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Oh. I Thought You Were Done

Oh. I Thought You Were Done By Jeff Stone In the July 2008 (last month) issue of Roots and Branches, we talked about clarifying your role and your spectator’s role. As pointed out last month, it’s critical that the audience not only knows who you are, but they know who …

Choosing Your Spectator/Assistant

Let’s assume you’ve won your audience over in the first thirty seconds with a warm, witty, informative, properly-structured introduction. After thirty seconds the audience likes you, they’re intrigued, they’re relaxed and comfortable. What next? Tricks? No. You first have to really “connect” with one person in particular. Obviously you must …

Get Your Own Bread!

Get Your Own Bread! By Jeff Stone About a year or so ago, I was watching some old Sankey stuff (the very best of… by LL Pub), and Jay makes a joke about how he’s enjoyed working for the L&L audience because back in the real world they don’t react …