R0BATO MEDIA
The Plan & Investment
July 2026
Prepared for the Pocono Builders Association

Fix the storefront
Then fill it

Two rungs, priced separately, and you can stop after the first one. Nothing on this page asks the association to invent a new program. Every series below runs on material you already generate.

01 · The Offer

Two rungs, not a retainer pitch

The first rung is fixed scope with no contract. If it does not earn the second one, there is no second one.

Rung one

Foundation Fix

$700 one time
Two to three weeks. Fixed scope. No contract.
  • Rebuild the home show page for the real 2027 dates, with booth pricing and an exhibitor application
  • Rebuild or redirect the two indexed 404s, including the booth sales page
  • Delete the Lorem Ipsum page, the raw template page, the duplicate homepage and the 2020 tailgate page
  • Correct the Executive Director name site wide and replace the ptd.net address with the domain address
  • Update the scholarship and golf pages with real dates and the dollar amounts
  • Wire Instagram into the header and footer, and settle one Facebook URL and one LinkedIn identity
  • Google Business Profile overhaul, correct category, hours, photos, and a first review push
  • Citation cleanup across BBB, Yelp, Alignable, the Chamber, the Visitors Bureau and Monroe County
  • Starter photo set for the profile and the directory
Rung two

Content Engine

$2,000 / month
Month to month. Thirty days notice. Go straight to the engine and the $700 setup is waived into month one.
  • A shoot day every quarter, built around what is already on your calendar
  • Long form every two weeks, which covers the podcast relaunch and the winner case studies
  • One social post a week produced and published by R0BATO
  • The news feed kept live, which is what turns the homepage widget back on
  • Google Business Profile maintained, reviews requested and responded to
  • The awards archive worked through, one winner at a time
  • A monthly report in plain language, what went out and what it did
02 · How To Pay For It

Fund it out of sponsorship, not dues

This is the part worth thinking about before the number scares anybody. Your 2026 sponsorship inventory is already published, and there is a gap in it.

The other free leverGold Coast Builders Association in Florida gives every new member a free podcast appearance as a membership benefit, and sells sponsor tiers that include a guest slot. That single move turns Member Speak from a production cost into a recruiting pitch, and it permanently solves the problem of booking guests. It costs nothing to adopt.
03 · The Engine

Seven recurring series

Each one has a fixed format and a fixed cadence, and each was chosen because a named association somewhere in the country has already proven it works at roughly this scale.

Project of the Week

Weekly, year-round

Carousel or 60-second reel from an awards entry: before, after, three detail shots, the builder's own 250-word narrative cut to a caption.

Zero production cost, because the photography and the writing already exist and were submitted with permission. Fifty-two posts a year from a filing cabinet.

Proven by The awards archive, 1980–2026

Member Speak, Season 1

Every two weeks for 16 weeks, then a declared break

8 episodes, 20–30 minutes, filmed two at a time, hook-style titles, two event sponsors per event episode.

Podcasts pinned to the event calendar survive; open-ended ones die. Declare the season and announce the break rather than promising weekly and going dark.

Proven by HAVAN's season model; Building Better revived by the Parade

Built in the Poconos

Monthly, plus a burst before the home show

90-second builder profile filmed on an active jobsite, one per participating member.

Every builder re-shares their own profile, which is how the association reaches audiences it does not own.

Proven by Southern Utah HBA's 'Path to Parade', running since 2018

Priced out of housing in ___

Twice a year, tied to the legislative calendar

One script, six localized cuts published the same day: Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg, Mount Pocono, Tobyhanna, Coolbaugh, Polk.

Every township supervisor, local reporter and member in that town gets a version with their own town in the title. Monroe County issued 192 new single-family permits in 2024 and zero in Stroudsburg Borough, so the story is already in the data.

Proven by BIA of Washington published 14 localized cuts the same day

Ask a Member

Weekly

60-second answer to one homeowner question, filmed with a member on camera.

The consumer-info page is the association's entire consumer content strategy, roughly 300 words of undated all-caps advice. This is that page, turned into a year of video.

Proven by HBA of Greenville: a person walking and pointing beats a graphic by 8–16×

What it costs in Monroe County

Quarterly

Quarterly explainer on real local numbers: median sale price, permit counts, township-by-township build activity.

PMVB and the Monroe County Planning Commission publish free, citable data the association has never used. Being the source local press quotes is the cheapest authority available.

Proven by NC HBA has run a legislative recap weekly since 2017

Show Cuts

Two campaigns a year: April show, November awards

:06, :15 and :30 spots cut from existing footage and run as geo-targeted YouTube and Meta ads in Monroe, Pike and Carbon.

The highest-leverage move available, because the raw material is already shot. 118 videos are sitting in the library.

Proven by Black Hills HBA: 589,775 channel views on 13 subscribers
04 · Event Playbooks

One playbook per event, reusable every year

Nine recurring events. Each is a shoot day, a set of deliverables, and a template that gets better the second time.

Greater Pocono Home & Outdoor Living Show

April (18–19 in 2026), Kalahari Resorts, Kilimanjaro hall · Consumer + exhibitors

Pre: exhibitor recruitment reels (Feb), booth-map lead magnet, ticket-price announcement, :15 geo-targeted ad cuts in the two weeks prior. During: 3–5 Instagram Story frames per day, 1–2 Facebook posts per day, a walk-the-floor 'X things I found at the show' reel, scavenger-hunt UGC. After: highlight film, '5 trends we saw' recap, exhibitor testimonial clips, and a published attendance number.

Note. Two levers from the benchmark apply directly: make booths members-only (Flathead) or charge non-members a ~50% premium (Black Hills, $810 vs $545). And publish attendance, because nobody in the national comp set does and it is what proves exhibitor ROI.

Builder & Trade Professional Awards

Entries 17 Jul – 25 Sep; gala Wed 11 Nov (venue TBD) · Member + trade + local press

Pre: category explainer videos, 'how to photograph your project for entry' guide, deadline countdown, past-winner throwbacks. Night: two-camera gala coverage, winner reaction clips, red-carpet portraits. After: a highlight film, then one winner case study per week for the next year using the entry photos and 250-word narratives already submitted.

Note. This is the content engine of the whole association. Every entry arrives with 7–16 professional photos, a written narrative, a floor plan and a spec summary, all of it pre-cleared and pre-written. Add a release checkbox to the entry form and the archive becomes publishable.

PBA Golf Outing

Historically spring–summer, Skytop Lodge Golf Course. 2026 date unpublished. · Member + guests

Sponsor-recognition reel, foursome portraits delivered same-day to every player, leaderboard post, hole-sponsor sales collateral for next year, dinner speaker clip.

Note. 'Always sold out' per the site, so the content job is sponsor ROI and next-year waitlist, not ticket sales.

PBA Golf League

Weekly Thursdays 5:20–7:30pm, May–September. 16th season. · Member

Weekly standings graphic, rookie profile, season-opener and season-closer pieces, one long-form 'sixteen seasons' feature.

Note. The lowest-effort recurring content the association owns. It already happens every week without any staff work.

Sporting Clays Shoot

Mon 2 Nov 2026, 8:30am–2:30pm · Member

Action photography, team results, sponsor thank-yous, 'first-timer's guide to clays' explainer video.

Note. Pairs naturally with the awards gala nine days later, so it becomes one November shoot block.

Summer Mixer

Wed 5 Aug 2026, 5:30–7:30pm · Member

'Who to meet' pre-event post, photo album, new-member introduction clips filmed on the night.

Note. The cheapest new-member onboarding content there is.

Scholarship cycle

Applications close ~late March; awarded at the May membership dinner · Consumer / student / school

Winner profile filmed with the recipient, a 'careers in the trades' series, a guidance-counselor outreach kit, and an MCTI co-op partnership story.

Note. The award amounts, $1,000 and a $500 MCTI co-op award, are not stated on the scholarship page. Fix that first. Aligns with NAHB Careers in Construction Month in October.

NEPA B2B Expo (new)

Committee meeting Aug/Sep/Oct 2026; launch date TBD · Trade / B2B

Name and identity, its own domain and Instagram handle, exhibitor waitlist landing page, founding-sponsor campaign, and a behind-the-scenes documentary series following the committee.

Note. Build it on the split-brand model from day one: @triangleparade has 9,400 followers because it is branded as the event, not the association. Three NAHB Best Website winners used the same split.

Monthly membership dinners

2nd Wednesday of each month · Member

Speaker clips, member spotlight of the month, scholarship presentation in May.

Note. Sold as a headline member benefit and published on no calendar. Twelve guaranteed content events a year, currently producing nothing.
05 · The Scoreboard

How we will know it worked

Eleven measures with a 90 day target and a twelve month target. Every figure in the first column is verified, not estimated.

MeasureToday90 days12 months
Website — stale or broken pages14 identified0 Severity-10
News items published0 ever1250+
Calendar events with a venue and price0 of 4949 of 49All
Podcast episodes published on a real feed048 + a declared season 2
Awards winner case studies published01252
Instagram followers8351,1001,800
Instagram posting cadence~1.5/week3/week + Stories at eventsNAHB band: 1–4/week, 3–5 Story frames/day at events
Published home show attendanceNever published2026 number publishedYear-over-year trend published
Paid local video campaigns run01 (awards)2 (show + awards)
Member-facing video assets in the library118 uncataloguedCatalogued + 20 new150+, tagged and reusable
State / national award entries0 on record1 filed3 filed
Deliberately absent: YouTube subscriber count. The best association media operations in America have 13, 27, 28, 110 and 488 subscribers. It measures nothing at this scale. What matters locally is whether the right few hundred people in Monroe County saw it, which is why geo targeted distribution of footage you already own outranks everything else on the list.
06 · Add Ons

Quoted separately, only if wanted

The Archive Rescue

A one off pass through the awards entries: cataloguing, rights checkboxes, and a publishable winners archive going back as far as the material allows. Priced once the volume is known.

The Home Show film

A proper highlight film plus the six, fifteen and thirty second cuts for paid distribution, and a booth sales one pager built from real attendance numbers.

The NEPA B2B Expo launch

Name, identity, its own domain and handle, an exhibitor waitlist page, and a documentary series following the committee that is building it.

Recruitment film

For the empty job board and the MCTI pipeline that already sits on your board. Answers the trades shortage with something a school can actually show.

The consumer magazine

Scoping and a publisher introduction on the Berks County model, where an outside publisher sells the advertising and carries the risk.

Paid distribution

Campaign setup and management for geo targeted YouTube and Meta, Monroe, Pike and Carbon. Media spend is separate and stays yours.