A MAGICIAN'S BLOG 

The question I get more than almost any other, usually from someone planning their first company party, is some version of this. What if people don't want to participate? It is a fair worry. You are spending real money on entertainment, and the nightmare version in your head is a room of forty adults being made to do something they do not want to do. So let me tell you what I am actually looking for when I work your room, because it is close to the opposite of what people exp

"Hi, so we had a couple quick questions. We've never done this before, and my boss saw another magician at a company retreat and was really blown away." That is almost word for word how these calls start. Somebody gets handed the holiday party, usually someone in HR or an office assistant who was never hired to be an event planner but is now planning an event. And here is the part most of them do not know. When you say "we want a magician," you are not describing one thing. Y

Pricing is the question I get asked more than anything else, and I completely understand why. You have a budget, it has to cover the venue, the catering, the DJ and the entertainment, and you need to know early whether this is even in the realm of possibility. So here is the honest answer, including the part where I explain why there is no number on my website. A full room show. Group size is what decides staging, sound and price. Why a corporate magician in San Francisco wil