First of all, I want to Thank Bill
Stille and his staff at The Columbus Dispatch for a
great 2007 Conference.
As OCMA
continues to move forward in 2008, we as an
organization continue to be strong and your elected
board is ready to meet the challenges that our
industry continues to bring to us everyday.
We as an
organization need to provide strong leaders that
will continue to lead OCMA for another 90 years to
come. As circulators we continue to have challenges
everyday. Increasing circulation often demands as
much technological know-how as it does marketing
savvy and what a better way to learn new ideas than
to attend OCMA conference in 2008 in Dayton Ohio.
“Learn from
the legends, watch the top players, and apply
tactics that work for them to your own game.”- Brad
Gilbert
OCMA will
continue the purpose of sharing the rich traditions,
providing personal development, educational, and
networking opportunities for its members. This will
inspire different strategies to provide their
newspaper a media platform that our advertisers and
general population trusts and values.
We as
circulators need to get in the game and continue to
think outside the box in order to share our ideas
with other newspapers to meet the challenges we face
everyday if we want to win the battle of declining
circulation.
I am looking
forward to serve you in 2008 as your president. I
will end this by giving you another saying.
“There is one
quality that one must possess to win, and that is
definiteness of purpose- the knowledge of what one
wants and a burning desire to possess it.” –
Napolean Hill
Sincerely,
Brian M. Barker
Regional Sales Manager
Single Copy
The Plain Dealer