I just had the most amazing weekend. My husband and I went to the 2nd Annual SoCal Slack Key Festival in Redondo Beach. This concert featured artists such as Grammy winners Jeff Peterson,John KeaweThe Pahinui Hawaiian Band with the legendary Philip Gabby,Makana-Guitar Player National Finalist and Maunalua (who will be performing at the inauguration of President Obama). Of course, this is not the full list, but you can tell just by this that it was a talent-packed event.

I bring this up because, number one, it was an awesome experience and number two, I assisted both Maris Somerville of Somerville Associates and Mitch Chang the organizer of this event in promoting the festival.

Mitch Chang worked so hard at organizing this event. My hat is off to you!

Now, you ask, why would I mention this is a blog regarding virtual assistant services? Because I can and because I used the services that I provide to assist in promoting this event.

I have blogged before in regards to using social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube to promote your products or services. This is a great example of it working! You should see the SoCal Slack Key Festival’s wall postings today on Facebook. It is amazing how many people attended from Facebook. My part in all this in regards to Facebook, was creating an event posting and then sending it to all my friends in which I then asked them to pass it on to their friends.

Another part I played in the promotion of this festival, was posting it to online calendars. The one I use the most is FullCalendar.com

By using this tool to promote the festival, it hit almost 500 media outlets for a measly $19.95. How can you beat that. It would take hours to do this otherwise. Here is a full list of where they post just in the Los Angeles area.

So Mitch, I hope you are taking a break today. You deserve it. After you get some rest, let’s get going on the Falsetto Festival and next year’s Slack Key! We have work to do!