Recent Posts - page 13
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Marketing: Junior Magician Curriculum
If your magic club desires a cost-effective curriculum for children ages 7-12, you might get some ideas here. Includes an Appendix with a white paper on suggestions for encouraging a child in magic and a research paper showing the positive… Read More ›
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Magic Club Resource Catalog 4
Second only to a consistently involving monthly meeting, I consider the monthly newsletter to be one of only a few essential pillars of The Omaha Magical Society. I consider the newsletter a monthly marketing brochure for the club – reminding those… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: A Lecture Idea
When our club hosts a lecture, we’ve found it helpful to ask the members to submit questions ahead of time as to what topics they wish the lecturer to address. And I must confess that I’m certainly not above submitting… Read More ›
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Meeting Theme: The Mark Wilson Treasure Hunt
From our club’s Magic In The Library initiative we have enough copies of Mark Wilson’s Course In Magic so that every two people will share a copy for our May event. Your club might have enough copies owned by your… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Interviews
When you want a member to share their knowledge on a given subject – knowing that member’s tendency to ramble; don’t hand them the microphone while you go sit down. Interview them instead. You will maintain control of the direction… Read More ›
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Governance: Generational Differences
Click HERE to download what I found to be a significant chart comparing and contrasting the various generations in our magic clubs. The chart provides many conversation starters for your club’s board or leadership team regarding how your club might… Read More ›
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Marketing: Library Donation and Brand Alignment
Here’s where five years ago we first tested the theory that aligning our club’s brand with larger more established brands in our area would strengthen our own brand through association. The club had a library of 1200 magic books that… Read More ›
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Marketing: Giveaway 6
Insert your club’s logo and website in the center and this might serve as a tool your members can use to share about your club with those they know who might be interested in magic. Download the printable template HERE…. Read More ›
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Governance: Magic Club Leadership Podcast
Now you can grow your own magic club leadership skills on-the-go. Search on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or the Podcast Guru app (a favorite) for “Transforming Leaders Podcast” and/or include the name “Dave Arch” to find the podcast with 50… Read More ›
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Governance/Meeting Activity: Start, Stop, Continue
Here’s a proven process for a group debriefing regarding the effectiveness of a club project or event as a group. As a club, we also use this structure in our every other year club-wide online survey too. When this processing… Read More ›
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Governance ›
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Governance: The Role Of Culture White Paper
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Marketing ›
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Marketing Giveaway #18: Smart Phone Magic Posters Concentration/Memory Game App
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Marketing: A Monthly Newsletter
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Marketing Giveaway 17: Find The Curved Line
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Meeting Activities ›
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Meeting Activity: Writing Deceptively Honest Radio Commercials
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Meeting Activities: Name Tags
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Meeting Activity: The Gypsy Eradication Ritual
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Meeting Themes ›
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Magic Theme: Celebration Reception
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Meeting Theme: Holiday Gift Exchange
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Meeting Theme: Marked Cards Magic
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Poster Gallery ›
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Magic Club Leadership Poster Gallery
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