I just made a real simple video for you.

Can you promise me that you’ll do what I tell you to do, at least one time?  Today?

If you get in the habit of doing it you will begin booking gigs that would never have been yours.

Here is the video.

Don’t walk past this one.

Barry

A table hopping magician might benefit from this:

On your website have an interactive mind reading trick or a video that
explains something. The audience always asks “How do you do that?”
The magician responds by “Well here is my card – I explain you a thing
or two at my website” At the end of the gig pretty much everybody that
attended this party will walk away with his business card and many
people will visit his website. When they sign up for the mailing list
they get access to some easy magic tricks. Whenever any of his
audience members has a party themselves – good chance the will contact
him. So instead of a room full of audience members there will be a
room full of prospects that he is exposing himself to.

This idea was submitted by Niels Duinker and I like it.  In his words:

The people at diabolo.ca have a thing on their website called “trick
of the week”.  The members from the community send in videos and the
moderator chooses the trick of the week.

I don’t know if you have time for it and if  you like this idea. I
also know that many people already post great ideas/tips/etc.

I’m up for it and I hope you are, too.

If you have one you want to share, send it to me.  I’ll post it to the front page and some level of fame might just come your way!

You can write it or record it – anything really.  Have fun with it.

I’ll think up some special gift for the most prolific contributor.

Barry

The call from last night is live.

Log into the site and look under Interviews.

Thanks to everyone that showed up.  I learned a few things and have heard from many of you that it was a success.

Barry

Hey Everyone…

What a couple of weeks in New Zealand.  It was beautiful and the audiences were legendary.  I had a lot to do while I was there and missed the forums and interacting with this community.  I’m jumping back in starting today – look out!

I arrived back in the USA last night and flew to Vegas for a gig tonight.  I spent the night near the airport – didn’t want to go home for a few hours and confuse my 7-year old son who would have hated to see me leave this morning.

I just did my sound check and tonight will be a blast – 500 people from around the country that sell grocery supplies to markets – we’ll make that funny, somehow!

This show is for a producer we have worked for many times and I overheard something while I was on stage flipping my garden weasels around.  She was telling her client,

“Last time I worked with Barry and Dan it was in Chicago for a huge audience of bankers – the most boring people in the world.  They had the people on their feet – I couldn’t believe it!  They are so easy to work with and my first choice for a group looking for something different”.

My big takeaway?  Lasting impressions!

No matter what we have sent this producer, what she has read about us, who she has spoken with about us – it came down to that night in Chicago when we killed with a room full of bankers and we were easy to work with.

My message here is to make your show matter.  Do your research, customize the heck out of it, speak their language, be more than they expect – and it’ll pay off in spades.

After over 20-years of doing this I can sincerely say that the biggest hassle in this business is client acquisition.  Once I have one I do everything I can do make them happy, and I want you to do the same.

Will you?  Please!?!?

I like this video a lot… Just watched it a 2nd time and it’s got me thinking.  Anything in it for you?

Warning, it’s Bob Parsons of GoDaddy.com and he’s a bit edgy…

I sent this video to you last week but I want it here on the site.  I believe these simple tips can reprogram the way you look at marketing your act.  And that’s important because the more natural it is, the better it will work