Okay a lot has happened since my last entry. First the most important. The web page is almost finished. I just need to go a few things here and there but nothing serious. I changed the station Twitter handle to @1029TheBlast, I changed the Facebook fan page link to www.facebook.com/1029TheBlast, and I have been doing all sorts of last minute things here and there. Here we are less than a week from launch and the excitement is overwhelming. I have almost completed checking off my to-do entirely.
It is hard to imagine this whole ordeal has taken less than 2 months. I have worked my ass off for the radio station and now, we are so close to launch I can taste it.
Again, like I said.... THIS IS HAPPENING!
Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Getting Closer
So I have been hard at work getting everything ready for the station launch. I have a to-do list and have been slowly crossing off everything. I am really excited since the day is almost here! Since my last entry the station web page has gone live.
www.KeepingHipHopAlive.com
The header on the page is not the final header but I figured it would be okay for now.
Next week is my birthday so I am going to take a few days off and away from everything station related. It will be nice since a week later the station will be a reality. Who knows when I will be able to take some time off when that happens. #Excited
www.KeepingHipHopAlive.com
The header on the page is not the final header but I figured it would be okay for now.
- · PURCHASE VOSCAST STREAM
- · PRODUCE STATION IMAGING
- · PURCHASE SMARTPHONE APPS
- · SETUP APPLE AND ANDROID AD’S ON SMARTPHONE APPS
- · REGISTER STATION WITH 3RD PARTY STREAMERS (TUNEIN, APPLE RADIO, ETC.)
·DESIGN NEW LOGO·DESIGN STATION T-SHIRTS- · PRINT STATION T-SHIRTS AND STATION BUMPER STICKERS
- · OBTAIN STATION MUSIC
- · PURCHASE MUSIC LICENSING RIGHTS
- · PURCHASE STATION BANNER
- · CREATE STATION LAUNCH PRESS RELEASE
- · FIX THE TAGS ON STATION MUSIC FOR SAM BROADCASTER
- · CREATE COMMERCIAL FOR PARTNERS
- · SEND IMAGING TO CONTRIBUTING DJS
- · CREATE STATION ON AIR SCHEDULE
- · CREATE STATION PROMOS [DONATE, WEB PAGE, TUNEIN, ETC]
Next week is my birthday so I am going to take a few days off and away from everything station related. It will be nice since a week later the station will be a reality. Who knows when I will be able to take some time off when that happens. #Excited
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Final Logo
This evening I went out for some drinks with a few friends. The station launch is literally 3 weeks from today so I decided instead of staying home, I would go out to have a little fun. We had gone to a friends house where we watched the San Antonio Spurs lose and barbequed a little.
I completely let go of all my stress and frustrations regarding the radio station and cut loose. When I got home, my final logo was waiting for me in my email. I took a look at it and was finally pleased with the logo after many trials and errors.
I am really happy with it. You can actually see a city in the background of the letters!
This is one of the final steps to getting the station web page off the ground and made public. 3 weeks, hopefully everything will be ready and perfect. I am optimistic it will go great!
I completely let go of all my stress and frustrations regarding the radio station and cut loose. When I got home, my final logo was waiting for me in my email. I took a look at it and was finally pleased with the logo after many trials and errors.
I am really happy with it. You can actually see a city in the background of the letters!
This is one of the final steps to getting the station web page off the ground and made public. 3 weeks, hopefully everything will be ready and perfect. I am optimistic it will go great!
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Will Station Web Page Launch Today?
Well today is the day the station web page was supposed to launch. At this very moment I am still waiting on some of the final finishing touches so to be honest I really won't know until later on.
I can honestly say "If it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't. Surprised? I know, I am too. This has been really stressing me out as of lately but yesterday I had a good friend give me an earful to set me straight.
"Dominique, just shut the f$%& up." I said "what?". My friend then says "Surprisingly, you are a brilliant man" "What do you mean surprisingly?" She says "Shut up and let me finish! You are brilliant and this station is going to be successful. But sometimes you turn into a little bitch cause you get impatient and want instant success. Just stop it. You need to slow your roll and take things slower cause one day you are going to miss a very important detail. You got this."
Such blatant honesty got me thinking that she was right. Sure I am still on a time frame since the stations official launch is going to be June 23rd.
I am going to try my best to tie up the remaining loose ends for the web page. Hopefully it will be launched today but if not, it will happen soon enough.
I can honestly say "If it happens it happens, if it doesn't it doesn't. Surprised? I know, I am too. This has been really stressing me out as of lately but yesterday I had a good friend give me an earful to set me straight.
"Dominique, just shut the f$%& up." I said "what?". My friend then says "Surprisingly, you are a brilliant man" "What do you mean surprisingly?" She says "Shut up and let me finish! You are brilliant and this station is going to be successful. But sometimes you turn into a little bitch cause you get impatient and want instant success. Just stop it. You need to slow your roll and take things slower cause one day you are going to miss a very important detail. You got this."
Such blatant honesty got me thinking that she was right. Sure I am still on a time frame since the stations official launch is going to be June 23rd.
I am going to try my best to tie up the remaining loose ends for the web page. Hopefully it will be launched today but if not, it will happen soon enough.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Delayed
Originally I had scheduled the site to be launched on June 2nd. That way, I could begin promotion of the station web page prior to the launch. Apparently, a June 2nd launch is not going to happen.
Yesterday was a pretty rough one for me. It was one of those stressful days where nothing had gone right and I got frustrated. At this very moment in time I am at the mercy of half a dozen people. I am literally waiting on 2 people to finish recording the station imaging, one person to finish the station logo, I have to find someone to make a header for the station site, I am waiting on a promotions guy, and I am waiting on a finance person.
I know these people do not have KHHA as high on their priority list as I do but I got upset because I am at a stalemate without them. I am the type of person who is constantly on the move and it is difficult for me to acknowledge that isn't how everyone lives their life.
The majority (not all) of the people I am waiting for are what I would consider my friends so I aired my frustrations on Facebook. That was something I wish I had not done. One of my friends called me and was upset thinking I was taking shots at her. I explained to her I wasn't taking shots at anyone nor was I talking about anyone in particular, I was just venting my frustration.
It had crossed my mind to find completely new people for the jobs at hand but I realized it would only delay the results even further.
That was yesterday, today is a completely new day. I am feeling much better but am able to deal with the stress easier. Easier, but not by much.
THIS IS HAPPENING! Even if I do have to replace these people.
Yesterday was a pretty rough one for me. It was one of those stressful days where nothing had gone right and I got frustrated. At this very moment in time I am at the mercy of half a dozen people. I am literally waiting on 2 people to finish recording the station imaging, one person to finish the station logo, I have to find someone to make a header for the station site, I am waiting on a promotions guy, and I am waiting on a finance person.
I know these people do not have KHHA as high on their priority list as I do but I got upset because I am at a stalemate without them. I am the type of person who is constantly on the move and it is difficult for me to acknowledge that isn't how everyone lives their life.
The majority (not all) of the people I am waiting for are what I would consider my friends so I aired my frustrations on Facebook. That was something I wish I had not done. One of my friends called me and was upset thinking I was taking shots at her. I explained to her I wasn't taking shots at anyone nor was I talking about anyone in particular, I was just venting my frustration.
It had crossed my mind to find completely new people for the jobs at hand but I realized it would only delay the results even further.
That was yesterday, today is a completely new day. I am feeling much better but am able to deal with the stress easier. Easier, but not by much.
THIS IS HAPPENING! Even if I do have to replace these people.
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