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Landmark Marketing Letter

Seeking Alpha may be calling Landmark Infrastructure a “tech REIT” because 65% of Landmark revenues come from telecom and wireless sites but that hasn’t stopped Landmark from trying to grow the out of home leases and easement portfolio.  Here’s Landmark’s latest marketing letter.   Insider’s take: Landmark is contacting your […]

Company of the Day: Keystone Outdoor

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 […]

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 […]

John Miller: “There will always be a place for 1 to many”

John Miller, Lamar’s SVP of Sales did a 7 minute interview on the out of home industry at the DPAA Video Everywhere summit a couple weeks ago. On how digital signs are transformative I’ve seen a lot of innovation.  But sometimes innovation is confused with novelty…What has been true innovation.  […]

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 […]

Link Media Grows Via Acquisitions

Boston Omaha, the parent company of Link Media reported financials for the 3 months ended September 2018.  Here’s a summary of financial performance for Link Media Outdoor for the 3 months ended 2018. 000’s Link Media spent $136 million on acquisitions during the third quarter of 2018, including Waitt Outdoor […]