There is nothing that makes the road to being a better performer easier. Nothing you can buy. No lecture you can attend. No workshop. No tactics, gimmicks or a slicker promo package. There is really only one way to better yourself as a performer, develop your onstage persona and learn how to connect with an audience. And that is...just work. I wish I could hold a convention where aspiring performers would come so I could have the one and only lecture where I would reveal the secret to being the best you can be. The lecture would have one powerpoint slide that would say JUST WORK, and then I would send everybody home. Everybody wants to know if there is a secret formula to get around all the work involved in developing an act, being a better performer, etc. There is none. Just work.
… its the best advice you can give and get. Point final.
Thank you Bill
Man, do you hit the nail tight on the head here! Fourteen years on the street attempting a 40 minute show for people that are walking by. I learned more in that venue than I had in the previous twenty years a doing magic. Your crowds would be a mixture of all kinds of folks, all kinds of challenges and you had to learn to roll with it. Use what works great, use stuff that had a good story to get them involved and interested. Over the years I had folks who always vacationed here and they came back looking for me. As you say Bill, the secret is work, work, work!