Balloon Animals

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 you have ever [...]

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, [...]

As I reflect back on my childhood and remembering watching the old Elvis Presley movies after school. I think back to how many of his movies required Elvis to draw attention to an event. Elvis would call for a crowd to gather — He would start singing and people crowded around. Many times I feel I [...]

Since starting my blog I have been reading more and more blogs. What surprises me is how many bloggers talk about entertainers, but never mention the entertainer’s name? They write how great the entertainment was, how the kids enjoyed themselves, and will complain about the long line they waited in, but very rarely, [...]