Entries from January 2008
January 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Sure, we’ve always had Tribute Bands and Impersonators on Gig Salad, nestled away under “Variety” and “Bands”. But now we’ve broken them out into one big, beautiful category called “Impersonators and Tribute Bands” and have added a bunch of specific categories.
Here’s our starting lineup:
Angelina Jolie Impersonator
Beatles Tribute Band
Billy Joel Tribute Artist
Blues Brothers Tribute
Britney Spears [...]
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January 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment
In the summer of 2007 we’ve fixed a glitch in our sorting order on Gigsalad.com. It used to be that when, for instance, 2 bands who selected Jazz Band as their main category and Boston, Massachusetts as their nearest major city showed up in search results, then the order of the bands would always fall [...]
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We created an ad system on Gig Salad because of popular demand from our members who travel outside their home base to play national gigs. Gig Salad functions geographically, so when an event planner searches for a Jazz Band in San Diego and your home base is Boston, you will appear near the bottom of [...]
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We’ve been really busy here.
On January 3rd, 2008 we launched version 3 of Gig Salad. During our launch week we experienced a few hiccups but 90% of them are ironed out now. Most notably, the transition from our old server to the new one made the site perform inadequately for 48 hours or so.
The [...]
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Our company was born out of a friendship between Mark Steiner, president of Steiner Talent, Inc and Steve Tetrault, president of Tetrault Design Associates, Inc. who met while living in New York City in the mid-90s. Mark has been in the entertainment business for nearly 2 decades and in the talent booking and management industry [...]
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Spotlight On Betty Atchison
Cher Impersonator on GigSalad.com
How did your interest in Cher begin?
I have always been a huge fan of the Sonny and Cher Show. It never occurred to me that I looked anything like Cher until my friend Billy suggested it one day out of the blue.
What made you pursue impersonating Cher as a [...]
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