Marketing for Entertainers
Do you want more shows? Of course, everyone does!
In this ebook, I explain step-by-step how I managed to travel halfway around the world as a magician. You don't need to make any phone calls or send expensive letters to companies. All you need is a computer with internet access.
I will explain what cold emailing is, how it differs from spam, and provide a detailed guide on setting up a service that will send emails for you and automatically follow up.
If you buy this book and implement the strategies, you will get more shows. Guaranteed! It's inevitable....
Marketing für Künstler
Du möchtest mehr Shows haben? Natürlich, wer möchte das nicht!
In diesem Buch erkläre ich dir Schritt für Schritt, wie ich es geschafft habe, als Zauberer um die halbe Welt zu reisen. Du musst niemanden anrufen und keine teuren Briefe an Unternehmen schicken. Alles, was du brauchst, ist ein PC mit Internetzugang.
Ich erkläre dir, was Cold Emailing ist, wie es sich von Spam unterscheidet und gebe dir eine genaue Anleitung, wie du einen Dienst einrichtest, der die E-Mails für dich versendet und auch automatisch Follow-Ups durchführt.
Wenn du dieses...
Dalle nebbie del tempo a volte riemergono cose sorprendenti. Per un caso di pura "serendipità" ci siamo trovati di fronte alle creazioni magiche di Luigi Ruggeri un genio dimenticato che ha ideato dei bellissimi giochi di prestigio principalmente a cavallo tra la prima e le seconda metà del secolo scorso. Siamo rimasti affascinati dalle sue incredibili creazioni che, a tutt'oggi, conservano il sapore senza tempo della genialità. Trucchi e routines perfettamente eseguibili oggi con effetti originali e presentazioni affascinanti. Sappiamo poco di Luigi Ruggeri (e quel poco che sappiamo viene...
Vol. 20, No. 1, 56 pages
Cover: Michael O'Brien; chats to us about magic, music and Pokemon
You show five cards that have a blue dot on their faces. When you rotate the pack one dot changes to a red dot. You table the red dotted card. Another magical gesture and another red dot appears. You continue until four cards have changed to red dots. The final card with a blue dot changes to just a blue dot, no fifth card is visible anymore.
1st edition 2024, video 6:02.
DeToxic is a modern-day approach to the classic number force.
DeToxic is not a variation of the classic TOXIC* force but utilizes a different method altogether.
What is so special about DeToxic?
*TOXIC force is a force of a number...
This is a mind-blowing, two-part effect. The spectator cuts the deck, looks at the card (no force) and then cuts the card back into the deck. With one cut, the magician controls the spectator's card to the 2nd card from the top of the deck.
The magician performs the effect again but under impossible conditions. After the magician cuts the deck, he never touches the deck again. The spectator is in control, cutting and shuffling the deck multiple times. Yet magically the spectator's card is again the 2nd card from the top of the deck!
No duplicate cards, no false deals, no forces, no rough...
Experience the fascinating blend of artificial intelligence and card magic with this intriguing routine. Watch as seemingly random guesses transform into astonishingly accurate predictions of card suits.
Imagine a spectator freely selects ten cards for an experiment. In the training phase, you boldly attempt to predict the suits of these cards using mere chance or intuition - your model's default policy. Initially, your guesses mostly miss the mark, but each miss serves as crucial data for refining your approach.
Next, armed with insights gained from the training, you meticulously adjust...
These are lecture notes that provide a quick summary of effects that were presented at the lecture. While the descriptions are brief, most provide enough details for the average magician to get the idea.
An amazing self-working "Any Card At Any Number" effect, which uses two simple decks of cards, two dice and two chips to let fate play with dice.
This is an incredibly automatic card magic and mentalism effect, of the "Any Card At Any Number" genre, which uses two simple poker decks of 52 cards, two common six-sided number dice, and two casino chips bearing the words "SUIT" and "VALUE" on them.
The illusionist will call on a female spectator to help him as he explains how often throughout history both playing cards and dice may have influenced the fates of many men.
He will then present...
Uno stupefacene Effetto Automatico di “Carta al Numero”, che utilizza due semplici mazzi di carte, due dadi e due fiches per lasciar giocare il destino coi dadi!
Si tratta di un effetto incredibilmente Self-working di Cartomagia e Mentalismo, del genere “Any Card At Any Number”, che utilizza due semplici mazzi da Poker di 52 carte, due comuni dadi numerici a sei facce e due gettoni da Casinò che riportano su di essi la scritta “SEME” e “VALORE”. L’illusionista chiamerà una spettatrice ad aiutarlo, mentre spiegherà come spesso, nel corso della storia, sia le carte da...
"A really powerful spell-to-your-card effect. The title says it all, it is Bannon's "Dead Reckoning" except on steroids." - Tommaso Guglielmi
"For a long time I've been performing "Dead Reckoning" by John Bannon. It's one of my go-to effects in my repertoire. But that changed today. "Dead Reckoning: On Steroids" is a marvelous improvement on the original. It is unbelievably deceptive and impossible to reverse engineer, and it replaces "Dead Reckoning" in my repertoire. Thanks Unnamed Magician for this splendid creation." - Brian Draven
"The main effect is good but the first bonus effect is beyond good."...
The Sync Book Test is a completely impromptu book test routine you can do anywhere and anytime borrowing any two books, provided with a consistent presentation that makes it a powerful test to see how much the mentalist and participant are in tune. The routine consists of a number and a word coincidence, but it creates the conditions to continue with a demonstration of telepathy that looks like another coincidence: the mentalist is thinking of the very word chosen randomly by the participant.
Here is the act as the audience sees it:
A participant freely selects two books from a library,...
A treasure trove for South African magic enthusiasts.
Step into the enchanting world of magic with The Magician – the ultimate magic magazine for South African magicians. From January 1994 to June 1996, the legendary Wolfgang Riebe, a renowned South African magician, captivated the magic community with his bi-monthly publication. This wasn't just any magazine – The Magician featured contributions from both national and international magicians, delivering the latest global magic news and cutting-edge tricks. Now, for the first time, you can own the entire collection in one stunning 500+...
The Automatic Placement Principle, named and popularized by Ed Marlo, is a mathematical marvel that places the spectator's card into a known position in the deck, without sleights. I've created two amazing enhancements: First, the spectator shuffles the majority of the deck after looking at his card. Unbelievably, you still know the card's position without touching the deck! Second, you're now privy to the card's identity as well as its location. Both methods are presented as a glimpse into gambling strategies. These enhancements have many potentials for your card magic.
1st edition 2024, PDF 19...
Excerpt from the introduction:
For a very long time people have gotten the idea that I'm a pretty fair magician ... this is my greatest trick of all!! I've been a magic dealer for over 35 years, a semi-retired performer, and a lover of the art for too many years to talk about. Very little I do is original and I don't really do it that well, BUT ... I do have a nice smile and a large mouth so people DO seem to enjoy my meager efforts...
Excerpt from the introduction:
As a beginner in magic I had little idea of what was required in the entertaining of children, and, watching more experienced performers, it seemed that a children's show was merely an adult programme shown to children, with little in the way of "byplay", which has become a recognised ingredient in juvenile programmes.
At first, it was a case of trial and error, learning by mistakes, until at a later period I was able to increase my knowledge of the subject, through reading books, magazines, and attending lectures.
It is unfortunate that when an effect...
Memfinity Deck: Memorising the Infinity Deck is a companion work for the Infinity Deck released by Craig Petty and Murphy's Magic. In this ebook, you will learn how to memorise every photograph in the deck using mnemonics. This is an easy process which takes just a couple of hours. Once you know this system, you can use it to learn most any list of objects. After you learn the photographs, you will learn some effects to do with your new skill - used in this way, it is as close to real mind reading as you can perform. Special thanks to Richard Osterlind for allowing the use of parts of his...
The title reads Applause-able Magic, and that is exactly what this ebook contains. Magic that will bring you the APPLAUSE you desire and magic that is presentable.
The author writes from experience, both as a childrens' entertainer and as a variety act. We leave you to pick out the gems from the dust, but, remember that it is gold dust, which is always valuable - somewhere - sometime.
A bunch of cards are removed from the deck after a few shuffles. The participant looks at them and freely selects one. All the cards are then mixed in a messy pile and "wash-shuffled".
Under these impossible conditions, you reach into the pile and dig out a single card: the mate of the participant's card.
1st edition 2024, PDF 7 pages.
A new Mentalism effect, as impromptu as it is inexplicable!
This is a simple Mentalism effect, incomprehensible to the audience and executable on virtually any occasion, as it uses eight simple cards that can be drawn from any deck. The Mentalist, with his back turned or blindfolded without any make-up, asks a spectator to think of any card and draw it from the deck, together with any seven other cards with which it will be shuffled by herself. She will divide the pack between her own hands, holding in each four face down cards.
At her pleasure, she will turn face up of the two bundles...
Un nuovo effetto di Mentalismo, tanto impromptu quanto inspiegabile!
Si tratta di un effetto di Mentalismo di semplice esecuzione, incomprensibile per il pubblico ed eseguibile praticamente in ogni occasione, in quanto utilizza otto semplici carte che possono essere estratte da un qualsiasi mazzo. Il Mentalista, di spalle o bendato senza alcun trucco, chiede ad una spettatrice di pensare ad una carta qualsiasi e di estrarla dal mazzo, unitamente ad altre sette carte qualsiasi con le quali verrà da lei stessa mescolata. Dividerà il mazzetto tra le proprie mani, tenendo in ognuna quattro...