Are we not inventors?

I had forgotten how cynical people are.

Have a little enthusiasm – aren’t we the nation of inventors? or not . . .

Aren’t we the nation of can-do mentality and haven’t we brought great things to the world over the course of history?

I’m excited to see it come to this point after two years of working on it. I believe the business model is sound and it will take a bit to get off the ground – but then,

It’s gonna fly.

My favorite saying, that I made up one day -

“Keys to the Universe. You wanna drive?”

- cricketdiane

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((from one of the emails I sent out to let people know about this – ))

This is an idea. But, it is far more than a “concept”.

Ideas are the foundation of our country and ideas are the positive strength in our country’s economy.

Ideas are the fuel that powers our economic growth.

This is my big idea. (One of them.)

Please help me with it.

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/

Apparently, I will need some sponsors to advertise and business minded people to help me straighten out the website development gliches – like having two paypal buttons on each of our three products listed live right now.

But I can do that with a little help.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….

my, oh my, oh my -

It’s gonna fly.

Building a business notes about the America the Beautiful Show events across the USA

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index.htm

So, I figured out the revenue streams on the America the Beautiful Show central website -

First, anyone can go to the website and build their own America the Beautiful Show using the tools there along with their own skills and abilities without paying anything at all. There is enough on the site, (and more of it will be added from my own notes and business plans for it and research), for someone who wants to accomplish creating this show where they live, to actually do it.

We do have things that we will charge people to access that will be available on two pages in the central website, on the “Handy Stuff to Have” page and on the “Our Products” page. And our team, including me (there are three of us now) will be working to promote the concept and brand of the America The Beautiful Shows so more people will know about it and be able to access the tools to build their own events all across America.

Some of the things where we will get revenue from this, are:

AMerica’s Team members can pay us for -

1. Using our little AMerica the Beautiful logo on their event information and website to co-brand their event . . . (for $60.00) but they don’t have to use it all unless they want.

2.  a digital download of our more comprehensive marketing, promotional, and public relations plans . . . ($60.00)

3.  a digital download or email attachment download of our creative public relations promotional plans to help them accomplish letting people know about their America the Beautiful Show event . . . ($40.00)

4.  a Calendar and Timeline for creating the show as we would do it with the goals for accomplishing the event marked on them . . . ($14.95)

ALSO -

5.  a digital download of the “How To Do It” written narrative about how to do the things and accomplish the activities to produce the show . . . ($24.95) by cricketdiane. The materials through Day Five are actually on the website for no charge and some of the marketing concepts are on the website too in a less expanded form without charge.

6. a digital download, cd, email attachment or flashdrive of all the materials on the website as documents with the full written elements . . .  ($80.00) but nearly everything on the site now and in the future will be able to copy and paste over for people planning their own America the Beautiful events to use without charge whatsoever. (I noticed that a few text boxes won’t allow them to be copied for some reason, but it wasn’t intentional and I’m going to fix it as soon as I can figure out why they are doing that.)

(AND)

7.  an advertisement on our website not only helps to support the efforts we are making, it also targets this specific audience that wants to find out the things that are on the site as well as the kinds of things we want them to know exist in the world around them to help (I’m thinking of some other things like “Intellectual Ventures” and big trade shows and conferences, business tools and invent America resources, but we haven’t approached them yet and it is where I’m going to start asking around for it.)

An advertisement on our site of one standard block parked on one single page for 3 months . . . ($300.00)

8.  Sponsorship listing as a supporting member of the America The Beautiful Show Team . . . ($200)

Now, I thought about the last one a bit and decided that people don’t have to do anything beyond taking the information from our site and doing something with it which is what I hope they will do. But, if they want us to list them as a participating member of our team that is supporting what we are doing, then there is a one-time fee of ($200) and we will put their name, contact info they want listed and leave it there forever (unless they do something really, really raunchy or vastly illegal.) That will help us keep going and give their participation a public acknowledgment on our site.

- cricketdiane

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A little while ago on Kramer, (cnbc) he was onstage with Maria Bartiromo, I think it was – and talking about selling shares to all Americans in something – and a bit about creative approaches in business to prevent the “flippers” from coming in and taking over (and mucking it up, my note). It caught my attention because it is a brilliant idea that I might be able to apply to the America the Beautiful Shows. I’ll have to think on it. They were actually talking about something else – but that sure would be a nifty idea to apply to this . . .

Hmmmmmmm…………

Today, well – starting now anyway – I’m going to work on the website for the America the Beautiful Show (the large main site) to put the PayPal buttons on it and write press releases to send around by email and submit to news and business outlets, blogs and places that might be interested. I also need to upload another video on the YouTube for this business and I’m working to add social networking pages for the America the Beautiful Shows too. I have fixed up a tweeter spot for it at AmBeautifulShow user name and every so often, I’m trying to put something on it as I go.

There are a bunch of documents that I’ve written or put together of access to resources that I want to put on the website and there were a few very nifty things that CNN had segments about that I want to post over to Facebook. One of their stories was about a racetrack who installed solar panels to cover all their electric needs for the track and stadium. I definitely want to post that one and there was a new thing I saw a couple days ago that I want to find and post here and on the Facebook.

The other big thing to do today, besides putting the buttons on PayPal – I’ve already made the buttons on their site to use (did that last night – or early this morning in non-Australia time), is to start sending out invitations to businesses and individuals that I want to hopefully get as advertisers on our site and as participants in the project generally. I hope they will respond well. I never know. It seems so wonderful and exciting to me, but then it is my baby in a way and that means I am wonderfully biased to think its great whether it is or not and I know that.

I keep thinking, what if people who come to the America the Beautiful Show website think they can’t do this or don’t believe that it is possible for them to do whether they are some big company or expert or whatever? That is scary to me and maybe many people will feel that way and just keep waiting for a job to call back from their last two years of filling out online applications . . .

I really don’t know what to do about that.

The American spirit isn’t dead. I know it isn’t . . .

But it makes me sad to think it might be.

- cricketdiane

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Now, that does bring tears to my eyes without meaning for it to happen. It just can’t be that. I know that spirit still lives.

Well, I better get back to work on it. The sooner people know about the project and the America the Beautiful Shows project specifically, the better.

*** That’s all for now – maybe later.***

http://www.wix.com/cricketdiane/America the Beautiful Show/

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The CNN story about the racetrack that is solar-powered -

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/

updated 3 days ago

Let’s fund every entrepreneur CNNMoney.com

There was a great conversation Thursday at Y Combinator’s AngelConf in Silicon Valley. Anthony Ha of Venturebeat had a couple posts on it that I just read, one on Paul Graham’s comments, and another on Ron Conway and Mike Arrington’s comments. I woul… FULL STORY

By Fred Wilson, principal of Union Square VenturesFiled under: Tech Biz

(and)

Pocono Raceway solar farm 1:37

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/08/01/pocono.raceway.solar.natpkg.cnn

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Intellectual Ventures – Nathan Myrhvold

http://www.intellectualventures.com/Home.aspx

Their contact page -

http://www.intellectualventures.com/ContactUs.aspx

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Building the America The Beautiful Show

My Note -

Still working on building the business websites, social networking stuff and fixing the websites for the America The Beautiful Shows today.

Discovered that some of the pages are hidden on the website I published as it is under construction yet – just to get it online and then go from there. And, I found out today that if anybody wants to buy anything on the site or be a sponsor or advertiser with us at our main core site – there is no way to make an online payment with us set up on the pages, even though I have a PayPal account. It isn’t connected for the site to use yet but I had gone ahead and published the website before realizing that. In fact it was today before I even thought about that part. Duh.

And the flash website about the America the Beautiful Shows created by Mander Commander on Wix had a mis-spelling when the domain was input for it, so right now it is still listed as a free site with them even though we paid for their premium unlimited service for it to have the domain name we bought over at GoDaddy. I put the other main core site on Verio with its domain names including (.net) and (.com) – it looks like that will allow others to add their state, city, town or focus to use when they make their own America The Beautiful Shows where they live.

Oh yeah – just to explain right quick -

I decided that it would make a better business model considering my own limitations, to create a core website online and put the tools and business plans public on the site for people to use for building their own events around the country.

The only basic incomes from it for us will be the sponsors, advertising on the site and sales of information that is extra not published on the site. I can send those things on cd or flashdrive in the mail, put on an email attachment or allow them to download them online. But there does have to be a way for people to order them and pay for them through PayPal or by a check in the mail or something. It is possible as quick as I figure out how to put the PayPal button on the html pages over on the server. Looks like I will be reading tutorials again today.

So here is what I wrote that explains the America the Beautiful Show Concept for the business -

America the Beautiful Show

With the tools on this site you will be able to create your own America the Beautiful event for your town or city.

The America the Beautiful Show is a themed event that anyone can create with available local resources for sponsors to be showcased and audiences to enjoy while they discover the possibilities in the community around them for inventing their own solutions to our national economic crisis.

found here -

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index.htm

one of our hidden pages (accidentally) – it takes going through links to find it:

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index_files/Page780.htm

and here is our products page -

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index_files/Page490.htm

this page describes the show from the perspective of the sample press release about it and below that is a “Flow of the Show” script suggested to describe the way shows could be done for two hours with entertaining music and speakers – massive resource rich information would be given to the audience members in the lobby or as gift packages to take home (without charge as part of the show) -

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index_files/Page437.htm

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The way the site is written – I’m hoping that anyone would be able to follow the guidelines and information found on the site to build and host their own event for America The Beautiful Show where they live and generate revenues for themselves and their team from it. – (and helping the community at the same time.)

The Wix site that Mander Commander built for it is amazing – right now, it can be found at this address -

http://www.wix.com/cricketdiane/America The Beautiful Show/

And I also made a YouTube site for the business and a twitter account -

at user name -

AmBeautifulShow

on Twitter

http://twitter.com/

AmBeautifulShow

(and)

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericaBeautifulShow

on YouTube

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Now, let me see if I can get this other stuff fixed up with the domains assigned to the Wix site that we’ve bought for them and the PayPal links made on the main site for people to use.

I guess I can do this – I’m trying and it is certainly harder for me than it would have been to simply put on the show in Atlanta myself because I’m having to learn about things that I’m not as comfortable with doing.

Oh well – it’ll work . . .

- cricketdiane

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Inventing solutions for America again – I hope they do some good this time.

(my note -)

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There you go.

This is the logo I designed for the main core business and website for this part of the project -

America The Beautiful Show Logo by CricketDiane / Cricket House Studios for our new business - America The Beautiful Shows

With the tools on our new website site you will be able to create your own America the Beautiful event for your town or city and make your own money from it or be inspired to create some other great business of your own from what you find there.

- cricketdiane

The About Us page on the America the Beautiful Show website -

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index_files/Page1209.htm

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(and that’s what y’all get for letting me write it . . . )

cd9

(cricketdiane)

And this is an excerpt from our new About Us page on the site -

Better Things To Do -

Two years ago, when I first designed this show (cricketdiane), not many people believed that our economic downturn would last much of any time at all really. And, they would’ve been right if it had been another time in our more recent history – but this time, things were different. And, I think most people may not have been aware of how different the facts are from past modern recessions that post-date the Great Depression of the 1930’s in America and around the World.

Now, most people realize what long-term unemployment can come with an event of this scale and many people know that communities and individuals, families and businesses are all in trouble.

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And an excerpt from one of the hidden pages that can only be accessed through the links on the projects page (so far) –

Handy Stuff you might need to know -

Glossary of Terms - (used in America the Beautiful Show business plans and information)

Resourcing – Turning inventiveness into reality by bringing together a multitude of resources available in the surrounding and extended communities (to serve a goal or many goals at once.)

Functionable – Do what actually works. (paraphrased for polite company)

Pile Theory – If you can’t pile it correctly, you may never find it again, (for papers and notes.)

- written by cricketdiane

(down a ways on the same page is a little of the idea we believe about citizenship and then there are sections that are yet to be completed – but I’m working on it.)

From -

http://www.americathebeautifulshow.com/index_files/Page2025.htm

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Now – I’m wandering over to the PayPal site to figure out how to add that on the site where we are offering products and opportunities for sponsored ads, sponsors and business partners who want to put ads on our site to participate. The other things on the site are available without charge except for things like using our logo to co-brand their event when somebody puts together an America the Beautiful show where they live, and we’re going to charge for more comprehensive marketing and promotion plans than those available on the site publicly accessible without charge. And, we are also going to be charging for comprehensive downloads which involve the entire business plan found on the site although anyone who wants to do it one part at a time can take the things found on the site using copy and paste, if they don’t mind spending the time to do it.

And that is what I want people to do that come to the site – to get the info that is there which they can copy off and paste to a document and use it to make events they put together themselves around the country. Except for the parts where we are charging something to get it – the rest is available for people to use without having to interact with us at all. I am hoping to find some sponsoring businesses that would like to advertise in the margins of the site for the costs of doing it to be covered and maybe enough to pay a little to us for making it available and keeping up with it. I hope it works.

On to other things now – I’ll write some more tomorrow or later tonight.

- cricketdiane

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It’s very exciting . . .

The Business Plan

The Business Plan

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