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David Groves |
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Type of Events
Parties Adult birthday parties Wrap parties
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
Children’s birthday parties
Wizard magic Corporate events Magic is an excellent medium for conveying corporate messages. Great magic slips beneath your awareness and works on the subconscious like a TV commercial. In a commercial, the seller needs to use something to attract people’s attention before he can convey his corporate message. Magic is that perfect something that can easily and reliably attract people’s attention. Trade shows Your main worry at trade shows is how to get bodies into your booth, and David literally wrote the book on attracting a crowd (Be a Street Magician!: A How-To Guide), so getting the bodies into the booth is a cinch. After David passes off the bodies to your sales staff, all they need to do is circle for the kill. To attract audiences, a small performing area is arranged and the performer uses a microphone. Sometimes, a sign is displayed telling customers when the next show begins. During the climax of each trick, the audience gets the message. “And just as easily as this Chinese dagger passed through this man’s coat,” the magician might say, “our prescription drug goes into the bloodstream and passes through the walls of the lungs….” and then, suddenly, the trade-show attendees are listening to a commercial almost without knowing it. During the show, while the audience is hooked, David promises that he will show the audience how a David Copperfield trick is done—if the audience members will provide the company with their contact information. Attendees gladly hand over their badges to be electronically swiped. Sales meetings Overload—that’s the problem at quarterly meetings. There’s so much information being presented to them that the sales force’s eyes start to spin like a sick slot machine. That’s when David takes the stage, changing the pace to rejuvenate the troops. Sometimes, companies like to use his skills to warm up the audience for the main act, your CEO. Motivational speaking Magic hypnotizes—literally. Scientists have recently discovered that magic creates a state in the brain equivalent to hypnosis: In the moments after a trick is executed, the brain is stunned and receptive to any message you’d like to put forth. So if your employees need motivating, take advantage of magic’s suggestive power! Whatever the message that you want conveyed to your employees—goal setting, economy, consolidation, whatever—David can deliver it. Every 15 minutes, David throws in a bit of magic, just to make the presentation memorable. Not only that, but the subtext of all magic is that someone is doing the impossible. Often, clients want that message translated into: You can do the impossible! When magic is combined with a motivational message, audiences are inspired! David can also insert a true-life inspirational story into the middle of his show. There are many from which to choose, but an example is one that he offers from his own life. He tells of a 13-year-old girl fighting back against impossible odds, a girl who in 1945 was told by her high school counselor that she couldn’t become a nurse because “Mexicans don’t become nurses.” A month later, she dropped out of school and took a job in a Dixie cup factory. Later, however, she turned her anger into constructive energy. She earned her GED in her twenties, her BA in her thirties, and finally, her Master’s in her forties. She spent the rest of her life teaching in college, achieving the impossible in her own life. It is an emotional story, especially given David’s revelation at the end of the story that the woman in question isn’t just any woman—it is his mother! Company picnic
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