{"id":19890,"date":"2017-09-12T01:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=19890"},"modified":"2017-09-12T01:41:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:41:51","slug":"client-voicing-radio-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/client-voicing-radio-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Client Insists on Voicing The Radio Commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/5step\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19893 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Used-Car-Deale-320.png\" alt=\"car dealer voices radio commercial\" width=\"312\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Used-Car-Deale-320.png 312w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Used-Car-Deale-320-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Radio station salespeople, creative directors, and producers face this all too often: clients who insist on voicing their own radio commercials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Some business owners do an excellent job of talking into a microphone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Many&#8230;most&#8230;do not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s a worst-case scenario example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3v0Es3qbDQs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In case anyone asks, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Ron Stevens &amp; Joy Grdnic<\/strong><\/span>, who created that little gem, gave me permission to share it with you (and with radio and advertising folks around the world who&#8217;ve attended my commercial copywriting workshops).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They created it for their trailblazing radio comedy service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-listcomedy.com\/who-we-are.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Star Radio<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">So yeah, I definitely have their permission to play this. Still, there&#8217;s no point in mentioning it to them. They&#8217;re busy people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/client-voiced-commercials-mp3\">how to handle Clients Who Insist on Voicing Their Own Radio Commercials<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio station salespeople, creative directors, and producers face this all too often: clients who insist on voicing their own radio commercials. Some business owners do an excellent job of talking into a microphone. Many&#8230;most&#8230;do not. Here&#8217;s a worst-case scenario example. In case anyone asks, Ron Stevens &amp; Joy Grdnic, who created that little gem, gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When The Client Insists on Voicing The Radio Commercial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Radio station salespeople, creative directors, and producers face this all too often: clients who insist on voicing their own radio commercials. 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