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How Magicians Use Spectators Names to Their Advantage?

by Merchant of Magic Leave a Comment

Ben Williams Magician AdviceHow magicians use spectators names many times through a performance, quite a skill. We can all put it to better use..

As magicians, it’s very easy to focus all your attention on performing a magic trick, and forget that the tricks are not the most important feature of the evening.

‘WHAT!?! My magic tricks are not the star of the show?’

OK, they are important, and so is your performance, but to the spectators, everything you do, falls into second place behind one thing that is much more interesting to them:
Themselves

Ben Williams takes a few moments out from performing, to talk to you about ways magicians use spectators names to their advantage. With careful thought, magicians can take the most interesting thing in the world to each and every person, and spin it in a way to make their magic even more entertaining.

 
How do you do it within your own performances? Are there effects you perform right now, that you could adapt in some way to build in your spectators name?
Do you have any tips and advice on how magicians use spectators names to their advantage? How do you build in a ‘connection’ with your spectators? Please take a moment to leave a comment below.
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How to Make Magic Tricks Connect People Together.

by Merchant of Magic 22 Comments

Magicians Connectng PeopleDo your magic tricks create anything more than entertainment and amazement for the people that watch them? Could they lead to more intimate connections between the people that watch them?

Last night I was at the Double Tree Hilton in Tower Hill doing walk-around magic for Kraft Foods, and I was running through my favorite coin routine, when something dawned on me. The coin trick has a ‘hook’ in its presentation that can be applied to so many other close up magic tricks to increase their impact of spectators. It’s a very small extra step that I have added which is probably overlooked by most of the spectators. However, for just a few, every now and then, it can make their whole evening and possibly change their lives. How many other little additions to a trick can do that?

Want to know what it was? I grabbed my iPhone and talked about it in this short video:

Video podcasting does not come naturally to me. Which is strange as I’m very used to performing magic in front of people. Perhaps that’s why I very rarely appear in any of the magic DVD’s that The Merchant of Magic have produced in the past.Please excuse the sound quality, It was filmed moments before I had to start performing, so please take it as you find it.

If it’s well received, maybe I will post up a few more videos as well as written posts to the blog.
Best wishes

Dominic Reyes

 

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