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

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

Spencer Grey performs close up magic for guests at a Bay Area corporate party. When people hear there is a magician at their company party, they picture the tricks. Cards, coins, something vanishing. But the tricks are honestly the smallest part of the job. I tell clients this all the time. There are plenty of amazing talented magicians out there. That is not the problem. The hardest thing is finding somebody who is not only entertaining but also knows how to read a room, and

When people hear there's a magician at their company party, they picture the tricks. Cards, coins, something vanishing. But the tricks are honestly the smallest part of the job. The real work is knowing which group to walk up to, knowing which group to leave alone, and knowing how to join a conversation that was going fine before you got there. That's what clients are actually paying for, and it's the part nobody sees. So here's what a Silicon Valley magician is really doing