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You are old enough. Start pounding on doors.

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It is really that easy, and that difficult. There is not magic answer. You have to put together a resume and an introduction packet, (go to an agent to get advice on this and what is involved) and just get the word out. My only other advice on the subject is that you have to figure out the correct person at the business to talk to. It is not that easy. Picking up the phone describing what you do and how you do it won't help. You can spend months talking to the wrong people. Target a business, research the business so you know what they do, how many employees at any given location, Do they partake in convention? Host clients? Provide Christmas parties or quarterly parties for their employee's? If they do any of that then they have an entertainment comittee and it is those people you have to get ahold of. And they may not want to talk to you, they may have an outside agent that takes care of all that for them. Many won't even look at you because they go through an agent. So you have to find the top agents in your area, interview them and sign on with one of them.

It is a hard road and you have to work for it. But if you are professional and smart, all that work pays for itself and then some with one show.

I am in a mischevious mood so here is another point of view which, of course, our original poster is going to take no notice of. Not wanting something is just as good as having it-and far less trouble.

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mark lewis wrote:I am in a mischevious mood so here is another point of view which, of course, our original poster is going to take no notice of. Not wanting something is just as good as having it-and far less trouble.

Incredibly true

Mr L is waxing most philosophical....

Oh, it is just that I realise what a hard road ahead our young Mexican has. Full of stress, hard work and rejection. And an uncertain future. He might well make it with talent, determination and persistence. Quite a few have. And alas, quite a few haven't and they are probably the majority. I have no idea which category he is in. I am merely saying that it is a pity that he wants it. If he didn't want it then it would be just as good as having it and far less trouble. Still, he wants it and nothing will stop him wanting it. That is because he is young and ambitious. I wish him luck with it.

While I am philosophising here is another thing for you all to muse about. I got this from Trevor Lewis about a thousand years ago or so. I bumped into him at a railway station once and he stated that he had always been a semi-professional rather than doing it full time. Of course this was so long ago that for all I know he may have turned full time in the meantime. Anyway he explained it all with a very interesting statement that has always stuck in my mind. He said, "Magic can be a very nice icing but a lousy cake"

Get your promo professionally done (ie business cards, website, stationary ect).
You'll need PLI for venues, contracts, receipts, invoices ect. Knowledge of how to run a business is important.
Then get Networking with people in your market so they know you're there.
If your good, they'll book you.

Hope this helps.

Anthony