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Hello,

Warning this is a long post. Please take the time to read the whole thing before responding.

First, a quick background about me. I'm twenty two years old and have been doing magic since I was sixteen. I saw a Houdini special one night on TLC and was hooked! I began ordering magic and everything.

I remember my first favorite trick being Scotch and Soda. I used to come up with all kinds of crazy tricks and would get awesome reactions because its so fool proof!

I then realized that I loved card magic as well. The skill required behind each affect. I remember sitting there on my chair at my desk, practicing the pass over and over. Some of you may have seen my videos on the File Sharing section, those videos were from 3 years ago! I'm amazed to watch some of my videos now that I have saved on my computer seeing how far I have come.

Anyway, heres my idea. I have been a web designer since I was about fifteen so I know a lot about building websites, shops, designing. I have worked for three major companies and have had the same position in each job, web designer. I have successfully published and gone live with a online store selling merchandise, and two professional company websites.

Now what I wanted to do, was inspired by what Ellusionist has done. I don't really like their "method" of doing things, but they seem to have an extremely good business and get a lot of customers.

I want to venture into this business as a side job. I know I have the skills to do. I already have a lot of content (as far as videos go) that I can put up on the site and already am working on a template.

The only problem is that I have a WebCam and not a professional camera. The WebCam isn't cheap, it cost me around 80$ so it has a decent video record and I know my video editing is up to par so I can make it as professional as possible.

The one main thing that would make this site different from the rest is everything would be taught digitally. You would recieve a video, with an instructional, along with many different angles and such, and because of this, I can make the prices extremely low! (I was thinking about a 3-10$ avg. video price).

I already have a vendor that I can use and have a checkout system ready to go.

I'm really looking for comments and ideas on my plan. Also, if your really into magic and dedicated and have a trick I could use. I would let you make the video, the instructional and I would edit. And of course any sales I make you get a large comission for, I thought about this so that I can mix up some content so its not just me.

You mean something like http://www.pubtricks.com/ ?? I dont think it'd be a good idea to be honest. Why pay $25 for the official "coin in a soda can" trick when someone can pay you $5 for your similar/slightly modified version instead?!

I cant see too many people thinking of this as a good idea. HOWEVER if ALL the tricks are going to be original creations then I dont see why not. If you are just going to change a trick slightly and call it your own then thats a no-no

Yes, something like pubtricks.com. I haven't seen that site yet, thanks for that.

I see that on pubtricks, he uses a lot of the same effects, such as the ashes on arm trick and the soda trick. I don't know the policy for "reselling" these.

I wouldn't take the soda can thing and make a different version for less, I'm talking about tricks that I have invented and tricks that are used by all magicians regardless.

You could get a video with a lot of sleights on it to help your ambitious card routine, or a flourish video, but instead of a DVD you can download directly and watch. I wouldn't be "stealing" copyrighted tricks (such as the soda can bit or for instance criss angels levitation). I would take well known sleights and moves and make powerhouse routines or tricks that I made up and sell THOSE.

Hope that clears things up!

I saw a site called www.discountmagic.co.uk. Don't know if it is legit or not but its selling how to levitate for 99p I bet its a dreadful pdf ebook

While it would make life easier for the beginner magician as he doesnt have to buy expensive dvds, it could also backfire on magicians. Imagine you do an ACR for a guy and he thought it was astounding.. you bump into him next week and you show it to him again and he's still amazed. He then goes home, goes onto your website, pays a couple of $ to find out how to do it and you bump into him a week later. You go to show it to him and he shouts AHAHA YOU DONE A DL or YOU DIDNT PUT THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DECK or YOU GAVE ME A CARD THAT WASNT MINE. No doubt he will then tell all his friends and so begins a long-chain of non-magicians who know how the ACR is done because you only charged $4 for a tutorial video.

The flipside, Bizkit, is to come up with your own stuff that isn't published anywhere...