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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 [...]
Secret to Surviving 2010 Economy as an Entertainer
It’s the 4th day into 2010 and I am already working on how I will stay in business. Now, this may sound a little radical to think this way, but you have to in bad economic times. Saturday, I was working at a restaurant and I overheard a Fox News cast saying “States are closing [...]
Secrets that Marketing Guru are Neglecting to Tell You about Facebook
Facebook now has over 300 million users and people are busy making new friends and creating their own communities. As Facebook consumes hours typically spent posting in forums, the once busy forums are becoming stagnate. Facebook users are seeking out new friends and promoting their activities while forgetting about their once beloved forum community. Industry [...]
Is Google’s Sidewiki SEO Tool?
Sidewiki a Secrete SEO Tool – I think so. This is not my normal blog posting about balloon animals, but I have many entertainers wanting to know how to rank better in the search engines. I am not an “SEO Specialist”, but I own and am still building a balloon entertainers website for over 12 [...]
7 Reasons why Entertainers Fail
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 – [...]
Business should know thy Limitations
Growing a business is a daunting task and too often bad economic decision-making are responsible for putting a company into financial jeopardy. Some bad decision can put a small company out of business. Rapid growth can be disastrous to a small company in bad economic times. Equipment, talent, expense, budgeting are just some of the [...]
Building a Show Pt 8
Building the show – Part 8 – Enter the Dragon “To entertain for the purpose of temporarily taking someone from their cares and worries in the world is noble…but to recognize an entertainer’s ability to REACH an audience and UTILIZE that gift for an educational purpose…holds FAR greater value” [...]
The Top 10 Resources for Balloon Entertainers
Top 10 Resource for Balloon Entertainers Over the past year I have been compiling resource information for the mbd2.com resource center and after reviewing that list, I have complied my top 10 list of balloon entertainers resources that entertainers should checkout. The list consists of balloon forum, manufactures, and educational resources. mbd2.com Forum – A [...]
To Mark or Not to Mark, That is the Question!
Markers of all types have been in our bags, pouches and aprons for a long time! Sharpies© lead the pack! Everybody carries a black one. Do you carry a red one? What about blue or green? Even an orange or purple one? If you have time during the job to do a lot of art [...]
Where Do You Go From Here?
A year ago I moved to Las Vegas, NV from Dallas, TX. I felt I needed to go somewhere I might have more opportunity to do what I enjoy which is performing on stage. I left behind the place I had lived for all of my life and all of my friends to peruse that [...]
