Podcast appearances and mentions of Rob Quist

Reporter Taylor Inman chatted with local filmmaker and internationally renowned cinematographer Kier Atherton, who is presenting his sophomore feature film, Out to Pasture, at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. This Montana premiere offers audiences a special opportunity to experience the film before its wide release. Tickets are available online and at the door which opens at 7 pm.The film stars French actor Théo Trifard and features a talented cast, including Flathead locals Rob Quist, Grave River, Annemarie Jones, Mikey Winn, and Mike Eldred. Out to Pasture first premiered in Paris this August at La Maison des Auteurs, and now Whitefish will host its first theatrical screening in the U.S. After the screening, stay for an engaging Q&A session with the cast and crew. Don't miss this chance to dive into the world of independent film and connect with the creative team behind it! A big thank you to our headline sponsor for the News Now podcast, Loren's Auto Repair! They combine skill with integrity resulting in auto service & repair of the highest caliber. Discover them in Ashley Square Mall at 1309 Hwy 2 West in Kalispell Montana, or learn more at lorensauto.com.Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and please consider subscribing to us. Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram and X. Subscribe to all our other DIL pods! Keep up with northwest Montana sports on Keeping Score, dig into stories with Deep Dive, and jam out to local musicians with Press Play. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us

This week on the Local Events podcast, we've got something for everyone! Hone your photography skills on the Whitefish Trail, craft stacker rings at Waters Edge Winery, or search for fairies at the Conrad Mansion. Don't miss the intimate concert with Big Sky City Lights at the Press Play lunch series, or grab your pup for the adorable Goldenstock event in Whitefish. From roller derby to museum tours, Northwest Montana is packed with excitement—tune in to find your next adventure!Don't miss the Montana premiere of the feature film, Out To Pasture, filmed in Montana and starring French actor, Theo Trifard, Montana's renowned entertainer Rob Quist, and Broadway actor, Mike Eldred. Learn more here!Check out all events on dailyinterlake.com/eventsEvents mentioned in this episode:Press Play with Big Sky City Lights Photography on the Trail Ring Making Class Fairy Walks in the Conrad Mansion's GardensGlacier-Two Medicine Alliance Fall Gathering Goldenstock 2024 Festival of Flavors Homecoming Automotive Swap Meet & Car Show Locals' Day Roller Derby Double Header A big thank you to our headline sponsor for the News Now podcast, Loren's Auto Repair! They combine skill with integrity resulting in auto service & repair of the highest caliber. Discover them in Ashley Square Mall at 1309 Hwy 2 West in Kalispell Montana, or learn more at lorensauto.com.Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and please consider subscribing to us. Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. And follow us on Facebook, Instagram and X. Subscribe to all our other DIL pods! Keep up with northwest Montana sports on Keeping Score, dig into stories with Deep Dive, and jam out to local musicians with Press Play. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us

On Friday, Mat 3rd, Halladay and Rob Quist joined us for a lunchtime show on our press floor. The father-daughter duo shared love letters to Montana and a few puns; their family talent spans across generations. Singer-songwriter Rob founded the Mountain Mission Wood Band and has had his songs sung by Michael Martin Murphy and Loretta Lynn. He has appeared with musical acts Heart, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jimmy Buffett, and Dolly Parton, among others.When Halladay — a music talent in her own right — and Rob aren't crooning a country melody with trio partner Clara Weick, they're acting in movies, playing shows, and creating a plan to bring more music to Montana children.Watch our interview with Rob and HalladayRead Taylor Inman's interview with the Quists before the show Learn more about Halladay and her upcoming shows and connect with her:Facebook  / halladaymusic  Instagram  / halladay.quist  YouTube   / @halladayquist7399 Montana's Got TalentConnect with Rob Quist on Facebook / rob.quist.7  or Instagram  / quist303  Big thanks to our sponsor this month, Parkside Credit Union! They are passionate about serving their communities and look no further to find a loan in northwest Montana. Connect with them - www.parksidefcu.comVisit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Taylor Inman meets with musician father/daughter duo Rob and Halladay Quist at Halladay's Starlight Studio. They talk about their musical upbringings, the importance of musical education, and their bond. They will play on the Daily Inter Lake press floor on May 3rd, 2024! Read Taylor's article - https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2024/apr/25/the-quist-dynamic-duo-prepares-for-an-exciting-busy-2024/Tickets to the show - https://flatheadtickets.com/Big thanks to our sponsor this month, Parkside Credit Union! They are passionate about serving their communities and look no further to find a loan in northwest Montana. Connect with them - www.parksidefcu.com. Learn more about Hallady Quistwww.halladayquist.comhttps://www.facebook.com/HalladayMusichttps://www.instagram.com/halladay.quist/https://www.youtube.com/@halladayquist7399Learn more about Rob Quisthttps://www.facebook.com/rob.quist.7https://www.instagram.com/quist303/Daily Inter Lake's Press Play concerts are a subscriber-only benefit and support our Newspaper in Education (NIE) Program.Visit DailyInterLake.com to stay up-to-date with the latest breaking news from the Flathead Valley and beyond. Support local journalism and subscribe to us! Watch this podcast and more on our YouTube Channel. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Got a news tip, want to place an ad, or sponsor this podcast? Contact us!

Host John Floridis interviews Rob Quist, Don Collins and Don MacDonald of the New Big Sky Singers . At the time of this interview, the group was planning a CD release and reunion concert for their new recording, 50 Years Ago Today , right when the COVID-19 pandemic brought live music performances to a halt.

We've all been a victim at some point… I'm talking of course about email marketing from political campaigns. Braze's own Todd Grennan walks us through the nightmare experience we're all familiar with and the damage it can have on your brand long term.       TRANSCRIPT: [0:00:18] Speaker 2: Welcome back to Braze for Impact, your martech industry discuss digest. Today, I'll be getting some help from Todd Grennan, Managing Editor of Content Marketing here at Braze. So, we talk with a lot of clients and experts about best practices and strategies when it comes to executing effective email campaigns, but we don't hear a lot from the recipients of emails, those that are actually receiving the experience, but today that's exactly what we're going to do. Learning from the strategies and results of marketing teams is one way to gather powerful takeaways, but getting a detailed breakdown of the consumer experience can be even more telling. Todd walks us through a broken email experience he was subjected to compliments of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Now, they created this strategy and it's been used in many political campaigns to date. Here's Todd to tell us more.   [0:01:10] Todd Grennan: Bad political outreach knows no partisan divide. Back during the 2016 presidential election, we saw a lot of poorly conceived, ethically questionable email marketing from the Republican nominee and a sizeable amount of repetitive batch and blast emails from his Democratic opponent, but while the 2016 election came and went, political candidate struggles with their digital outreach have continued Even to this day. Political candidates and organizations have different marketing goals than brands and the rules they have to follow when it comes to outreach are different in part because politicians have exempted themselves from the anti-spam laws that apply to everyone else. Ultimately, they're still trying to use technology to raise money and build relationships with their target audience and that means that there's a lot that marketing growth and engagement teams can learn from political messaging even, or maybe especially, when it goes awry. Picture this, it's Thursday, May 25th, 2017 and you're a left-leaning individual living somewhere in the United States. You donate monthly to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and a few weeks back, you gave $10 to the campaign of Rob Quist, the Democratic candidate running in a special election in Montana. When your alarm goes off at 8:00 AM, you brush the sleep from your eyes, make some coffee, and check your email, and you find yourself greeted by an email from the Quist campaign, "Todd, are you online? Todd, sorry to email so early, but this is urgent. Polls are about to open in Montana. If we can raise $75,000 by 8:00 PM we can fund our, get out the vote efforts and win the special election. If not, we could be in for a tough night". You open the email and find a solicitation for more donations from the Quist campaign. You consider for a moment, then decided against giving anymore money right now. You go about your day, head to work, a couple hours pass, another email from the Quist campaign appears in your inbox, and another, and another. Before you go to bed, you've received nine emails from them asking for money each with a click-baity, vaguely hysterical, seemingly randomly capitalized subject line. 10:03 AM: 5X match extended. Montana match unlocked. 11:04 AM: Breaking. Nate Silver's 538. 12:04 PM: Heartbreaking end. 1:03 PM; Stunning news. 3:03 PM: Please read. Do not delete. 5:02 PM: Urgent Montana alert. Five hour notice. 7:15 PM: Final request, Todd. 9:04 PM: One hour left. Quist loses, but you keep getting emails like these by the dozen from the DCCC, from other democratic special election candidates, like Georgia's Jon Ossoff, all of them begging for money. Their subject lines and body texts, swinging from champagne, popping declarations of certain victory to apocalyptic gloom. You unsubscribed from one email address then another, but the messages keep coming from the DCCC and from putatively independent groups with names like, End Citizens United and the Progressive Turnout Project. What's going on? You're a good person. Why is this happening to you? The short version, it's the DCCC's fault. Back during the 2014 election in an effort to juice the democratic parties takings from small donors during an election that, to put it lightly didn't favor their party, the DCCC pioneered a new approach to political email. Incessant messages, asking for donations, wild shifts in tone from email to email, highly questionable claims about funding deadlines and double or triple or quadruple donation matches, and the strategy brought in an enormous amount of money for the DCCC and its candidates, allowing the Democratic party to out raise Republicans by more than 30%. However, that extra cash did little to boost Democratic candidates and the emails themselves triggered widespread backlash, inspiring both a parody Tumblr account and a mocking song where all the lyrics were taken from DCCC subject lines. (music) Following the election, the DCCC doubled down on its strategy. Then a group of DCCC veterans went off on their own, founding a left leaning digital consulting firm known as, Mothership Strategies, that took this approach to email marketing and brought it to individual Democratic campaigns. Including Ossoff and Quist's election efforts. Between DCCC and Mothership, Democratic leaning donors have found themselves inundated with alarmist, frustrating emails for years at a time. Why do democratic candidates and organizations keep inundating their donors with aggressive, irritating emails? Well, because they think it's a successful strategy. Back in 2014, Steve Israel, who was then the head of the DCCC told reporters, "I apologize all over the country for the volume of email people get, but it works", and argued that the strategy had, "Revolutionized online fundraising", but while this burn and churn approached email can pay off in the short term when it comes to juicing your fundraising, there's a longterm cost. Michael Whitney, the former digital fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, described the DCCC's approach as a wildly deceptive, unrelenting approach that treats supporters like garbage. There's reason to think it's poisoning the well for future Democratic candidates and potentially driving down real voter engagement, which is what ultimately determines whether a particular campaign is a success or a failure. With the help of Mothership Strategies, Rob Quist raised more than $6 million and lost. Jon Ossoff's donations exceeded 23 million, but he lost too. Arguably, the only real winner on the Democratic side of these races was Mothership, which pocketed more than 4.2 million in fees for its efforts. Ossoff and Quist may not be the only losers over the long haul. A 2014 study found that people who receive DCCC emails made donations that were 15% lower in the future than those who hadn't received the messages, which suggests those tactics can drive down fundraising over time. What's the upside of all this? While the DCCC and Mothership have made a lot of questionable decisions when it comes to sending email outreach, ultimately it means that marketers have a chance to learn from them without having to make those same mistakes themselves and really, that's a big opportunity. So, let's take a second and dig into what the DCCC approach to email gets wrong. First, sending way, way, way too many messages and sending them too frequently. Look, no one wants to receive nine emails asking them for money in a 13 hour period. No one. That's exhausting and significantly increases the chances that recipients unsubscribe or start tuning out your messaging. Instead of sending a bunch of similar emails, send one email and use multivariate testing to optimize it. You'll send the best possible message to your audience and that'll do a lot more to drive donations or whatever conversion you're trying to encourage than a barrage of semi-relevant outreach. Second, they're sending outreach to only one messaging channel. Email's great. It's one of the best messaging channels for ROI and for a lot of customers it's their preferred way to hear from brands, but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Some of your most valuable customers may not be interested in joining your email list and others are going to tire after receiving email after email and unsubscribe. If you only use one channel to communicate with your audience, that unsubscribe is the end of the story. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign aside, most political campaigns don't have a native app. That means that push notifications and internet messages are off the table for them, though there's no reason marketers shouldn't take advantage. A robust cross channel outreach is still possible even if you don't have an app. Thanks to web messaging, you can use email, web push, in-browser messages, and web content cards all in concert to engage your audience on desktop and the mobile web. This kind of cross channel approach can pay big dividends. According to research conducted by Braze, sending messages in a single channel is associated with a 179% increase in engagement compared to users who received no messages at all. However, leveraging two or more messaging channels leads to a massive 642% increase, which highlights the competitive advantage that cross channel outreach represents. Third, sending only one kind of email. Email is more than just a way to nudge people to give you money. It's a powerful highly flexible channel and it's just as good at keeping people informed and building relationships as it is for encouraging one more donation. There's nothing wrong with asking for donations. Just like businesses need revenue to operate. Political campaigns depend on donations to pay their staff, fund their ads, and support the get out the vote operations, but sending one appeal for funds after another is just as off-putting as a company that only sends messages urging you to make a purchase. It can leave a lot of people feeling like they're being treated like a living, breathing wallet. Instead of using email marketing campaigns to incessantly ask for money, the Ossoff and Quist campaigns could have mixed things up by using this channel to lay out their campaign platform, highlight endorsements and positive poll numbers, and asked people to volunteer. Making people feel invested in a campaign, or a brand for that matter, can do a lot to deepen their engagement and make them more open to your appeals the next time you ask them for money. Fourth, using repetitive and off-putting copy and creative. Let's be blunt. These messages aren't email copy at its best. They're built around scare tactics and the content of messages tends to be thin and unengaging. The use of images and emojis are haphazard and gives the emails a cheap unappealing vibe. Even worse, they keep using the same unappealing subject lines and copy over and over and over. Creating messages that keep your audience interested and engaged isn't easy. It's even harder when you send the same kind of outreach over and over, but with a little thought and care and the right marketing tools, it's possible to keep things fresh over the long haul. You just have to try. Finally, sending every message to their entire email list. This is a sin that a lot of companies are guilty of too. You have a massive email list at your disposal. You've got an email that you think is going to perform well. Why wouldn't you want to send it to everybody? Well, because one size very rarely fits all. The Ossoff campaign sent a lot of emails asking for money. While lots of people were unhappy about the outreach, some of the unhappiest where the people who experienced a barrage of these messages immediately after making a donation or setting up a recurring payment to the campaign. These people did exactly what the campaign had asked them to do and what did they get for their troubles? Even more annoying messages begging for cash. Avoiding this kind of situation isn't hard. If the Ossoff campaign had segmented their audience based on whether they'd made a donation or a recurring payment, they could have exempted recent donors from their outreach focusing these efforts on people who had yet to donate. Plus with this kind of segmentation, it would have been possible to carefully target future messages based on each recipient's donation patterns, potentially allowing them to turn one time donors into recurring ones using personalized targeted outreach. If you're trying to improve your brand's approach to email, taking a hard look at the DCCC's email strategy and doing the exact opposite is a good first step, but you shouldn't stop there. There's so much more out there when it comes to engaging your customers, whether it's additional channels, whether it's tools like personalization, segmentation, message testing and optimization. The important thing is to think seriously about what you're actually delivering to your customers. What is the experience they're getting from you? Why would they want to receive it? If you're not giving them an experience that they're interested in, rethinking things. None of these campaigns are trying to irritate potential voters. They probably all had the best of intentions, but ultimately they were serving up a really frustrating experience mostly because they didn't know any better. You do know better, or hopefully you do now, and it's something that you can avoid. It takes a little forethought. It takes the right tools, but you have what it takes to make it happen. So, please do, speaking on behalf of all your customers.   [0:12:33] Speaker 2: That's about all the time we have for today. Special thanks to Todd for giving us some insight. Let's learn from the mistakes of others instead of repeating them. Thanks for joining us. Take care.   [0:12:45]  

Part of an Acoustic Brunch interview from 2010. Mike Smith chats with Mission Mountain Wood Band's Rob Quist. Rob talks about the Aber Day Kegger, performing for the Hell's Angels, performing with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, music from the album in Without Knocking, meeting Steve Riddle, Christian Johnson and Terry Robinson. 

Slocum and Charlie boarded a plane in Madrid that has just brought them to the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Meanwhile, at Miss Marm’s Prune Ranch, Riders In The Sky are telling her about an amazing discovery at the Nixon Presidential Library involving a secret recording and vital clue… featuring Rob Quist!

Bill Press welcomes Simone Pathe, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, & Ray Locker to discuss Jared Kushner's back-channel talks with Russia, how Democrats move on following a special election loss in Montana, why Betsy DeVos is bad for our children, & the damage done by Donald in Europe - the full Tuesday edition of the Bill Press Show!

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Bill Press welcomes Elana Schor, Jon Allen, & Pema Levy to discuss Rob Quist's loss in Montana's special election, additional support from Democratic leaders for a $15 minimum wage, what it will take for Democrats to win more Congressional seats, & Jared Kushner's new role at the center of the Russia investigation - the full Friday edition of the Bill Press Show!

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Bill Press is out so executive producer Peter Ogburn is filling in. He welcomes Leslie Dach, Rebecca Vallas, & Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to discuss the CBO score for the AHCA bill that leaves 23 million uninsured, the Republican House candidate bodyslamming a reporter in Montana, and a proposed budget that will help the rich and hurt the poor - the full Thursday edition of the Bill Press Show!

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Bill Press welcomes Rita Siemion, Ben Wikler, & Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) to discuss Michael Flynn's refusal to testify in front of the Senate, Donald Trump's record on targeted killings, the importance of Thursday's special election in Montana, & why Trump's budget stands to do harm to everyday Americans - the full Tuesday edition of the Bill Press Show!

POLITICO reporters break down the 3 huge, separate-yet-linked stories: Trump’s meeting with top Russian officials last week, former FBI Director James Comey's memo indicating that President Trump asked him to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn and the special counsel named to head up the investigation into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Then, the group discusses how Congress is attempting to circumvent the media firestorm to tackle legislative items. Plus, the latest in the Montana special election featuring folk singer Rob Quist.

Sally Mauk: Welcome to "Capitol Talk," our weekly political analysis program. I'm Sally Mauk And I'm joined by veteran capitol reporter Chuck Johnson and University of Montana political science professor Rob Saldin. SM: And Rob two new polls show the House race between Greg Gianforte and Rob Quist is narrowing from double digits to within six to eight points with Gianforte still leading but is getting closer what's going on do you think?

Blurbs: Trumpcare 3.0, Republican sacrifice, and Democratic   Split a donation between Rob Quist and the DNC to help elect Rob to Congress and Democrats around the country.   DONATE Fair warning, Felipe: if you're like me, your jaw's about to hit the floor. On Thursday, Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in this month's congressional special election in Montana, told voters that he couldn't support the House GOP's health care bill. But just a few hours later, Gianforte was caught on tape -- on a call with his lobbyist donors -- celebrating the passage of a bill that would take away thousands of Montanans' and millions of Americans' health care. It's the kind of brazen, cynical talking out of both sides of one's mouth that you'd expect from the bad-guy politician in a cheesy movie. But this is real life, and it shows just how much is at stake in this special election. Fortunately, Montanans have a better choice. Rob Quist is running a grassroots campaign to represent hardworking Montanans and their families in Congress and won't be beholden to special interests. He believes in protecting our right to get the health care we need -- and unlike his opponent, he means what he says.

The season is ramping up and I'm telling stories of Jim and John. We also visit the most recent slam on Rob Quist but is performing at a nudist colony really a bad thing?

What would you use if you wanted to destroy a perfectly good TV? Apparently Greg Gianforte favors the double barrel shotgun whereas Rob Quist would rather shoot a .30-.30 lever action Henry's. They both keep pandering to us Montanans as the special election for the Montana House seat comes closer. We discuss this as well as give some geographic, ecologic and historic context to the Missouri River.  

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

This week Scott and I talk about the Masters, music, beer, fly fishing reels, and the strategies Rob Quist and Greg Gianforte are taking to look the part for Montana's special House of Representative election. It's kind of rediculous. 

Rusland blijft een molensteen om de nek van Trump. Nu zelfs spionage-aantijgingen en de speculatie dat hij opeens wèl Assad ging bombarderen om te laten zien dat hij niet Poetin’s poedel is. Plus: Steve Bannon, de wit-nationalistische Tea Party Breitbart Burn-It-Down ideoloog van Trump lijkt een machtstrijd in het Witte Huis met Ivanka Trump en haar man Jared Kushner te verliezen. En ook de cowboy folk music van Rob Quist, een Democraat in Montana die daar mogelijk een Republikeinse Congreszetel gaat winnen. Tips van de week: “I thought I understood the American right, but Trump proved me wrong…” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/magazine/i-thought-i-understood-the-american-right-trump-proved-me-wrong.html The Sun: http://thesunmagazine.org/

Melissa and Mike discuss the upcoming special elections in the Kansas Fourth Congressional District and Montana's At-Large House District. Yes, that's a Rob Quist song at the end. Find Mike on Twitter @mikey_bauman This episode is brought to you by Tomboy Nanny (www.tomboynanny.com).