First of all, I want to Thank Phonda Gamble and her staff at The Dayton Daily News for a great 2008 Conference.

As OCMA continues to move forward in 2009, 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 better way to learn new ideas than to attend the OCMA conference in 2009 in Toledo 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 2009 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