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The Steppers Beat News and Opinion

[5/15/2008 SteppersUSA News]
Outside a Bigger Box
By Markie Bee

Some times you just have to do something different to make things work. Through the years, the larger steppers community seemed to commit most of it's promotional efforts toward itself. The community has been a relatively small fairly well connected group of dance enthusiasts in Chicago with a few locations in the area where they dance. Promotion was simple... Go to those locations and plug your event, and those people would show up and dance and drink. The formula worked, and still does to this day (mostly) throughout the community... even on a national scale.
As stepping evangelist's travel the country and teach the dance to more people, and as web sites appear and promote the dance, the community has grown to a point where there aren't just five to ten thousand steppers anymore. New promoters are appearing and they don't necessarily follow all of the "tried and true" methods of just promoting to the steppers community.
Information about stepping, the dance, it's history, it's culture, it's events is being exposed to a much larger slice of the public's consciousness mostly through web sites and promoters efforts to expand their base. There has been a concerted effort by some to expand the dances "area of influence" through integrating the dance with other similar dance forms throughout the country. Just look at some of the 40 or so pluggers on SteppersUSA. Events coupled with Hand Dancers, Swing Dancers, Ballroomers, Slyders have existed in the past, but appear to be on the up swing either through design or economic necessity. Promoting to more than the steppers community is broadening the reach of the dance and making it a more financially viable business decision for all involved. Promoting to a larger audience benefits everyone. I'll have more on this soon.
 


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If you or anyone you know has any photos, footage or information about or from any Steppers contests for the History of Stepping Project, I'd love to add it to what we have. It's Your History! OR If you have a personal recollection concerning stepping or if you care to help with the History of Stepping Project in any manner, please Send us an email.

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The SteppersUSA Daily News and SteppersUSA.Com are both daily publications which update continually. We accept and publish Steppers classes and workshops, Daily events, weekly events, monthly events, special events, steppers news, requests for information which we can't answer but our visitors may have an answer to. All of this makes us the most complete listing of Steppers information available anywhere. Send your submissions and pluggers or flyers to us at webmaster@steppersusa.com TODAY!
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For those of you who promote and submit events to SteppersUSA you may have noticed we've added some new features. Some are for security purposes like the captcha coding. Other changes are to make the Events Submission Form a bit more uniform and hopefully a bit easier to use. An important addition is a three choice question where you choose... If you sell advance tickets, can they be ordered on line? The choices are a simple yes, no or Contact me about customers ordering tickets directly from SteppersUSA. This FREE service by SteppersUSA can help you increase your advance ticket sales all from one place. Think about it. Thousands come to this site every day looking at events and making plans. It's convenient for the customer and you make money! Don't have a FREE Pay Pal business account? Not a problem! Just click Here! Even if you already have a website it only makes sense to add a Pay Pal Button to SteppersUSA to increase the possibility of a sale. Customers can use any credit card including Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express, or their Pay Pal account or directly debit their bank account. It's safe, secure, and easy. SteppersUSA will not ask for any personal or financial information or access to your Pay Pal account. We will only ask for information related to your button. As I said before SteppersUSA will not charge for this convenient service. Both you and your customers have everything to gain! Do you have suggestions to make SteppersUSA even better?  Please Send us an email.




 

Support the History of Stepping Project

Please copy the message below and send it on to as many steppers as you can please!

This is an open message to ALL steppers. Please share it with as many people as possible.

 As many of you may already know I started a new web site for the benefit of the greater steppers community. It's called The History of Stepping Project. I wish to encourage you to add your knowledge to the timeline. If you know anything about stepping, please share this with the public on this site. We are looking for all information related to stepping from it's beginnings to the present. The information literally includes everything from clubs and bars which held steppers sets and parties to contests and the participants and results, to when different steppers organizations and classes started, who the instructors were and are; Musical bands, and artists, DJ's, radio and television personalities, Movies, videos, and photos… literally everything stepping.
Creating an accurate historic timeline will go a long way toward helping the community take the next step in its logical progression as it continues to grow nationwide and will become a valuable resource for all in the future.
Your input, your knowledge and your effort have made the dance what it is today. Don't you feel your place (and your organization's) in the timeline is well deserved? I do!
Please send an email to your members or readers inviting them to participate. Place a link on your web site also please. All support is appreciated!

The effort requires more than just posting the information. The need for fact checkers, people willing to do some research exists in this important ongoing project. Just a few minutes a week can make a difference.

Thank You for your time!

Markie Bee
The History of Stepping Project
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Thursday May 15, 2007

Every Thursday Night Steppin View Plugger
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