Here's what 98.5 The Sports Hub should do to generate more qualified meetings every month.
Lead generation
For your first outreach, prioritize businesses that look like your best current advertisers—these are likely retail stores, local franchise QSRs, auto dealers, and regional sports bars. Leadsforge can help you identify and target businesses that share similar profiles, size, and ad purchasing behaviors to your ideal or existing customers. Here’s why
Focusing on lookalikes ensures that your outreach is data-driven and more likely to connect with prospects who already value what you offer—and convert faster.
A great way to expand your contact list is by reaching out to followers of other media companies or radio stations serving the Boston area. Just provide the competitor’s company name and website to Leadsforge. Share their LinkedIn company page link in Leadsforge and it will build your list of engaged prospects for you.
Your core ICP includes local and regional advertisers: SMBs (like multi-location restaurants and auto dealers), national brands buying market media, media buyers at agencies, and marketing leaders at Boston businesses. You can refine this by team/role (e.g., CMO, media buyer), geography (Greater Boston + New England), and organization size to focus on the contacts most likely to buy ad packages. Send your refined targeting criteria to Leadsforge for list building. Here’s why
Better-targeted lists mean you waste less time on uninterested parties, increasing both response rates and booked meetings.
Targeting
Segment your outreach by:
1) Ad product (play-by-play, digital, weekly, seasonal)
2) Buyer type (local SMB, agency, sponsor manager)
3) Geography (Boston and suburbs)
4) Industry vertical (restaurants, auto, retail, real estate, healthcare/EDU, sports). Here’s why
These segments allow you to tailor messages with specific hooks and offers, making your outreach more relevant and boosting your chances of engagement.
Focus on slices like restaurants and bars, auto dealers, retail chains, healthcare/education (where permitted), real estate, and sports-related businesses. Craft messaging for each to highlight the specific value 98.5 The Sports Hub brings, such as driving foot traffic or promoting new locations. Here’s why
By addressing the direct needs of each vertical, you’ll stand out in their crowded inbox and show you understand their business.
Target your outreach around game season starts, playoff runs, big local events, store openings, budget planning cycles, or after local press mentions of competitor ad buys. Also, look for signals such as new marketing hires on LinkedIn, company 'now hiring' pages, or RFP windows at agencies. Here’s why
Event-based and behavioral triggers make your message timely and relevant, increasing your chances of starting a meaningful conversation.
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Here’s Why
Salesforge gives you a full suite to run scalable, highly-personalized outbound campaigns: managing sequences across email and LinkedIn, using scheduling and analytics to optimize performance. For a lean local sales team, this means saving time, keeping messaging consistent, and tracking all touchpoints. Here’s why
You get better results with less manual effort, letting your team focus on selling, not list chasing or manual follow-ups.
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Here’s Why
Leadsforge is designed for building high-quality, hyper-relevant prospect lists fast. It allows you to pull local business contacts, identify agency buyers, and track lookalike customers or competitor page followers—all with simple inputs. Here’s why
You spend less time researching and more time actually talking to likely buyers, which means more meetings and ad sales.
For your initial setup, go with Mailforge for affordable mailbox management and solid deliverability. If you need higher personalization or want to add premium Google/Microsoft mailboxes, add Primeforge. Both work seamlessly with your chosen domains and let you scale your outreach as your needs grow.
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