I recently discovered Tim Farris on the Jay Mohr podcast. I haven't read any of his books yet, but he was very interesting. Two of the things I came away with from the podcast were; the 80/20 principle and asking "what’s the worst that could happen?" The 80/20 principle is that 80% of your results come from 20% of your actions. I tried to relate this to juggling shows. In the last year, Darren has spent some time doing online advertising, and I have spent a bunch of time designing this website and our brochures. However, I would guess that 80% of our show offers come from people who have heard about us through Jesse Rothaker (thanks again Jesse). This involved almost no work on our part. We met him after a show at the Intercourse Heritage Festival, and since then he has told tons of the people he has performed for about us. NOTE: Darren disputes the 80% figure for Jesse, but agreed that most of our shows came from some sort of referral. If we really want to do more shows, that is what we should try to duplicate.
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Last year for my March post, I made a list of ideas for our Fourth of July showdown. We haven’t been asked to do that show again this year, but hopefully we will get to do something like that this year. The three rounds of the competition are a different solo skill, a shared solo skill and a new act. I already told Darren that I wanted to do 5 ball juggling as our shared skill. I haven’t put much thought into what my new act could be, so I decided to once again come up with a bunch of ideas for new acts this March. I have been jotting down ideas for the last week, but I lost my little piece of paper. Here are the ideas that I remember.
It might make more sense for me to wait till January to write about what I would like to be able to do in the next year, but I think there will be some other things to write about/announce in the next couple of months. Anyway, we have a lot of ideas for new routines and even talked about making an audition tape for America’s Got Talent, but I want to talk about doing something that seems simple but is much less likely to happen then any of those goals.
Here is a list of ideas we have abandoned. We have used all of these ideas in at least one show. I have listed them in order from most likely to remain abondoned to most likely to be added back into the routine.
This is an idea for a show I had a while back. The starting idea was that we always had trouble figuring out what to say during the bits in between juggling. My proposed solution was to embrace the fact we didn’t know what to say. Here is a quick outline of it. Hopefully it makes sense.
Every year for the 4th of July, Darren and I have a little juggling showdown at the Ephrata Church of the Brethren. One of the rounds is a new act. I still don't know what I am going to do for my new act yet. Here are my ideas so far. Let me know if you like any of them. I may be adding stuff to this list so you may want to check back periodically. Click Read More to see the list of ideas.
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