Monday, August 8th, 2011
Optional Pre-Conference Event Biz Builder Classes August 8th & 9th
Only $95.00 plus KIDabra Conference registration for these two days, Aug 8th & 9th, 2011
Over the years at KIDabra Business Builders, an amazing thing has happened: person after person has left with the knowledge, actually on fire, to go rev up their entertainment business. We are privy to an astounding number of success stories.
This is an incredible testament to the fact that get rich quick is not preached here. Instead you get solid business techniques with cutting edge approaches from the real pros there to share.
A student, learning, will flourish and interestingly, you'll find the best performers never stop being students and never stop learning.
KIDshow Business Builders Seminars includes marketing as well as many other business aspects of entertaining. Designed with the challenges of our economic times in mind these seminars show and teach the work involved to make yourself successful and stay busy.
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| 7:00pm - 10:00PM | The Biz Builder's Kickoff Brad Ross A detailed workshop into the basics of using video to market yourself as an entertainer. Brad will take you from A to Z and explain how to get started making GREAT looking videos even if you are on a shoe-string budget. He'll teach you the basics of shooting, composition, where to get ideas, how to set up a home studio, and how to use video in your social media marketing to establish yourself as a local or even national celebrity. As a bonus Brad will teach you how to create your OWN DIRECT TO INTERNET TV CHANNEL!!!!!! Not to be missed - totally CUTTING EDGE! |
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Tuesday August 9th, 2011
Pre-Conference Biz Builder Continues
Only $74.95 plus KIDabra Conference registration for just Tuesday August 9th, 2011
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| 9:00am | Todd McKinney Join Todd McKinney for an all new lecture: START. Educational and motivational from start to finish on a topic that is important to all of us who perform.
Todd shares his personal story of why he almost quit the magic business and what made him stay. He will even share his emotional roller coaster ride from his life on the road doing nearly 600 shows each year. This unique lecture features marketing techniques and cool ideas on making more money with each show. Todd promises to teach you how to live your dreams of being a performer while balancing the important things in life. Don't Miss this critical insight of a journeyman performers personal revelations along the career path. This is the good stuff! |
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| 10:00am | Kevin Heller "The Outdoor Performers Survival Guide" With today's unpredictable outdoor conditions, it's amazing the number of performers that do their best to stay away from any performance situation that requires them to be outdoors. These very same performers may not realize that they are missing the "proverbial" boat! How would you like to be able to take your regular kids show or a birthday party show, make some minor adjustments and make 3 to 4 times more money simply by performing it outdoors? Doesn't make sense? Take a quick look at what you can learn from Kevin Heller's nearly 20 years of performing outdoors at just about any event that you can imagine. The outdoor market is HUGE! The audiences are bigger and the pay is greater! All you have to do is learn to adjust. Kevin has put together a no-nonsense guide to preparing yourself for outdoor performances. This lecture is all about planning for the worst and hoping for the best! Here are some of the key points in this lecture that can get you out of the living room and onto the outdoor stage.
Kevin will also be teaching a time tested "completely surrounded" version of "In and Out" - A fantastic trick that can be used in any show situation! If you've ever considered (or not considered) working outdoors, make sure to check this lecture out - it could literally change your magical career! |
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| 11:00am | Jim Austin A big part of Jim Austin's work is with Senior Centers and it's an area of performing that folks are tremendously interested in. Jim's seminar will include video of directors who hire entertainers and what they look for and need; Tricks that work well; Do's and Don'ts; Getting hired tomorrow. Why seniors?, (After all, they are part of the family.) A perspective from an RN on working in facilities and much more. This topic has never been covered before at KIDabra and is an exciting Don't Miss Biz Builder! |
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| Noon–1:30pm | Lunch Choices Available in the Conference Center. | ||
| 1:30pm | John Kaplan John Kaplan has been "selling the impossible" across Canada for over 3 decades. Corporate events and promotions, major league sports shows, opening act gigs for celebrities like Jay Leno, and thousands of fundraising shows have given John the experience and insights into what it takes to build a successful career as a professional performer. In this session, John shares the stories of some of these sales and how they were made ... including an elaborate disappearing automobile promotion for a car dealership, a single 30-minute mall show that sold for over $20,000, and the step-by-step process he uses to sell out his Fundraising Magic™ show season year after year. Note from Mark: You walk away from John's lecture with your head swimming with possibilities. He really delivers! |
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| 3:00pm | Greg Britt Find the stuff that puts you to work, including a number of area unknown to many performers. Discover 20 things you can do right now to get more shows! Plus hear Greg's extraordinary personal story of marketing and sponsorship. (His last meeting with his sponsor had them signing a $200,000 plus sponsor package and this is over and above what he gets from the schools.) Also he'll show some of the material he use to promote school shows and some cool giveaways that work! Greg is quite simply one of the best negotiators around, and there is much to learn from this top pro in his first ever KIDabra Conference visit! |
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Over the years at KIDabra Business Builders, an amazing thing has happened: person after person has left with the knowledge, actually on fire, to go rev up their entertainment business. We are privy to an astounding number of success stories.
This is an incredible testament to the fact that get rich quick is not preached here. Instead you get solid business techniques with cutting edge approaches from the real pros there to share.
A student, learning, will flourish and interestingly, you'll find the best performers never stop being students and never stop learning.
KIDshow Business Builders Seminars includes marketing as well as many other business aspects of entertaining. Designed with the challenges of our economic times in mind these seminars show and teach the work involved to make yourself successful and stay busy.
August 8th & 9th: Mon & Tue
Optional KIDshow Business Builders : $95.00
Tuesday Only Biz Builder Registration: $74.95
August 8th-12th : Tues, Wed, Thur, & Fri
Performer/Member: $197.95
Spouse/Member: $90.00
Performer/New-Member: $254.95
International Performer/New-Member $284.95
Child (Under 16): $75.00
CD Album
((Pre-registered & Pre-Ordered before 8/8/11) Price higher at the conference. None sold afterwards.)
Attendee CD Album (USA): $99.95
Invisible Attendee CD Album: $150.00