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Pick Me! Pick Me! How to Select Great Volunteers

Choosing the right volunteer to have as an assistant or helper on stage is critical to the success of the performance. The right child on stage can make a show, the wrong one can leave you wishing you had stayed home.
Here are a few ideas that help insure you get just the right person so your presentation goes well.

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2 Things That Will Help Your Audience Remember You

In last week’s installment of this series, I discussed the need to develop a trademark action or saying that our audiences will permanently associate with us and thus, remember us. For example, the hundreds of cannibal jokes that “Cannibal Cannon” used more than three decades ago that still ring in my memory today.
This final chapter of the article will focus on two more qualities we can infuse in our characters and performances that will help create lasting memories with our audiences.

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3 Techniques Guaranteed to Get a Standing Ovation

Standing Ovations are a wonderful sight to behold. Ovations are the audiences way of letting us know we did a great job! Standing O’s gives us a sense of accomplishment and give us that feeling that we are doing what we are meant to do in life. So, exactly how do you get a standing ovation? Some performers ask for them, but that seems to cheapen the reward at the end. Here are some techniques that work well for me.
A Heart Tugging Quote Can Be an Effective Close
The most effective technique that I have discovered for getting a standing ovation [...]

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How to Become a More Memorable Performer

Creating a lasting memory with your audience. Why is it important? How do you do it? In part one of this series, Create a Memory and Stay Ahead of the Competition, we explored some of the reasons it is important to leave lasting memories with your audiences.
In that article, I reminisced about Rich Cannon, a speaker at summer camp. Rich Cannon created a memory so vivid that I clearly remember him more than thirty years later. So what can we learn from obviously memorable performer? How can we create

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Create a Memory and Stay Ahead of the Competition

I haven’t seen him in more than thirty-five years, and yet I still remember him like it was yesterday. He was the speaker at summer camp, talking to a bunch of restless teenagers and holding their undivided attention.
There were no magic tricks or clown skits. Yet, we happily stopped riding horses, paddling canoes, and dunking each other in the old swimming hole. How did Rich Cannon do it? How did he command our undivided attention and make himself memorable?
How about you? When you perform, do you leave a lasting memory with your audience? And why should you care?

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