Integrated marketing campaign:  The Army Iron Man campaign is an integrated marketing campaign that combines radio advertising, earned media, interactive voting, and event marketing to engage, energize your target audience.  
Nominations:  Each week during the high school football season, TSF Radio Network accepts nominations from coaches, athletic directors, media, parents, and recruiters for the Army Iron Man of the Week.  The nominees must excel on offense and defense, demonstrate good character and leadership on and off the field, and embody the Army STRONG concept. 
From our experience, there is always an indoctrination process to build awareness of the program.  After that, the campaign takes a life of its own, in which we'll receive unsolicited nominations from coaches, fans, and the media.  Our goal is for the community to take ownership of the campaign and nominate those players whom they feel embodies the concepts of Army STRONG.
Interactive voting for the Army Iron Man:  Each week, TSF Radio Network selects a maximum of ten nominees for the weekly award.  Fans go online to our web site, www.TheSportsFlash.com, where they can vote for the weekly winner by either clicking on a popup survey or sending us an e-mailed vote.  This engagement of the target audience is critical to the success of the campaign.  Our goal is to drive students, coaches, and parents to the web site to vote for the weekly and annual winner, where they'll also find click-through links for additional information about the career opportunities available in the U.S. Army.
Army Iron Man generates record-breaking web traffic:  Since 2006, TSF Radio Network's Army Iron Man campaign has generated tremendous web traffic to our site, including:
  Total Visits: 4,402,673  
  Total Impressions (Web Voting): 876,400  
  Total Votes (Online/E-Mail): 529,937  
In 2009, TSF Radio Network managed Army Iron Man campaigns for nine different states, delivering another banner year for web traffic at our site.  From late August through the end of December 2008, www.TheSportsFlash.com generated the following web traffic.
  Total Visits: 1,325,083  
  Total Impressions (Web Voting): 210,055  
  Total Votes (Online/E-Mail): 211,236  
Automated e-mail response:  Each of the 124,638 e-mailed votes for the Army Iron Man campaign received a state-specific response, thanking them for the vote and including a link to www.GoArmy.com, where they could go for more information about the career opportunities available in the U.S. Army.

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