Recent Posts - page 17
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Governance/Marketing: Your Club’s Brand
When I read you the names of the above brands, you get a feeling with each one. If it’s a positive feeling, that company has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to intentionally and purposefully produce that feeling and sustain… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Facebook Polling
In one of our recent Monday Night Magic monthly events, we had a little friendly team competition between four table teams – each presenting a short magic routine with items found in a common restaurant place setting. The winner would… Read More ›
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Marketing: Magic In The Hospitals
When our local club tried to bring our magic into the Omaha hospitals, we found that the times that they would allow us to come in (i.e. only during the day and never on weekends) immediately eliminated most of our… Read More ›
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Marketing: Customized Smartphone App
Here’s a magic app we had customized for our members to perform and for those to whom they perform it to even amaze themselves after the initial performance – showing it to their friends on their own phone. From a… Read More ›
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Meeting Theme: Featured Performers
Sometimes we build our monthly events featuring one of our more seasoned members. When we do this, we ask the performer to bring his/her “A” material for a twenty minute performance and also to bring enough supplies to teach the… Read More ›
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Meeting Activity: Work In Progress
THANK YOU David Sandy and the Kansas City club for this idea. After hearing their idea, we now periodically provide an opportunity for any member to sign up ahead of time to perform a trick on which they’re working –… Read More ›
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Magic Club Resource Catalog 3
A proven and flexible magic club mentoring curriculum to build the leadership bench strength of a local magic club and continue to intentionally develop younger members; entrance to a magic club leadership poster gallery with over 300 leadership principles depicted… Read More ›
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Meeting Theme: Magic and Memory
In this meeting members bring what they believe to be their most memorable magic trick(s). What trick(s) do they perform that their audiences remember for the longest period of time. What is their theory about why that is? Depending on… Read More ›
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Marketing: Magic In The Libraries
MAGIC IN THE LIBRARIES is what we call this marketing initiative in which the club purchases used hardbound Mark Wilson’s Course In Magic books (for never over $10 including postage on eBay mostly) and any of our members can reach… Read More ›
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Governance: Executive Director
Our board struggled when we considered the term limits as mandated in our club’s constitution for board members. Continuity in which we could build one year on top of the previous year’s progress became increasingly difficult. Many years we felt… Read More ›
Featured Categories
Governance ›
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Governance: Text Message Groups
August 4, 2025
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Governance: Building A Magic Club (Video)
October 25, 2024
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Governance: The Role Of Culture White Paper
October 21, 2024
Marketing ›
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Marketing Giveaway #19: Magic Hangman App
February 15, 2026
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Marketing Giveaway #18: Smart Phone Magic Posters Concentration/Memory Game App
January 28, 2026
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Marketing: A Monthly Newsletter
August 4, 2025
Meeting Activities ›
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Meeting Activity: Writing Deceptively Honest Radio Commercials
October 28, 2024
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Meeting Activities: Name Tags
October 2, 2024
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Meeting Activity: The Gypsy Eradication Ritual
September 30, 2024
Meeting Themes ›
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Meeting Theme: Magic Apps Night
February 22, 2026
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Meeting Theme: Wizard Wars 2.0
February 19, 2026
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Magic Theme: Celebration Reception
December 19, 2025
Poster Gallery ›
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Magic Club Leadership Poster Gallery
February 24, 2014