Magic Club Leadership Resources

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• Marketing: Magic Club Newsletter Compendium

  By Dave Arch on April 10, 2024

  

  Here are 200+ pages of magic club newsletters from The Omaha Magical Society with articles, graphics, and at least one magic trick included in each issue. If you believe your club’s members would enjoy anything you find in skimming through… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Script, Switch, and Solve

  By Dave Arch on April 9, 2024

  

  This activity generates its energy from problem solving as a component of a monthly meeting. Each table team writes on a piece of paper a legible paragraph of three or four sentences describing a real-world problematic scenario that a magician… Read More ›

• Marketing: Showmanship Email Essays

  By Dave Arch on April 8, 2024

  

  About two years ago we realized as a magic club we spent only a fraction of our time on improving the performing skills of our members. Much more of our time was spent learning new magic tricks and showing each… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Agree/Disagree Statements

  By Dave Arch on April 6, 2024

  

  Consciously choosing to eliminate a litany of announcements to begin the meeting, you instead walk to the front of the room and begin unexpectedly by saying something like “I need everyone to please stand up. I’m going to read a… Read More ›

• Governance: Intentional Feedback Loops

  By Dave Arch on April 5, 2024

  

  Any club such as ours which decides to go with a more representative form of governance in which once a year the membership elects a board which is then entrusted with most of the decision making (within the boundaries of… Read More ›

• Marketing: A Meeting Promotional Schedule

  By Dave Arch on April 3, 2024

  

  Our monthly club events occur on the third Monday evening of every month. Here is the monthly schedule to which we currently adhere in promoting/marketing that event – hoping we accommodate our members who plan ahead as well as those… Read More ›

• Marketing: Long-Term Care Facilities

  By Dave Arch on April 1, 2024

  

  As a leadership team, we were amazed at the enthusiastic response to this initiative. We had nearly 15% of our membership volunteer to participate. Why was that (besides the desire to give back with their love of magic)? Our theories… Read More ›

• Governance: Trial and Error

  By Dave Arch on April 1, 2024

  

  We thought it was a good idea at the time. Then again over the past five years we’ve thought more than a few ideas were good ideas but were just not responded to enthusiastically by club members. The following process… Read More ›

• Marketing: Giveaway 5

  By Dave Arch on March 30, 2024

  

  Add your club’s contact information, and you just might have a tool for your members to use in sharing about your club with others. Download your ready-to-print template HERE. Watch the instructional video HERE.

• Governance: Prioritizing The Club’s Core

  By Dave Arch on March 29, 2024

  

  If you think of your club members within a set of concentric circles with those who most consistently contribute with their time and/or finances being the bullseye (the core) and then moving out from there with regular attenders, irregular attenders,… Read More ›

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