{"id":732,"date":"2008-01-15T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2008-01-15T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T16:57:00","slug":"gene-simmons-rocks-sbh-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons Rocks SBH Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/IMG_3386c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-995\" src=\"http:\/\/weblog.hawaiifiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/IMG_3386c-998x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Simmons of Kiss with Debbie and Winnie\" width=\"940\" height=\"964\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKISS front man and A&amp;E TV star <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Gene Simmons<\/span> was in town last week to be the keynote speaker at the annual <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinesshawaii.com\/2008\/Feb2008-1.html\">Small Business Hawaii Conference<\/a><\/span>. The guy is the consummate promoter and entrepreneur. His foray into rock n roll was just was the launching point for his plan to become rich and diversify into a number of successful business enterprises. He said to a packed house at the SBH conference that a good businessperson does not put all of his eggs into one basket. Good advice I say for all.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons was spotted at a number of locations on Oahu as he and the film crew from A&amp;E recorded several segments for his successful cable TV show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genesimmons.com\/pages\/gsfj\/index.html\">Gene Simmons&#8217; Family Jewels<\/a>&#8220;. His appearance at the SBH Conference was extensively videotaped with segments to air this spring on A&amp;E.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Simmons was the founding member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kissonline.com\/\">rock group <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">KISS<\/span><\/a>, who have been together for more than 30 years and enjoyed success on the Billboard charts with hits such as &#8220;Rock n Roll All Night,&#8221; &#8220;Beth,&#8221; &#8220;Hard Luck Woman.&#8221; and &#8220;Christine&#8217;s Sixteen.&#8221; They have reportedly sold more records than The Beatles and Elvis in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Additional Links<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiireporter.com\/story.aspx?392a330e-7f8b-4e8d-9eeb-0dab1ffb5d44\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Simmons Shares Secrets of Success<\/a><\/b> &#8211; By Sam Slom for SBH &#8211; HawaiiReporter.com<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/the.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/2008\/Jan\/10\/bz\/hawaii801100325.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simmons Gives His Secrets to Success<\/a><\/b> &#8211; HonoluluAdvertiser.com<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ELHRiuAK_to\">Gene Simmons in Honolulu<\/a><\/b> &#8211; Video Clip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISS front man and A&amp;E TV star Gene Simmons was in town last week to be the keynote speaker at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hawaiifiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}