Here's my happy tale/tail: It's been really slow going for me trying to line up gigs as a pro mermaid. I've been working and working at creating performance products, and I've spent many hours marketing. I finally got a New Year's eve party gig at a waterpark, but I was still having no luck getting our music and theatre programs booked. So it occurred to me that maybe I needed to try a different kind of marketing approach. Last week I called the Children's Librarian at our local library. Over the years, she has hired us several times (as puppeteers, back in the day). I left a message with her voicemail offering to do a series of mermaid storytime appearances at the library. My idea was, if we just got out there in front of an audience more, those kids and their parents would begin buying our music CDs and stuff from my new Etsy shop, and it might lead to paying gigs. I didn't hear anything from the librarian, so I began to think she wasn't interested. But this morning she called me, and we had a lovely, long conversation. She's THRILLED with the idea of a monthly mermaid storytime. She's going to schedule it as a separate series on Saturday mornings. That way, my husband, who plays a pirate character, can participate, too, when he's free. AND she thinks a great plan would be to do 4 monthly storytime sessions, then on the 5th one, she'd hire us to do a paid music or theatre performance. We would just repeat that structure over and over, so we're pretty much guaranteed 3 paid Hudson Library shows a year for the foreseeable! Sweeeet!
It's a large library with lovely performance spaces, and the building is right on the scenic St. Croix River here in Hudson, WI. It's a perfect venue for a water-themed series.
I am so freakin' happy right now…
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Originally Posted by Fun123joker
It means you know what you want and you have the courage to ask for it.
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