
Chris Graham: Online and traditional advertising
A student in a Building the Machine marketing class that I was teaching recently was surprised to learn that I had anything positive to say about traditional forms of advertising.

A student in a Building the Machine marketing class that I was teaching recently was surprised to learn that I had anything positive to say about traditional forms of advertising.

Do you offer something totally unique to the world? Let’s get that out of the way right now. Of course you do. I’m not challenging your business model. You have a unique product to offer. That, or the way you offer service is second to none. That’s why you’re in business in the first place.

John Hardy, nationally known for his one-man play, Rattlesnake, will bring his adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to WTA’s Gateway for one night only on Saturday, December 22 at 7 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro. The performance runs approximately eighty minutes and is performed in one act. It is appropriate for audiences of any age but is best suited for age ten and above.

A host of the River City Radio Hour’s celebrities return to WTA’s Gateway stage for the December Radio Hour on Friday, December 21 at 329 West Main in downtown Waynesboro. Mary Margaret McBride (aka Barbara Lawson) appears as the Radio Hour’s Guest of the Year. With her splendid voice and histronics, Ms. McBride brings an overload of joy to the season.

The Waynesboro High School Concert Choir needs your help! They have been invited to perform once again in the famous Carnegie Hall in New York on March 3, 2013, as well as a performance for “Concerts at One” at the Trinity Church Wall Street on March 4.

A shooting rampage at an elementary school in Connecticut has left at least 27 people dead, including the shooter.

You have 500 likes on your Facebook business page, but the last time you said anything to your fan base was two weeks ago. Bad. You have 23 followers on your Twitter page, and you have a busy schedule of posts, videos, pictures, contests, etc. Bad. Maybe worse.

The Blues Buskers, Kat and Doug and J3 provide holiday music for blues lovers.

The Man of Many Talents, Richard Adams, has stuffed his Christmas Variety Show stocking with talents known and unknown. The Friday, December 14th performance will is from 7:30 to 9 pm at WTA’s Gateway at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro.

Blue Ridge Chapel Church of the Brethren hosted an incredible Christmas dinner for the Waynesboro Senior Center on Friday, Dec. 7.
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