JayBeacham.com-A Voice as an Instrument

On the 12, 13, 14, and 16 of the month I was again at the St.George opera house as the pre-show for “Singing Cowboys”, a melodrama readers theater, prefaced by a four man lead sing-a-long of familiar old west songs(3 of the four played guitars).

I got the crowd in the mood with a spoken and part sung rendition of “Walkin’ Home”, “No room for a cow”(my own composition), and “The Ugliest Man in Washngton County Utah”.

I was a hit but then the whole show was too.

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April 18th, 2009 at Twin Lakes HOA monthly potluck get together hired me as the entertainment. I Started the show with “Walkin’ Home”, followed by my own song:”No room for a cow”. Then the folks learned the true story of the “Ugliest man in Washington County Utah”. That was followed by the “Green Cheese moon”. Then the program took on a different sound as I sang”Sing anything”, then “Streets of Laredo”(helped of course by the audience). We all tried “Give my Regards to Broadway”. I did most of “Plenty of Nuttin'” by myself(people like to sing along, don’t you?) and then we all had a great time with “Waltzin’ Matilda” and then I even got some assistence with “Ole Man River” to end my show.  Shelia Dutton, the director of the county fair poetry competition came in late with two other women and a baby during the songs and requested  a story after the singing. I told the crowd the St.George Live script version that I give when I portray Jacob Hamblin, Mormon pioneer and peacemaker to the Indians. I thanked them for being such a fine audience and then stepped out side to tell the “Ugliest man” story and “No room for a cow” to the three women who came late. (I either enter the poetry competition at the fair, which includes the reading of one’s own poems, and entertain while awaiting the judges decisions or just entertain the folks. I haven’t made it the last two years but plan on it this year.)

Then I got to eat after the others left and spoke with the Entertainment Director, Barbara Hunt(a newspaper entertainment and book reviewer) and to a Judy who sings with the Southern Utah Heritage Choir(the choir is going to sing in Singapore in Oct. this year). The food was great as was the audience and the company after wards.

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Update: Promo and parts 1 & 2 are on Metacafe.

Check it out.

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All five parts pf the Feb. 12th show dvd are online at You Tube.

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check out this video by my son James,

at Metacafe.com/channels/Titandusk

Part one is up.

He’s a good film maker.

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The promo has been up for a month now and parts 1 through 4 are on the web now.

Have you seen them yet?

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The Lincoln’s Ghost show videos are at http://youtube.com/Titandusk

Go there and see what you think.

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Thanks to those who attended and those who donated to the cause.

It went well in spite of a few tech problems.

You who didn’t attend missed a good show.

I’ll do it again.

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Well, I got started and used their webmaster(that way I didn’t need to learn html programming), made my own site, added pages, and products, and links. My son Steve helpped and added colors to some of the pages but I found that not only I but others couldn’t see or read when certain background colors were used and even though it was cool to look at, if the content couldn’t be read there was no point in having the page.  I changed those to  a more readable look.  I put a hit counter on the site and started to advertise by word of mouth and emails for my site: JayBeachamProducts.com. Each time I started with a new multi-level marketing firm, I’d put a page up and link it. I added my products and my friends products. I linked to photoworks.com to my photo ablums to try to sell my great images. I linked to Poetry.com so that people could read my poetry and  maybe buy my poem collections.     I contacted people as I always had with multi-level and directed them to my site and worked on selling the SkyBiz opportunity. The Federal Trade Commission brought suit against SkyBiz and after a long court case being won by the defendent, SkyBiz closed its doors being broke.  Even though they won, they lost.

What to do now? My son had started the free trial at Homestead sites for me and so I transferred my files from SkyBiz to Homestead and then got the paid service.

Two years and no sales. But Homestead had a webmaster, stat counter, auto responder, etc. No problem. Right? Well not quite.

Next to come the chapter about Homestead and my experience there.

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In 1997, I went to a computer seminar in St.George and then to a follow up one in Las Vegas. Later, I attended two others in similar fashion. I couldn’t afford their programs.

When I got home and back at work on the roof of the Ford dealership, one of the salesmen who had attended the same siminar, introduced me to SkyBiz a web site marketing firm where you’d sell sites and get one of your own. He showed me his and the site of a local artist to give me an idea of what I could do. He helped me sign up and I made my first on-line purchase of the site with my debit card and away I went.

I’ll do a series of articles about my experiences with Sky Biz, Homestead, Photoworks.com., my own voice site hosted by Godaddy, the undergroundcashflow system hosted by midphase with click bank product, affilates, ProsperLearning, voice overs, and to my present teachers(there are several and their free info. has been of more help that the paid things-I’ll explain later as I get to that point), and three affillate programs that teach more than the expensive school and even have people who will coach and assist for little or no cost.

My intent is to tell the would be internet marketer how to avoid the costly mistakes I’ve made. Look forward to sharing with you in future articles.

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