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Updated: 5/20/2002 4:26:00 PM

70 years and Going Strong!
Updated: 4/11/2008 5:33:21 PM

90-Minute Presentation
This brief educational presentation on the Barbershop Harmony Society is designed for a speaker, live quartet and audio and video playback.
Updated: 1/10/2003 9:09:00 AM

Back to future anniversary celebration earns prime press
A clever approach to a chapter anniversary yields good press coverage for the Keystone Capital Chorus.
Updated: 12/29/2003 11:24:00 AM

Big Apple's Harmonious Holidays
Find out how one chapter parlayed a fill-in performance into a concert series, a small fortune, and a trmendous recruiting opportunity.
Updated: 11/10/2003 4:24:00 PM

Build public image and chapter membership through youth outreach activities
Your good work in bringing barbershop to young singers makes for good press and positive community relations
Updated: 9/30/2002 1:14:00 PM

Chapter anniversary PR opportunities
Celebrate your past... look toward your future... and get some local media exposure.
Updated: 2/25/2005 5:03:00 PM

Chapter Marketing Ideas Manual
Invaluable suggestions for your chapter's Public Relation efforts.
Updated: 12/13/2005 11:23:26 AM

Discount program helps share barbershop albums
Give your audience a great buy on a great cassette— and make a bundle for your chapter or quartet!
Updated: 5/21/2002 10:59:00 AM

Do radio right
Radio is a great medium for barbershop, providing listeners with the purest sensation of that great close-harmony sound. Here's how to do radio well.
Updated: 2/11/2003 2:11:00 PM

Down By The Old Main Stream
Put barbershop in the musical main stream, and educate the public about this great musical art form.
Updated: 4/30/2003 2:53:00 PM

Flint uses telemarketing technique
Try Telemarketing!
Updated: 10/1/2002 2:27:00 PM

Get noticed on the web
Tips to get that web site off the ground
Updated: 4/14/2003 3:22:00 PM

Give the media what they want
Place a feature story by giving the media what it needs: a real story, with easy-to-use press materials.
Updated: 10/21/2005 3:57:38 PM

Great Examples of Recruitment Ads!
Sign them up! Recruitment ads and marketing tips for your chapter.
Updated: 9/25/2002 2:35:00 PM

How others see us is important
Accentuate the positive in all your communications.
Updated: 10/25/2002 12:49:00 PM

How to build a barbershop web site
Want a web site for your quartet or chorus? Barbershoppers share their skills on these sites.
Updated: 4/2/2002 10:51:00 AM

Know what you want to say, and how to say it
Be prepared -- get the message right with these model responses.
Updated: 9/30/2002 1:40:00 PM

Marketing and PR Tools
Explore the many items available for purchase to enhance your chapter marketing and public relations programs.
Updated: 7/11/2003 12:46:00 PM

Milwaukee Chapter Fact Sheet (sample)
Just the facts. This sample press kit item offers a quick means of providing information about your chapter.
Updated: 11/26/2003 8:40:00 AM

Partners in Harmony
One quartet's successful dream of involving their community service organizations to benefit school music programs.
Updated: 11/19/2007 12:04:28 PM

Pattern Press Releases to Announce your New Office
Have you recently been elected to an office in your chapter? Here is a great way to announce your new positions and perhaps generate more interest in barbershopping!
Updated: 3/2/2004 10:30:00 AM

Putting print to work for chapter promotion
Promote your chapter by putting "print" to work.
Updated: 10/1/2002 10:07:00 AM

Sample press release for chorus trip t international contest
Help your hometown news tell a great story about your trip to the international contest.
Updated: 1/30/2002 9:57:00 AM

Storefront Display
Mount a storefront display to tell the world about your chapter
Updated: 5/23/2002 5:36:00 PM

Symphony Gigs
Your greatest performance this year may take place on someone else’s show.
Updated: 5/31/2006 3:12:13 PM

The best-kept SECRET in town!
Strike those words from your vocabulary. If your group is a secret, better get to work
Updated: 4/26/2004 11:43:00 AM

The best-kept secret? Not anymore!
Five great articles on generating local awareness and membership, from the May/June 2002 Harmonizer. Formatted for classroom use.
Updated: 2/13/2004 11:53:00 AM

The Ten-Minute Barbershop Show and Tell
Got ten minutes in front of a group? Tell our story using a quartet or a video.
Updated: 11/26/2003 11:43:00 AM

Tips on how to encourage vocal music AND grow the Society
Discover more than 100 ways your chapter can keep the music alive in North America.
Updated: 5/9/2002 12:00:00 AM

United We Sing
Stand up for your country, in song!
Updated: 1/27/2004 1:27:00 PM

Voices in Harmony: More Keep America Singing can make you famous! (This is how)
The PBS Special is still being aired -- and its PR techniques are important for any year.
Updated: 10/1/2002 3:31:00 PM

What makes a good community-service project
What makes a Good Community Service Project?
Updated: 9/30/2002 3:28:00 PM

What to say when you talk about barbershop
Translate basic messages into recruiting materials
Updated: 10/1/2002 2:53:00 PM

You calling us a bunch of nerds? Thanks!
One chapter reports their success at reaching out to another part of the community.
Updated: 9/10/2003 3:56:00 PM

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