Santa Pioneers Visits on Internet's Skype

When my feet and legs swelled up to what seemed like basketballs, I was able to keep my commitments to my clients with Skype, the world wide Internet Phone Video system.

Tonight was my maiden voyage guiding my little motor home onto the Internet Super Highway.  It was fun..and suprisingly easy.  One year Terri Christensen and I tested the system with great success this afternoon. (It was good we did to get any last minute kinks out--like the Skype NICKNAME, that is so essential.

Last night my tech saavy son, Jeff, hooked up a suprisingly high quality camera/michrophone we got for $17 at Walmart and I was in business for FREE.

I'm marketing my services for free using Skype into the 12 days after Christmas.  Here's a piece that I hope will go VIRAL!



The description under the YouTube video (my 13th) reads like a third person newspaper report:

Jon Robert Howe is a World Class Santa Claus who toured with the famous Osmond family, charmed Robert Redford and his family and portrayed the Jolly Old Elf for more than 40 years.  This high tech computer professor has taken his Christmas Act on the Information Superhighway.

Thanks to Skype, Jon Howe can follow up on Yuletide clients old and new without leaving his comfortable home.  This year Santa Howe pioneered his Elfin routine on Skype, the two way Internet phone connection and was suprised to discover his radioactive roots in Laramie, Wyoming.

"When I was five years old, sixty years ago in 1951 the only radio station in town, a Country and Western AM with the call letters KOWB, invited children five and older to come to the station and visit with Santa." Howe remembers! Oh, I wanted to talk to Santa, but mostly I felt I was ready to break into the big time at 5 years old."   It was the sagebrush version of "Kids say the Darndest Things" that Art Linkletter made popular on television years later.

It turned out to be the beginning of a radio career that has so far spanned six decades. Jon Robert Howe has, himself, become Santa using the instant video phone capability of SKYPE.

Find out how to use Skype to visit with Santa Howe, well into January.for FREE to ask questions and talk about what you got for Christmas, e-mail a request to santahowe@hotmail.com.  For more information, watch this 1 minute:44 second YouTube presentation.  Its part of Howe's Santa College Santa Marketing Curriculum at Salt Lake City Utah's Highland Continuing Education Program.  Call 801.278.9848 for more information from Mrs. Claus. (Mrs. Claus is just sure we'll get swamped...well, frankly, for market research sake, I would love it...but I'm not worried!

JRH

PS:  THE AFTERGLOW:  December 24, 2011 [12:16:53 PM] From Santa Howe: to Terri Christensen by Skype -  

We thrilled at our first Skype visit to your home last night!  With every move your kids made:  Jumping waving, thumbing up!   Wow!!!

Santa in person is always great fun, but for me, watching you and Grampa working with us to make sure everybody heard the question!  I was so pleased at the ways you arranged to touch your sweet Ghanans.  Jokes about dating and green cards were funny and I chuckled as your dear friend from the Huntsman Cancer Center exercized with my Santa Chubby animated Doll.  It was so gratifying to hear her plans to take the Huntsman system back to her home country.

The show stopper was when Emmanuel, the SLCC student from Ghana sat in the HOT SEAT and sang his National Anthem!  Hope the reaction was as good there!  (We wiped tears and cheered at the same time!!!)

I loved how technology again flavors our wonderful Christmas memories.  Thought you'd enjoy a little more stable look at the Christensen's video from yesterday on YouTube:  Copy and paste this link into your URL  http://santascosmicsleigh.blogspot.com/2011/12/santa-pioneers-visits-on-internets.html  I haven't checked to know if you can just click it here, but try it, it might just work.   Look forward to your wonderful response at santahowe@hotmail.com!!!

Much Love from Gramma Rosie Claus and me at what has turned out to be our best year ever doing Santa (over the last 40) Jon St. Nicholas Howe :))))))