MORE "HERE & THERE" PART II
It's already Friday in Melbourne - which I find very confusing when I try to post the daily cabaret events on the home page of the CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE website - I have to post what for us is the next day's events when I comes to Australia & South African cabaret shows. But from word received via Twitter, most all of the 40 shows on the FIRST MELBOURNE CABARET FESTIVAL have sold out. A big congratulations to all my friends "down under" - you can check on all the events at http://www.melbournecabaret.com/showsonsale.htm
If you're interested in other exciting cabaret events in Australia, another old pal, Matthew Carrey, has a blog that is updated daily athttp://www.cabaretconfessional.com/ - we also link to in on the CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE BLOG.
Another blog we follow via the CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE BLOG ishttp://katepeters.com/blog/ , with tips, hints and advice - a blog about voices: using them, freeing them ... and hearing them. Check it out!
A third blog worth checking out is Raissa Katona Bennet's blog athttp://raissa.info/ (she's currently running a side-bar ad on the website promoting it, and we will be adding a link to it on our blog shortly.
Remember, all members of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE who have a blog that they update regularly can have their blog promoted on the special MEMBER BLOGS, PODCASTS & WEBCASTS page on the website. We will be updating that page this weekend, so if you're a 2010-2011 member, be sure to get your request in now (there's a request link on that page).
Remember, a blog is not a website - those links are found on the MEMBERSHIP PAGES.
Well, time for another reminder that your membership and advertising dollars are what keeps CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE running - and in the summer, when banner ads are scarce, we need you to join or rejoin now. The monies we raised at the gala will probably cover costs through the end of this month but we have the whole month of August to worry about and now GALA to pump up the income.
Your membership dollars come with benefits for you - discounts on show, discounts and rebates on banner ads, an extra newsletter each week just for MEMBERS ONLY with special discounts and deals that we don't promote anywhere else. Plus, you get the satisfaction that your funds are being used to promote the art and artists of cabaret - all over the world. Our website - http://www.cabarethotlineonline.com/ is visited between 6000 and 10,000 times a day, our blog - gets 300-500 hits a day, and our newsletter reaches over 2700 subscribers twice a week! Plus we maintain 4 twitter accounts promoting cabaret - a personal one which sends out my own personal thoughts and news -http://twitter.com/stuhamstra , the CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE one -http://twitter.com/cabarethotline - with cabaret tweets (and re-tweets from other cabaret twitter users), our March on Cabaret account -http://twitter.com/marchiscabaret and the songwriter-themed accounthttp://twitter.com/cabaretsings . Every day, in every way, we're promoting cabaret!
And we several other promotion projects - our CD's FOR THE HOLIDAYS awards in October-November, our regular MEMBERS CHOICE polls, our MARCH IS CABARET MONTH promotion, and more. And another new one we've been woking on since March but haven't been able to accumulate enough funds to get it off the ground.
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And that's just about the way it was. We'll be back on Monday with our "Mostly Listings" Issue (The MEMBERS ONLY ISSUE goes out as usual on Saturday).
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