Inspector I Wanna No Character Show (Barry Mitchell) CD/DVD
$129.00

Searching for clues to improve your school shows? The Inspector I Wanna no Character Show pays for itself after only 10 shows. You could make over $5000.00 profit in the first month. If you’re ready for a show that will entertain and educate schools then read on.

The Inspector Kit includes everything you will need to prepare a school program for grades K-5. The school market is unlimited and so is the profit for performers. The character message is a hot topic and creates motivated buyers.

You receive: Barry Mitchell’s proven script performing rights advertising and paperwork tools artwork CD ROM music and sound effects CD DVD of Barry’s performance and behind the scenes explanations breakdown of all beginning expenses proving you can be in the profit after only 10 shows Barry Mitchell’s 10 Commandments of Selling to Schools audio CD.

A Brother Paul Trio (Brother Paul West) CD ROM
$20.00

This “Bonus CD” contains 3 manuscripts (.pdf format, which is printable)

1. “I Hate Rules”
2. “X Marks the Spot”
3. “The Street Rope Trick”

In addition, it contains video clips (live performances) of “I Hate Rules” and “The Street Rope Trick”, as well as a discussion with Brother Paul himself.

System requirements - Mac OS, Windows - uses QuickTime

Magic Base Booking Software CD-ROM
$105.00

This is booking software!

Three steps of this Software:

The first step in performing a magic show is to GET THE SHOW. MagicBase™ can help you to track upcoming events of prospects that you'd like to work for. Then, MB can type and address that prospecting letter to get sent out at the most strategic time for that prospect. Continuous and consistent contact with customers and prospects is a key to marketing success. Owning MagicBase™ is like having your own salesman who keeps in constant contact with customers through targeted newsletters. This virtual salesman will effortlessly analyze your customer list and tell you who your Top 100 customers are and then keep them as a separate newsletter list for unique mailings. This virtual salesman can also help you to analyze your customer records to determine where your referrals are coming from. This is valuable marketing information that helps you to focus on your most successful marketing strategies.

The Software does all this in Step 1:

• Helps you to get the shows.
• Maintains regular contact with your customers.
• Tracks where your show referrals are coming from.
• Sends out personalized marketing letters to prospects.
• Divides your customer mailing list into Targeted Newsletter lists.
• Sorts Tracks, and sends Special mailings to your Top 100 Money Makers.
• Creates multiple focused marketing reports detailing valuable customer information.

The next step is to KEEP THE SHOW records, customer contacts, dates, time, places, financial information and many other details. MagicBase™ can help you to effortlessly record and file every piece of information you need, so that you can find it again. Maintaining good records is a key part to effortless and effective marketing. Some of your best future customers will be some of your current customers. Knowing what you did for them, when, and for how much is valuable information that can help you to get hired again. This virtual secretary can easily manage any number of events for any number of customers. She can also print out 17 different detailed marketing and financial reports. The MagicBase™ virtual secretary can also remind you of the next action to be taken with a client: if you still need to send a contract, or give a call, or more. And with one button press, the MagicBase™ virtual secretary can print out every piece of paper you need when you book a new client: customer contact card, contract, thank you notes, referral forms, and envelopes.

This Software does all this in Step 2:

• Helps you to keep the shows.
• Reminds you of upcoming shows.
• Automatically tracks repeating gigs.
• Easily manages multiple events per customer.
• Accurately calculates show totals, including mileage fees.
• Vigilantly reminds you of next action to be taken with a customer.
• Effortlessly types detailed income and marketing reports of any customers.
• Types customer data cards, contacts, envelopes, referrals, and thank you cards.
• Performs customized sorts and searches of your customer records and event details.

The final step is to DO THE SHOW. MagicBase™ can help you to plan, prepare and pack your show.

You can perform with confidence knowing that:

1. You're not repeating routines you've done previously for them.
2. You've planned a show that contains a variety of different Effect Types.
3. You've remembered every prop and have it set.

You can know all of this because your MagicBase™ Stagehand has kept track of it all for you. He maintains a list of every trick you own, where you got it from, how much you paid for it, and what category of Trick Type it fits into. So planning a show is simply a matter of clicking and choosing. Your virtual Stagehand can also total up the approximate length of your planned show. Magicbase™ will also maintain a permanent record of every show you've done for this customer in the past.

The result of all this is: More Applause because you've planned the best show you can for this customer! MagicBase™ Stagehand helps you to DO THE SHOW!

This Software does all this in Step 3:

• Helps you do the shows.
• Maintains a list of every trick you own.
• Totals the price of all tricks you've purchased.
• Prints up a packing list of all props need for a show.
• Warns you if a show isn't planned yet for an upcoming event.
• Helps you to plan your show and avoid similar effects in a show.
• Records where you bought or learned a trick from and how much it cost.
• Maintains a permanent record of past shows and tricks performed for every customer.

This is a hybrid disc that contains MagicBase software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Mac OS9. It also contains the User Guide, the Tutorials, the Quick Tour document, and the Quick Tour videos.

Paul Daniels Masterclass (Paul Daniels) CD ROM
$77.00

Recorded during the recent Masterclass tour of the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, Paul Daniels reveals the secrets of how to succeed and profit in the world of show-business. Each topic is fully explained, and Paul also allows ample time to answer questions. Paul Daniels has performed more magic on TV than anyone else in history, he is widely considered to be one of the foremost authorities on magic, and his Masterclass events have been attended by the biggest names in magic. This audio set is the perfect way to improve your magic (and business) knowledge whilst driving in the car!

Subjects covered, include:

• How to dramatically improve every trick you already own
• How to develop your stage presence and persona
• How to get on TV, radio, and in the news
• How to double or triple your profits from every show you do
• The real secrets of Publicity – how to promote your business for little cost
• How to use business cards effectively
• The importance of setting targets and goals
• How to keep an audience attentive and win them back if you lose them
• What to do when someone says, "I know how you do that"
• Advice and practical guidance on putting an act together
• How to get the best from agents
• The differences between agents and managers
• How to develop and promote yourself as a brand
• Paul’s views on packet tricks
• Paul’s favorite magic tricks and magic books
• Paul’s favorite performers and why
• The story of the Louis Theroux reality TV show
• Tips on how to succeed in restaurant magic
• What you can learn from Maurice Fogel and Al Koran
• An explanation of the development of Paul’s chop cup routine
• Advice on getting bookings for large stage shows
• Working with animals
• Using assistants
• The story behind the famous chimpanzees’ routine on TV
• The background to the Electric chairs routine
• Comments about performing the national BBC TV shows every week

7 CD set in Quality Binder.

Card College #1 E-Book (Roberto Giobbi) CD ROM
$45.00

Card College has become a modern classic. It is without a doubt one of the most important works on sleight of hand with cards. This is the first volume in a series of five.
The specialty of this electronic book are its 89 video clips, which show how Giobbi executes each and every technique described.

This E-Book has also been nominated as a finalist in the prestigious EPPIE 2004 ebook award in the category non-fiction/how-to. This is the first magic book to be nominated for a non-magic book price.

Please note that there are significant differences between the latest printed edition of "Card College 1" and this ebook, beside the video clips. This ebook was based on the German edition "Grosse Kartenschule 1" which has a somewhat different selection of chapters than the English one from Hermetic Press. One could say it is the author's cut: Chapter 9 'The Glimpse' in this ebook appears in volume 2 of the Hermetic Press series. On the other hand chapters 13, 14, 15 and 16 from the Hermetic Press book are missing in this ebook. They will be available in the electronic "Card College 2".

Beside the chapter differences between the paper edition and this ebook, Giobbi added about 20 new pages to "Card College 1" since the latest printing. There have been numerous additions particularly to the 'Final Notes' and 'Check Points' sections. Chapter 1 has a new section on the card case.You might think that opening a card case is a trivial matter. Not so, says Roberto, who dissects this process into its smallest part and gives you plenty of good reasons why you should know all these details. A new routine 'Further than that...' was added to Chapter 5 'Force Techniques Part 1'. And finally the 'Bibliographic Notes' have been updated and extended.

So even if you have already "Card College 1" the book, there are plenty of reasons why you want to have this ebook.

This ebook is to my knowledge the first of its kind not just for magic literature but in general. The inclusion of several dozens of video clips extends and completes the description of moves and techniques and allows the student a deeper and quicker learning. Altogether 89 video clips are present. These show Giobbi's hands without any comments, since one can find all comments already in the text. It would anyway be futile to try to capture all written information as a monologue in video. Video clips have to be understood as an addition and not as standalone. Each form of expression is used in its most efficient way. With the written word one can provide a lot of searchable details and present them in a clear and precise manner. Illustrations capture important moments and positions. And video clips convey the timing and motion of a technique. Video clips also allow one to acquire a basic understanding and overview in a few seconds.

Closely Guarded Secrets (Michael Close) CD Rom
$35.00

This revolutionary CD-Rom/E-Book includes routines straight from Michael's act at the Houdini Lounge in the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

• The Luckiest Cards in Las Vegas
• The Shuffles Routine
• The Dumbest Casino in the World
• The Cheating Lessons
• The Trick that Lance Burton Showed Me ...and much more.

- Text provides the information
- Photographs clarify the text
- Video shows the perfected sleights

This E-Book offers unparalleled instruction by allowing text, photographs, and video clips to do what they do best and can be printed out to produce a spectacular 8.5 x 11, 179-page book. Each routine is described in complete detail in Michael Close’s clear, easy-to-read style. It’s almost like having private lessons with Michael Close.

BONUS: Three Essays on Magic Theory and Michael’s Presentation & Handling of: Dean Dill’s Box & Gary Plants Magnetized Cards.

Closely Guarded Secrets in More Detail:The 179 pages of Closely Guarded Secrets contain 18 chapters. The E-Book begins with two introductory chapters. The first is casual in nature, allowing me the opportunity to fill you in on what’s been happening in my life. The second chapter is more formal; it explains the theory behind the E-Book In this chapter I also discuss my desire to make my performances feel theatrically real to my audiences. It is not my goal to make my spectators believe that I am doing real magic. But during my performance I never want to take the audience “out of the show” by reminding them that I’m doing tricks. I do this by creating handling's that (as much as humanly possible) match the way I would handle the props if I had the power of a real magician. You’ll find that this philosophy has been applied to every routine in CGS.

The next three chapters detail the three routines that were the backbone of my Houdini Lounge set.

The Trick that Lance Burton Showed Me demonstrates what happens when you live with a trick for 15 years. This is my handling and presentation for Dan Garrett’s Four Card Reiteration. I discussed this trick on one of the Very Very Close videos, but there is new work in this E-Book

Presentation for Gary Plants’s Magnetized Cards is my handling of this superb marketed effect. Many professionals have asked permission to perform this, but until now I have selfishly kept it to myself.

The Luckiest Cards in Las Vegas is the strongest memorized deck trick I have ever developed. It is stack independent, and is very forgiving in terms of estimation. This chapter begins with an overview of memorized deck work, offered in the hopes that a few misconceptions will be cleared up.

Next is an essay titled On Venue & Evolution. The Shuffles Routine has been in my repertoire for more than 30 years. You may already have a similar routine in your repertoire, but there are stratagems offered here that I think you will find very useful. I performed this at my 51st birthday party in front of a room full of some the best magicians in the world, and it got roars of laughter.

The Cheating Lessons is a gambling demonstration. I have designed this to be a lesson in elegant card handling. You’ll also discover a very useful patter line and an easy method for obtaining a surprise kicker at the end of the routine.

The next chapter is titled On Sleights. It begins with an essay on how to practice. In this chapter I discuss False Shuffles (Faro and otherwise), the Pass, and the Multiple Top Palm. The focus of the chapter is on stratagems for changing the moment, rather than on revolutionary new techniques. If you have ever hesitated using the Faro shuffle in your work, you will find two ideas here that may well be worth the price of the E-Book The Dumbest Casino in the World is a new approach to a familiar plot. The presentation is very funny, and the method will fool laymen and magicians.

The Famous Detective Collectors is my handling of Larry Jennings’s Distributraction. Of particular interest is the elimination of ATFUS. I believe that when cards have been removed from the deck they should never be counted back onto the deck.
This handling achieves that. Incidentally, this is one of the most difficult card tricks I’ve ever performed. If you want a challenge, you’ll find it here. (The good news is that to the spectators, no manipulation is visible).

The next three chapters deal with Magic for Magicians. There is an essay that includes several interesting approaches, followed by two tricks that you can use to fool your buddies.

Pipedreams includes a variety of ideas that I have never really used in my professional work. However, they are all practical and useful. Many came about as I played with items that were sent in for review. Tim Trono has commented that my suggestion for the marketed effect Pyro Perceptions is worth the price of admission. Sideswiped Meets the Bammo Deck Walloper is a combination of two excellent marketed effects by Simon Aronson and Bob Farmer. Combining these two routines solves some problems and produces a climax that fools everybody.

My presentation of Dean Dill’s Box is next. The third phase of this routine is different than Dean’s and really leaves the spectators with a strong memory of what has happened.

The final chapter is titled On the Workers Series. In this chapter I answer some questions about the evolution of the series, plus I provide some updates on several of the routines.

System Requirements: PC: Windows ME, 2000 or XP (Pentium III or higher) Mac: OS X (Jaguar 10.2.2 or higher)

Barry S. Schor • Presto Magic Studio
8120 E. McDowell Rd. Suite #5 • Scottsdale, AZ 85257
phone: 480.464.4518 • fax: 480.964.7820 • E-mail: presto magic studio