Get Back on Track and Take the 7 Day “Shot” Challenge

I don’t know if you were reading my blog posts over the past couple of days except yesterday (I will admit that I didn’t write a thing yesterday, I was totally out of it), but we had a tragedy happen.  I have vowed to dust myself off and start fresh with my positive attitude and outlook on life.  I am still in the action mode of my 90 Day Challenge but starting today I am injecting it with 7 Day Shot Challenge, to give me that extra boost to end of my first 30 days.  In the next 7 days I am committed to working out at least 30 minutes each day, getting a massage, drinking the wonderful vitality smoothies that my hubby usually makes for me a few times a week, but instead having one everyday, writing a song, and loading at least one video blog.  I think that doing things in smaller increments of time, and acknowledging the accomplishments can push anyone over the hump from giving up, to recommitting to a Challenge. 

That’s what I am doing, putting a new “shot” of life into the 90 Day Challenge.  It’s only been three weeks into the 90 days, but as a Gemini, who can get distracted very easily, its good that I am committing to this 7 Day Shot Challenge.  I don’t know, but I was thinking about people who get those B12 shots to get more energy throughout the day.  I’m not trying to get a B12 shot, although that does sound…interesting, I am just putting new energy into my 90 day Challenge.  Are you ready to join in now?  Let me know what you are planning to do over the next 7 days.

Also, I have a great newsletter coming out this week so make sure you sign up to receive it by entering your name and email address in the box to right where it says to join my email list.  Peace, Songs, and Blessing…Nichole Ayanna is out.

I Am Totally Cracking Up!

Did I say yesterday that I was happy that my car I broke that day down then instead of  today.  Well, guess what…I had a flat tire today.  I had my little cutee all dressed up and ready to be dropped off at her Granny’s.  We rolled down the driveway and I felt something just wasn’t right.  My car was kinda screeching and leaning to the right.  A Flat Tire!!!!  well, I got the baby outta the car, went back to my hubby to watch my precious!  I called Triple A again, and they came to my rescue.  Man, that threw my day off by about 2 hours.  I had them put on the spare and then drove to the tire shop to fix the flat.  I had a huge nail lodged in the tire…got it patched and started my day again the way I had 2 hours prior. 

You know sometimes you have to just laugh when a wrench gets thrown into your plans.  Hey, I believe there are always reasons for delays and that everythings somes at its own time.  This can be kinda of a mystical cliche’ but “the universe has to align itself”.  God always has a plan, and i am just playing my part.

I sent out my first email newsletter today.  It was like a weight was lifted.  I think I made it out to be something much bigger then it actually was…I have to stay on top of it to make sure I send out and stay consistent with my emailings and I make sure that my friends and fans can get the latest updates on new music releases, videos, and even some great lifestyle iformation that I like to share.  Don’t forget to sign up to receive my new email newsletter.  There is a form on the home page where you just have enter your email address and you name to get on my list.  It’s that simple…ok…hope to see you on my email list!

Music Marketing Help – Create Your Own Music College Internship

Who wouldn’t love to work with a music act, especially if you are a college student and might be able to get school credit for it? Setting up a college internship program to get your music out there not only benefits you, but also add valuable real world experience to the resume of the college student. You get semi-free labor and the college intern gets an experience of a lifetime.

If you want to set up the college internship in a way where the student gets credit you need to contact the college, whether it is a junior college, or local public or private university. Let them know that you have a music company called, “your company Productions” or something like that, and that you are offering a summer, fall, spring, winter, internship, whatever the semester is that you’re offering the internship. They may say you have to send them a profile on the company, which you will have already gotten together, and a description of the internship. Some schools charge a fee to be listed under their internship programs and some require that they are paid. sometimes the pay required is so low you are ok with it.

You can also post your internship on craigslist.com for free, or entertainmentcareers.com for a fee. You’ll start getting calls, so you need to set up interviews.

You may require that the interns have their own cars and car insurance, their own laptops and cell phones that they bring to your location.

You can have your interns do internet research, keep your blogging up to date, get on the phones and confirm your shows, have them in the crowd collecting information from your fans to be placed on your email list, or get out and do some street promotion for you. They can also video tape your performances or shoot photos of the shows that you can add to your website. Whatever you have them do, make it interesting, insightful and fun. You’ve gotta spend some quality time with them. When they first come into your office, you should have a routine that they do when they come in on a daily basis, and do some initial training. You may have them calling radio stations to try to get airplay for your music….give them a script to use and practice it with them before they get started. Give them a phone list and a log so that you know what they have completed so another intern get started where they left off.

Interns can hand out fliers for your upcoming shows at different venues where your fans and potential fans hang out. They can do all sorts of things that help you promote your music and help them learn how promotion and marketing works in the music business right now. With your help, they can gain incredible exposure to the music business and may be the next CEO of a huge entertainment company.

Typically, at the end of the internship – which if it is unpaid, usually ends at the end of the semester – the interns have to write a paper regarding their experience, and turn it in to get the college credit.