[Dixielandjazz] Steve Barbone and gigs

Wed Sep 28 11:49:15 PDT 2005

This is called the ten foot rule of sales. i.e. Every one within ten feet of
you will know what you do and what you are selling.

I do it all the time.

Thanks for the reminder about the churches - I have them on my to do list.
My cornet guy thought I was a little goofy when I mentioned it Monday at
lunch.  We have enough tunes to make a pretty good presentation of Dixie
church music.  Now alls I have to do is put it together.

This has been a good topic.  I like everyone's ideas.

Larry Walton
St. Louis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tcashwigg at aol.com>
To: <starwaterlogo at mpinet.net>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Steve Barbone and gigs

> Hi Robert and all:
>
> Yes it does seem like a miracle to most OKOM bands,  but especially to
> those who do not get out and hustle like those bands do to find and
> create bookings that pay them well enough to support their BUSINESS,
> You have to spend money to make money and promote promote promote
> constantly to anybody and everybody.
>
> My wife is always ragging on me when we go places and people ask me
> what I do, and I launch into my speech about the band, but I usually
> make a connection and book a date or two from all those encounters with
> total strangers that never heard of us but have opportunities to hire
> bands.
>
> This little light of mine  gotta let it shine shine shine.   All the
> time,  just like the dog food commercials on TV or the great Car dealer
> adds all day and night,  keep telling folks about it you will never
> reach all of them but you only need 365 of them a year.
>
>
> Heck folks:   go solicit churches for doing gigs at their places,
> adjust your repertoire to be suitable there are 350,000 of them in the
> USA alone.    I have played many a cathedral and church in Europe and
> not for LOVE OFFERINGS either.  Sell themon cultural presentations and
> feel good music concerts.   Be CREATIVE  and don't go in with a wimp
> attitude and ask "You wouldn't be interested in hiring  a Dixieland
> BAND WOULD YOU ?  attitude,  put some sizzle on it and convince them it
> would be a great thing for the congregation, make it a fund raiser for
> Katrina anything but don't take no for an answer.  You need to get your
> band and music in front of PEOPLE  especially people who never heard
> it.   Promote yourself SHAMELESSLY, and if you are just TOO COOL to do
> that then stay home and be a starving artiste' for the rest of your
> life.
>
> There will NEVER be another time in History  in our lifetimes better
> than right now to Promote and get gigs playing OKOM especially if you
> play New Orleans music.
>
>
>
> Cheers,,
> Tom Wiggins
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Pulliam <starwaterlogo at mpinet.net>
> To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:22:32 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Steve Barbone and gigs
>
>    From: <Vaxtrpts at aol.com>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>
>
>
> > We have a mailing list of 1400 people who SIGNED UP to be on  it.  We
> are
> lucky
> > to get more than 200 people.  Again, the musicians  and guest artists
> are
> > paid by donations to our nonprofit.
> > I could go on and on, with examples, but I think you get the picture.
>
> It seems kind of a miracle that bands such as Maynard Ferguson, Basie,
> Ellingont and whatever other "alumni" bands there are, are able to
> actually
> keep going in this era when there's so little mention of them in the
> mainstream media.
>
>
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