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Understanding the Magician’s Role at a Restaurant
In part 1 of the Restaurant Gigs for Kids Entertainers series, long-time restaurant manager Andrew Cox gave tips on how to get hired as a strolling performer at restaurants and hotels. Here in part 2, he shares more about the restaurant setting and the magician’s role in it, as well as advice on how to…
Read MoreThe Magic Behind the Magic Part 1: A Driver’s Seat View of What It Takes to Run a Successful Kids Entertainer Business
Do you follow blogs for kids entertainers? If yes, here’s something I hope you’d love: a blog in video form–suavely called a vlog–that I started, and it’s particularly made for magicians. Called The Magic Behind the Magic, this weekly vlog “looks at what full-time magicians do when they are not performing magic”–and that is running…
Read MoreWhere to Find the Best Magic Tricks Part 1: Tips for Starting Magicians
Last time, we talked about the mindset any beginning magician would benefit from having. Now we’ll go into where you can look for good tricks that you can use to start building your own act. But Before Looking for Tricks, Keep This in Mind I’d start off by echoing what I’ve said in the previous…
Read MoreHow to Perform for Special Needs Children
From December 2016 to January of this year, Doug Scheer of Scheer Genius Assembly Shows, together with Kids Entertainer Hub, ran a contest for all Kids Entertainer Podcast listeners. For a chance to win Doug’s hit comedy routine Punctuation Pandemonium, we asked you to share a story of how you connected with a special needs…
Read MoreFour Things All Successful School Assembly Shows Have
In my previous post about the top 4 performing styles for kids entertainment events, I talked about what artistic disciplines work best in various children’s venues, including school assemblies. In this post, we’ll go into the factors that make a school assembly show a raging success. The school assembly is a unique venue in many…
Read MoreTry This for a Cool & Different Birthday Entertainment: A Paper Plane Party!
Want something fresh and out of the ordinary for birthday parties, particularly for boys? Here’s a brilliant idea from Alberto Lobo-Guerrero S., a professional magician from Colombia and a member of the Kids Entertainment Academy. Knowing that their child and their child’s friends love to make paper airplanes, Alberto and his wife decided to throw…
Read MoreCopywriting Basics for Kids Entertainers: Headlines
Last time, I discussed effective guarantees that will help you win the trust and the business of your potential clients. In the final post of this series, we’ll tackle what could be called the most important part of your copy—your headline. The only way to ensure that your reader will read the first sentence of…
Read MoreHow to Approach a Restaurant to Get Work as a Magician
Eyeing that restaurant in your area as your next client but not sure how to offer your magic services or apply for strolling work? In this new series on how to land restaurant gigs for children’s and family entertainers, we talk with Andrew Cox, a restaurant manager with over 20 years’ experience in the industry,…
Read MoreWant to Be a Successful Kids Entertainer? Then Adopt This Mindset
Do you… Have a day job but you find yourself thinking about magic a lot? Watch magicians, observing every little detail of what they do, what they say, how they say it, what they wear, what tricks they do? Have a magic kit that you spend endless hours on, arranging and rearranging? Feel “I could…
Read MoreTop 4 Performing Styles for Kids Entertainment Events
In my previous post The Best Children’s Gig, I compared 7 venues for which children’s entertainers perform. I offered my experience on the pay one could expect, and my opinions about the pros and cons of each venue. In this post, I wish to talk about which performing styles (disciplines) work best for each venue.
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