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Bumping off the US Census Bureau, Lowes was the number one advertiser for radio last week, according to Media Monitors. The Home Improvement big box ran 63,150 commercials on radio stations across the country. Quicken Loans was the biggest mover.

KJ Allen is the President of The Oconee Radio Group in Georgia. Radio Ink Publisher Deborah Parenti interviews KJ about his team is handling the coronavirus crisis and what the company is doing to help local advertisers stay in business. LISTEN

(By Jackson Del Weaver) Jim wasn’t what you’d expect. Today less so, but back then car dealers were often slick, fast talking and dressed to kill or at least maim. That wasn’t Jim – always a little disheveled wearing a white button down shirt with a colorless tie.

In this special video, Radio Ink Chairman Eric Rhoads interviews Best-Selling Author, Award Winning Professional Speaker, TV Personality, and Business Mentor Lee Milteer. Milteer has counseled and trained more than a million people and has worked with Walt Disney, AT&T, Xerox, IBM, NASA and Federal Express. WATCH

(By Loyd Ford) The stress of our time is weighing on local business owners and it is the most significant challenge all of these people have faced in their lifetime.  It is well known that no one has seen anything like the voluntary turning off of the national economy happening now.

(By Buzz Knight) Did we ever imagine we’d be grateful for a haircut? For a grocery worker? For a delivery service? For a mechanic on duty? For a waiter, busboy or a bartender? The list can go on and on.

(By Randy Lane) Being authentic and relating to your audience has never been more important than today. That means being highly aware of what you, your cohosts and listeners are feeling and going through emotionally. At the heart of this pandemic is loss.

Pizza is a huge part of Chris and April Robinson's lives. The Somerset, Kentucky couple has been "Slinging Pies" for most of their working lives. She managed a pizza chain for 15 years and he has been in an out of the business ever since he got his drivers license. Our weekly advertiser success stories are sponsored by SPECbyte.com.

On Friday from 3pm-9pm Eastern, the hosts of the nationally-syndicated radio shows, Intelligence for Your Life & Intelligence for Your Health – John Tesh, Connie Sellecca and Gib Gerard – will broadcast a live 6-hour Facebook fundraiser to benefit the nation’s healthcare workers.

(By Bob McCurdy) One consequence of the past month is that previously closed advertising minds will now likely be open, as most businesses are in need of immediate mouth-to-mouth economic resuscitation.