Using Video Marketing Tips for Weddings and Parties

Video marketing is the new card in my deck.   I’m still new at it, and the more I practice, the better I’m getting.  I’ve been marketing the band for many years now, with public appearances, ads, brochures, business cards, letters and postcards, my website and blog, attending networking events, and participating in professional associations.  It’s […]

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Include Music in Your Dinner Party Ideas

Dinner Party Ideas, particularly ones about including music, spring to my mind every time we’re playing.   Talking about ANY music here — not just the elegant live jazz that I play. I’m always noticing that music is a remarkable “social lubricant”, to coin a phrase.  For example, last Friday night the trio entertained at a […]

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A Tip for Planning Wedding Reception Music

I’ve previously written about planning wedding music, and today I approach the same subject from a different direction.  People planning wedding reception music have many options.  It’s the same with planning music for a benefit dinner party, casual cocktail party, or formal company banquet.  Sometimes too many choices make deciding impossible.  Here’s a tip for […]

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How to be Reliable for Weddings and Parties

Are you reliable? How to be reliable leading my jazz band is something I seldom ask myself, because keeping my promises is always on my mind. A reliable partner in weddings and parties is how I want colleagues and clients to think of me.   Capable, honest, and dependable under pressure.  Someone people can always count […]

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Renewing Wedding Vows

Renewing Wedding Vows is on my mind this week. I haven’t mentioned this to my wife, Bunch, yet, but I’ve already been thinking about renewing ours. I’d better tell her soon.  Actually, I expect to find she’s already been thinking about renewing wedding vows, too. Renewing wedding vows these days usually involves lots of personalizing.  Like their […]

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Business Networking Groups for Weddings and Parties

Business Networking Groups and leads groups can always make your life even MORE interesting. I ought to know.  I’ve been an active member of the Silicon Valley chapter of NACE (National Association of Catering Executives) since about 1993, and over the years I’ve been friends with and worked with most of my fellow members. At […]

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Video Blogging for Music at Weddings and Parties

Video Blogging, or vlogging, is growing rapidly everywhere, for several reasons.  To start with, it’s FREE.  Once I own a video camera, I can post an unlimited number of videos into my blog, forever at no additional expense.  See how much I enjoy using my little Flip video camera. For another reason, many people learn […]

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Entrepreneur Opportunities – San Francisco and beyond

Entrepreneur Opportunities are all over the place these days.  Online, in seminars, in books, and in magazines, you can find hundreds of business ideas, more suggestions, and some growing trends to follow.  Search Google for entrepreneur opportunities, and you’ll recognize this is just the tip of an enormous iceberg.  With today’s economic woes all around […]

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Kindness and Compassion

Are Kindness and Compassion useful for business?  Particularly for managing a jazz band?  Why not ask are Kindness and Compassion — and also humility, patience, and gentleness — useful for being a good person and leading a good life, no matter how you make a living? My answer is YES, of course, as long as […]

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Customer Video Testimonials

Customer Video Testimonials are coming to our website soon.  I plan to make them myself, though MANY video companies can make them for me.  Everyone knows that online video has become hugely popular in recent years.  Now customer video testimonials are growing quickly, and we’re getting involved. I’m sure you know that customer testimonials are […]

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