The Birthday Party Business: How to Make a Living as a Children's Entertainer


Book Description

This book explains how to set-up and operate a successful birthday party business. It describes both business and entertainment aspects with instructions on storytelling, puppetry, magic, balloon sculpting, face painting, party games, marketing, working with children, and more.




The Birthday Party Business


Book Description

Balloons, fun, games, magic, and more -- they are all here. From entertaining and food to marketing and promotion, this book features comprehensive and detailed guidance on how to succeed in the birthday party business. At the heart of the birthday party business is the entertainment. In this book you will find detailed information on the art of entertaining children of all ages. You will learn how to work with children, what they like, what they don't like, how to make them laugh, and how to control them. You will learn the secrets of entertaining kids using magic, clowning, puppetry, storytelling, ballooning, and face painting, as well as gain valuable information on catering, party games, and creating enchanting theme parties. This book has everything you need to get started in the birthday party business; included are samples of advertisements, sales letters, thank you notes, news releases, contracts, party planning guides, flyers, business cards, stationery, and promotional give-aways, as well as dozens of comedy skits and party routines.




How to Pick Pockets for Fun and Profit


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In this book you will discover the secrets of picking pockets for entertainment purposes. Written by a professional magician, the techniques are based on elementary principles of misdirection and sleight-of-hand, which can be easily learned by anyone. Anything that can be carried in a person’s pocket can be secretly removed. This book will show you how. You will be able to remove objects from people’s pockets while talking to them and even up on a stage while a thousand eyes are watching you. You will amaze everybody! You will also learn how to remove wristwatches and articles of clothing without being detected. Many excellent effects for magicians. Produces great comedy. Imagine the expressions on the faces of the audience, and your victim, when you remove his boxer shorts! Great stuff!




How To Do Balancing Tricks and Stunts


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Have you ever had the urge to balance a pool cue on the end of your nose or manipulate a spinning ball at the end of your finger? Until now such feats have been confined to jugglers, basketball players, and other dexterously talented individuals. Did you know that many seemingly difficult balancing tricks are amazingly simple to do? Yes, even the coordinately challenged individual can master many seemingly difficult feats of balancing—if they know the professional secrets. This book reveals the methods used by world famous jugglers which allows them to balance everything from spinning balls to chain saws and full-sized bicycles. You will find step-by-step instructions on how to balance, balls, canes, plates, and various other objects. Many of the tricks are surprisingly simple to learn, others will take some time to master. Includes chapters on balancing odd-shaped objects, showmanship, and novelty and comedy balancing.




How to Start a Home-Based Children's Birthday Party Business


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From a $250,000 fête for a seven-year-old Florida girl, complete with helicopter rides, to $100,000 first birthday parties as reported in the New York Times, this is rapidly becoming the gilded age of children’s birthday parties. The cost of these events now averages between $200 and $400, fueled by pressure to “keep up with the Joneses.” Couple this surge in interest with the fact that births in the United States have exceeded 4 million each year since 2000, and you have a waiting and growing market. Planning such events has become a profession in itself. More and more, parents are turning to event consultants to plan their children’s celebrations. If you’ve dreamed of your own home business, planned parties for your own children, and want to put your creative ideas to work, this book is for you. Packed with organizing tips, guidelines, checklists, and more, How to Start a Home-Based Children’s Birthday Party Business will help you hit the ground running.




Extraordinary Jobs in Entertainment


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Ever wonder who wrangles the animals during a movie shoot? What it takes to be a brewmaster? How that play-by-play announcer got his job? What it is like to be a secret shopper? The new.




Becoming a Successful Children's Entertainer


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Welcome to the world of children's entertainment. This fast paced business can be one of the most lucrative opportunities, but it takes time, patience, and experience. If the thought of wowing crowds of kids at birthday parties, on stage, or at special events thrills you, then this is the book you need. Becoming A Successful Children's Entertainer is a master class presentation by one of the industry's most respected names. It provides an in-depth look into what it takes to establish your business and persona while developing key factors that will set you apart from your peers. Inside you will learn: -How to put together a magic show -Setting up your business -The difference between fame and making a living And much more. As with everything, becoming who you wish to be takes time and patience. It is a journey through trial and error before finding that right niche or character children will come to love. So if you are ready to make that leap and take your career to the next level, Becoming A Successful Children's Entertainer is your starting point.




How to Make Money with Children's Party Decoration


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Children's parties are increasingly PROFITABLE nowadays. Most parents don't have enough time to be able to ORGANIZE a party for their children, and that's where YOU COME IN. If you have a small amount of capital to INVEST and want to make a living from the CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT industry, be SURE that setting up a CHILDREN'S PARTY DECORATION business is a GREAT investment idea. In the past, children's parties were just cake, some snacks and sweets. But now, kids want LOTS OF FUN. The DESIRE and IMAGINATION of children combined with the delirium of their parents, TRANSFORMED unpretentious children's parties into BIG super-productions, full of special effects, SURPRISES, and attractions.




Children's Entertainment - The Business


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If you've ever thought about becoming a children's entertainer but had no idea where to begin, this book is a comprehensive resource for developing a business idea into a creative, thriving enterprise. Each section guides you through the process, beginning with the basics, from how to develop your professional image and source contacts and bookings, to in-depth examples of industry-approved routines and party games. For those wishing to diversify, there is also guidance on providing entertainment in adult venues and advice on avoiding the pitfalls that can damage your business. So, choose your character and get started on an exciting new career!