Celebrity Fan Clubs For Fun & Profit [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Emporium Publishing Company
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967479002
• ISBN-13: 978-0967479002
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,367,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative Book!, June 25, 2000

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Renee Ward (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Celebrity Fan Clubs For Fun & Profit (Paperback)

After an unsuccessful search at the library and on the internet for info on how to start a fan club I came across Joyce's book and all I can say is THANK YOU. It gives accurate instructions on how to start and keep a successful fan club operation running. She even shows you sample contracts and a lot of other valuable information. After two weeks of receiving her book I am now the official fan club president of my favorite celebrity. Thanks Joyce

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Uninformative and useless!!, May 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Celebrity Fan Clubs For Fun & Profit (Paperback)

I bought this book thinking it would provide detailed information on how to start and run a fan club. I was very disappointed in it, especially for the price. The book is 99 pages with a very big font and double spaced. She spends very little time telling you how to actually secure the services of the celebrity's management and speaks very generically throughout the book. There are a few generic contracts at the end of the book but nothing really useful here. Total waste of money!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fun??? Where???, September 30, 2000

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"sol8air" (Mill Creek, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Celebrity Fan Clubs For Fun & Profit (Paperback)

I have a Fan Club and Fan Site for actor Frank Langella (unofficial for now, and after reading this book, maybe forever). Since this is all pretty new to me, I thought I'd learn some useful things. It was terribly disappointing. No, nauseating. Has the world really become so commercialized that even fandom comes with a price tag?? In the "old days" (you know, when we lived in caves, cooked without microwaves, watched black and white television and phones had round dial thingies on them, those old days) a fan club was an organization of actual fans, who existed primarily to share their experience of being fans. They would elect or appoint "officers" to carry out the few necessary chores such as membership drives, newsletters, keeping the books and membership records, and corresponding with the celebrity's designated agents for current information. They kept members informed, shared stories and pictures and occasionally they would adopt some large project, like getting the celebrity recognized for some coveted award, like a star on the Walk of Fame. Dues were collected only to defray the cost of postage and printing, and the celeb's people in many cases cooperated by providing pre-signed glossies and official bio information. After all, it was good for them, too. In those days, a fan club was a labor of love by and for the fans. At least that is what I thought.

This horrible book talks of something totally foriegn to me. It makes a fan club a cold business enterprise, where for a contracted fee paid by the celebrity, the "Fan Club Service" will send static responses to all the celeb's fan mail, which the celeb never sees. In addition they agree to market merchandise, run "900" lines, and other commercial endeavors, and then split the profits (including membership dues) with the celebrity. Say what?? What has any of this to do with a fan club? Where are the fans?? They are numbers with dollar signs in front of them. Vultures!! I would NEVER want to participate in such an enterprise.

I do this because I WANT to do it, and when/if I ever don't want to any more, I'll offer my software and codes free to some willing fan who cares enough to continue it, because they want to, not because someone pays them to. The ONLY thing we would ever need money for at any time would be a Walk of Fame star, and that we would do because we want to give something back to our hero, not to feed some greedy commercial machine.

As for the other thing, I have no desire to read, let alone respond to, anyone's fan mail. I don't think that is what a fan club is, or should be, about.