“Searching” for Weddings and Parties

Here we are last Monday evening, creating a soft background for a business reception at the Capital Club, in San Jose.  Thanks for the nice photo, Ross Mehan.

We’d been recommended to the event’s planner who immediately searched for our website, found us, and the rest is history.

The internet is a wonderful resource for information.  But be cautious — you can find someone to support practically anything at all.

With that warning in mind, let’s recognize how remarkable online searching can be.  Friends, colleagues, businesses, and clients find their friends, colleagues, businesses, and clients.  Do you remember — just a few years ago all we had were directory assistance, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, and the public library.  Amazing!

The chances are excellent that today you search on Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and dozens more “engines” all the time.  You can easily find practically anything.

Now let me change perspective and ask, “Are YOU easy to find, and can you make it easier?  Or more difficult?” The answer should be important.

Search for your own name, and you’ll find lots of information — some of it trivial, some of it crucial, and most of it interesting in some way.

For example, searching for “Robbie Schlosser”, Google delivers about 584,000 links and about 246,000 images.  I found 5 “Robbie Schlosser”s and 178 “R. Schlosser”s in the United States.  Facebook lists just one “Robbie Schlosser” and 52 “Robert Schlosser”s worldwide.  I’m always curious, and with enough time I’d explore them all.

For another example, I found several Magnolia Jazz Bands in addition to my own.  In Norway back in 1972, my friend Gunnar Gotaas organized the “Magnolia Jazzband”.  For years, his group has specialized in playing old style New Orleans music at social clubs and festivals throughout Europe.  I’ve never met Gunnar, but we’ve corresponded, and I enjoy the spirit in his band’s music.  They’re very popular, with a number of LPs, CDs, and YouTube videos available.

In fact, people searching for my band occasionally stumble upon his website or videos instead, because Google and the rest don’t distinguish between “Jazz Band” and “Jazzband”.  I imagine people searching for Gunnar’s band occasionally stumble upon mine, too.  It’s an interesting “bump in the road”, and I hope not a serious problem.

I found two Magnolia Jazz Bands in England, one contemporary and one active in the 1950s.  I expect more Magnolia Jazz Bands existed, but I found only one — working in New Orleans around 1910 and featuring the legendary trumpet player Joe “King” Oliver.

We’re the only Magnolia Jazz Band around here.  We’re very easy to find, and we work somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area nearly every day.  If we can ever help you, please call us at 408-245-9120.

Visit MagnoliaJazz.com for testimonials, music samples, videos, photos, and our public schedule, and catch us at an event soon.  Our next PUBLIC appearance is on May 9th, Mothers Day, where the trio will be entertaining at three locations on opposite ends of Silicon Valley — at the Mountain Winery, in Saratoga, at the Hilton Newark/Fremont, and The Toll House, in Los Gatos.  See the details on our website.

In the meantime, please join my Facebook “fans”, and you’ll get a reminder for each of our public events.

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