play poi - poiticipate

poiticipate in the Evolution of Poi

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:56:32 -0800

Do you like what we’re doing here at playpoi? Do you want us to take it to the next level? Below is a list of the ways you (yes, YOU) can be part of The Plan. (And most of them are FREE!)

link to us

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:53:08 -0800

Linking to playpoi.com is a great way to help us do better in search engine results. Links from popular websites are the best, but links from your blog or discussion forums help as well. Even bookmarking playpoi.com helps! To make sure your links go a long way, here is our BRIEF TUTORIAL IN EFFECTIVE LINKING, which will teach you to support anybody you love, not just us.

subscribe to our blog or mailing list

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:13:33 -0800

If you subscribe to our newsletter or blog, we can tell you about the cool things we do, which will make it much easier for us to do cool things. If you are already subscribed to the newsletter, make sure poilist[at]plapoi.com isn't getting sucked into your spam filters. If you don't know what a blog is, read our Blog Tutorial!

Buy or Spread the Word About The Scales of Poi

nick — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:04:50 -0700

The Scales of Poi will hopefully fund our artistic endeavors for a while, and you can help. Make sure to tell people about the DVD, including and especially your favorite websites and juggling stores. Get them to stock it, and then tell everybody to buy it from them. Simple as that.

Shop with our affiliates

nick — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:56:49 -0700

Hurray! We now have affiliate accounts with most of our favorite online poi shops. If you click through to them from us and buy something, we get a percentage. How easy is that? Note that we've included the actual referral codes for each shop, so every time you remember to use it, you've helped us out.

For instance: If you click through to Homeofpoi.com, or if you use referral code "sdecafingdengbmmqu" we get a percentage of sales, which we will spend on making more videos. See how easy it is?

enjoy our flickr photo sets and externally hosted videos

nick — Sat, 13 May 2006 22:36:10 -0700

Just by enjoying our flickr photo sets and our videos hosted on youtube or Google Video, you are helping us raise our profile within those communities. For the best results, comment on and tag your favorite photos and videos. Remember to share your favorite content with your friends!

attend or host a poi workshop, retreat, or event

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:07:36 -0800

We have traveled the world to track down the most enthusiastic poi innovators, and masters of arts that can contribute to poi. Coming to one of our workshops or retreats is good for all of us. Even better than just coming to a poi workshop or event is hosting one in your community. We'll come to you! You just have to get enough students together, or at least promise to massage our feet, or something.

dig into the website

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:54:45 -0800

You'll be able to poiticipate in many more ways once you've started digging into the website, especially everything "behind the scenes." Learn about who we are and how it all started, and The Plan.

Playpoi.com is designed to act as an interface between a group of artists (that's us) and the people who like what they're doing (hopefully you). By learning a bit about how playpoi.com works, you'll enjoy your relationship with us all the more.

send us money

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:58:00 -0800

Donating some actual cash is a very direct and effective way to support us. You can consider it a way to thank us for all the videos and photography we have given you, or you can do it to be a patron of the arts.

The easiest way to send us money is via Paypal

To aid your decision process, we have made up the following statistics:

Patrons of the Arts are 35% more likely to have great sex on any given night (and 43% more on saturdays) than those who do not support the arts
Two out of three Patrons of the Arts are more intelligent than those who are not patrons of the arts
80% of those who become Patrons of the Arts lose 5-15 pounds within six months of their patronage. The amount of weight lost appears to be proportional to the amount of support given. Those who support the movement arts tend to lose weight from their legs, butts, and tummies, while those who support more classical arts like broadway musicals tend to lose weight from their feet and ears.

Do it! Do it! Hit the paypal button and send us something! Five bucks! Anything! The world will be a more beautiful place and you'll be happy you did it when we come out with the next video!

order Nick's book: Emails from (Over?) the Edge

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:00:18 -0800

Poi isn't Nicks only talent. He's also a ´great writer, and Emails from (Over?) the Edge is his greatest achievement yet. All book sales will help playpoi, because Nick's a pretty dedicated artist and he's currently putting most of his efforts into poi artistry. The rest of his projects are equally exciting, but we'll get into that another time.