Frazer Consultants Releases 'Memories in Nature' Video Clip for Tribute Center

Continuing to build the best tribute video software in the funeral profession, Frazer Consultants releases 'Memories in Nature' a new Tribute Center video intro and ending.

Waunakee, WI., March 23, 2012 – Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the funeral industry recently announced the release of yet another video clip, 'Memories in Nature'.

Continuously building upon their funeral software and technology, Frazer Consultants offers funeral professionals and the families they serve the highest level of personalization. Tribute Center enables funeral professionals to create personalized DVD tribute videos in-house utilizing client families photographs and videos, exclusively licensed music and video clip intro and endings like the newly released 'Memories in Nature'.

"Every day thousands of funeral professionals create moving tribute videos, custom funeral stationery, funeral candles, remembrance ornaments, temporary grave markers, and offer funeral webcasting to their client families using our Tribute Center funeral software," said Matt Frazer, Consultant with Frazer Consultants. "Tribute Center is an ideal solution to easily provide value-added products and services, and it can all be done in-house with just a few clicks of the mouse."

This most recent edition to the Tribute Center's library of scenic videos is geared towards an individual who had a love and passion for bird watching and nature. The video clips, has been expertly created and designed to enhance the overall personalization experience for a family who wishes to honor their loved one with a tribute video. This intro and ending can be easily integrated with photos of the families loved one as well as other videos and photographs of family and friends. The resulting tribute video is of cinematic quality.

Funeral professionals who are already using the Tribute Center software can download the 'Memories in Nature' video clip from the online Tribute Center library so that it can be offered as an option to client families. Those interested in adding tribute videos to the services they offer can contact Frazer Consultants direct for more information.

As the leading provider of funeral products and services for the death care industry, Frazer Consultants continues to offer high performing and reliable technology for the death care industry including software to create DVD tribute videos, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral candles. The company also offers funeral home website design and the technology for funeral webcasting.

About Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Funeral DVD Tribute Videos

DVD tribute videos are a collection of photos, videos, spoken words and music interwoven together to memorialized the life of a loved one who has passed away.

You might have seen a tribute video played at a funeral home or during a funeral service and thought it would be beyond your capabilities to assemble one. But, if your funeral director has tribute video software, you can be assured that your loved one's tribute video will be exceptional.

Instead of worrying about another detail of your loved ones funeral, your funeral director can put together a tribute video for you. Using the latest funeral software, your funeral director can create a cinematic quality video with the pictures and videos you provide him. You can be as involved in the process as you would like.
As you look through the pictures you've saved, and view the videos you've taken of special events, parties, weddings, graduations, or even everyday moments you happen to capture on videotape, you may get a sense of a pattern you'd like to follow. Some people like to focus on each year's birthday, letting the images tell the story of a life progressing through time. Or maybe you'd prefer to start at the beginning, from the earliest pictures or videos available, and working through each year's events. Recalling the music from each year, and adding even a snippet of favorite songs, is a wonderful way to evoke the person as well as the era in which he lived.

Once you gather the pictures, you'd like to have them displayed in a specific order, or you have a particular song in mind. You can share these thoughts with your funeral professional and he can take care of the rest. The resulting DVD tribute video will be a very personal, very moving memorial to your loved one that can be viewed again and again.

If your loved one was passionate about something, you might want to give that center stage in your DVD tribute video. Were they an outstanding teacher, a dedicated nurse, a respected business person? Whatever gave meaning and purpose to the life that so recently ended will give meaning and purpose to your memorial. The tribute video will be a video portrait of that life, and show the world just how special it was to you, and to others.
Creating a tribute video using a collection of photos, videos, spoken words and music is a wonderful way to memorialize the life of someone you loved. The old saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words" holds true, as you and others watch and hear him as he was on special occasions or in everyday, candid moments captured on film.

About Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Creating Memorial Tribute Videos

A video tribute is a special, moving way to honor the life of someone who has passed away. Share all those special moments with everyone by including still pictures, videos and music.

Memorial tribute videos are fast becoming the norm at most funeral and memorial services. We are fortunate to live in an age when we can capture the essence of our loved ones on film, in pictures and on audio tape. Utilizing tribute video software, your funeral director can take all of your photographic and musical memories, arrange them any way you'd like, merge videos and music together, and the resulting video tribute video can be shared with everyone.

Along with the public showing of your loved ones tribute video, at the funeral home and/or during the funeral or memorial service, you will have a very special memento. The DVD tribute video can be watched any time you want, to comfort you, to bring back memories of special times, and to play on anniversaries of special occasions or as a yearly memorial tribute.

What makes a tribute video a very personal memorial, is that you can arrange it any way you like. If your loved one was passionate about something, a hobby, a sport, his work, volunteering, your video can pay homage to that by focusing on all of the events surrounding it. Assemble pictures of fishing trips, videos of your family singing around a campfire, photos of your children and grandchildren working together at a soup kitchen at Thanksgiving, led by the person you loved and have lost.

With a program designed especially to assemble a memorial tribute video, you and your funeral director can choose a theme representing a hobby, an interest, a vocation, or just a general overall background theme to which you can coordinate the rest of your funeral stationery. This tribute video software allows the funeral professional to arrange, rearrange, add music, video and sync transitions perfectly. There's a way to include captions and other text throughout to more completely memorialize your loved one as the tribute video plays and the pictures and videos unfold.

Make your presentation personal, showing your perspective of the life with your loved one, or make it all-encompassing, with family, friends and co-workers adding their pictures and words in a memorial collage. Videotape others as they share their memories, and add these recorded tributes to your video.
After your memorial tribute video is complete, let it play continuously during visiting hours at the funeral home, or reserve it to use as the centerpiece of the funeral service, perhaps even replacing a written eulogy with a graphic representation of a life well-lived. However you choose to show it, you will make an impact on everyone who sees and hears it.

About Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Frazer Consultants Announces Life Journey Candle Information Video

Funeral software company releases short one minute video detailing how easy it is to create the Life Journey Candle for client families in-house

Waunakee, WI., March 23, 2012 – Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the funeral industry has created a brief information video to not only reveal the key personalization features of the Life Journey Candle, but also to show how easy it is for a funeral professional to create a custom funeral candle in-house.

Watch the video now: http://www.frazerconsultants.com/LifeJourneyCandle.aspx

"Our Life Journey Candle has been very well received in the funeral industry and with client families," said Matt Frazer, Consultant with Frazer Consultants. "Watch the video and then give us a call. We'll show you how to add more value to each family you serve."

For funeral professionals who are wondering what the best way to incorporate the Life Journey Candle into their services, Frazer Consultants has a detailed sheet outlining the basic, standard and premium funeral stationery packaging.

"With a simple good, better, best stationery packaging system that incorporates the candle in our middle and top tier package, the funeral professional can clearly see the profitability our funeral stationery and funeral candle can bring," added Frazer.

If you would like to learn more about how you can offer these great stationery packages, please contact Frazer Consultants to have a consultant go over the funeral software with you.

About Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Selecting the Right Dance Studio

Are you looking for a dance studio convenient to the Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, and Tempe Arizona area? Finding the best local dance studio in the East Valley is easier than you'd expect. Many of your children's friends probably have already taken, or are currently taking, dance classes. Where are they registered?

If you are searching for ballet, hip-hop, or jazz classes, a quick search online can also help you find dance lessons at a local studio. Make sure that the dance class times offered will fit well into your schedule and find out the price of the dance lessons.

Once you've narrowed down your selection of dance studios, it's usually best to observe a class before you register. To be sure you aren't interrupting the class, call ahead and ask when would be a convenient time for you to observe the teacher and the class that you're interested in taking. Usually, the teacher can speak with potential new students right before or after a class.

When you meet with the instructor, be sure to ask a few questions to determine if he or she has the proper background and approach to teach dance classes. Ask about his or her qualifications, if they have been a professional dancer, or have a degree. Students can be injured when dancing if not instructed properly in warm-ups, stretching, proper positioning, and the like.

While observing a class, watch how the instructor interacts with the other students in the dance class. Good teachers will take the time to explain and demonstrate dance steps and work individually with each student. The teacher should use positive reinforcement to ensure that their form is correct and that they are having fun.

The type of dance floor that is in use in the studio is also important. It should be a “floating” wood floor, not concrete or tile. Also, make sure the studio is light, well ventilated, and clean. Inspect the equipment, the ballet barre, mirrors, and take note of the sound system as it sets the stage for the dancing. Sit back and enjoy the setting of the studio, look around at the surroundings and observe the "atmosphere" of the studio. Ensure you feel good when you're there.

If competing is a prime objective of your dancing -- check out the ability of the studio to offer choreography. Especially critical to a well-performed routine is often the movements and the transition between steps. Not all individuals are equally trained or have the creative ability to offer good choreography.

About Wagner Dance and Music
Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages two to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes. For more information, or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdanceandmusic.com or call 480-892-7179.

Gilbert Arizona Performing Arts School

Performing arts schools teach the necessary skills and techniques to become a professional performing artist such as a singer, musician or dancer. The performing arts encompass all types of public performances, such as theater, dance performances, music concerts, and many more.

Although it is not always required, a formal education can be a great advantage when seeking employment in the field of performing arts. Getting a solid foundation at a local performing arts school in the Chandler, Mesa, Tempe and Gilbert areas can help kick start your career in the performing arts. In addition to providing instruction, performing arts schools offer opportunities to perform in front of an audience, giving practical experience in the field and helping the performer to feel at ease in front of an audience.

The most important thing in being a performing artist is confidence. Creativity is second, and talent is a distant third at best. If you want to get involved in the performing art of your choice – be it dancing, singing, acting, or whatever – you need to believe that you are the ideal person to be up there on stage. This doesn't mean that you can't be realistic about your weaknesses, but you have to play up your own strengths. If you don't think that you should be there, other people are not going to think you should be there either.

Creativity is almost as important. There are many people in the performing arts who are much less talented than others, but what they have is a novel approach that grabs the viewers attention. When on stage, if the overall performance is done with style, you can succeed despite having limited dancing or musical talent as long as your other qualities fill in the gaps.

Having said that, it's not to say that talent is not important. Performers spend thousands and thousands of hours perfecting their performing skills and developing their musical abilities because they want to give a flawless performance. Having a natural ability and pursuing that ability relentlessly is crucial if you want to succeed.

If you are interested in a career in the Performing Arts or would like to take dance and/or music classes at a performing arts schools in the Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, or Tempe, Arizona areas, feel free to research Wagner Dance and Music.

About Wagner Dance and Music
Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages two to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes. For more information or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdanceandmusic.com or call 480-892-7179.

East Valley Music Lessons

Many musicians practice most days of the week, work hard, and are passionate about their playing, but sometimes struggle to be able to play the way they want. They are frustrated because they don’t improve fast enough, begin doubting their potential, or even feel discouraged when thinking about how long it is taking them to become a better musician.

There are specific reasons why musicians go through such frustration and disappointment. Here are some key mistakes musicians make and repeat over and over again that you should definitely avoid.

• Teaching Yourself. Many people attempt to teach themselves. Yes, it’s true that some well known players were somewhat self taught, but that strategy doesn't work for everyone. If you're like most people, teaching yourself is the hardest, most time-consuming, stressful, and frustrating way to learn anything. This is a mistake that you should avoid.

Wagner Dance & Music offers private music and voice lessons. The private one-on-one instruction allows students to progress at their own pace and gain the best understanding of musical techniques.

Students currently enrolled in music lessons range from 5 years old to some students in their 60's and 70's and they come from all over the Chandler, Mesa and Gilbert area. Whether the student is a beginner or more advanced, Wagner Dance & Music takes care to teach what their students want to learn so music is rewarding for students of all ages and skill levels.

Students can start private lessons any time of the year or month so there's no need to wait to get started. A variety of styles are taught such as pop, jazz, rock and classical.

• Ineffective Music Teachers. Unfortunately, many music teachers receive no official training on how to teach.
Local music teachers in the Gilbert, Arizona area are key to the success in mastering your instrument - whether it's the piano, guitar or even your voice. Wagner Dance & Music is focused on teaching. All they do is teach. They don't sell or rent musical instruments which leave them free to specialize in one thing - proving the highest quality of music and voice instruction.

Additionally, all of Wagner Dance & Music's instructors are highly qualified, university trained teachers, and many have extensive performance experience. Most importantly, our instructors strive to relate their teaching to each individual student's learning style.

When looking for a local music teacher in the Chandler, Mesa, Tempe or Gilbert, Arizona area to help your child or yourself learn to play an instrument, check out Wagner Dance and Music. They are constantly improving their classes, instructors and facilities to ensure that they are always providing their students and parents with the best experience possible. All dance and music studios are not the same - discover the difference at Wagner Dance and Music.

About Wagner Dance and Music
Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages two to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes. For more information or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdanceandmusic.com or call 480-892-7179.

Dance Classes for Your Kids

Dance classes for your kids are available for virtually every type of dance style including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, and ballroom. Almost all types of dancing can improve kids' grace, coordination, poise, confidence and balance. Additionally, there's the excitement of learning something new, making friends and getting some exercise disguised as fun.

Once you find the right teacher, children's dance lessons can work wonders in helping kids grow. When kids accomplish different positions in ballet or steps in tap, their self-esteem rises. Mastering a dance routine elicits a child's sense of pride. There are also the physical benefits—when taught correctly, kids learn proper posture and how to align and move their bodies to create flow and movement. Plus, dancing is fun and a skill upon which they can build and enjoy for the rest of their lives.

To find the right dance class for your child, first, depending on your child's age, ask them what kind of dance your child is interested in learning. Lots of little girls love ballet and most boys gravitate toward hip hop or tap.
Selecting a local dance studio convenient to the Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, and Tempe Arizona area, is probably easier than you'd expect. Chances are you have friends with kids who are taking or have already taken dance classes, so start by asking them for referrals and suggestions. Go online and search for local dance studios and read up on the kids' dance lessons they offer. Make sure that the dance class times offered will fit well into your children's schedules. It's usually best to observe a class before you register and find out the cost of the dance lesson from the staff at the studio.

Getting to know the instructor is a good idea. Often the best time to speak directly with an instructor is a few minutes before or after class. To be sure you don't interrupt the class schedule or bog down the teacher, it is best to call the studio beforehand and ask what their policies and procedures are for visitors and potential new class members.

A dance teacher needs to have a thorough knowledge about dance, body conditioning and teaching children, in general. When you arrive at the studio, ask questions about the teacher's qualifications. Has he or she ever been a professional dancer, or earned a degree in dance? How long has he or she been instructing? Proper dancing requires good instruction. Poor form can lead to injuries and waste your money. You should also ask about the size of the class. More one-on-one time can be given in classes with smaller numbers of students.

About Wagner Dance and Music

Since 1989, Wagner Dance and Music, a performing arts school, has been teaching East Valley students. Our 3600 square foot Gilbert facility is conveniently located on the southeast corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe in the Big Lots plaza. We offer classes for ages two to adult in Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Tumbling, Cheer, Musical Theater and Voice as well as adult classes. For more information or to sign up for a class, visit http://wagnerdanceandmusic.com or call 480-892-7179.

Frazer Consultants Unveils 'Waterfowl Memories' Video Clip for Tribute Center

'Waterfowl Memories' is a beautiful new scenic video that has been expertly created and designed for use with the Tribute Center video creation software.

Waunakee, WI., March 12, 2012 – Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the funeral industry recently announced the release of yet another video clip, 'Waterfowl Memories'.

The Tribute Center enables funeral professionals to create personalized DVD tribute videos in-house utilizing client families photographs and videos, exclusively licensed music and Frazer Consultants own scenic videos.

The most recent edition to the Tribute Center's library of scenic videos was recently released. This video, called 'Waterfowl Memories', has been expertly created and designed to enhance the overall personalization experience for a family who wishes to honor their loved one with a tribute video. Client families will appreciate the serene imagery as this new video takes you through the marshland as a hunter and his dog seek out waterfowl. Photos of the families loved one as well as other videos and photographs of family and friends can be uploaded to create a cinematic quality tribute.

Funeral professionals who are already using the Tribute Center software can download the 'Waterfowl Memories' video clip from the online Tribute Center library so that it can be offered as an option to client families. Those interested in adding tribute videos to the services they offer can contact Frazer Consultants direct for more information.

Continuously making advancements in their funeral software and technology, Frazer Consultants offers funeral professionals and the families they serve the highest level of personalization. As the leading provider of funeral products and services for the death care industry, Frazer Consultants continues to offer high performing and reliable technology for the death care industry including software to create DVD tribute videos, personalized funeral stationery, and funeral candles. The company also offers funeral home website design and the technology for funeral webcasting.


About Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

Frazer Consultants Announces Life Journey Temporary Grave Marker Information Video

Funeral software company releases short minute and a half video detailing how easy it is to create the Life Journey temporary grave markers for client families in-house

Waunakee, WI., March 12, 2012 – Frazer Consultants a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the funeral industry has created a brief information video to not only reveal the unique keepsake features of the Life Journey temporary grave marker, but also to show how easy it is for a funeral professional to create these custom temporary markers in-house.

Watch the video now: http://www.frazerconsultants.com/Temporary-Grave-Marker.aspx

"Our Life Journey temporary grave marker can easily be created in-house and is a revolutionary, new type of funeral product," said Matt Frazer, Consultant with Frazer Consultants. "Not only does the marker serve as an informational piece at the cemetery, it's also a keepsake. Once the permanent grave marker is in place, the photo portion of the temporary marker can be removed and given to the family as a unique keepsake."

Frazer Consultants can show funeral professionals how to add more value to each family they serve. For who are wondering what the best way to incorporate the Life Journey temporary grave markers into their services, Frazer Consultants has a good, better, best stationery packaging system which outlines the basic, standard and premium funeral stationery packaging.

"Our funeral stationery packaging helps the funeral professional clearly see the profitability our funeral stationery and temporary grave marker can bring," added Frazer.

If you would like to learn more about how you can offer these great stationery packages, please contact Frazer Consultants to have a consultant go over the funeral software with you.

About Frazer Consultants
Frazer Consultants primary products and services include interactive funeral home website design, funeral tribute video software, funeral webcasting, funeral candles, funeral keepsakes, funeral register books, personalized funeral stationery, temporary grave markers and funeral holiday remembrance ornaments. For more information, please visit http://www.frazerconsultants.com or call 866-372-9372.

ESA Renewables Receives Approval from Tennessee Valley Authority for 22 Solar Arrays

Turnkey solar solutions provider given thumbs up for multiple 200kW photovoltaic systems in Tennessee and North Carolina

Hayesville, NC, March 1, 2012 – ESA Renewables (ESA), a leading turnkey solar solutions provider, confirmed the acceptance of 22 Participation Agreements for customer-sited projects through the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the local co-ops in the North Carolina and Tennessee areas.

During the fall of 2011, ESA submitted the applications to TVA's Generation Partners pilot program. The pilot was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of purchasing electric energy from residential, commercial, and industrial customers generated by qualified renewable generation resources. Qualifying systems were required to be more than .5 kilowatt (kW), but less than 200kW and consist of a commercially proven technology of either, solar electric, wind, low-impact hydropower or biomass. Since that time, the program has been modified for projects up to 50kW.

All 22 applications for the customer-sited projects being installed by ESA have been accepted to participate in the TVA Generation Partners pilot program. According to the terms of the pilot, the systems must be completed and commissioned within six months of the acceptance date.

ESA will engineer and install the 200kW DC photovoltaic solar arrays on each of the sites, as well as operate and maintain the sites for the duration of the agreement term. Each property owner has entered into a lease agreement for the property being utilized that allows them additional income for the duration of the contract.

"ESA is pleased to learn of TVA’s approval of these 22 applications," said Jeffrey Burkett, President of ESA Renewables. "These solar arrays will be of great financial benefit to the customers, and further advance our countries efforts towards generating clean, green energy."

About ESA Renewables, LLC

ESA Renewables has positioned itself as a leader in the industry providing turnkey solar PV systems globally. ESA owns and operates a diverse portfolio of more than 500 solar PV power generating facilities located in the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain and Italy. ESA’s scope of services includes financing, engineering, construction, testing and operation and maintenance. With headquarters in Castellon Spain, ESA has additional offices in Florida, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, France and Italy. For more information about ESA Renewables, LLC, please visit http://www.esarenewables.com or call 407-268-6455.