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What’s Your Market

 Posted by  No Stone Left Unturned  3 Responses »  Tagged with: , , ,
Mar 282011
 
What's Your Market

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau Are you elegant? Funny? Mysterious? Sexy? Fast-talking? Many magicians get distracted by their fantasies and never take a long, serious look in the mirror. Sadly, this only undermines their ability to make at least some of their most cherished fantasies a reality. Who you are and your particular performance style should play a large part in determining your target market. Corporate clients are looking for one thing, parents of children celebrating a birthday are looking for another, and the owner of a bar/restaurant is looking for [...]

Choosing Your Spectator/Assistant

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Aug 142008
 

Let’s assume you’ve won your audience over in the first thirty seconds with a warm, witty, informative, properly-structured introduction. After thirty seconds the audience likes you, they’re intrigued, they’re relaxed and comfortable. What next? Tricks? No. You first have to really “connect” with one person in particular. Obviously you must perform for the entire group, making eye contact and warmly extending yourself to each of them in turn. But, to start, you have to choose one person in particular to participate in the performance. It will fall to this person to “pick a card,” or  “take a look at this [...]

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