BE CAREFULL!

Hey guys. In the message I posted earlier (in the italic section you can forward to your bands), I typed the date for the bakesale is 12/23, when obviously it's 12/3. Be carefull, and make sure to correct it!!! Thanks.

Updates!

Hey everyone,

I hope your Thanksgiving was great! I've been looking at a few of my notes, and here are a few questions & comments I have:

Jessie: Did the SAC donate the money for the bakesale or lend it to us? Do we have to reimburse? Also, did you look into the movie passes thing?

Kristin: You mentioned in one of the e-mail messages something about another Esthema. Is that all taken care of? Also, how are you doing with the bios? Did you get mine and everyone else's? I looked again, and it's in one of the messages I sent. You have to click and expand the message though. Finally, were you able to work something out with the diversity group like you had planned?

Tex: Great job man with this food situation. I feel like I haven't told you that yet. What's the deal with the shakes? As a matter of fact, what's the deal with the whole food situation currently?

Everyone: Please log into Facebook and invite all of your friends on the event. We are all admins now so everyone reading this should be able to. It might take a little time if you have a lot of friends, but it's worth it to spread the word around. Also, log in to our MySpace account, and add as many friends as you can.

I just got my hands on a $15 iTunes card that I really don't need. Maybe we can put together a list of the things (including Jessie's free music downloads) that we can either give away or something at the show. We can decide what to do with the stuff after we know what we have to work with?

Finally, below is the message I just sent to Andy from Esthema with some details that concern the bands. You might want to forward it to your bands if you haven't let them know this information already:

Andy,

Hey man. Here are a few updates regarding the Battle of the B.E.A.T.:

We are having a bakesale on Wednesday (12/23) during the day at the Mezzanine to promote our show. We will also be playing all the bands' music in the background. Please help promote this event, for that is the first day we will have the tickets.

We are still waiting for the postcards to arrive, but you will get a bunch as soon as they are shipped.

The group decided that every band needs to have at least 100 items to sell at the merch table on the night of the show, to make things fair for everyone. We will handle merch sales, and the B.E.A.T. will collect 30%. In order to promote ticket sales, we will also be offering $1 off merch table purchases with tickets bought in advance.

Please have everyone become our MySpace friend and request an invite on our Facebook event. Help spread the word.

Finally, please e-mail all your fans and everyone you can think of, reminding them that you need their votes on the night of the show to win.

I hope all of this cool with you. Get back to me. Ttys!

Thanks everyone. Great job with everything. I can't stress that enough. See you Tuesday for our bake party! Woohooooo!!!!!!

Bake Sale

Hey everybody. I talked to Jon from B Good tonight, and he had an idea for our bake sale. He offered to donate his milk shake cart and the needed ingredients to us for the day of the bake sale. Basically the only thing we have to decide is which flavor we want. So far the options are egg nog, mango, pumpkin, chocolate, and I'm guessing vanilla and strawberry.

Update

Hey everyone!

I'm so happy we have come so far already with this. I have so many friends that I haven't seen since high school that are gonna check it out, so I'm really excited. As for tonight, I'll try as hard as possible to be there, and on time, but I have my internship today, so I can't make any promises. I know today is important, and I also known that Marty is going to be there, so again, I went through all the information we have so far, and updated the list I made a couple of weeks back. I sorted through and read up on the e-mail, the MySpace page, the blog, and my notes. Everything is current as of 5 AM this morning. Please bring copies of the below to the meeting tonight (bring a copy for Marty) and make sure all of it is current. I'll have copies, but I might not make it in time. I also sent some of the information below to Andy from Esthema. Not all of it is relevant to him, so I gave him some of it. You can just copy and paste, but please keep your bands updated. Thanks.

Date: Wednesday, December 10

Time: Door opens @ 8 PM, first act at 8:30 PM, and show ends at midnight.

Venue: Bill's Bar

Host: Joy Daniels

Price: $8 (advance) - $10 (door)

Set: between half an hour and 45 minutes

Capacity: around 250

Tickets: provided by Bill's (December 1st)

Voting: During the whole show, B.E.A.T. members walk around collecting ticket stubs with vote on the back.

Contact: berkleeentrepreneuractionteam@gmail.com
myspace.com/battleofthebeat2008
blogger.com

Advertisement: myspace.com/battleofthebeat2008
facebook event
5000 postcards
flyer 1
flyer 2
BIRN
the Groove
MB/M newsletter (Pam/Kim)
Emerson/college radio

Bands: Esthema (Karim)
Ricky Duran (Kristin)
Jonathan Carr (Nicky)
Model Cars (Tara - Ama)
Brian Dunne (Tex)

Prize: Studio time at Renaissance Recordings (http://myspace.com/renaissancerecordings)
?

Income: bake sale (Wednesday, December 3)
ticket sales
diversity group

Expenses: $500 (Bill's Bar)
$100 (Postcards)
$30/hour (Studio)

Notes: We need to bring our own equipment.
I deleted the MySpace e-mail and updated the notifications page.
We don't have an order for the bands yet.
We need to announce the voting process in advance.
The MySpace page font needs to be improved.
B.E.A.T. will split the merch profits 70/30%.
another Esthema?

Thanks.

Meeting - Monday, 11/24

I hope everyone remembered that we are meeting this week on Monday night!

Let's meet at 6:30PM if that is okay with you. I've talked to a few of you, and that seems to be the best time. Karim, I know you have a bit of a conflict, but I think you said that 6:30 may be okay? I hope I remember that correctly.

Anyway, Marty is going to be there so please be on time and ready !

Thanks everyone.

JW

Hey Everyone!

I've been playing around with the myspace lately making it look nice and adding pictures and such.  If you haven't seen it lately definitely check it out!  Just be aware if y'all make any changes-the codes are really easy to accidently mess up...I know from experience!  If anything gets changed and you can't fix it let me know and I'll give it a try.  Tara and I hung up LOADS of flyers in 921 on Thursday...and I'm going to print out some color ones to hang up either early next week or after we get back from the break.  I'm getting so excited!

Morgan

Hi everyone-

I am meeting with Lionel from Bill's Bar on Saturday to finalize a bunch of details. As soon as we do that, he will put in the ticket order and we will have them ASAP, hopefully by Monday, December 1! Also, we are ordering the fliers this weekend, so we will have them for the bake sale. Tex, tell your friend to save us those bagels!! I'll give you the money on Monday.

Remember- meeting has been moved to Monday, November 24. Marty will be there so attendance and being on time is a must!!! I will let you know where we will meet that day, as I have to figure it out with Student Activities to see which room we can get.

The night of, it's doors at 8PM and the first band is on at 8:30PM. Bill's doesn't have a backline so alert your bands that they need to bring their stuff.

Thanks Tara & Morgan for hanging up so many fliers!!!! Everyone please follow their lead, we need to spread the word. Our potential gross is HUGE. We HAVE to fill the room on the 10th! We can do it!

Tex, can B. Good wait until after the bake sale to see what kind of funds we have? If not, I'll front it, but let me know.

Kristin, amazing job with getting Joy!! She's going to be great!

Also, everyone who is working on the MySpace, thank you so much. It looks awesome and Bill's is putting our link up on their page tonight.


I hope everyone has a good night and I'll let you know what happens after I meet with Lionel on Saturday.

Thanks again!

update

Hey guys just want to say that the myspace looks great! i'm getting really excited now.

I just wanted to keep everyone posted with what i've been working on.  Today Morgan and I put up 25 flyers in a few of the Berklee buildings. Also I created an event for the battle of the beat on facebook. If you haven't accpeted yet please do so asap so i can make everyone admins so that you can invite as many people as you want. 

does anyone know when we can expect to have the tickets?

Bagels

I talked to my friend Sara about getting bagels for us from Espresso Royal. She said she could probably get us two dozen for around $10 for the bake sale.

Myspace Link:

Ok, here is the link to the myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/battleofthebeat2008

login is the group email address

I'll e-mail the password to the group email so everyone can access the account.

-KB

Host!!

Hey ya'll,

So I talked to Joy Daniels and she is willing to host!!!

Jessie and I are going to meet up with her sometime soon to discuss details of the night!!

We're making progress, stay hopeful everyone! lol

-KB

Bake Sale

We are all set to have the B.E.A.T. Bake Sale on Wednesday, December 3. We have the table reserved from 11AM to 6PM, so let's talk about times on Tuesday, and who will bring what, etc.

I also have a funding request in, and they are still reviewing it... hopefully we will get some help.

Thank you.

BerkleeEntrepreneurActionTeam@gmail.com

PW: Thebeat2008

Flier #1

Hi Everyone-

Please check the gmail account to print out copies of the first flier. It's very vague, but I think it's attention grabbing, and will get people wondering. Let me know what you think. Karim's friend did the text, and I added the bass drum.

Please print as many as you can and begin hanging them around the school. Tara and I have the responsibility for this week, but the more fliers we can get up, the better.

Thanks.

That's AWESOME Tex!! Thank you!

I'm going to try and get a definite number for the budget by tomorrow. I'll let you know ASAP

To everyone else:

If you haven't gotten your artist song, bio, and pic into the GMAIL account yet, please do it. Thank you if you already have. We need to get this together.

Thanks again.

JW

Here's the response I got from Jon Olinto from B Good:


Thanks a lot for the email. We'd love to help you guys with BEAT.

Send me over whatever you guys have for a budget and the number of those
early comers you anticipate.

I know we'll figure out a way to get plenty of burgers there the 10th.

Let me know when you can.

Thanks,
Jon



If somebody could get back to me about our budget or if the GAP donation came through, I'll get back to him ASAP.

B Good

Hey everyone. Since we were talking about offering free food as an incentive to get to the show early, I was thinking instead of just trying to get free/discounted pizza, we could try working something out with B Good since one of their founders just spoke on the entrepreneur panel and knows our organization. I wrote Marty an email to try to get his contact info, so I'll let you know if that works out.

Ricky Duran myspace link

http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomrickyduran

don't tell me why he made this his link, but this is it lol.

Also, Ricky informed me that he will be able to get 100 albums to sell at the show!

I have made the myspace and my friend Jordan is creating the cool background and all that good stuff tonight, so once he's finished I'll let you know.

Karim, did your friend make a logo yet (for the b.e.a.t.)?

Enjoy!

-KB

Meeting

Hi Everyone-

No meeting today, since school is closed.

When is everyone free to meet this week? We can meet at Starbucks.

Please let me know ASAP. We have a lot to accomplish and discuss!

Thanks,

JW

Since next Tuesday is Veteran's Day, what are we doing about the meeting?

Ricky Duran update

Hey guys,

I met with Ricky Duran (band) yesterday, and I'd say we got some things accomplished.  They are going to give me their demo, and figure out how many albums they can provide for sell on the night of the show.  Fortunately, they do have promo pics!!  They will have their myspace up on Friday too.  I will send you all the link asap when it's up and running.  

Also, I will have the myspace up by the end of the week.  I'll e-mail everyone the user name/password as soon as it's done.  

-KB

GMAIL

Hi Everyone-

Great meeting tonight!

Please send your bands best song to the following email address:

BerkleeEntrepreneurActionTeam@gmail.com

Thank you & good luck meeting with your artist.

JW

Ricky Duran Myspace

Hey again,

I spoke with Ricky Duran and he said he will have the myspace together on Friday after he's done with classes.  I'm also meeting up with him and the other band members tomorrow to start talking about promotion.

See you all tonight,

KB

Myspace page/Flyer

Hey everyone:

So my friend Jordan is willing to make the flyers (for free) for the Battle of the Bands.  However, since we are now not sure of which bands will actually be playing, it's hard for me to make the myspace or the flyers...

Thanks for the update on SuperVolcano TC

Jessie, what's going on with Model Cars?  Are they a definitely yes?

I will see all of you guys tomorrow, 

-KB