All About Jazz! – Recreation
All About Jazz!
Colin DCruz
Q. What is the difference between a pizza and a jazz musician
A. A pizza can feed a family of four!
What is it about jazz that makes a jazz musician stick to a form of music that A&R managers have scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a musicians surest route to death by starvation
One good reason would be the fact that jazz allows me to be myself as opposed to pop that wants me to be Madonna. I would rather be me than strut onstage wearing conical jocks. I remember a male indipop album released by some genius A&R manager, titled mai bhi Madonna im Madonna too. Jazz as you will see, and if youve heard about mai bhi Madonna, helps me retain my individuality and whats left of my sanity in this big mad world of music marketing. Jazz, the most open, alive and evolving form of music, is the medium i choose to communicate and express myself musically. I know a lot of people in the audience may not understand my intense shoobee-doo-wop, shoobee-doobee-doo-wop and emotive twidlee-didlee, didlee-doo-dah along with some sensitive chaka-chaka, shaka-dish-boom-thaak. But theres always the few who can feel what they cant figure. Most of the time the message i communicate may read hey brother, how about a loan..im broke again but when i have someone in the audience enjoying my music, i become a millionaire.
About The Author
The author is a jazz bassplayer from India, review some of his bands at http://www.hullocheck.com
colinbassman@yahoo.com
The Truth About 1-900 Numbers – Real Estate
The Truth About 1-900 Numbers
David Bell
900 numbers have been heavily advertised over the last few years as a great way to make money. Everybody from Dionne Warwick to Don Lapre are getting in on the pay per call action
In theory theory mind you they are a great way for people to make money. You start up a simple phone line and people start calling by the thousands I sound like someone I know on TV.
When the numbers became popular a few years ago, sex and adult lines were a large part of the business. Psychic lines are now the rage. There are some psychic lines that are generating millions of dollars in calls per month Although Dionnes did go bankrupt, didnt the psychics warn her but every single one of these lines has huge advertising budgets and the people renting out lines are not going to advertise a thing, only rent you the lines.
There are many companys that rent 900 numbers if you would like to get one. When companys first started renting lines 10 years ago, the person renting would only get a small percentage of each call, maybe 10% to 20%. But now that so many companys are renting lines increased competition, the call per-minute amount you get is much more. You can literally find hundreds of different companys in the back of business magazines that will sell you consulting and 900 lines.
976 numbers were the first toll lines that came out. The problem was that they were local only and didnt have that many features. Large advertisers wanted one number they could advertise all over the US and get calls for, not just one small local area. 900 numbers solved that problem.
There are really two big problems with 900 numbers. The first is perception. 900 numbers seem really idiotic to most people. If you have a great business idea or way to make money, 900 numbers would probably be one of the worst places to advertise. How many friends do you have that call 900 numbers each month How many 900 numbers did you call last month These are the sorts of things you have to think of when you are going to start a business. If you would never use the services, why would anybody else This is something that people like Don Lapre would never tell you. Don lapre just wants you to think that 900 numbers are just a big cash cow. Not the reality.
The other thing is money. You need a lot of money to really get a 900 numbers going. Starting with $500 isnt going to do it. You need a heck of a lot more than that. Most of the big companys have $500,000 monthly advertising budgets thats even out of my league.
You are much better off getting into direct marketing, network marketing, internet marketing or even real estate investing over dealing with 900 numbers
I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.
About The Author
David Bell
http://www.wspromotion.com/
Advertising research and development center
Whos Teaching Your Child About Money – Parenting
Whos Teaching Your Child About Money
Valerie Mills
Managing money is one of the most critical skills we must master to function effectively as adults. Yet, although public schools address the subject of money using math examples, teachers just don