With his service coming to an end, Zadel resigned from the Marines, turned down a tryout with the Bears and began a corporate tour of duty that involved, Betty estimated, 18 moves.
Think of the list as a quick snapshot of a music act's relative earning power, but take it with some caveats: Musicians' take of tour revenue, for instance, varies widely, and those gross numbers don't include other potential revenue from things like merchandise sales and corporate tour sponsorships and international revenue.
Elhamy ElZayat, chairman of Emeco Travel, a major company that handles mostly corporate tours and conferences, said he expected that out of 110 requests for tours next year, only 10 would pan out.
The gig: Bob Rogers, 64, is founder and chief creative officer of BRC Imagination Arts, a design and production company that creates what it dubs "visitor experiences," including theme park attractions, museum displays, corporate tours and world expo pavilions.
While the court acknowledged that the site had become a recognizable public attraction - bringing six to ten bus tours per day as well as school trips and VIP and corporate tours, not to mention foot and bike tours -- they left for a later date the decision over whether or not the works in question were worthy of protection.
On the streets of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, where most of the showcases took place, conversations revolved around T-shirt salicensingnsing deals, corporate sponsors, tour arrangements and other ways musicians are making a livelihood now that they can't count on sales of recordings.
"Converse have been my staple stage shoe from pretty much the beginning of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs," says Karen O of her unusual decision to put her face and feet to the campaign (YYYs have been known to turn down corporate sponsored tours in the past because it devalued their art).
We had a preference for people with field management and/or sales training or who had done corporate office "tours of duty".
They are looking for someone to plan, organise and manage all of their performance work including site specific commissions and corporate events and tour some productions.
Vertu's marketers began to mount soft-sell events for target audiences -- a dinner for a group of Swiss bankers; a reception at the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, of which Vertu is a corporate member; a tour of the Richard Avedon exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a group of subscribers to The New Yorker, in which Vertu has advertised.
Having to dress up (I'm normally a sloppy dresser) at least twice a month for a "corporate inspector's tour" (e.g., investors).
