Foundational classes

Estimates and goals - Learn how to create estimates and add goals for local TV, radio, and cable buys

This class covers; 

• Setting up estimates
• Entering goals
• Recalling and changing goals
• Viewing goals in MIS
• Viewing, printing and saving reports

TV prebuy - Learn how to use spotbuy toolkit to add TV avails, work with research tools, request reports, and transfer to buysheet

This class covers; 

• Adding avails
• Working with revised proposals
• Researching and evaluating
• Using the worksheet to put together schedules
• Reporting
• Customizing spot buy toolkit

Radio prebuy - Learn how to create a radio research project, work with rankers and pandora, add worksheets and avails, build and transfer a schedule

This class covers; 

• Using radio research tools
• Creating worksheets
• Adding avails
• Researching and evaluating
• Assembling schedules in the worksheet
• Reporting
• Working with spill
• Claiming cancellations
• Viewing authorization history

Buy management 1 – Buys and orders - An overview of TV and radio buy management

This class covers; 

• Getting started in the buysheet
• Using the buysheet
• Sending orders electronically
• Tracking orders
• Revising and managing orders
• Maintaining personal directories

Buy management 2 –Makegoods & revisions - Learn how to work with makegoods and revisions, maintain buysheets, and reporting

This class covers; 

• Setting up subscriptions and viewing my orders/myoffers
• Receiving makegood offers
• Maintaining schedules in the buysheet
• Requesting reports
• Working with revisions
• Viewing, printing and saving reports
• Working with writer options

SpotWriter - Learn how to create a writer, request and save a report, download to Excel, and work with special features

This class covers; 

• Designing and changing spotwriter reports
• Requesting spotwriter reports
• Viewing, printing and saving reports
• Requesting reports in spot toolkit

Spot invoice toolkit – Resolving discrepancies - Learn how to match invoices to buylines, adjust buylines. and reporting

This class covers; 

• Preparing for invoice matching
• Resolving discrepancies with spot invoice toolkit

Posting local broadcast - Learn to work with different spot posting reports

This class covers; 

• Requesting posting reports
• Viewing, printing and saving reports
• Requesting lock-in reports

Spot toolkit – Traffic - Learn how to work with records, cover letters, and shipping orders

This class covers; 

• Setting up files to traffic local broadcast
• Determining what needs to be trafficked
• Requesting instructions
• Reporting traffic information

Specialty classes

Local demo analyzer - Learn how to create a request, format reports, and reporting options

This class covers; 

• Creating a basic request
• Working with report options
• Formatting the report
• Listing what’s online
• Saving and retrieving requests and reports
• Frequently asked questions

Spot authorization tracking - Learn to create authorizations, work with revisions, and check for goals

This class covers; 

• Open and review authorizations
• Claim authorizations
• Submit the buy for approval
• Claim cancellations
• View authorization history

Spot authorization tracking - Planners - Learn to create authorizations, work with revisions, and check for goals

This class covers; 

• Create authorizations
• Add attachments
• View and add markets
• Issue authorizations
• Change markets
• Issue revisions
• Manage watch criteria

Spot authorization tracking – Supervisors - Learn to work with authorizations and process them through the workflow

This class covers; 

• Open and review authorizations
• Process an authorization
• Add market details
• Add attachments
• Send to buyers
• Manage and maintain authorizations
• Work with cancelled markets and revisions
• View Reports
• Manage watch criteria