Boris wrote:In the Top Hat facebook group you'll find a downloadable PDF with an article written by Tony Black. It gives details for performing a 3 minute reading. You'd do well to read that article. You can get the PDF at the URL below.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1670559619838521/files/
At the bottom, you will find issue #9. That's the one you want.
This is a very well known stock reading known as the Forer reading. Lee Earle once wrote a small book on it for the use of magicians. It is a fake reading where you say the same thing to everybody. And it is as old as the hills. I really don't like those types of fraudulent readings. What are you going to say to the next person that has a reading. Recite the same c*** (not the best)? People discuss their readings with each other and in an entertainment situation may well overhear what you are saying. And people often want to record the readings on their phone and if they play it back to their friends who have already had a reading you are sunk. It is a fraudulent reading and not the genuine article. The best way to read palms is to do it for real.
I would advise our original poster to avoid trickery such as peeks and other flim flammery and concentrate on what he knows best. In other words palmistry. Just do the head line, the heart line, the fate line and the life line. That will be enough for five minutes if you cut out a lot of the information. Just chatter for a minute or so about each line. That is all you need.
Let me recommend an excellent book which deals with entertainment readings only. In other words short readings of the type under discussion. It is called Entertainment as Readings by Richard Webster. This will tell our new member exactly what to do. He says he is worried about his financial situation. He doesn't seem to realise he is on the verge of a financial goldmine. These short readings where you are simply hired and paid a fee at an event can be vastly more profitable and easier to do than the longer serious sessions.
I would recommend he discard the walking around stuff where he simply does tricks. The trouble is that although this is very common entertainment you are in a position of weakness since you have to approach them rather than the other way round. And it seems you don't have the experiene to do it anyway. You are far better off sitting in one quiet corner and do reading after reading.
Yes, I know the feeling that you think your head is going to explode with one reading after another. This is partly because of the problems that you already mentioned and secondly I suspect you are not taking a break. Richard Webster recommends in these situations that you take a 5 minute break every hour and you will find the booker will readily agree to this.
I will now look at your original post more thoroughly and see what I can advise regarding your concerns. But remember that just doing palm readings will make you more popular at the event than even the best magician who is there. Nobody will line up to see a card trick but they will certainly do so to have their palm read. You can probably charge more money than the magician and be invited to work longer and be paid extra for it.