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Circulation Executives: Best Practices for Increasing Readership, Retention and ROI

November 7 - November 12, 2004

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For more information on this seminar, please contact Carol Ann Riordan at CRiordan@americanpressinstitute.org.

Featured Discussion Leaders

Mary Donohoe
Vice President and Director of Marketing and Member Services, National Geographic Society
Session: Leveraging the Brand; Discover the power of portfolios and how to strengthen your brand from a living case study – the National Geographic Society, which a grew from one magazine to an array of products and services.
Karen Rice Gardiner
Director of Creative Services, National Geographic Society
Session: Leveraging the Brand; Discover the power of portfolios and how to strengthen your brand from a living case study – the National Geographic Society, which a grew from one magazine to an array of products and services.

As a circulation executive, you play a variety of roles – strategist, innovator, marketer, risk-taker. The challenge? To create a first-class circulation department that grows readership and revenues, increases penetration and battles churn.

API can help you achieve that goal. Circulation Executives: Best Practices for Increasing Readership, Retention and ROI provides the strategies and tactics that will let you put the brakes on reader erosion by building stronger relationships with readers, seeking out highly targeted slices of the market, increasing subscriber value and providing solid-gold customer service.

You’ll strengthen your leadership skills through an intense, daylong, computerized leadership and management simulation, unique to API.

You’ll also learn about the power of portfolios and how to strengthen your brand. We’ll visit the National Geographic Society and learn from its key marketing executives how this highly regarded international organization went from publishing one magazine to delivering an array of products and services – across all platforms – to satisfy its diverse audiences.

Who Should Attend and Why

Vice presidents/circulation; circulation directors, managers and assistants; and managers of circulation marketing, home delivery, single copy, operations and transportation and their assistants should attend. Attendees gain:

  • Ways to develop "solid gold" customer service and foster positive, profitable, lifetime relationships with customers

  • Innovative operational practices for more efficiency and effectiveness

  • An ability to hire, train and retain a work force that is diverse, motivated and constantly striving for excellence

  • Ideas to increase readership and revenue through pushing the single-copy needle

  • Knowledge of ABC rules and ways to use them to strengthen a franchise

    Testimonials

    "The most valuable investment in my newspaper career. It also reinforced my confidence in my position."

    Earnestine Goggans
    Circulation Manager, The Gadsden (AL) Times



    "I thoroughly enjoyed this seminar. It was great to learn the industry in other markets. API was very organized and proved to be a perfect forum for the sharing of ideas."

    Rhonda Lynn Wright
    Regional Manager, Single Copy Operations, The Dallas Morning News



    "I gave a lot of `10s' in my ratings. I never give `10s'. This program has been way above my highest expectations.Great Job! I am leaving API with ... the cutting edge of the industry."

    Brant W. Horn
    Circulation Director, The Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, MT

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    The Particulars

    Please read:
    :: API's Registration, Tuition and Hotel Policies
    :: Special requirements for international members

     

    Tuition: $1,700.00

    Hotel/Meal Package: $1,000.00.
    This charge is in addition to the tuition fee, and is paid directly to the hotel by the seminar member upon checkout.

    Location: Reston

    (This seminar has already occured)

     

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