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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6264791" data-attributes="member: 4937">I can definately see our professional GM offering a similar service - $100 for a one shot birthday party performance (complete with battlemat, props, and miniatures) of up to 4 hours duration. My guess is that you don't know much about being a professional magician.So you are right, there are only so many birthday parties you can book in a week and they usually are nights and weekends which leaves you with this big block of time that is ideal to work in but which is generally open.   What's the professional magician to do?Book office parties and motivational speaking engagements with businesses.Book time with schools and children's hospitals.   Worse come to worse, you do this free of charge, then put it as charitable work to lower the exorbitant taxes that come with being self-employed.Sale yourself to nursing homes and assisted living centers.Do late night at bars and comedy clubs.There are probably some parallels between this and what the professional DM has to do.   The key would be offering a service of such high quality, everyone agreed that you were worth far more than the average run of the mill amatuer DMs that flood the market offering their services for free.   That's what the pro magician is offering - something so cool you've never seen it before and maybe never even imagined it.</blockquote>