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• Meeting Theme: Marked Cards Magic

  By Dave Arch on February 1, 2025

  

  The poster tells the story. Using Jay Sankey’s card marking system found at: https://youtu.be/R9RlUcOsVaI, members create their own decks provided by the club and then learn four different magic tricks each one taught by a different member of the club… Read More ›

• Meeting Theme: Beginner Magic Kit Competition

  By Dave Arch on January 2, 2025

  

  Although we used this theme in January, it really has year-around appeal. We found the magic kits for $5 at a store called Five Below and the rabbit statues initially on a Target store’s dollar shelves and then having lost… Read More ›

• Taking A Pause …

  By Dave Arch on November 2, 2024

  

  As many of you know, our local magic club (https://theomahamagicalsociety.org) received the unexpected gift from Teller of the historic David P. Abbott House of Mystery in Omaha, Nebraska. This sizable project requires me to hit the pause button on new… Read More ›

• Marketing: School Band Fund Raising Show

  By Dave Arch on October 30, 2024

  

  In the spirit of full disclosure, our club has not tried this. When the planets align, I believe it could be an effective fund raising idea for both a local school band and a local magic club. The son of… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Writing Deceptively Honest Radio Commercials

  By Dave Arch on October 28, 2024

  

  If you’ve been involved in magic for more than thirty days, you know that there is an entire skill set in being able to insightfully read and decipher with savviness an ad for a new magic trick: • What in… Read More ›

• Governance: Building A Magic Club (Video)

  By Dave Arch on October 25, 2024

  

  Here’s a twenty-five minute video exploring ten strategies our club discovered in trying to grow our club over the past five-years. https://vimeo.com/898627945/db437e03da

• Emotional Composure

  By Dave Arch on October 23, 2024

  

  Research indicates that the average emotion lasts only ninety seconds UNLESS coupled with a story. Like oxygen to a fire a story coupled to an emotion can keep that emotion burning for hours, days, or even decades. Deprive your emotions… Read More ›

• Governance: The Role Of Culture White Paper

  By Dave Arch on October 21, 2024

  

  Now in a form that you can download and print to aid in discussing with others, here’s a short article focused on the importance of clearly defining the current culture of a magic club as well as what changes to… Read More ›

• Governance: Giving Impactful Credit White Paper

  By Dave Arch on October 19, 2024

  

  From experience we know that positive reinforcement does much to change behaviors in club members. However, we also know that merely stating empty phrases like “good job” or “nice work” seldom carry the impact we might wish. Now in a… Read More ›

• Marketing Giveaway 15: The Mystic Pillars

  By Dave Arch on October 18, 2024

  

  From David Berglas comes a graphic very useable in a promotion piece. Put your index finger across the base. How many pillars do you see. Now slide your finger slowly up the pillars and watch another one mysteriously appear in… Read More ›

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