. There are three different pieces to the […]

Company of the Day: Buckland Media

Company:  Buckland Media Group Markets: Western Oklahoma Headquarters: Oklahoma City, OK  73112 Phone: 405-219-1800 Email: bucklandmediaok@gmail.com Ben Buckland Media operates 128 faces plus 4 digital billboards in Western Oklahoma.  The company is owned by Ben Buckland.  Buckland has a background in the radio and publishing business and has also served as the announcer […]

GO2018 in 5 quotes

“I walked up to my sales manager Monday and said, I don’t know what our sales people were doing over the weekend but Blip sold $800 in billboard ads.  I know this because the art was sent to me for approval.”  – Vince Miller, President, DDI Media.  A comment over lunch […]

Huntington Outdoor’s Jena Powell wins OH primary

The Dayton Daily News reports that Huntington Outdoor’s VP-Sales Jena Powell won the republican primary for Ohio State House of representatives district 80 with 49% of the vote.  She faces a Democratic write-in candidate in the November 6 general election. If elected Jena will be join Elevation Outdoor’s Martin Daniels […]

Company of the Day – Burelz Billboards

Company:  Burelz Billboards Markets: Memphis & Nashville, TN Headquarters:   5587 Murray Avenue Suite 104, Memphis TN 38119 Phone: 901.289.5951 Email: dburing@aol.com David Buring owns Burelz Outdoor which operates 8 digital faces and 2 tri-visions in Memphis and Nashville Tennessee. David started his first outdoor company in 1992 having owned either […]