I’ll be placing ads on the three Duluth televison networks today. I won’t spend a lot of money and the prices have shot up since I waited until the heavy political hitters ratcheted up their advertising. The stations can and will charge more during these last two weeks. They offer several pricing tiers and if you buy the cheepest ads they can be bumped from the program you ordered by more expensive ads. The only way to guarantee you get the ad placement you want is to pay top dollar for “fixed rate” ads.<\/p>\n
One single guaranteed thirty-second spot on\u00c2\u00a0WDIO’s 10 O’clock news\u00c2\u00a0costs $1,800 dollars. That’s almost as much as I’m willing to spend in total. Its being reported that all the major Minnesota candidates together will spend over a million and a half bucks on TV in the last two weeks of the campaign. The ad I’ll be putting on will barely be noticed. I’m putting it on the early morning news and on some daytime programs, where I hope viewers\u00c2\u00a0will have the time to go to their computers to log onto my campaign website which the ad prominantly highlights.<\/p>\n
In anticipation of a rush to my website I tinkered with its opening page again.<\/p>\n
I put back my cheery video welcome. A week ago I had replaced it\u00c2\u00a0with\u00c2\u00a0my dour TV commercial. I decided that\u00c2\u00a0the ad\u00c2\u00a0wasn’t very welcoming\u00c2\u00a0and, unlike my welcome video, didn’t\u00c2\u00a0ask visitors\u00c2\u00a0to “push the button.” The “button” link gives visitors the chance to send my website via email to their friends. If enough people did this it would be better than having them see the TV commerical because they could spend much more than a mere thirty seconds looking at my positions.<\/p>\n
A couple days ago the Library of Congress sent me an email telling me that my website was one they had selected to archive permanantly as a representative sample of 2006 campaign websites.\u00c2\u00a0Voters may not be visiting in great numbers but future scholars might.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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