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OUR ART PORTFOLIO OUR MARKETING NETWORK OUR RECORD LABEL The Short Version: We provide marketing services and materials for comedians, bands, venues, events and tours. We do art, layouts, public relations, and event marketing at prices comedians and bands can afford. We own a new kind of record label. We book our entertainers for private parties and corporate events. We've been in advertising for 30 years and in entertainment for 10 years. We are a listed "Red Book" Advertising Agency. Our label, Century Recording is a registered media company with The Recording Academy. We do submit our artist releases for Grammies. We OWN the world's largest online entertainment network. Our network gets 2.2 million visitors a month. We can place an artist's photo and profile in New York, LA, Sydney, Amsterdam, Tokyo and London in under 15 minutes. We work out of Dallas, Texas. The entertainment business is changing. It's like a fish kill. Labels are dying, tours are failing and venues are disappearing. In it's place a new entertainment industry is emerging. You can start to see it... as the new radio becomes the iPod and cell phone. Digital delivery is replacing CD sales and live performances are increasingly attractive to broadcast programmers. YouTube is the next MTV and broadcast rights will become an increasingly important contributor to artist income. Understanding the change is critical in continuing your creative voice. Nothing silences expression faster than poverty. I have 30 years as a small business marketing consultant and 10 years in entertainment. I have seen continual change and helped businesses adapt for years. Artists are either running businesses or losing them like it or not. I don't guarantee fame. Who can? I am here to help artists get a fair deal and build a business around their art. I don't ever touch my clients money. I do what can be done, learn and share, build resources and tools to help independent artists thrive in the face of overwhelming odds. Everything is at stake. You must grow the business side of your art. Your career no longer depends on record deals or continuous club bookings. To survive you need a fan database, promotion, web sales site, online product distribution and massive exposure. As an artist, you MUST record audio and video of everything you do. Even the process of making your art better is critical to your life story and the fans that follow you. I own the world's largest online entertainment network and developed international digital distribution channels. I know where to send news that gets clients press coverage and I serve as a business advisor for entertainers. I work directly for independent artists, leveraging my resources, contacts, web sites, product channels and experience to help my clients gain exposure, sell product and earn income. Your financial future is your recorded product and your fan database. Don't sign away your rights for a "deal". Understand this: There are NO DEALS, just bad loans. If you are seeking a path, open to learning the business side of your art... pick up the phone. Let's get over a hump, find a solution, make a plan, change the course of your career. Anyone can call.  Every Day, Every Hour I Move Our Clients Forward 24/7!  I own the ONLY agency in the world that can put you in front of it's OWN 20.4 million fans, put YOUR face in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Sydney in under 15-minutes, blast your face to 1.7 million fans in 60 cities with banner ads each month, submit your press releases to over 2,000 entertainment reporters worldwide, make you a "Featured Artist" for booking in 60 top cities worldwide 24/7, guarantee international CD exposure online, promote each appearance on your schedule with pre-mailed Posters, Press Releases and Event Calendar submissions. 
Your Fanbase Is Your Future Emails are Not Enough What we do? We work for artists, agencies, labels and venues promoting events and CD products. Artists big and small have called on us to help as far back as 1982 when MCA Records needed an emergency T-shirt designed for Olivia Newton John's "Physical Tour" in Dallas. Today, we do much more. We are building names and reputations promoting clients like the Maxim/Bud Light "Real Men of Comedy Tour", special events for the world famous Improv Comedy Clubs, HBO's "Richard Jeni: Steaming Pile of Me" Comedy Special and graphics for Jeff Dunham's Comedy Central Special. Emmy winning comedy writer Gary Hood, Grammy Nominee singer/songwriter Randy McAllister, Comedians John Pinette, Todd Glass and "Simple Life Goes to Camp" cast member Eric Lokke have called us in for projects. We've completed web projects for Freedom First Records, Busthead Management, Reaction Records, the American Music Chart, XPROV, Levity Entertainment Group and others. 
Clubs and Artists Bank on a Packed House We work with existing management teams as an advertising and promotional consultant. It all starts with a business or marketing/promotional plan. WE DO NOT MANAGE ARTISTS. WE ARE NOT BOOKERS. Yes, our 135 web sites DO generate booking requests and we ALWAYS fill them with our clients but we are NOT full time booking agents for artists. 
CD Sales Should be Over 60% of Your Income! What We Do is Critical to You! We build fanbases, promote events online and help our clients sell CD's. We work with you to develop the strategies, proposals, graphics and promotion that surround live appearances and product promotion. Yes, we do web sites, press releases, posters, banners, signs, one-sheets, table cards and even tickets. We post your tours and show dates to local and national online event calendars. We write and send press releases to local and national media.  Press Releases and Posters... It's Your Image! We build the promotional bubble that surrounds the artist or a venue. We make sure the press kit, press releases, myspace, CDBaby and web sites are updated. We guarantee our clients international CD sales distribution. For comedy and indie music clients, we guarantee broadband radio air-play and sales channel opportunities. We can do it because we own the sites and tools to deliver your material to fans worldwide. We market comedy and music.  Can't Get Booked If Bookers Don't See You! How We Do It? Hard work. We leverage our 135 domains, 20.4 million visitors, industry databases that are constantly in development for our clients. Online tools like RSS Newsfeeds, broadband radio stations, and online ticketing put you ahead of the competition. 30 years in direct response advertising means we know what works and why. What do you need? How can I help? Give me a call 972-490-5167. |
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