Featured Tips by Jack Tabone
You have no doubt heard about mentalism and seen famous mentalists like David Blaine perform extra-ordinary mind control feats, but how much do you really know about mentalism? Mentalism is a performing art that makes you think that the practitioner i.e. the mentalist is gifted with supernatural powers. It is very much like stage magic, and many mentalists add stage hypnotism to their act as well. Nowadays many people are learning the art of mentalism. Although it may not be very easy to master the tricks, with proper advice and guidance you can easily learn great mind control tricks and the ability to read minds.
In this article I will try and provide information that can help you master the art of mentalism and become a skilled practitioner of the same. But no tips shall guarantee success if you do not combine them with adequate practice and hard work. Only if you practice on a regular basis would you be able to amaze and fascinate people around you with your magic tricks.
Here are 10 tips that can help you make your mentalism act successful:
* It is important that you keep things light. Remember that this is supposed to be fun. You can make use of humor to lighten the situation; otherwise you may end up losing your audience.
* Being a mentalist, your first motive should be to gain a proper rapport with your audience. You need to have proper communicative skills to be able to persuade your audience, this way you would ensure successful results.
* It is a good idea to avoid strange shuffles or flourishes. Hold things naturally so that you do not kill the whole idea of the illusion.
* Remember that it is quite common for people to ask you questions or doubt your so-called supernatural abilities. You need to know how to answer them tactfully so that you do not kill your act.
* Mentalism acts can get boring if you only make use of written texts. In order to keep your audience excited, you must add elements of colors and other big things so that you can make your act more visual.
* You may also consider involving people in your act; this would provide a lot of room for interaction.
* Always have confidence in yourself and your capabilities. This shall help make your act powerful and much more fascinating.
* It is also wise to add effects that make use of real suggestion. This way you can add a layer of realism in your routine.
* Another important thing is to be carefully and cleverly scripted. It is important that you talk professionally and keep the audience entertained. Make sure not to add words that do not make sense or seem unnecessary.
* Keep in mind that classic acts still sell and people still enjoy them in present times. Therefore it is a good option for you to involve a few classic acts in your routine.
These were some tips that can help you master the art of mentalism. Go ahead, follow the footsteps of your favorite mentalist and become the star among all your friends.
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Featured Article by Cheri Brennan
Anyone can learn easy mentalism tricks through pattern reading and common sense. The truth is, magicians will want us to believe that what we see is what is happening when actually what we see is just an illusion. This is part of what is known in the trade as mind reading and control.
People behave in a fixed manner. We have habits, and there are some common habits that are part of human nature. The responses we have towards a performer or magician is the same. Either we get bored, or we listen attentively. In this case, by persuasion, a mentalist can hold your attention and make you hear and watch him. This is an easy mentalism trick 101.
The fact of the matter is, if you know someone, you will know how he or she thinks. There is really no magic or telepathy in there, just plain common sense. Extra-sensory perception is out of the equation but yet, magicians will have you thinking that he or she can read your mind.
When you understand a normal person’s behavior, you can anticipate his or her answers, actions and reactions to questions and situations or things that he or she sees. That is how it works, a pattern is formed. And this pattern keeps repeating itself. For example, if you are going to witness an accident, right at that crucial moment, you will either freeze or close your eyes. It does not matter who you are, the behavior is repeated for almost all individuals.
In the same way, the audiences or spectators in a show all think the same way and behave the same way. For someone to perform mentalism tricks in such a setting is easy. He or she sets the stage, decide the course of action and set of emotions or reactions to invoke so that he or she can then manipulate the outcome. Every step is done so meticulously that to the untrained eyes, it looks and feels like something supernatural.
Once your attention is fixed on what the mentalist want you to see, he or she then performs a simultaneous action under concealment to give you an illusion. There really is no magical powers at work, just some easy mentalism tricks which you can pick up with the right guide and practice.
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Featured Article by Marlon Sanders
Marlon’s In-Depth 16-Point Guide To Hiring Your First Part Time Virtual Assistant Based On How I Hired My Own Virtual Assistants.
Let’s talk about hiring your first part time virtual assistant:
– Can you afford it?
– Where do you find them?
– How do you work with them?
– How do you save 50% on their pay?
– What country should you hire them from?
– What if their work isn’t up to par?
– What skills do they need?
One of the big steps in your online career will be when you make that move to hire your first online assistant.
There are many ways to outsource your work. You can, of course, hire freelancers off of elance or other sites.
That’s good for one-off projects.
But very soon in your career, you’re going to want to hire a part time virtual assistant and later a full-time one. That way, they can learn over time how you think and what you want.
You get a higher quality result with less work.
As you know, Lisa worked for me for 7 years. I’ve had other virtual assistants. And now I have some employees. But I worked my way up to this point over time.
Here are my tips for finding and using your first part time virtual assistant:
1. Hire someone in Canada. They have high speed Internet and are Internet savvy. If you’re in the U.S., they’re on US time.
Lisa was in Canada. Rick Hanson did my technical stuff for many years. He’s in Canada.
2. Hire someone in your relative time zone.
It’s hard for me to work with virtual assistants in UK or Australia because of the time zone difference.
Whatever country you’re in, I think you need to look for someone in the same time zone. That way, you can collaborate on projects during work hours.
The cool thing is that if you’re a night owl, you can find a time zone where that’s someone else’s work day.
3. Grab a 50% discount on pay
The great thing about Canada when I started there with Lisa was I got a 50% discount due to the exchange rate. Over time, this wilted.
But when you’re getting started, look for that exchange rate discount.
4. Use your resources to find people
a. Craigs List — That should be obvious. I love using Craigs List.
b. Newspapers. I ran classified ads in several newspapers in Canada.
c. Post in forums. Post what you’re looking for in forums like Warriorsforum, Digital Point forums, the Rich Jerk forum, abestweb forum, Anthony Blake’s forum (ablake com). There are many other forums you can use, depending on the talent.
5. Do NOT be scared to hire someone if you have revenue.
As long as you have a profitable sales process, don’t be scared to hire someone part time. You’ll NEVER feel like you can afford it.
But as long as you have a product that’s selling, a target market and a lead generation process, you will very likely find it pays off.
You WILL be scared to death to hire that first person. But if you have a sales process that’s working, I really believe it’ll free up your time and let you concentrate on higher return activities.
Face it, answering customer service emails doesn’t make you any dough.
6. Hire talent over pay
I’d rather pay more and get someone really talented than pay less and get mediocre talent.
You want someone you don’t have to train. Trust me on this one.
7. Find someone with exposure to Photoshop and good writing skills. When you’re hiring that first virtual assistant, you need a jack of all trades.
Someone whose very computer savvy, has had a little customer service experience, good writing skills, and a little art background or Photoshop is great. It’s ideal if they can do the basics in Dreamweaver.
When I hired Lisa, she was already doing customer service for Internet Marketing Challenge but they let her go when Corey bought the company. She could do a drop shadow in Photoshop and had taken a correspondence course on html.
8. Call them first thing every day and plan the day’s work. Even if they’re part time, you need to review their work plan daily. Just call and go over the work for the day.
This is why I say you need someone in your time zone. In my opinion, Skype doesn’t cut it. You need to be able to talk over the phone.
And you need to be able to EASILY reach the person. If you have to email them and get a response overnight, this isn’t going to work out long term.
Yes, you can do that for repetitious outsourced projects. But the virtual assistant person is your RIGHT HAND. You need them on demand at least during set hours.
9. Here are some tasks you can have them do:
a. Fix html problems
b. Customer service problem solving
c. Compile pdf’s
d. Create reseller pages and contests
e. Respond to the needs of affiliates or jv partners
f. Create products
g. Design banner ads for affiliates
h. Write emails
i. Write postcards to resellers
j. Do things you don’t want to
10. Dictate your promo emails to your VA.
This is why you want someone you work with every day. You can dictate your promo emails to them.
Over time, they’ll learn how to type these up and you get promos out to your list just by dictating an email in your morning call.
11. Set rules upfront about days off, time off, emergencies and advancing pay.
a. Set a rule upfront that you don’t advance pay.
b. Set a rule on time off from work hours for personal errands.
Virtual assistants sometimes don’t see it as a job. And you have crucial tasks for the day when they up and announce they have a dentist appointment or need to take a family member to the Pharmacy. Whatever. Set the rules upfront.
c. Decide if there will be vacation time.
d. Have some form of non-disclosure agreement even if it isn’t legally valid. At least you can have a clear, unambiguous agreement.
12. Be quick to pull the plug.
If junk goes on such as their Internet goes down all the time, tasks don’t get done and you get excuses, critical mistakes are made, pull the plug.
13. You’ll know within one to two weeks if the person is good. A bad hire will want to take a month to get up to speed and research the tasks. A good person will hop right in and start doing work.
14. Let the person in your plans. Brainstorm with them. Let them experience fun and exciting tasks also. Don’t always just give them boring stuff. Find out what they love to do and see if you can work some of those things into their responsibilities.
15. Let them grow in the position.
If you see potential, talent or abilities they aren’t using, pay for them to get a little training and see if that talent will blossom.
I bought Lisa a Photoshop book and in 30 days she had gone through all the tutorials and was amazing. But she had an art background and tons of talent.
16. The hardest person you’ll EVER hire is your first.
I remember Corey (Rudl) telling me that once over the phone. And it was so true. And it’s true.
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