Balloon Animals

Over the past couple months; I have seen young ladies wearing rubber band bracelets with the slogan on it saying “I love boobies”. Apparently it is a bracelet to show support for the Breast Cancer Society. This month I’m in negations to entertain at a exhibitors reception with an association that will be raising money [...]

April showers bring Mayflowers – May marketing brings summer jobs.  If you are sitting waiting for the phone to ring, you are setting yourself up for financial failure.  I have been talking to many entertainers around the country and I am hearing the same message, “There’s a lot of work out there, you just have [...]

Being an innovator means standing alone, attempting something that others would not do. It involves work, creativity, and the willingness to help others succeed.  The hard part is getting people to believe in your vision, to inspire them to leave the comfort zone and try something new. As soon as a person embraces your vision, [...]

Its work – No matter how successful you are, the “lovable, fun, life rewarding job” will become work. Things like advertising, contracts, getting to the performance is all draining and boring to an entertainer. However, if you do not keep doing the work that made you successful, you are going to fail. Elitist Ego – [...]

Since I shared the last three articles on paid advertising I thought I’d share with you a tip on free press as well. So today’s article is about press releases. I try to send a press release out every month for something in my business. I focus on my local papers as they have more [...]

The goal for this year was to increase office productivity for my balloon entertainment business and reduce the amount of paper documents produced.  Now, this is no simple task.  I had to save all the customers information, contracts, notes, and marketing material for each client along with communications between my clients and me.  So how [...]

A lady with a small child looks at me and says, “It’s about time, we’ve been waiting a half hour for a balloon.” I look at my watch and say, “That interesting, I started at 12:00 and it now 12:15. What were you waiting for?” “Well it feels like a half hour,” she replies. If [...]

Insurance is one of those things in life that you hope you will never need to use, but if something does happen, you have it. Early in my entertainment career, I was only working one or two birthday parties a month and the thought of insurance never entered my mind.  Like most beginning entertainers, we [...]

Everyone on the face of the earth knows buying in bulk saves money.  Most entertainers do this, but here is a tip on how clever entertainers save money and some even make money.  If you buy balloons online, then you’re going to have to pay shipping, but how would you like to reduce shipping cost? [...]

On February 10, 2009 the Entertainer’s Website Network will launch into existence. The Entertainer’s Website Network is a resource for professional entertainer to advertise their entertainment services. Its design allows Internet users and entertainers to quickly and efficiently find entertainers throughout the world.  Users will be able to read and make comments about the entertainer, [...]