Bollotta Entertainment Makes It To Finals of Southern California Meetings & Events Magazine Reader's Choice Awards

Bollotta Entertainment Makes It To The Finals of Southern California Meetings & Events Magazine’s coveted Reader’s Choice Awards (for the second consecutive year) in the category of Best Entertainment Agency.

THE NEEDEMANN BROTHERS ARE BACK - Celebration Cabaret October 29th

Called the feel good show of the year, The Needemann Brothers bring their hilarious antics back to San Diego on October 29th, to The Celebration Cabaret in Sorrento Valley. Featuring never-been-seen material, and decades of popular song, the brothers promise a memorable evening of laughter and lunacy. For more information and tickets, visit the Celebration Cabaret website.

The C Notes For A Keynote

Procuring the right professional speaker for your conference or meeting requires plenty of planning, and comes with a lot of pressure. Below are few helpful hints to help guide you through the process of selecting a keynote speaker that will set the tone of your conference, and/or help provide a continuum of ideas based on your objectives.

BE TIP#1: KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE...
Their job titles, duties, goals, the micro cultures in which they work, their challenges, and most importantly what it is they need to hear...feel...take away from the keynote.

BE TIP#2: KNOW YOUR OBJECTIVE...
There are usually many objectives, so the key here is to prioritize... Especially if you’re only able to offer one keynote experience within the context of your meeting. Understand what is most important for your audience to garner from their keynote experience, and be able to differentiate whether you want them to have an emotion response, or a cerebral one.

BE TIP #3: KNOW YOUR BUDGET…
Speaker fee ranges are all over the board, with qualified, effective and credentialed speakers requesting fees from $7,500-$15,000 on the low end, $20,000-$50,000 mid-range, and well beyond that for celebrities, sports figures, and well-known CEO’s and business leaders. That old saying, “The bigger the name, the bigger the fee,” is put into play here. As is, “The more in-depth the expertise, the bigger the fee.” Remember that quoted speaker fees usually do not include travel and production expenses.

BE TIP #4: KNOW YOUR OPTIONS…
Whomever you choose to help find you the right speaker, make sure you receive a picture, a brief bio, information on all professional designations, evidence that he or she possesses the expertise you require, and accurate pricing and rider requirements. Obtaining a client list, as well as information on any books or articles they’ve published is also helpful in knowing your options before you make a selection. Once you’ve narrowed the options down to 2 or 3, request video footage and a conference call directly with the speaker.

For more information on speaker booking, call or email Michael McGuire at 619-295-3522 or michael@bollotta.com.

Before working at Bollotta Entertainment, Michael worked directly with Tony Robbins as a Regional Manager and Training Facilitator. He also promoted Ken Blanchard, and The Success Seminars, and was a VP of a speaker’s bureau. Michael’s experience enables him to help select appropriate options of professional speakers for your meeting.

ERINA IS STAR STRUCK IN HOLLYWOOD

A Japanese based network marketing company, Erina’s biannual incentive events reward high-producers with lavish celebrations and a recognition ceremony akin to the Oscars. So much so that the first of Erina’s 2010 recognition events, Achiever’s Seminar 2010, was held at the home of the Oscars…The Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

Contracted by Bollotta Entertainment, The Kodak Theatre’s 4,500 square-foot stage was fitted with alluring Austrian drapery, and a dynamic customized podium which was ultimately shipped to Japan for later use.

Bollotta also provided production support to Erina’s Japanese-based production company. In such, Bollotta coordinated the Union calls, and all the logistics surrounding the install and operation of the Seminar, including a “remote” shoot featuring the highest achievers, which occurred at the entrance to the theatre, and the partial closure of Hollywood Boulevard.

Then, Bollotta Entertainment pulled out all the Hollywood stops for Erina with an evening entitled “Hooray For Hollywood,” held in the Wolfgang Puck Ballroom, next to the Kodak Theatre. Featuring dynamic red rose centerpieces atop luxurious table linens, gobo-enhanced room lighting, Marilyn, Elvis and Lucy impersonators, and a custom show highlighting segments from popular movies musicals, Erina’s more than 500 achievers were star struck by all the festivities.

FEATURED TALENT: Kelli Adame

Kelli Adame is a lifelong organizer who holds a BS in Psychology from Santa Clara University, with an emphasis in organizational development. Since 2002, Kelli has facilitated countless projects for individuals and small businesses. She is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers, and is a certified facilitator of Letting Go Lightening Up workshops and Freedom Filiers.

Available for meetings and spouse programs, Kelli helps those who experience her seminar to live better through better organization!

FEATURED ARTIST: ROBIN ADLER & THE MUTTS OF THE PLANET

Vocalist Robin Adler, veteran of the Peter Sprague group, and her husband, multi-instrumentalist music producer Dave Blackburn, both lifelong fans of Joni Mitchell, have assembled a group of extraordinary musicians (the Mutts of the Planet, after a line from a JM lyric), to evolve fresh arrangements of well-known Mitchell standards such as “Woodstock”, “River” and “Both Sides Now”.

The music is presented along with illuminating details about Mitchell’s songs and the circumstances of their creation. The result has been a hugely successful series of sold out concerts prompting such audience testimonials as, “Robin's vocals were dead on,” and “Was it worth the 2,281 miles I traveled to hear it? Oh heck yeah!”

FEATURED ARTIST: COMEDIAN FRANK KING

Comedian, Frank King and his numerous gigs, Frank is a contributor to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

He has also appeared on An Evening at the Improv, Comedy on the Road, Showtime Comedy Club Network, the Joan Rivers Show,Can we talk? and on the Dennis Miller Show on CNBC.

For better-than-ever rates on a sophisticatedly funny Frank King performance, please contact Bollotta Entertainment atinfo@bollotta.com.