Jeff Krauss
speaker
129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Jeff Krauss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
You live and you learn. But as the time went on, I realized that I really love the event aspect of it. So I started gearing more toward, hey, you know what? Yes, I can consult for your venue. I can help you with programming, but I'm still going to focus on events.
I started focusing on experiences and I started to build my celebrity Rolodex, started working with restaurants, met my business partner, Mitch Faulkner from 123 Talent. And our whole thing was this. He wanted to book celebrities for appearances for the conventions and comic cons and all that kind of kind of stuff.
I just wanted them to come into the restaurant and have a good time or to the event or whatever I was doing. So we parlayed both of that. It fed right off of each other. And we built this great partnership that we just teamed up and we've been doing everything together since.
Thank you. Again, that really means a lot. Seriously. I do take a lot of pride in what I actually do. So it does mean a lot.
There's a lot to this. Number one is that they might have known me as, let's say, promoter, but they didn't know me of whether I was trustworthy or not to deliver. They didn't know me personally. Not everybody knew me or knew that I can deliver or knew that when I say something that it means it's going to happen.
So what happened was I would reach out and I would build the relationship with the managers, the publicists, the assistants, the agents. And a lot of times It would be for talent that they're big, but they're not global superstars, so to speak.
But what would happen is that that same rep would also rep other people or have colleagues or whatever the case. So it started to just build like, hey, you know what? He is a trustworthy guy. We can... send our talent to him. We can do events with him and dinners and all this kind of stuff because I built that up. It wasn't from scratch, basically. See, I had a few relationships.
My partner had some relationships. It kind of just intermixed and it just kept building. So I would build a relationship. I would introduce my partner. He would then kind of start doing stuff with people. He would then say, oh, by the way, meet Jeff. He does more of this kind of stuff. And it just kept building. And they were like, okay, Jeff and Mitch, these guys are legit.
And I just stick to my word. If I say we're going to do something, I stick to my word. Right. And yeah, that's pretty much my, my, my thing.
So this is a very, very interesting and fun loving story, I guess you could say. One day, everything is shut. Events are shut. Restaurants are shut. Conventions are shut. Everything we were doing was shut down. We're all just sitting in our houses. Now, my business partner, Mitch, has a lot of athlete relationships. So he called me up and he said, hey, Jeff, I got this idea.
What if we got some of our athlete and wrestler friends, clients online to just talk to their fans, maybe teach a class, maybe do this, do that? I said, hey, what a great idea. But what if we had a charity element to it? Oh, what a great idea. What if we included celebrities to do this as well? What a great idea. Even better idea. Started making some calls.
We called Cedric and we just said, hey, listen, we got this idea. It's very bare bones, but this is the idea. And he just listened and he said, listen, this is an amazing idea. But I think you guys are you guys are thinking of this as like one off. events as a just, you know, to raise money for charity, which is great. But what if we can build a brand?
What if we can build a brand that goes beyond COVID that We can build that is going to be. So we kind of just said, okay, we'd love to partner with you because that was what the conversation was. We just started brainstorming like, hey, what about this idea? What about that idea? This idea for months. And then finally we said, okay, let's do some test runs here.
So we test ran it a couple times and we said, all right, this concept is great. And it's not just about money and about all that stuff. It's the connection and the experience we're giving. So then we got Jay Benjamin involved, host and co-EP. Stacey Toy came on board, co-host and co-EP. And we just started, we just kept doing it.
More and more people wanted to come on board and host their, their fandom lives and raise money for their charities and meet their fans. And it's, it's been amazing. Like it's a very up close and personal experience, which is what we love, but it's an up close and personal experience that everybody joins together and can do. So you could be one-on-one and,
And then everybody else is waiting in the wings watching because maybe they didn't think of that. They didn't think of that question. Right. They didn't think of that. So now all the questions that everybody else is asking, you get to listen to and you get to have this special moment that and we get to bring entertainment to people's lives that especially during that time that is heavily needed.
Thank you. Again, that does mean a lot. One other thing I also do want to point out is that the difference between fan rooms And say, meeting a celebrity at a nightclub or a convention or VIP is that you get uninterrupted conversation. You go online at a Comic-Con to get, yes, you get an autograph and you get your picture, but... there's a bouncer rushing you off.
Like, hurry up, hurry up, next person, next person, because they want to cram as many people in as possible. Whereas here, we do have time limits based on the celebrity's time allotted, but we're not rushing people through. They come on, they have their conversation, they have their moment, and then they go back into the wings and watch everybody else and hang out.
cool events in the pipeline, a lot of cool fandom live stuff in the pipeline and just stay tuned and you will, uh, you will see what's coming.
They can follow me and my company. IE group. at iGroupNYC on Instagram. You can follow Fan Room Live at Fan Room Live. By the way, you can also follow Quote Notes Official, which is my other project where we spread love and inspiration through inspiring stories and inspiring quotes throughout social media to give people a brighter day and to motivate people and make people feel good about
Showing 21–40 of 129 · page 2 of 7
← Previous
Next →