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Showing posts with label NETWORKING. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NETWORKING. Show all posts
Monday, November 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Music Choice Cable Channels; What You Don't Know
Image via Wikipedia(I so wanna sing that part in "Money For Nothing" by the Dire Straits - HAHA!)
Being a great DJ for your party can be super easy. Granted, you COULD go with that 67 year old accordionist for 20 bucks an hour for the first 5 hours, but we know how that would end. Well, the party probably wouldn't even get started.
SO! Here's an alternative that works. Turn on your TV and see if you have the "Music Choice" service with your local cable provider. It's usually the channels you normally skip through! :o)
These select channels GIVE you your time back to actually enjoy your own party. Also, you can concentrate on being the host that everyone knows you are. When you have to "juggle" talking to each guest at your party, it helps to ICE BREAK as well about favorite types of music first. Or even what people "DON'T" like...i.e. the newest release by Britney Spears. Honestly, i can't think of the name, so i guess that's a good thing. Usually the radio stations ingrain our already information-overloaded minds with overplayed singles.
Moving onto the performer's reality: in the past, private parties that I've played for have saved by voice by having Music Choice service as a filler for the songs that weren't in my songbook. After the end of each set of songs, I'd take a break - the coversation would thicken and enrich and, some "chill music" would "volume up" in everyone's background.
Another reason why MC is awesome is that guests will ask for requests or different songs by artists/bands playing currently on the MC play-list and you can utilize that to book more gigs and personalized set-lists for the requester. Usually people are pretty agreeable once someone chimes in with a song name the love. It's like lightning around the room. Volumes get louder, smiles stretch beyond happy and laughing commences. It's a cool sight for my eyes - to know that I'm helping people connect and have a good time.
SIGN UP HERE FOR A MUSIC CHOICE ACCOUNT!:
http://www.musicchoice.com/UserRegistrationConsolidation.aspx
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
How to Network Effectively (IN MUSIC OR ANY OTHER FIELD INVOLVING CREATIVE ART/THOUGHT)
First off, you really have to develop your own personality first before you start trying to sell a product, your artwork, songs or even a service.
Next, you have to believe in the product like you know your name. Like it's a fact.
Then, you need to become animated with it's description - because in life - you sell EVERYTHING. point in case: ever had a friend tell you something interesting and then you told someone else to let them know about it. BAM - that fact was SOLD to you. You believed it - in it even.
So it's the same for almost anything else. Attention is said to be the, MOST BASIC FORM OF LOVE. And when you communicate what your selling or networking about, with a smile - it speaks volumes about everything that's going on behind the scenes of your mind, heart, and gut.
For most people, they will never know what it's like to be 100% passionate and totally committed to something - to the level of mastery. But for people like us (you know who you are), it's just something that we really don't want to choose NOT to do. How can we not - be ourselves. What this comes down to is being true to yourself will allow you to be true to other people. But if you're living a lie - or worse, selling one...then that's where lives start to get incongruent and out of balance.
2010 seems to be a year to gain and maintain a sense of added balance. And what better way to do that than to give back to the people who you care about. Or even reverse of that - pay it forward; makes sure a complete stranger benefits from a talent that you possess, and never communicate with them again. make it completely anonymous. don't give the other person the opportunity to "pay you back".
PAY IT FORWARD.
Teach someone something that will help them to "fish". Find solutions. That's what winners do - they have no other choice but to find success and blessing wherever they go and with whatever they're involved with.
I recommend this book/CD/DVD called Effortless Mastery. It discusses ways to think about loving what you're doing and becoming so enthralled with it all that it becomes fun. It's the farthest thing away from "Work" that you've experienced. It highlights the simplicity of life and the pursuit of happiness and a trade or hobby where you can become a master of something in a new way - something you never thought possible. But the key is that your thoughts on the matter is what this book is focusing on improving. WE, ARE THE CHANGE IN THE WORLD. :o)
Next, you have to believe in the product like you know your name. Like it's a fact.
Then, you need to become animated with it's description - because in life - you sell EVERYTHING. point in case: ever had a friend tell you something interesting and then you told someone else to let them know about it. BAM - that fact was SOLD to you. You believed it - in it even.
So it's the same for almost anything else. Attention is said to be the, MOST BASIC FORM OF LOVE. And when you communicate what your selling or networking about, with a smile - it speaks volumes about everything that's going on behind the scenes of your mind, heart, and gut.
For most people, they will never know what it's like to be 100% passionate and totally committed to something - to the level of mastery. But for people like us (you know who you are), it's just something that we really don't want to choose NOT to do. How can we not - be ourselves. What this comes down to is being true to yourself will allow you to be true to other people. But if you're living a lie - or worse, selling one...then that's where lives start to get incongruent and out of balance.
2010 seems to be a year to gain and maintain a sense of added balance. And what better way to do that than to give back to the people who you care about. Or even reverse of that - pay it forward; makes sure a complete stranger benefits from a talent that you possess, and never communicate with them again. make it completely anonymous. don't give the other person the opportunity to "pay you back".
PAY IT FORWARD.
Teach someone something that will help them to "fish". Find solutions. That's what winners do - they have no other choice but to find success and blessing wherever they go and with whatever they're involved with.
I recommend this book/CD/DVD called Effortless Mastery. It discusses ways to think about loving what you're doing and becoming so enthralled with it all that it becomes fun. It's the farthest thing away from "Work" that you've experienced. It highlights the simplicity of life and the pursuit of happiness and a trade or hobby where you can become a master of something in a new way - something you never thought possible. But the key is that your thoughts on the matter is what this book is focusing on improving. WE, ARE THE CHANGE IN THE WORLD. :o)
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