The Balloon Busker's Ultimate Guide to Making Money by Jay Collen

Learn the business side of busking with The Balloon Busker’s Ultimate Guide to Making Money by Jay Collen. This book explores how to approach customers and provide quality entertainment when you’re performing for tips in a public setting.

• Six fundamental principles: Apply the ideas to balloon art, magic, or other walk-around performances that earn tips.
• Business-focused advice: Explore the choices involved in asking strangers for their time, attention, and money.
• Unconventional perspectives: Consider principles that may be counterintuitive alongside practical busking guidance.
• Written from experience: Author Jay Collen has performed magic for over 30 years, with busking a substantial part of his career.

Collen is a full-time Chicago magician and senior magic teacher at Magic, Inc., where he has worked since 2004. Read it as you prepare to take a tip-based act to the street, or to think differently about the business behind walk-around entertainment.