Congratulations to Nia (Miss July) who kept us all waiting a week longer than expected but finally gave birth to her third son today.
Little Idris Owen arrived at 8am this morning, weighing-in at eight pounds, nine ounces.
Photos will no doubt follow.
You can apparently listen freely to Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl video on YouTube but they want to
charge us £100 to have the track accompany a slide show of our calendar girls!
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I’ve been holding back on putting a slide-show of all the calendar pictures on the website because I thought it would be nice to set it to Neil Sedaka’s classic track “I love, I love, I love my Calendar Girl…”
So I wrote to his management company in New York and asked them to pass on the request. They replied that “all requests must be directed to EMI Music Publishing UK”.
And so I wrote to them, explaining that we wanted to have the track accompany the slide show and that it was to promote a non-profit project raising money for a local charity.
They replied:
“Due to company policy we are unable to offer a gratis licence, but I can licence on a nominal fee basis. Please note that this quote is still subject to writer/ management approval which I will seek should you wish to proceed with the request.
For a 12 month exhibition (public performance of the promo video) for £100″
£100!! - Nominal Fee!! – Erm… Wake up and smell the coffee EMI. This is for CHARITY!! And in comparison to the EMI empire a very very small concern indeed.
Needless to say we won’t be taking them up on their “kind” offer. I’ll source some nice royalty-free background music instead!
I’ll bet Mr Sedaka himself wouldn’t have thought twice about waiving his “nominal” fee and would have been pleased his song was helping a worthy cause.
The Classy Cobs got yet another plug on S4C on Thursday evening.
Click on the link and drag the time cursor along the bottom of the screen to 21:32
http://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/c_level2.shtml?programme_id=341974631
Not another Radio Cymru interview i hear you say!!!……well Yes…..I have been interviewed for the 4th time now, which is a great way to promote our amazing 2010 calendar for Ty Croeso.
By doing interviews with the media, whether it be Radio, TV or press, it gives us more scope to reach people in all areas of Wales and further afield. Not only does this make people want to know more about our calendar but it also raises the profile of Ty Croeso. Once people get to hear about the work Ty Croeso does, they want to donate in some way. Every penny makes a difference!!
Buy a ‘Classy Cobs 2010 calendar’ and lets make a HUGE difference!!!
Click on the link below to hear the interview (Below the radio screen drag the time cursor to 1:17.32)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00njbh6/Geraint_Lloyd_30_10_2009/
Thanks again for your amazing support
If you’d like to see The Classy Cobs on S4C last Monday (26th October) click on the link below and drag the time cursor at the bottom of the screen to 21:49
http://www.s4c.co.uk/clic/e_level2.shtml?programme_id=341974574
Enjoy!
But be quick. This video expires on Saturday 31st October.
We’ve had our 1st online order!!! Well, there were 6 online orders when i logged in last night; and 2 of them are being sent as far afield as USA. One to New York and One to Texas! We’re going to be plastered across every continent girls!
The success of any project is due in no small way to the amount of exposure it gets and in today’s high tech world that means only one thing – Google
Because we regularly update our various websites I tend to keep an eye on our position for popular keywords and phrases.
As you would expect, typing in “Classy Cobs Calendar” results in the number one position which helps when someone wants to find ths specific web site but doesn’t know the URL.
It is when you broaden the search, however, that you realise how important good Google rankings are in bringing people to the website who didn’t even know this particular calendar existed!
Today, for instance, anyone searching for “Charity Calendars” on Google.co.uk would find our longer established 2009 Beauty and the Beast calendar in the number two position and the fledgling 2010 Classy Cobs at a very respectable number seven.
Interestingly, when I changed the search term to “2010 naked charity calendar” we were at number eight on the first page whilst occupying the number one position was the Classy Cobs Charity Calendar Facebook Page!
All grist to the mill and wonderful for publicity.
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No – you didn’t read that wrong… Seven Thousand, five hundred and twenty-five pounds and seventy pence!!!
That is just the most incredible amount to have raised by midnight on Calendar Launch Night!
The printing is paid for and virtually all other expenses were covered by donations – so that is the amount the charity would get if we didn’t sell another single calendar!!
It is, of course, only the start – and it is a figure that I feel we can easily double. Certainly, sufficient copies of the calendar have been printed to reach at least that amount. So everybody involved will be working hard to sell as many calendars as they can to friends, neighbours and work colleagues.
Stocks of the calendars will be going out to the shop in the coming week. If you would like to add your shop/cafe/garage to the list, get in touch via the Contacts Page or by using the comments section at the bottom of the page.
(Total amount raised includes cheques made out to Ty Croeso that have been or will be handed over to the charity in advance of the main fund)
Continue reading about The Charity Fund Total stands at £7,525.70
Once again I was interviewed this evening by Geraint Lloyd on Radio Cymru.
Also don’t forget to watch S4C on Friday night at 7pm, Gwen & I have been interviewed for the programme ‘Wedi Saith’.
Follow the link to hear me having a chat with Geraint. Once you have opened the page click and drag the time cursor along to 0:47.18 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nbwfj/Geraint_Lloyd_21_10_2009/
Yes the Proofs are back from the printers – and they’re looking great!
The presses are rolling as we speak churning out the BEST 2010 Charity Calendar ready for launch night – this Saturday (24th October)
All tickets for this star-studded evening are now sold out but you can order your copy of the calendar on-line through this website or at one of the outlets listed on the Buy it Now page
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