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    Paid To Perform: The Step by Step Guide to Turning Your Talents into a Profitable Small Business
    Paid To Perform: The Step by Step Guide to Turning Your Talents into a Profitable Small Business
    Paid To Perform: The Step by Step Guide to Turning Your Talents into a Profitable Small Business
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    Paid To Perform: The Step by Step Guide to Turning Your Talents into a Profitable Small Business

    By Karleen Tauszik

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    Wondering whether you can turn your talent into a profitable business and get paid to make people happy?

     

    In PAID TO PERFORM, professional ventriloquist, magician and juggler Lowell Tauszik shares how he did it, and how you can too!

     

    Whether you want to be a magician or a clown, a mime or a stilt walker, a storyteller or a celebrity look-alike, a piano player or a balloon artist—whatever entertainment you want to share with the world—this comprehensive step-by-step guide will show you how to start your small business, building it up from your home and without spending a fortune.

     

    In this book, you'll discover how to:

    • find your market niche,
    • scope out the competition,
    • set up your business,
    • establish your prices,
    • market your skills,
    • work with your customers, and
    • expand from part time to full time.

    It's all here: the skills, strategies and steps to get the gigs and grow your business within the performing arts industry. Plus, this 2021 revised edition includes an all-new appendix on performing virtually. If you love to get up in front of a crowd and entertain, get PAID TO PERFORM today to get started you on your way to a fulfilling career using your special talents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTip Top Books
    Release dateMar 7, 2014
    ISBN9781524242831
    Paid To Perform: The Step by Step Guide to Turning Your Talents into a Profitable Small Business

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      Paid To Perform - Karleen Tauszik

      Paid to Perform

      The Step-by-Step Guide to

      Turning Your Talents into a

      Profitable Small Business

      Karleen Tauszik

      PAID TO PERFORM – THE Step-by-Step Guide to Turning Your Talents into a Profitable Small Business

      Copyright © 2010 by Karleen Tauszik

      Revised and updated © 2014 by Karleen Tauszik

      Revised and updated © 2021 by Karleen Tauszik

      Cover Design by Karleen Tauszik

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the author.

      Visit the author on the web at www.KarleenT.com

      Visit Lowell Tauszik on the web at www.RazzEnt.com

      Summary: Professional ventriloquist, magician, and juggler Lowell Tauszik shares how you can build your own entertainment business. If you love to get up in front of a crowd and entertain, this easy-to-use guide will start you on your way to a fulfilling career using your special talents.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      1. WHAT’S THE PLAN?

      2. WHO CARES?

      3. KA-CHING: INCOME & PROFIT

      4. MOVING AHEAD AND MAKING IT LEGAL

      5. SPREAD THE WORD

      6. DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB: WORKING AROUND WORK

      7. TAKING THE FIRST CALL

      8. IT’S SHOWTIME!

      9. KEEPING RECORDS

      10. NETWORKING

      11. THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

      APPENDIX: VIRTUAL SHOWS

      CONCLUSION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ABOUT LOWELL TAUSZIK

      INTRODUCTION

      PEOPLE THINK MY JOB is great. It is! I’m my own boss. I work from home. I set my own hours. I decide how long my commute will be. Everywhere I go, people are glad to see me and we have a great time. And they pay me well.

      I am a full-time ventriloquist, magician, and juggler. I get to use my talents to make people happy as I enhance their special events.

      Regardless of your talent, this book is for you. Whether you want to be a clown or face painter, a mime or stilt walker, a storyteller or a celebrity look-alike, a piano player or a singer—whatever entertainment you want to share with the world, the business principles are pretty much the same.

      Before I started my business, I worked overseas in ministry for twelve years. When I returned to the United States, I had no marketable skills except for my entertainment talents. With a clever business name from my wife, a phone, and some persistence, I built up my business one step at a time. Eventually, I was able to cut the hours at my regular job down to part-time, and a year later I was able to totally quit.

      But no one was there to tell me how to establish this business. I had lots of questions. I did plenty of research and even made lots of mistakes. That’s why I’m writing this book: to assist you with the achievement of your dreams of becoming a professional entertainer. After reading this, I believe you’ll be able to achieve this with much less trial and error than I had. If I could establish my entertainment business without any help, chances are much better that with my experience shared in this book, you’ll be able to do the same, but quicker, better, and more efficiently.

      In the first three chapters, we’ll take some time to explore your possibilities. The rest of the book will explain, step-by-step, how

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