It’s baseball’s biggest stage. These games mean it all. The dream of every kid who’s ever hit a baseball in his back yard. And yet, at this penultimate moment in a millionaire player’s career they are willing to stop the game. And hold a cheap handwritten cardboard sign.
What in the name of Abner Doubleday is going on here?
“Major League Baseball, Stand Up To Cancer and MasterCard conducted a special in-game moment, with players, umpires, coaches and fans all pausing to hold up placards with the names of loved ones affected by cancer.”
MLB.com
If we view it through the filter of what does it have to do with baseball it makes absolutely no sense. But if we view it through the filter of who were are as a community, as a family, we see that it is more important than just a game.
This campaign’s viral marketing taps into beliefs and values that just so happens to be at the heart of your radio station: celebrating family and friends, and reaching out to help others. Beliefs and Values are not about sounding religious, they’re about connecting to things that really matter.
While the other radio stations are talking about what matters to them, maybe we can be talking about what matters to our listeners.
“There’s singing at people,
Tim McGraw
There’s singing to people,
There’s singing about how you feel…
Then, there’s singing about how THEY feel”