Magic Club Leadership Resources

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• Governance: Annual Goals and Objectives

  By Dave Arch on March 22, 2024

  

  Having reviewed the results of our membership survey (see previous post), our club board is ready in September to set the projects and initiatives for the next year. Those goals are released to the membership prior to our 15×15 annual… Read More ›

• Governance: An Online Club Survey

  By Dave Arch on March 20, 2024

  

  Every two years we use Google Docs to facilitate the soliciting of feedback from our members. Here’s the link to a copy of our 2022 one HERE. As you’ll see, the survey will be updated in 2024 before it’s presented… Read More ›

• Marketing: Posters and Graphic Artists

  By Dave Arch on March 19, 2024

  

  I’ve been asked who does the graphics for our club’s monthly event posters. For the past four years on a monthly basis we’ve used Alina on Fiverr and have consistently found her to be responsive to our requests, willing to… Read More ›

• Governance/Marketing: Your Club’s Mission Statement

  By Dave Arch on March 18, 2024

  

  Why does your club exist? Do your members and leaders know? Do you have it written down succinctly? In the previous post, I addressed the importance of defining a club’s brand with adjectives that members feel when they think about… Read More ›

• Governance/Marketing: Your Club’s Brand

  By Dave Arch on March 16, 2024

  

  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 ›

• Meeting Activity: Facebook Polling

  By Dave Arch on March 14, 2024

  

  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 ›

• Marketing: Magic In The Hospitals

  By Dave Arch on March 12, 2024

  

  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 ›

• Marketing: Customized Smartphone App

  By Dave Arch on March 10, 2024

  

  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 ›

• Meeting Theme: Featured Performers

  By Dave Arch on March 9, 2024

  

  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 ›

• Meeting Activity: Work In Progress

  By Dave Arch on March 7, 2024

  

  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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