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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.

• Marketing: Giveaway 12

  By Dave Arch on September 14, 2024

  

  Here’s a fun giveaway for your magic club by Sid Lorraine. Whether you make it about a card prediction you bought from China, and the prediction that came with the trick was written in Chinese or the instructions were printed… Read More ›

• Governance: The Relationship Pyramid White Paper

  By Dave Arch on September 13, 2024

  

  Now in a form that you can download and print to aid in discussing with others, here’s a short article focused on how healthy relationships both inside and outside the magic club mature. You may download the white paper HERE.

• Meeting Theme: Annual Scheduling

  By Dave Arch on September 11, 2024

  

  Just as a musician designing a well-produced album will typically intersperse slower songs with songs of higher energy, the club leader will want to provide a variety-filled calendar for the members with lectures interspersed with meetings that give members opportunities… Read More ›

• Governance: Self-Limiting Beliefs

  By Dave Arch on September 9, 2024

  

  Click HERE to read the story behind the above picture. Then please come back and finish reading the rest of this post. Click HERE to download a printable copy of the picture below to help you conduct what I call… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Placemat 7

  By Dave Arch on September 7, 2024

  

  Read the post entitled Placemat 6 for details about the working of this activity. Download the instructions and the above template HERE.

• Meeting Activity: Placemat 6

  By Dave Arch on September 6, 2024

  

  Whether you use the boxes to list the qualities of an exceptional magic performance or the personal qualities essential in a great magician, or any other conceivable list relating to the world of magic, you’ll read a letter to them… Read More ›

• Marketing: An Online Video Library

  By Dave Arch on September 4, 2024

  

  Share this link with your members: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5630318 And the password: magic Your members will then have immediate access to 50 online videos categorized according skill level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and genre (close-up, platform, stage) with some tricks easy enough for… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Placemat 5

  By Dave Arch on September 2, 2024

  

  With this placemat for your meeting, you’ll probably need some children’s scissors close-by too. Have each person fold their placemat using the lines as guides. However, they can each fold them differently (i.e. with the letters to the inside or… Read More ›

• Marketing: Craft Store Conjuring Newsletter Tricks

  By Dave Arch on August 31, 2024

  

  First released in a series of articles in The Linking Ring magazine, these copy and paste magic tricks are now available to help you save time in strengthening your own monthly club newsletter. It’s a large file. Consequently download speeds… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: A-Z Posters

  By Dave Arch on August 30, 2024

  

  Do your members know the jargon that’s unique to magic? Are you sure? Here’s an activity that will get the job done (and another idea at the bottom of this post). The group is divided into equal teams (be sure… Read More ›