• Free Travel
• Sale of Products to a captive audience
• Internet Ambassadors
• Exposure
• Live internet broadcasts of each event
• Back Stage Passes will be sold for face-to-face photo-ops, video or advice where the “Rising Star” will receive a portion of passes sold (dependent upon individual cruise line guidelines)
• Book, CD, and DVD signings
• $25 per passenger booked for the Gig

These combined benefits are sure to provide Rising Stars with the tools necessary to take it up a notch in their business or enterprise.

This isn’t your grandmother’s anniversary cruise or boring team-building corporate retreat.  Rising Star Travel Corp. leverages a ship’s population with content and activities provided by the artist, small business and entrepreneur that can reach out to raving fans.  Build the kind of following only a celebrity with a high-priced PR firm can afford.

Ship passengers can meet, greet and learn from independent “A” list Indie musicians, speakers, coaches, church leaders, and other types of small business owners to create a focused at-sea experience no other cruise planner can offer.  With a captive audience looking for something to do, Rising Star Travel Corp. creates an experience built around a small group of 16 or a large group of 1,000.  Room, board, activities, and meals are all included at a fraction of the cost of typical formal seminar. Reaching thousands, rather than a small room of 30 is marketer’s dream come true. Small business can charge what a typical shore excursion costs while at sea to give their new fans base a real learning or entertainment adventure at sea;  One that is shared around the world through Smart Phone Applications.  To reach thousands or even tens of thousands of interested people would take years, while a Rising Star Cruise would take just a few days at sea to make your product or talent go viral. Social networking has opened the floodgates to communication between like-minded people.  Facebook, Blogs, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIN, Orkut, Hi5, StumbleUpon, YouTube, Ustream and other networks have inundated the internet in uniquely different ways to form bonds about various topics and interests with people all over the world.

There are virtual events and there are live events.  Rarely do the two types of events converge.  People who want to participate in virtual functions can do so via YouTube uploads, podcast streams, or Ustream TV. The missing link at virtual social gatherings is the boost of electricity and energy you get from sharing space with people connecting all of your senses.  Rising Star Travel Corp. developed a dynamic hybrid that takes the energy of a live event and virtually shares it around the world in real-time.

A speaker or entertainer’s worst enemy is a distracted crowd.  Audiences and seminar attendees split their attention between phones, laptops, iPads or whatever device(s) they have close-by.  Sea travel has a way of focusing an audience like no other venue can.  Cell signals are almost non-existent in the middle of the ocean, so seafarers need a way to be engaged.

By using live performances, seminars, business promotions etc., and simultaneously broadcasting live via smart phone apps, cruise celebs have access to thousands of potential followers.

Innovative technologies available for sharing information inexpensively will allow smart phone users to snap photos or take videos and then share experiences with their networks.  A small business person, entertainer, author, or other small enterprise will be able to reach TV-sized audiences without a gatekeeper herding large numbers of fans away.

Smaller cruise ships accommodate approximately 2100 passengers while the larger super high-tech cruise liners vary between 5,000 to 6,000 passengers.  Add to that the number of virtual travelers taking the ride substantially increases the scope of real and virtual travelers.  Two revolutionary Smart Phone Apps will take an ordinary event at a local venue and stream the activities live right from the deck of the ship!  Imagine a band performing at the top deck of a ship, with people dancing and having a great time … that event doesn’t have to be memorialized by a common snapshot or video, but can be streamed to your friends and family all over the world … as if they were standing next to you.  Rising Star Travel Corp. will arrange for “Back Stage Passes”, photo-ops and meet and greets with the performers and business leaders on the ship.  Individuals can ask their own questions during back stage events and post right on YouTube.  It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to know how quickly YouTube videos would be posted if 100 people opted for the “Back Stage Pass.”

These combined benefits are sure to provide Rising Stars with the tools necessary to take it up a notch in their business or enterprise.

If interested in "Gigs at Sea" please mail your DVD of a live performance to:

Rising Star Artists
452 E Silverado Ranch Blvd., Suite 117
Las Vegas, NV 89183

You can also use the "Submit Music" form to provide your information and upload a video or link to your live performance.