On Jul 24, 2016, Tim Friday wrote:

Doc Eason says "People won't remember what you do or say, but they will always remember how you made them feel." Or something to that effect, and this is flaw of the Café, members post with no regard to how it makes others feel.

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3) Rather than being a place of constructive help, the Café is a place of negative discourse, and this tone often ruins posts that could contain many pearls, remember Doc Eason's wise quote

On Jul 21, 2016, barts185 wrote:

For someone that doesn't want to watch ads, it seems odd that you chose ones which were very likely to be ads. Did you think that there wasn't going to be any attempt to generate revenue other than selling the set of videos which were free for 24 hours?

On Jul 26, 2016, Dannydoyle wrote:
Why not just let him operate in his own way?

On Jul 26, 2016, Dannydoyle wrote:
I can't imagine the work that was involved.

On Jul 26, 2016, Donald Dunphy wrote:

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On Jul 26, 2016, Dannydoyle wrote:
I can't imagine the work involved.

During at least one of the talks, or maybe in an email, David said that he spent more than 400 hours putting this event together.

- Donald

On Jul 27, 2016, Bill Hegbli wrote:

I would have liked to hear more about, when Sean Farquhar said, the does a 35 minute show, and 45 minute pitch for his back of the room products. That sounded way out there, and how the cruise lines thought about it.

On Jul 27, 2016, Bill Hegbli wrote:
The one on 2 walling was the best of the all of them, Bill Gladwell did not try to hide his methods or techniques at the whole business procedure. It was so interesting that I watched it 4 times.

The Bronson magician illusionist was the most impressive, his name started with a F_z_, can't remember, but you one could tell how knowledgeable he was in the business end of selling his shows. Accumulating the necessary funds and using it wisely. He also sounded like he works very hard, and must never sleeps, with the list of things he does. He did it the classic way, went to work for magicians in Bronson and leaned all he could, then went out on his own. This is the guy to learn from if he ever wants to share or publish anything.

On Jul 27, 2016, Donald Dunphy wrote:

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On Jul 27, 2016, Bill Hegbli wrote:
when Sean Farquhar said, the does a 35 minute show, and 45 minute pitch for his back of the room products.

I'm pretty sure you heard this incorrectly. I know I heard something different during Shawn's talk.
- Donald

On Jul 28, 2016, thomasR wrote:

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On Jul 27, 2016, Bill Hegbli wrote:
The one on 2 walling was the best of the all of them, Bill Gladwell did not try to hide his methods or techniques at the whole business procedure. It was so interesting that I watched it 4 times.

The Bronson magician illusionist was the most impressive, his name started with a F_z_, can't remember, but you one could tell how knowledgeable he was in the business end of selling his shows. Accumulating the necessary funds and using it wisely. He also sounded like he works very hard, and must never sleeps, with the list of things he does. He did it the classic way, went to work for magicians in Bronson and leaned all he could, then went out on his own. This is the guy to learn from if he ever wants to share or publish anything.

The illusionist you are thinking of is Reza. I agree... it sounds like he works very hard. He also was very honest about money being difficult when he expanded his show too quickly with sound and lights. I liked it when David asked him "well what did you do?" and he responded "I just had to push on through." - THAT'S the secret... make a mistake, lose big money even, but keep on pushing through.

On Jul 28, 2016, Dannydoyle wrote:
Which works GREAT when you have a family who will give you money to keep pushing through. What do you do when you DON'T have that? This is what most guys want to know.