Saturday, November 8, 2014

HOT METRO FINDS: - Build A Killer Brand For Your Business - Ted Cantu

“Discover The Untold Secrets To Creating SALES In Your Marketplace 99% Of Entrepreneurs Will NEVER Know…So You Can Attract Your IDEAL Customers, Patients And Clients, Boost Your Income, And Beat Your Competition!”




If you’ve ever wanted to make the internet work for you --- but found it truly confusing – then this is FOR YOU. I’ll show you the quickest and easiest way to make a real impact on the web.

Too many times we never take into consideration what our audience is actually looking for. So, we take guesses and that result is usually wasted time, money and energy. This leaves us frustrated, clueless and running in circles. 

We have taken our clients from literally 0 – to $3.7M and beyond. In 2011, we were bringing in investors
for Metro Detroit real estate and selling houses. We have expanded our wholesale companies to 8 locations in just three years. Our dental clients have made so much money they were able to sell their practices and RETIRE….

WHAT WE DO….IS BUILD POWER BRANDS
We build brands and create stories that make people care and take notice of your company. From there you can be well assured that those stories will travel from person to person and create real brand awareness.

That creates curiosity … about your brand…. About you…. So you can sell more stuff.



Monday, October 13, 2014

HOT METRO FINDS - The Best Concert Finds and Recent Show Reviews

Hey -- here are the recent concert reviews and events you might have missed.
We just came back from Riot Fest and covered over 40 bands in three days. We also covered the classic 1976 Punk band Slaughter and the Dogs as well as the recent appearance of Agent Orange at the Double Door. 


Metro Detroit Music| ENTERTAINMENT | Nightlife, Eating

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HOT METRO FINDS: Agent Orange 2014 At The Double Door




September Events - Riot Fest - the Full Three Day Line Up
Hot Metro Finds covers Cheap Trick, Tegan and Sara, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

TED CANTU: Hot Metro Finds Looks At The Fabulous Return Of The Libertines In The UK - Pete Doberty and Carl Barat Are At It Again


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    Sep 25, 2014 - This was the punk band that got away. Back in the day I found this little album for $8 bucks at School Kids Records, “Milo Goes To College”.
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    Aug 30, 2014 - THE RUINERS — LIVE IN ANN ARBOR We were there FIRST….!!! This goes back to 2010 http://www.hotmetrofinds.com Ted Cantu returns to ...
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    3 hours ago - HOT METRO FINDSTed Cantu On Location - The Great Chicago Fire Festival. ROCKTOBERFEST 2014: The Best Hard Rockin' Shows and ...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

ROCKTOBERFEST 2014: Slaughter and the Dogs - HOT METRO FINDS DETROIT

** This week we're bringing ROCKTOBERFEST to Chicago and checking out the live venues... first up -- Slaughter and the Dogs

ROCKTOBERFEST 2014: Slaughter and the Dogs Brings Its UK Sound To Reggie’s Rock Club

CHICAGO, IL – I grab a cab on Michigan avenue and head south to some place called Reggie’s Rock Club. I heard good things about it but I never been there. It’s around 10 pm and I have no clue where this place is. The cab driver assures me he’s been there before as he drives to the South Side of Chicago. I don’t know how south we are but I am concerned. A lot of bad stuff happens down there but it’s a Sunday night so I give myself a pretty good shot that I’ll turn out okay. We get to the place and I trust the guy so I pay him and hop out of the cab and I find out he took me to the wrong freaking place. I walked into a Hip Hop club but the girls who run the joint are nice and tell me that it is actually one block over.

The neighborhood is a little rough looking but I try not to let it bother me. I see a bunch of rough looking punks in the doorway and I know I am in good company. I am not looking too scrappy tonight but if you line us all up you can tell I belong with them. I reach in my pocket to pull out my ticket and hand it to the head door guy and he is waiting for it. But before I can complete the action of handing over my ticket the front door blows open and I see this hippie guy throwing his arms and legs around being pushed out by a bouncer. The unruly guest is shoved and is airborne and lands on the sidewalk and I hear, “GOODNIGHT !!”. That’s the Chicago I remember. I try not to let it bother me but in the back of my mind I’m thinking, “I gotta walk in there?”.

I hand off my ticket and I am back in the rock and roll fast lane once again. I’ve gotta say that it’s a rush. Tonight we are going to be witnessing one of the first UK punk bands from 1976 hit the stage. This is Manchester’s own, Slaughter and the Dogs. I collected a lot of their early work on vinyl and have been listening to them for years. They don’t really tour very often if at all. If they do tour I have never really heard about it so I am glad I made the trek all the way from Detroit just to see them play.

The name Slaughter and the Dogs barely raises more than a few eyebrows to most people. They existed in a very tiny but influential window of pop music. Slaughter was part of the original UK punk movement and came from the scene that brought us Joy Division, John C Clarke, The Buzzcocks, Magazine and The Fall. During those wild and crazy days they even opened for the Sex Pistols.

I discovered them on a little known vinyl pressing called, “Live at the Roxy WC2” that I picked up at Wazoo Records in Ann Arbor, Michigan. That was a curious album that captured the hot acts at that time including Slaughter and the Dogs, Eater, Buzzcocks, Wire, and others. It was so obscure that I didn’t even think anyone else had ever heard of it. Lead singer Wayne Barrett made a reference to it during the performance.

The crowd danced spasmodically to, “Boston Babies”, “Where Have All The Boot Boy Gone?”, and “Bitch”. People continued to fight with the bouncers and even with one another. I stood off to the side not looking to get bounced around or bounced out. It was one of those moments where I was just glad to be in the same room. This band could really work the crowd and they were incredibly ferocious. They put on a much better show than I expected. Wayne Barrett came out on stage wearing sunglasses and a pork pie hat like he was Jake Blues, (John Belushi) from the Blues Brothers. He jumped around fast on stage and sang like an off duty police captain. Above his head were sound guys or light techs or something in steel metal cages over the stage. It kind of looked like a prison and reminded me of the final scene in the, “Blues Brothers” movie when the cast rocked out to Jailhouse Rock. I was trying to put two and two together while drinking an IPA Ska beer called, Skamodo. That’s when it suddenly came to me that the lead singer here could be making fun of us Chicago guys or maybe he was just getting into the spirit of the town – who knows? I like to think it was the later because at the end there was a drunken sing-a-long to, “Cranked Up Really High”.

The club is fairly new. Reggie’s Rock Club has been around since 2007. I was walking around the place and noticed metal staircases leading up to the loft where I found recliners and couches. You could catch the entire show from up there and see everything. That’s when it struck me that this place used to be a garage or some kind of auto business. When I later checked into it I found out this place used to be an auto bumper repair shop.

To the right of me I could see this giant green tapestry with Wesley Willis’s face on it. He is the patron saint of insanity in Chicago and he used to live down the street from me pushing a shopping cart screaming at the top of his lungs. He’s passed on now. To the left of me I could make out a giant Bob Marley tapestry and he balanced out Wesley’s banner with common sense of humanity. Ying and yang.

There is a Tshirt shop too downstairs which was closed when I was there but it looked pretty impressive. There was even one shirt that read, “I got thrown out of Reggie’s” which I found pretty fitting.

One last note Slaughter and the Dogs even did an homage to the Velvet Underground during the show. Everyone is doing that now. I am running into a lot of bands who are doing live Velvet Underground songs during their sets and I’m not complaining because I find them very compelling.

Okay, there is no official set list on the web so I am going to post one from a previous show. If you see something out of line here let me know so I can fix it. This is what the show was like from the best I can recall.

1. I Got Your Number

2. Who Are the Mystery Girls? (New York Dolls cover)

3. The Bitch

4. You're a Bore

5. Hell in New York

6. We Don't Care

7. Victims of the Vampire

8. Boston Babies

9. Dame to Blame

10. I'm Waiting for the Man (Lou Reed cover)

11. I'm Mad

12. Situations

13. Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run) (Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus cover)

14. Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone

15. Encore:

15. White Light/White Heat (Lou Reed cover)

16. Cranked Up Really High

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Michigan NLP - Seminars and Training. Summer 09



Anna Russo has developed a unique and fun filled, 2 hour NLP Summer Workshop Series that is sure to address all of your concerns.

July 28, 2009 - Techniques for decision making and problem solving
August 4 2009 - Techniques to enjoy life
August 18, 2009 - How to Ask the Right Question
August 25, 2009 - Create A Loving Relationship “This series is designed to help Metro


Detroiters stay focused and on track during these transitional times. We put the best information out there for business as well as personal development.” Says author, Anna Russo.

Michigan NLP Offers New Summer Education Courses

Local Metro Detroit speaker, workshop leader and coach creates new summer workshop series for business community and for personal development.

Detroit, MI – If you’re unsure about what to make of this new economy and have trouble with finding your place in this changing world there is help. Metro-Detroit Michigan based NLP International Trainer, Anna Russo has the right answer.Neuro Linguistic Programming may offer you the solution you are looking for. Success Strategies programs of communication, strategies and language patterns will assist you to achieve real results.Michigan based NLP

Trainer Anna Russo, is a speaker, workshop leader and coach who has achieved international recognition for her development of many successful programs for individual behavioral change as well as corporate seminars. Her career spans 30+ years of coaching presidents, vice-presidents, physicians, social workers, sales managers, and even families and individuals who are in need of making change in their personal lives. She has developed a new online resource for the local Michigan economic marketplace. http://www.successstrategiesnlp.com Anna has developed a unique and fun filled, 2 hour NLP Summer Workshop Series that is sure to address all of your concerns.

July 28, 2009 - Techniques for decision making and problem solving
August 4 2009 - Techniques to enjoy life
August 18, 2009 - How to Ask the Right Question
August 25, 2009 - Create A Loving Relationship


“This series is designed to help Metro Detroiters stay focused and on track during these transitional times. We put the best information out there for business as well as personal development.” Says author, Anna Russo.

Anna is the author of, “Local Metro Detroit speaker, workshop leader and coach creates new summer workshop series for business community and for personal development.
Detroit, MI – If you’re unsure about what to make of this new economy and have trouble with finding your place in this changing world there is help. Metro-Detroit Michigan based NLP International Trainer, Anna Russo has the right answer.Neuro Linguistic Programming may offer you the solution you are looking for. Success Strategies programs of communication, strategies and language patterns will assist you to achieve real results.Michigan based NLP

Trainer Anna Russo, is a speaker, workshop leader and coach who has achieved international recognition for her development of many successful programs for individual behavioral change as well as corporate seminars. Her career spans 30+ years of coaching presidents, vice-presidents, physicians, social workers, sales managers, and even families and individuals who are in need of making change in their personal lives. She has developed a new online resource for the local Michigan economic marketplace. http://www.successstrategiesnlp.com Anna has developed a unique and fun filled, 2 hour NLP Summer Workshop Series that is sure to address all of your concerns.
July 28, 2009 - Techniques for decision making and problem solving
August 4 2009 - Techniques to enjoy life
August 18, 2009 - How to Ask the Right Question
August 25, 2009 - Create A Loving Relationship
“This series is designed to help Metro Detroiters stay focused and on track during these transitional times. We put the best information out there for business as well as personal development.” Says author, Anna Russo.

Anna is the author of, “The 30 Day Total Business Makeover” which is a business book she collaborated on with many other authors. It serves as a positive way to help companies overcome their objectives in their business life and reach new goals. She was joined on this book project with local business coach, Minesh Baxi.

Anna Russo is also the author of a second book that deals with parents and troubled teens. “Connecting With Resistant Teenagers - 10 Proven Steps” is filled with communications tools to help you get through resistance and create more harmony and cooperation in your family. Russo specializes in working with clients to help them build rapport with each other for better communication.
These were the inspiration for this innovative upcoming series.
” which is a business book she collaborated on with many other authors. It serves as a positive way to help companies overcome their objectives in their business life and reach new goals. She was joined on this book project with local business coach, Minesh Baxi.

Anna Russo is also the author of a second book that deals with parents and troubled teens. “Connecting With Resistant Teenagers - 10 Proven Steps” is filled with communications tools to help you get through resistance and create more harmony and cooperation in your family. Russo specializes in working with clients to help them build rapport with each other for better communication.

These were the inspiration for this innovative upcoming series.

Anna Russo NLP - Addresses Michigan's Economy

NLP – Creating Better Rapport in Michigan’s Troubling Economy

Local Metro Detroit speaker, workshop leader and coach creates new online resource for business community.

July 22, 2009 --
Detroit, MI – For those who are concerned about the current state of Michigan’s economy they know that we are in turbulent times. Whether you are looking for a new job, planning to start a new business or if you are having trouble with your personal life these are difficult days to work through. A little thing called NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming may offer you the solution you are looking for. This consists of communication, strategies and language patterns will assist you to achieve real results.Michigan based NLP practitioner Anna Russo, is a speaker, workshop leader and coach who has achieved international recognition for her development of many successful programs for individual behavioral change as well as corporate seminars. Her career spas 30+ years of coaching presidents, vice-presidents, physicians, social workers, sales managers, and even families and individuals who are in need of reaching change in their personal lives. She has developed a new online resource for the local Michigan economic marketplace. http://www.successstrategiesnlp.com

The site is unique because it enables you to get yourself introduced to NLP at your own pace. Russo is the author of two books, and they are available for purchase right on the web site. One book is available in two formats, soft cover and a handy downloadable PDF one for those who want to access her information immediately. “Connecting With Resistant Teenagers - 10 Proven Steps” is a great guidebook for parents who want to connect with their distant children.

“Being a parent is one of the most rewarding jobs and can present many challenges. This book will provide access to communications tools to help you get through resistance and create more harmony and cooperation in your family. Through this book, you as a parent will recognize if your style of communication is effective or if you need additional skills.” Says author, Anna Russo.

The second notable resource is, “The 30 Day Total Business Makeover” which is a business book Russo collaborated on with many other authors. It serves as a tool to help business owners to catapult themselves to success in a very limited time.“

We show you how to recession proof your business and general new business. Whether you have an existing business or are just starting a new business this book will serve as a good resource to you. The experts in this book will help you reach your goals smoother and faster!

Each chapter is filled with powerful new ideas!” The site also has audio tools on here that deal with finding your ideal weight, reducing stress, removing fears and goal setting. Anna plans on adding more online resources for business owners in the next few weeks.

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For more information:
http://www.successstrategiesnlp.com

Posted by Ted Cantu, i Cantu Media LTD - on July 23, 2009