The Birthday Party Business: How to Make a Living as A Children's Entertainer [Paperback]

Bruce Fife (Author), Hal Diamond (Author), Steve Kissell (Author), Robin Vogel (Author), Mary Lostak (Author), Bob Conrad (Author), Marcela Murad (Author)

Book Description

From entertaining and food to marketing and promotion, this book features comprehensive and detailed guidance on how to succeed in the birthday party business. You will learn the secrets of entertaining kids using magic, clowning, puppetry, storytelling, ballooning, and face painting, as well as gain valuable information on catering, party games, and creating enchanting theme parties. This book has everything you need to get started in the birthday party business, including samples of advertisements, sales letters, thank you notes, news releases, contracts, party planning guides, flyers, and promotional giveaways, as well as dozens of comedy skits and party routines.

Editorial Reviews

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A wealth of solid information...Highly recommended. -- The Linking Ring

Features comprehensive and detailed guidance on how to succeed in the birthday party business...Highly recommended. -- The Bookwatch

Full of tricks on how to entertain kids using magic, clowning, puppetry, storytelling, ballooning, and face painting... extremely useful. -- Colorado Libraries

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Piccadilly Books, Limited (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941599272
• ISBN-13: 978-0941599276
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #976,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fun way to make a living., November 28, 1998

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This review is from: The Birthday Party Business: How to Make a Living as A Children's Entertainer (Paperback)

The introduction includes: In this book you will learn everything you need to know to share in the joy of operating a successful birthday party business...You don't need to be a polished magician or seasoned entertainer..." In addition to chapters on getting started, working with kids, business basics, direct marketing and publicity/advertising/materials/ agencies, there are separate discussions of magic, clowning, storytelling, puppetry, face painting, catering and special theme parties and party games. The authors (seven in all) are experienced birthday party entertainers. Hal Diamond, a full-time Washington area magician who wrote a monthly column in Laugh Makers magazine for many years, largely was responsible for the pages on magic. Steve Kissel, who sponsors annual Comedy College conventions, contributed to the balloon figures chapter. They advised on getting the business various marketing strategies while Diamond covered direct marketing. You get a wealth of solid information: a sample telephone conversation with a prospective client, why you shouldn't arrive ahead of your stated time, what to do during the party anad how to get paid, including a sample contract. There are instructions for constructing some props. Children's entertainers, as well as those who aspire to enter the field, will benefit from the business and performing suggestions. Highly recommended.