2025 Annual Conference

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, March 13th

7:00 p.m. Dinner – O’Reilly’s Pub for Board Members & Guests

Friday, March 14th

8:30 a.m. Breakfast for Board Members & Guests – Cameron

10:00 a.m. Board of Directors Meeting – Cameron

10:00 a.m. Open of Registration – Outside Central D & E

11:00 a.m. 70th Anniversary Opening Remarks & Introductions & Luncheon – Central D&E

12:00 Noon General Membership Meeting & Associate Member Discussion – Central D&E

1:00 p.m. Kickstart the Conference by Unlocking AI – Central D&E
Panel Discussion of those embracing AI

2:30 p.m. Break & Visit our Associate Members

2:50 p.m. Session on “Selling Digital Along with Your Print” with Ryan Dohrn – Central D&E

4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion with Matt Pearson from Rebuild Local News  – Central D&E

5:30 p.m. Cocktail Hour – Outside Central D&E

6:30 p.m. 70th Anniversary Celebration Dinner – Central D&E

Saturday, March 15th

8:30 a.m. Open of Registration & Breakfast – Outside Central D&E

9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks – Central D&E

9:45 a.m. Writing Amazing Sales Emails. 10 Tips To Get An Open-Ended Reply with Ryan Dohrn – Central D&E

10:45 a.m. Break & Visit our Associate Members

11 a.m. Selling Value When Price Is The Advertiser’s Only Focus with Ryan Dohrn – Central D&E

11:00 a.m. Close of Registration

12:00 noon Lunch & Ad Awards Recognition – Central D&E

12:45 p.m. Sales Strategies Roundtable: Sharing Success To Drive Results – Central D&E

1:45 p.m. Break & Visit our Associate Members. Last Call for purchasing tickets.

2:00 p.m. 3-Minute Idea Exchange – Central D&E

Closing and announcement of the winners for the Education Foundation Silent Auction following 3-Minute Idea Exchange

 

Registration Closed!

Keynote Speaker
Ryan Dohrn, 360 Ad Sales

Ryan Dohrn is the Emmy award-winning creator of the 360 Ad Sales Training system and is a globally recognized media revenue consultant to over 500 companies.  Ryan is also the owner of the Niche Media Conference, bringing together 500+ media pros each year to grow and learn.

Unlike other media sales training consultants, Ryan actually sells advertising EVERY day!

Since 1994 Ryan has worked in the radio, TV, and publishing industry.  He holds a Psychology of Leadership Certification from Cornell University. Ryan’s resume includes time in promotions and sales at The NY Times Company, Disney, Cumulus, Citadel Comm, Vance Publishing, Morris Publishing, and PennWell.  He has trained and coached over 30,000 ad sales reps to date and speaks over 60 times per year.  To date, Ryan has been a part of over half a BILLION dollars in ad sales and event sponsor revenue!

Ryan loves teaching ad sales reps his simple and effective way to achieve ad sales success.  Ryan has media clients in Australia, Spain, Canada, Singapore, Great Britain, Denmark, Holland, and the USA.

Ryan is an internationally acclaimed speaker, business book author,  and has been featured in USA Today and on Forbes.com.

Bring along a basket of your favorite local products for our Education Foundation Basket Raffle.

 

Call the office or email us at info@macpa.net to let us know you want to support our cause that provides quality training
for you and your team with trainers
like Ryan Dohrn, Kevin Slimp and Charity Huff.

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