Guides for working magicians
Practical advice for the business and the craft: pricing your shows, invoicing, organizing your repertoire, practicing, building setlists and preparing every gig.
Business
How to Invoice a Magic Show: What to Include, With an Example
Everything a magician’s invoice needs — numbering, deposit, balance, tax mentions and payment terms — with a worked example and the mistakes that delay payment.
Read the guide : Invoicing a magic show
Business
How Much to Charge for a Magic Show: A Pricing Method for Magicians
A step-by-step method to set your magic show prices: your minimum fee, the real hours behind a set, market rates, packages, and how to write a quote that gets accepted.
Read the guide : Pricing your magic shows
Repertoire
How to Organize Your Magic Repertoire (and Never Forget a Trick)
What to record for every trick, how to track what is performance-ready, which tags actually help, and how to keep your methods private — a system for working magicians.
Read the guide : Organizing your repertoire
Practice
How to Practice Magic: A Practice Routine That Actually Sticks
Practice versus rehearsal, how to structure a session, camera or mirror, what to write in a practice log, and how to keep your whole repertoire sharp.
Read the guide : Practicing magic
Gigs
The Magician’s Gig Checklist: Before, During and After the Show
A complete checklist for magicians: questions to ask when booking, what to confirm the week before, what to pack, what to do on the day and the follow-up that brings referrals.
Read the guide : Gig checklist
Routines
How to Build a Magic Setlist That Flows, From Opener to Closer
How to choose an opener and a closer, vary your effects, plan transitions and resets, and adapt a magic setlist to walk-around, parlour, stage or children’s shows.
Read the guide : Building a setlist