The Monday Morning Free Idea
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Check back every Monday for The Free Idea—a fun, entertaining bit of inspiration to help your show connect with your audience even more. You can also view past ideas, many of which my clients and I successfully used to engage listeners.
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VD for the Kids
Valentine’s Day is about one month away. How about going old school? Have your listener’s kids write a Valentine’s Day card and mail it to you. In turn, you give them to all the kids in your local children’s hospital. Kids writing Valentine’s Day cards to kids.
The Food Journal
Just about everyone will be on a diet this month. If someone on the show is doing it, form a club around them and a few listeners. Ask each to keep a food journal of everything they eat. Then check in with them over the next few weeks to see how they’re doing, what they’ve eaten, and how much weight they’ve lost so you can be supportive. If you can, find an entertaining nutritionist to come on, too, to help in the conversation about weight loss.
Who’s the Celebrity Ho?
With the use of AI, have it replicate a very famous person saying “ho, ho, ho” like Santa. The audience then must guess who’s the celebrity ho? Make sure to also have AI record that identification in the celebrity’s voice once someone guesses it.
Trans (Your State) Orchestra
Who doesn’t love the Trans Siberian Orchestra? Put together a group of co-workers who play instruments and/or can sing and do Trans (Your State) Orchestra where they come on one day next week and entertain the audience with a Christmas song. Build it through the week so you have a story line that travels for the five days, with the performance on Friday.
The Tree Is Me/The Tree is Thee
Once the entire air staff has their trees up and decorated, put a picture of everyone’s online. The audience has to match the tree with the talent. It’s a simple but effective way to get online engagement from the audience around a relevant topic.
The Amazon Million
Cyber Monday is days away with zillions of us buying our holiday gifts online. Let’s test the world’s biggest online department store with The Amazon Million. See if you can get a webcam to hover over a cast member (so listeners can watch) who must keep adding things to their Amazon shopping cart until it totals $1,000,000 with of goods. Set a limit of only a quantity of ten of any one item. Can it be done? Let’s see!
The No Politics Pledge
With the election now over, plan on doing the No Politics Pledge as Thanksgiving approaches. Write up a silly “repeat after me” pledge and have listeners take it, committing to not talk politics at the Thanksgiving table when the family gathers!
The Countdown to Mariah Carey
Do you guys play Christmas music? When will you start? We all know that Christmas really doesn’t begin until Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” airs. Why not make a big deal over it? Complete with a countdown clock on the website and the airing each hour as to exactly how many minutes away the audience is from you playing it
The Cute Kid Candy Leftover
Let’s bring two topics together – Halloween and the election. Have kids explain the election to you in their own words. Like their description? Give them some discounted Halloween candy!
The Enablers
Lots of people are feeling lots of stress because of politics. How to deal with all that stress? Eat your feelings! With Halloween coming up, talk to people feeling some stress from life, then become The Enablers. Give them total permission to have as much Halloween candy as they’d like to get through the stress!