Traveling Montana Cellist

Cellist for Hire. A Bozeman area cellist who travels around Montana and checks out different symphonies.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Toilet talk joke

I was barely sitting down when I heard a voice from the other stall saying:? 'Hi, how are you?'



I'm not the type to start a conversation in the restroom but I don't know what got into me, so I answered, somewhat embarrassed,? 'Doin' just fine!'

And the other person says: 'So what are you up to?'
What kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this is too bizarre so I say:? 'Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!'
At this point I am just trying to get out as fast as I can when I hear another question.? 'Can I come over?'
Ok, this question is just too weird for me but I figured I could just be polite and end the conversation. I tell them 'No.......I'm a little busy right now!!!'?
Then I hear the person say nervously...
'Listen, I'll have to call you back. There's an idiot in the other stall who keeps answering all my questions

Monday, March 10, 2008

My Sarinda Napoli Violin




Sunday, March 9, 2008

My first gray hair. What does this mean?


I'm 29 years old, and am going gray!

Music Jokes Harvard Dictionary

In order to keep you abreast of the ever-developing world of musical
terminology, I'm providing herewith the latest additions to the
esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music:

ALLREGRETTO When you're 16 measures into the piece and realize you
took too fast a tempo

ANGUS DEI To play with a divinely beefy tone

A PATELLA Accompanied by knee-slapping

APPOLOGGIATURA A composition that you regret playing

APPROXIMATURA A series of notes not intended by the composer, yet
played with an "I meant to do that" attitude

APPROXIMENTO A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of
the correct pitch

CACOPHANY [aka CACOUGHONY] A composition incorporating many people
with chest colds

CORAL SYMPHONY A large, multi-movement work from Beethoven's
Caribbean Period

DILL PICCOLINI An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only
sour notes

FERMANTRA A note held over and over and over and over and . . .

FERMOOTA A note of dubious value held for indefinite length

FIDDLER CRABS Grumpy string players

FLUTE FLIES Those tiny mosquitoes that bother musicians on outdoor
gigs

FRUGALHORN A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument

GAUL BLATTER A French horn player

GREGORIAN CHAMP The title bestowed upon the monk who can hold a note
the longest

GROUND HOG Someone who takes control of the repeated bass line and
won't let anyone else play it

PLACEBO DOMINGO A faux tenor

SCHMALZANDO A sudden burst of music from the Guy Lombardo band

THE RIGHT OF STRINGS Manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Violists

SPRITZICATO An indication to string instruments to produce a bright
and bubbly sound

TEMPO TANTRUM What an elementary school orchestra is having when it's
not following the conductor

TROUBLE CLEF Any clef one can't read: e.g., alto clef for pianists

VESUVIOSO An indication to build up to a fiery conclusion

VIBRATTO Child prodigy son of the concertmaster

Friday, March 7, 2008

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL NETWORK MARKETING CRITERIA

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL NETWORK MARKETING CRITERIA


Network Marketing is being taught in more than 200 colleges including Harvard Business School. After extensive
research into the network marketing industry, Harvard Business School developed three criteria that a network
marketing company must have in order to make it a most desirable opportunity. They are:

1. The company must be at least 18 months old as 90% of all network marketing companies that fail do so in the first 18 months. MXI is 3 years old and debt free


2. The company must have a product which is both unique and highly consumable. Being unique in this case
means that you have an exclusive product that can only be purchased from your company’s distributors.
Having a product that is highly consumable means repeated sales thereby guaranteeing customer loyalty
versus a one-time sale and having to locate new customers. XOCIA Healthy Chocolate


3. It needs to be a “ground floor” opportunity. Harvard Business School suggests that in order for the
opportunity to qualify as a ground floor type, the number of existing distributors should be less than ½ of
1% in the country where this network company exists. In the United States, this figure is equal to 1.5 million people. Harvard Business School also states that if there were less than ½ million people involved you would be on the cutting edge of a great opportunity. If the company has less than 100,000 distributors,
Harvard Business School considers it to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. MXI has 50,000 distributors in 5 countries.

There are four stages of growth in a network marketing company. They are:

FOUNDATION. This stage usually lasts approximately six months. This is when a company develops its
product and marketing plan.

CONCENTRATION. This period lasts from 2 to 4 years, when the distributor network is started.

MOMENTUM. This period lasts from 2 to 4 years also. This is when the company experiences phenomenal growth. Both retail and distributorships explode in term of expanding growth. It is during this period that a company virtually sweeps the nation. When a company’s sales reach $50 million, they reach what is called “critical mass” (sales go vertical, right off the graph). Also, approximately 2/3 of the company’s growth of new distributorships occurs during this period. MXI is going into this phase right now

When “Herbalife” reached $50 million in sales, they jumped to $151 million in retail sales in only 12 months. They also added over 800,000 distributorships in their organization.

Let us assume you have an organization which is producing an override bonus check to you of $1,000 per month. When the company reached critical mass, distributors almost automatically experience a ten-fold increase in their earnings. In other words, $1,000 per month could become $10,000 per month. This is the reason for getting involved on the ground floor, so you can experience the benefits of explosive growth.

STABILITY. This period lasts for the life of the company. A network marketing company that is dedicated to the success of its distributors will experience longevity, thereby insuring that an active distributorship will realize continued earnings and growth. MXI is debt free and committed to the Distributor and the customer in providing the best products available.