Friday, June 5, 2009

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How to Market your Entertainment Business: 51 Ways to Prosper in Any Economy

In honor of the most unholy of unholy days, tax day, I am launching my new book "How to market your Entertainment Business: 51 Ways to Prosper in Any Economy,"

Since that is our last chance to hand over so much of our hard earned money for the year why not present some great ways people can earn more and turn even more over next year!

This book will come out as an e-book for ease of delivery though it may be picked up for publication in the near future.

This book will cover 5 topics:

1) Traditional Marketing and Public Relations (newspaper ads and articles)

2) Guerrilla Marketing (getting your name and business into the public eye in unique and free ways)

3) Direct Marketing (mailings and phone calls)

4) Internet Marketing

5) Other tips and Tricks

This book is gear toward entertainers, but the information is useful to any service based business including balloon decorators.

"How to Market your Entertainment Business" is currently on sale for $13! This price is only available through April 2nd (Yes, I want to avoid ending this offer on April Fool's Day). After April 2nd the book will sell for $23 so order today!

To order this book please e-mail Jason@BalloonCast.org, send the money via paypal to ballooncast@gmail.com, or send a check or money order to:

Jason Vaughn
202 Meramec Valley
Arnold, MO 63010.

All e-books will be sent out on April 15th at noon!

Order Today for only $13!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

World's largest balloon arch

Greg Arrigoni of Unique Balloons constructs massive Helium Balloon Arch, 340 feet tall 600 feet wide next to Mississippi river in St Paul, MN 7-3-04

Monday, January 5, 2009

Gus Davis on Traveling Shows

Gus Davis of http://tmyers.com/ joins us for today's recording and discusses travel with your show.

Hope you enjoy it and remember to check out TMyers for more information.

http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2007/11/28/1612427/Davis.mp3

Don't forget to sign up for our newletter on the right for more marketing information and subscribe to "Balloon Business Podcast" at the iTunes store for free.

If you would like to support BalloonCast you can make donations via paypal.com to ballooncast@gmail.com or send a check or money order to:

Jason Vaughn
202 Meramec Valley
Arnold, MO 63010


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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Michael Clay on Keyword Optimization

Happy New Year everyone! I'm so excited to see what 2009 will bring. I know onw thing it will bring is many more BalloonCast recordings. Lets get the year started right with day one.

On this recording you'll hear Michael Clay discuss how to choose proper keywords to build your website around. Michael is full of knowledge in this area and I know you'll enjoy the information.

http://premium.fileden.com/premium/2007/11/28/1612427/Clay.mp3

Michael also decided to make an offer concerning the launch of his new website, http://MarketingMasterGroup.com. To the first 100 member Michael is giving away $500 gift cards. Listen to the end of this recording for more details.

Again, I wish all of you the best in this new year.

Don't forget to sign up for our newletter on the right for more marketing information and subscribe to "Balloon Business Podcast" at the iTunes store for free.

Friday, December 12, 2008

BalloonCast Reading List

“You are the same today you’ll be in five years except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read." -Charlie "Tremedous" Jones

Reading is one of the most important things you will ever do for your life and your business. Whether it be the Holy Bible, business books, or personal development books I believe you should be in continuously be in a book or preferably several at all times.

The following are books I have found very helpful over the years. They are in no particular order.

How to Win Friends & Influence People

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling

The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite

Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way Its All Inside

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World

Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable

Unleashing the Ideavirus

The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook

If You're Clueless about Starting Your Own Business

The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money

Survival Is Not Enough: Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Change

Guerrilla Marketing for the Home-Based Business

Free Prize Inside / Purple Cow

Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea

Do You Squidoo? The Power of Web 2.0 for Generating Floods of New Traffic

Survival Is Not Enough

Selling With Magic: How to Turn Your Presentations into Dollars

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Delay

Sorry for the delay everyone. My computer died last month so I've been out of commission. We'll be back to a regular soon