Call Me Ozz-Monthly Karaoke Newsletter

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SING N WIN FOR VACATIONS AND PRIZES:

Join us this Tuesday LAST CHANCE for you chance to win vacations and prizes at The Library Bar & Grill Downtown! Starting at 9pm, sing a song in its entirety to be entered to win! This week’s prize will be a vacation for three days and two nights in Las Vegas, Nevada! This is a progressive sing n win, so the more times you sing, the more times you visit, the more chances to win!

DINNER and a MAGIC SHOW!

This event has been rescheduled for October 19, 2018. More information to come!

SING N WIN FOR CASH:

The Sandbar Brewery & Grill is bringing back the Sing n Win for cash.

One night only, Wednesday, August 15th, starting at 8:00pm, drawing between 11 & 11:30pm.

First name drawn wins $50, second name drawn wins $150, and the last name drawn wins $200.

Limited to the first 45 singers to sign up and sing. This is not a competition.

The Sandbar is located at: 4100 San Mateo Blvd NE

CANCER BENEFIT FOR TRUJILLO FAMILY:

Help support our fellow KJ Famous Amos, as both of his parents have been diagnosed with cancer. His father has already undergone surgery, and we all know it’s a long road to recovery. They could really use some help paying the medical bills. 

Plan to attend the fundraiser on Friday, August 17^th from 7:00-9:00pm. Duke City Event Center. 2822 2^nd Street NW. 

For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/472270659906844/

DINNER AND A CONCERT:

Call Me Ozz is giving away two tickets to the concert on September 30^th and Dinner ($50 gift certificate)

Register at any of the NMSF Karaoke Showcase Auditions.

You may register as often as you can.

The drawing will be held Saturday, August 25^th at Camino Rael Winery & Taproom in Los Lunas.

You do not have to be present to win the concert tickets, however, you do have to be present to win the dinner portion.

CALL ME OZZ COMEDY SHOWCASE @ THE 2018 NM STATE FAIR:

Call Me Ozz will be bringing family friendly laughter to the Main Pavilion stage on Thursday, September 13^th from 6-8pm.

Produced by Left Field Productions featuring:

 Keith Breckenridge

Davyd Roseman

Buck D

Eddie Stevens

Julian Moton

2018 NM STATE FAIR KARAOKE SHOWCASE:

The 2018 Karaoke Season continues as we qualify more adults to the 2018 NMSF Karaoke Showcase! You can still qualify at the following locations:

The Library Bar & Grill-Tuesday, August 14^th-8:00pm-FULL WALK IN ONLY 8:30-8:45

Camino Rael Winery & Taproom-Saturday, August 25^th-7:00pm

KARAOKE AT THE 2018 NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR:

All events take place at the Main Pavilion.

Open Karaoke every night; September 6-15 from 5:00-5:45pm. On line registration will open September 1, 2018.

Adult Showcase Nights: September 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 at 8:00pm.

New Mexico State Fair Parade: Saturday, September 8-9:00am

Adult Semi Final Night: September 14^th at 8:00pm

Adult Finals and Champion Night: September 15^th 8:00pm

Minors Finals and Champion Day: September 16^th 2:45pm

Special Recognition and Awards: September 16^th (Approximately) 3:45pm

Celebration Cake Cutting: Immediately following the crowning of the Minor Champions.

Become a sponsor! https://www.callmeozz.net/NMSF-2018-Sponsorships.html

FAMILY KARAOKE KARNIVAL:

Mark your calendar now, as we put this awesome family event together! Karaoke, fun jumps for all ages, bean bag toss, ring, toss, dunkin for apples, face painting, hamburgers, hot dogs and grilled chicken. Saturday, September 29^th from 4:00-8:00pm. Free entry! Duke City Event Center. 

No alcohol permitted.

KARAOKE AT THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL BALLOON FIESTA:

We will be managing two karaoke shows at the 2018 International Balloon Fiesta, KJ by Mclain from Kamikaze Karaoke.

Wednesday October 10^th from 10:30am-1:00pm and Thursday, October 11^th from 5:00-7:30pm.

The 24 adult contestants from the 2018 NMSF Karaoke Showcase will automatically be registered to sing at this event. There will be room for 12-15 additional singers to sing as well. First come first sing!

 CALL ME OZZ BIRTHDAY BASH:

With Call Me Ozz coming out of retirement, it would only be right to bring back the Birthday Bash!

We are currently putting this Talent Show Event together right now. It will be in November and be hosted at a local family friendly venue. Entertainment will include: Karaoke, Live Music, Comedy, Dancer, Magic, and much, much more! Stay Tuned!

 TWINKLE LIGHT PARADE:

We will be back in the freezing cold nights of December singing our way down Central Avenue as we once again participate in the 2018 Twinkle Light Parade. We will release more information as it becomes available.

RED VELVET UNDERGROUND:

Hosts entertainment and great food seven nights a week! Karaoke, Comedy, Live Music. Visit: http://www.redvelvetundergroundcafe.com/ for the latest schedule!

CALL ME OZZ and KARAFUN:

Call Me Ozz has partnered up with Karafun to bring you 100% legal karaoke options.

Whether you are a professional and would like to be completely legal at your commercial shows, or if you’re an induvial who wants to practice at home. Karafun has everything you need. 

For more information: https://www.karafun.com/?aff=77

CALL ME OZZ LIVE:

Join us every Wednesday at 6pm on Facebook: Billy Ozz Beare page as Ozz comes on live and brings you up to date on everything going on in the wonderful world of Call Me Ozz! Thank you https://doublelmedia.xyz/ for making this happen every week!

NEW MEXICO DREAM CENTER:

Call Me Ozz has partnered with the NM Dream Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless teens find hope, home and love. A representative will be at most auditions to give you more information about what they do and how you can help. You can visit their website right here: https://www.nmdreamcenter.org/

WE NEED A SALESPERSON!

We are looking for an outside salesperson to sell advertising to businesses. We are looking for someone with a couple of years of outside, face to face, business to business sales experience, that has a reliable vehicle, a cell phone, a computer, is proficient in MS Office, and has internet. For more information:

http://www.callmeozz.net/Sales-Application.html

WHAT CALL ME OZZ DOES:

Do you have an event you need help promoting? We do that.

Would you like to put together an event? We produce and manage events.

Do you have a business you want people to know about? We offer advertising services.

Do you need a KJ, a DJ, a Band, a Comedian, Video-ographer, Etc? Our network is the largest in the state.

Do you need a website built and managed? We do that too.

Would you like the benefits of social media marketing without lifting a finger? Yup, we do that too.

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST STAFF:

Kenny Johnson-Video Clipper-Hands On-Assistant Coach

Tiago Marti-Advertising Sales

Renee Burreson-Admin Assistant/Social Media Marketing

VISIT OUR NEWEST PAGES:

Call Me Ozz Current Events: http://www.callmeozz.net/Featured-Events.html

Open Mic Nights: http://www.callmeozz.net/Open-Mic.html

Brew Houses: http://www.callmeozz.net/Brew-Houses.html

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Back in 2014 the events director at the NMSF came to me and asked me to put together a karaoke show for the Fair…..so I did. The rest of the staff at the Fair was not so sure about his idea but was “OK” with it. Little did we know it’d turn in to what it has become.

In 2014, we flew under the radar, and when they saw the support for this event and they were blown away. They were expecting a bunch of drunk fools to get on stage and embarrass the Fair…..YOU GUYS blew them away!

They asked us back in 2015, and once again, they were blown away…..and then came 2016. They year that made the mark. It was also the year that I (Ozz) decided to retire. They always say retire at your peak, which I did.

In 2017, they had a radio station take care of the karaoke competition, and I think the radio station realized doing karaoke at the Fair, was much harder than they imagined. They also asked us to come back, just to do a 90-minute karaoke show of champions of the past. So, I pulled together Call Me Ozz Karaoke Showcase of Champions with the help of Coach Milli and we blew them away! (Again). Seeing the love, this brought me out of retirement.

Now, in 2018, we are now listed as a SPECTACULAR, which is a very high honor at the NMSF. This is a very prestigious spot to obtain. Only here do the special acts get listed…and yes, our amazing karaoke community…we are SPECTACULAR! You can find us on the NMSF Spectacular page: https://statefair.exponm.com/p/things-to-do/283

I would like to thank everyone that makes this possible, let’s blow them away again, so we can really blow them away in 2019……Call Me Ozz is a Local Promotion Company, here to promote Local Businesses and Local Entertainers…like you!

Love is in the Fair 2018!

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It’s no secret that since Phoenix Entertainment Partners (PEP) bought out Soundchoice and Chartbusters, that they have reignited their quest for suing KJs and Venues for using their product without permission from PEP.

About three months ago they began their attack upon Albuquerque. One day I received a text message from one of our affiliated KJs letting me know PEP had contacted them and told them, get with the program or get sued.

Since then many other affiliated KJs and Venues had been contacted by PEP. Call Me Ozz (CMO) at that time decided to become an affiliate of Karafun to help KJs and Venues have an option to the PEP bullying tactics.

Today, CMO was notified by another KJ that their venue had been contacted by PEP and told to get with the program or get sued. They told PEP they would be switching to Karafun and no longer use Soundchoice or Chartbusters.

Apparently one of our competitors (we will be nice and not mention their name), was contacted by PEP as well. We immediately received physical threats against the CEO of CMO accusing CMO of reporting him.  It absolutely astounds me that anyone would do business with this company.

The screenshot of the entire Facebook conversation is in the process of being uploaded to the CMO chatroom.

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                *I hear a lot of venue managers and owner complain about the lack of sales of drinks or food when they provide entertainment, comedy, live music or karaoke

                *Then they blame the KJ, Band or Comedians.

                *The more I thought about this I had to really think about this in the terms of a salesperson

                *Are they your entertainers to keep people there? Or do you think they are your salespeople?

                *Your staff is your sales people

                *Sure the can mention specials and encourage to spend money, but ultimately it is your staff

                *Are they providing proper service? Some venues I must chase down the server

                *Are the suggestive selling?

                *As the manager or the owner, do you observe your staff?

                *If someone is enjoying the entertainment without purchase, you have the right to refuse any service to them

                *I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on how to help venues increase revenue while entertainment is there.

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                *Difference between live music & karaoke

                *Live bands cost more than a night of karaoke

                *Think about that in terms of reality

                *5, 6, 7, 8 hundred for a band for the night, brings a full house-however, if that same bands plays every week, the attendance drops

                *Karaoke is the opposite. 50, 100, 150, 200 a night. Starts with a few and builds over time.

                *The right KJ, in the right venue will build to a steady busy karaoke night every week

                *Do you agree or disagree? And why?

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               *One of our Albuquerque KJs was attacked by the Sound Choice police

                *They asked me what they should do

                *I am not a lawyer

                *After research found they have lost lawsuits when you stand up to them

                *They only own the rights to 25 songs

                *They try to suit for CW infringement, making people think SC is the KJ company

                *Lost law suits

                *If you can afford it fight them

                *If not, drop SC and use only Karafun professional version

                *You can get hooked up with Karafun on the Call Me Ozz website

                *What are your thoughts?

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*New admin-Alyssa Gates is back

                *Need a salesperson-Vehicle, Phone, Computer, Internet, Printer, MS Office, B2B experience

                *Today I am in El Paso training the sales rep to take over my southern territory.

                *The main reason I retired in 2016 was because my chemical company offered me the southern territory.

                *I actually started it in April of 2016.

                *It became overwhelming and had to choose one or the other.

                *Because of finances, CMO was not making enough money, so I did what I had to do.

                *I never started CMO to ever become this…it just did.

                *After being gone for a year, and seeing what I saw, and being asked to come back by the NMSF, Venues, KJs and fellow singers I chose to give up that southern territory which was half of my sales.

                *I noticed the karaoke community scattered and fell apart. This karaoke family has become my passion, and now that we are bringing in more comedy, theater and live music, it’s now more the CMO community.

                *In three weeks I will be giving up Farmington and the rest by the end of the year, and then CMO will be 100% of my livelihood.

                *We are local promotion company here for local entertainers, and local venues to help local people find things to do.

                *You can help us grow by visiting the site everyday and seeing what’s new, or post in the chat room, or comment on the forums.

                *Or help our search engines by googling “karaoke in Albuquerque”, then clicking on CMO.

                *Also by attending as many of the CMO events as possible. 

I thank you for supporting CMO, and look forward to many more years with you. How can you help?       

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*The karaoke community

                *Is a bunch of pockets of singers of each venue

                *All together make up one big community

                *CMO prides itself on creating new singers, and helping people who are new to Abq find a place to sing, or newly single people find a place to sing

                *Not to move singers from one venue to the next

                *You will lose singers by change of circumstances: Get married, get a BF or GF, start school, New job, move away, in the last 18 years I have seen so many singers come and go.

                *Don’t get comfortable and stop promoting just because you are always busy. It takes time to get new singers, therefore you should be promoting the most when you are the busiest.

                *Waiting until you get slow is too late.

                *CMO has affordable advertising packages, and promotion packages to make sure you always have new singers coming in your doors.

                *KJs that promote CMO get discounted rates and free listings in the KJ Showcase, and the courtesy listings.

                *Beginning July 15^th, CMO will only list venues that support CMO. Courtesy listing is available at .57 cents per week per night, until July 15^th, then the rate will go to $1.15 per week.

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Venues that cancel or delay karaoke without notice to the KJ or the customer (please do not name any venue), do you continue to go to the venues only to support the kj? What are your thoughts?

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It has started! The qualification competitions for a spot at the NM State Fair are going on! We want your input and experiences of the competition nights!

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The NM State Fair Karaoke Competition Pre-Qualifying began at Lucky 66 Bowl on Saturday, June 28th. It will get real heavy in August...what are your thoughts?

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