Magic Roadshow


Journal of Magic____ Oct. 1, 2004____ Issue# 08


Rick Carruth... Editor/Publisher___ Copyright (C) 2004


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Now that we have the formalities out of the way... down to
business..

Hurricane Ivan pushed through as I was finishing up the last
issue. Now.. Hurricane Jeanne left me a yard full of rain,
broken limbs, and a basement full of water on Monday and
Tuesday... ( todays Thursday) . And I'm tempted to wait
until the end of the hurricane season to write another
issue..

Just kidding.. Look for Magic Roadshow in your inbox every
two weeks.

My wife and I are headed to Myrtle Beach next weekend, and I
look forward to visiting the folks at both Conley's House of
Magic and Broadway Magic. More on this later...


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~ Great New Magic on TV ~


United States... The A&E channel has announced a new series
' Mondo Magic ' starting Monday, Oct.4th at 10:30 EST. This
is the promo copy taken from their site.

" Movie star looks and Houdini-esque chops have made JB Benn
and Chris Korn two of the hottest magicians in the country.
They're also good buddies. MONDO MAGIC follows their amazing
adventures as they travel to different cities performing
magic and meeting up with the greatest magicians alive.

In each episode JB and Chris seek out top local magicians
and see them perform their most amazing tricks. Along the
way, they'll swap stories and tricks with the other
magicians, impress the locals with their magic and get a
taste of the local culture. "

I understand that Mondays show starts in New Orleans and
they 'run into', among others, the great Harry Anderson and
gravity-defying illusionist Shimshi.....


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~ How to Make Big Bucks... ~


Not many things in the magic industry are FR'EE. And even
less of the FR'EE things are actually worth your time....

Nicholas George's FR'EE 18 part email course titled....
"How To Make BIG BUCKS, With BIG BOOKINGS,
In The Magicians Entertainment Industry!" is one of the few
exceptions. I have read all eighteen lessons, and I can
assure you that they are the real deal - virtually
NO advertising, and a wealth of information.

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LESSON 6 -
Moving Up In Your Class - The 1-4-8-48 Rule
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ATTEMPT TO MOVE UP IN YOUR CLASS

Now Birthday parties are a great start to get you some good
experience and great performance skills, and to get some
dollars flowing, but as we will see later, it a HARD EFFORT
to make a good living.

I constantly see ad's in popular Magician magazines and on
Internet chats, telling Magicians how to get more birthday
party shows.

It boggles my mind to understand why people want to do more
$125 shows, when there is a whole industry out there, right
before your eyes, that offers shows that pay $10,000.00!!!

WHAT DOES MOVING UP IN YOUR CLASS MEAN?

Moving up in your class, means simply this: "Getting Paid More
Money", usually for the same amount of Work - or even less!

For example, you can be a used car salesman and sell used
cars and get a 5% commission income of $500 per sale, or you can
be a used ANTIQUE car salesman and sell used antique cars
and get a 5% commission income of $2,500.00 per sale!

The amount of work to sell either car is about the same.

Depending on your motivation, you could even be a used
airplane salesman and sell used airplanes and get 5%
commission income of $25,000.00 for each plane sold!

In this last case you can see that you need to sell 50 used
cars to make the same income as selling 1 used airplane. Is it 50
time the work to sell airplanes? I would say not.

This used airplane salesman is an example of a person that
has MOVED UP IN THEIR CLASS!

You can apply this to Magicians by starting to move up to
Weddings, and Special Events, and expand outward using these
as practice.

Then, your ultimate goal is the 'Big Ticket' - Trades Shows,
Theaters, Cruise Ship, Las Vegas, and Large Exhibitions.

When you work through your 'Goals Agenda' worksheets, you
will come to realize that THE TRULY SUCCESSFUL PERFORMERS
NEED TO EXPAND TO NEW AND BETTER OPPORTUNITIES.

You can't change the income if you don't change the act!

There are two ways in which you can earn more money as a
Magicians or Entertainer:

Method 1) You work more shows and more hours doing the same
thing, or

Method 2) You work the better shows that require less hours
that is doing something different..

You DON'T want more bookings, YOU WANT MORE BETTER
BOOKINGS!

A silly example:

Suppose you worked at a fast food chain, say McDonalds. You
get a wage of $7.00 per hour. At the end of the week you will
have $200 left after deductions. You find that that is not
enough to pay your rent, so you also go and apply at Burger King
to work evenings at $7.00 per hour, and mange to pull in
another 12 hours a week and get an additional $60 after
deductions.

You find that that is still not enough, so you apply at
Wendys Burgers as well to work weekends. You manage to get another
14 hours in at $7.00 per hour and now have an additional $70
per week after deductions.

Now your whole life is taken up and you still only take home
$330 total! But you find that you are now traveling much
more and your travel expense is an extra $50 per week, and your
baby-sitter costs are now an extra $100 per week, and your
personal free time is all gone!

Sadly enough, many people follow the above example. This is
through lack of education. If you want to advance, and have
more free time, then it would be logical to re-think your
plans.

Here is an alternative:

Why not spend the extra time, not working, but educating
yourself so that you could now be a manager at the first
McDonalds you were working at.

It may be a hard sell at first, but if you are good, and you
can convince the owner that you will make the best manager ever,
and you have some documentation to prove it (i.e. your promo
kit), he will give you a chance.

True, you would struggle for a while, but eventually this
position would give you $18.00 per hour. This would now give
you a total of $500 per week after deductions and would give
you much more money than working 3 jobs at $7.00 per hour.

And you would still have all your free time, and the work
load would probably be less than that of just a laborer!

That's exactly what we want to do with our performing
skills. We DON'T want more $125 birthday party shows (i.e. more
$7.00 per hour jobs), we actually want LESS SHOWS, but want
the ones that pay bigger dollars of $1400-$2500 per show!!!

THE '1-4-8-48' RULE

Lets look at the following table showing income:

Per show Dollars: (1-4-8-48 rule)
 1 Theater show = $6,000
 1 Hyp show = $1,500
 1 Psychic show = $800
 1 Birthday party show = $125

Therefore:
 1 Theater show = 4 Hyp shows
 1 Hyp show = 2 Psychic performances
 1 Psychic show = 8 Birthday party shows
 (remember, more shows = more expense)

Therefore:
1 Theater show = 4 Hypnosis shows = 8, Psychic shows = 48
Birthday party shows!

i.e. doing 5 birthday shows/week means 2.4 months of income
for a '1 day' theater show.

THIS IS THE 1-4-8-48 DOLLAR RULE!

Lets look at the following table showing time:

Per show Effort and Time factors:
Prep time (note that prep work includes travel time (15 min),
replenishing, props, routines, etc., and assumes that your
show is polished)

 1 Theater show (3 hr) = 7.0 hours prep work
 1 Hyp show (1 hr) = 2.0 hours prep work
 1 Psychic show (1 hr ) = 1.5 hours prep work
 1 Birthday party show (40 min) = 2.0 hours prep work

Therefore, correlating this with the income (the 1-4-8-48
rule) vs. time: 1 theater-hrs = 8 hypnosis shows-hrs = 28 psychic shows-hrs
= 96 birthday party show-hrs!
(the 1-8-28-96 Effort rule!)

You can see if you put time and effort together, you will
spend most of your efforts 'catching up', but never really 'get
there'.

Lets now look at the following weekend time income:

Per date Dollars:
 1 Dinner Theater performance ($1,500 per performance)
weekend, fri (1 show) , sat (2 shows), sun (2 shows) (2.5 days)
= $7,500

 1 Hypnosis weekend fair/exhibition performance ($1,000 per
performance) weekend, fri (1 show) , sat (2 shows), sun (2 shows) (2.5 days)
= $5,000

 1 Psychic fair weekend, fri, sat, sun (2.5 days)
= $3,000

  1 Magic Show weekend ($250 per performance average)
weekend, fri (1 show) , sat (2 shows), sun (2 shows) (2.5 days)
= $1,250

Therefore:
 Theater weekend = $7,500,
 Hypnosis weekend = $5,000,
 Psychic weekend = $3,000,
 Magic Show weekend = $1,500!

You can see that you don't need 'more' Magic Shows, you need
more 'better' Magic Shows.

NOW READ THIS NEXT STATEMENT:

Psychics, Mentalists, and Hypnotists, ARE THE FAVORED AND
PREFERRED PERFORMERS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY!

Can you implement some of these characteristics in to your
act?

There are millions of Guitar Players world wide, but only a
hand full make the big bucks. Most of the work in small
dumpy bars getting $50 per night! I know, I was there too!!!

On the other hand, a Hypnotist or Mentalist, EVEN IF HE IS
NOT THAT GREAT, can easily pull in $5,000.00 or more per week,
easily!

Have you ever seen people flock to see a magician? Yes of
course, kids do, at birthday parties. Adults pay the tab.
There are literacy 10's of thousands of Magicians available, and
remember that Magicians are not as popular as years ago.

But how many SPECIALTY MAGICIANS can perform:
Juggling,
Hypnosis, Mentalism,
Fortune Telling, and,
Psychic Demonstrations,
as well as Magic? Not too many.

You want to be the COMMODITY.

You want to own the small house in the 'ritzy' area,
not the big house in the 'poor' area!

Here is how you do it !

(That's the topic of our next LESSON...)

The next one is a real GEM!!!
Nicholas George

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These LESSONS are short excerpts taken from the full course:
"How To Make Big Bucks, with Big Bookings,
in the Magicians Entertainment Industry", located at

http://www.BigBucksInMagic.com


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~ Fellow Magicians ~


If you have a burning desire to make the transition from
amateur magician to professional, I urge you to take a few
minutes to explore this website. It has my personal
recommendation and.....

It could save you FIVE or more years of painstaking work!

 Success-in-magic.com


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~ Special FR'EE Trick ~

All of you have seen pens stuck through bills and playing
cards. But, I'll bet you have NEVER seen a magician pass his
assistant through a playing card.... and I'm talking about a
regular-sized playing card...

Check it out ! http://www.StreetMagic.info/FreeTricks2.html


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That all folks !!!

No more ... No mas ...

Email me anytime at : Editor@StreetMagic.info

And when you have a moment, visit my site-in-progress at:
http://streetmagicsecrets.info

Remember... there are two types of Magicians - those that
leave a mark....... and those that leave a stain. Be sure
you're in the first category. Play by the rules. Honor the
rights and ownership of fellow magicians. And NEVER reveal a
secret.

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May my next issue find you well...

Rick Carruth / editor


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