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How badly do you want it?
No matter how involved you are in magic, whether a full time pro, a devoted amateur, or an
inexperienced but enthusiastic beginner, your success will be based mainly on your
desire and your determination.
Is it your dream to perform well crafted, artistic,
high impact, extremely entertaining magic? Magic that simply blows people away, makes a powerful impression,
and gets astounded "ooh's and ahh's, delighted laughter, or enthusiastic applause
each and every time you perform?
Imagine the feeling of pride when you perform unique, dynamic,
awe inspiring magic that you yourself designed and created!
If this describes your mission, your purpose, your dream for expressing your love of magic,
there are ways that you make it come true, quicker and simpler than you may have
realized.
I'm going to share several of them with you in just a moment, and show you a way that you
can apply them, to begin achieving your dream. I think you'll want to study this carefully,
and take it to heart.
But first, let me tell you a little about myself, and why you should take the time to
listen to what I have to say.
My Story
My name is Mitch Williams. You may or may not have heard of me. I'm an international
award winner, and I've been a full time professional magician for over 25 years.
Like many of us, I caught the magic bug when I was very young.
There were no magic shops in my area, and I didn't know any other magicians, so I built my
own props and taught myself magic from books at the library. I began performing as a
teenager in central Illinois, and soon decided this was absolutely what I wanted to do as
my career.
Inspiration
I was inspired by the drama of performers like Shimada, by the modern, light-hearted
approach of Doug Henning, and the showmanship of people like Siegfried and Roy. And in 1981
I moved to Michigan to study under Neil Foster, who became a close friend and mentor.
I worked hard to perfect my act, and began getting attention at magic conventions and
winning several regional and national awards. I was invited to perform at the Magic Castle
on several occasions, and in 1985 I moved to Los Angeles to pursue my dream.
In Los Angeles, I lived near the Magic Castle, and when I wasn't performing, I'd often
spend my evenings there, carefully studying the various acts I saw.
Finding My Place…
I soon discovered that I had a natural knack for identifying the basic elements of a
successful act, and I began systematically applying them to my own act and to those of my
close friends in magic, always with an eye towards living out my dream of being an expert,
professional performer.
Before long, I developed a reputation as one of the top magicians in Southern California.
I was invited to perform in Europe, Japan, and throughout the US and Canada, in theatres,
revue shows, nightclubs, cruise ships, corporate events, and television.
I worked on the same shows with most of top magicians in the business, and became
friends with many of them. I was also extremely fortunate to become friends with and learn
from some of the true "greats" in magic, such as Karrel Fox, Dai Vernon, Shimada, and
Channing Pollock, to name just a few.
Sharing My Insights…
Finding that I had a real talent for coaching and directing, I also worked with other
magicians to help make their acts top notch.
I found that I loved helping others with their acts almost as much as I loved performing
myself. (Almost!) Eventually I organized what I'd learned into a lecture with
simple, practical ideas for making any magic more artistic, expressive, and powerful.
I've shared my lecture with groups throughout the United States to rave reviews, and I've loved
every minute of it.
It's incredibly fulfilling and humbling when magicians come to me and tell me that I've
changed the way they look at their magic; that I've made a real difference, and inspired and
enabled them to do more than they themselves thought they could.
Here's what other professional magicians have had to say about me:
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"A
Significant Impact on my award winning act..."
"Mitch had a significant
impact on the development of my award winning act. Whether you're
a beginner in magic, or an experienced, seasoned professional, you'll find
Mitch's lecture packed with valuable ideas that you can use right away
to make your magic much stronger and more impressive. Mitch is a great
adviser, definitely the best I ever had!"
—Johnny Ace Palmer
World Champion Magician,
2-time winner of
Magic Castle Close Up Magician of the Year.
"The
Real Secrets..."
"He's giving away the
REAL secrets!"
—Andrew Dakota
Detroit area close up pro,
Inventor of Ultra Smoke 2000.
"An
Unparalleled Learning Experience..."
“I can personally promise to those that
attend (Mitch’s) lecture that you are in for a treat and such a learning
experience that you will not gain anywhere else. I worked with Mitch
for eight weeks in California. I have personally seen the results
that he creates. And you will benefit from this award winning performer
and creative mind. He will show you how to create your own magic
routines and give your magic real impact.... which can also be easily applied
to any type of magic, regardless of experience or skill level.”
—Glenn Gary
Northern Virginia SAM #252
"The
Real Magic..."
“This sort of material I really feel is
the real magic and is in short supply within the magic community.
I have been for a long time trying to find my character and feel this is
going to be a great help. I have been in magic for many years starting
out very young and find myself changing styles too often, trying to find
what suits, but feel with the (lecture) I am getting closer.”
—Graham Rogers
Phoenix, AZ
"Understands
What the Art of Magic Should Be..."
“I whole-heartedly recommend Mitch Williams'
lecture. I believe there are only a handful of performers that truly
understand what the art of magic should be, and Mitch is one of them.”
—TC Tahoe
2-time winner of Magic Castle Parlour
Magician of the Year.
"A
Truly Valuable Lesson..."
“Mitch is my hero! I learned a LOT
from his lecture! It’s a truly valuable lesson for any professional.”
—Amos Levkovitch
2-time winner of Magic Castle Stage Magician
of the Year.
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You may have heard of some
of these people, or perhaps even know them personally. You can bet
they wouldn’t say these things about me unless they felt strongly about
what I have to offer. (Ask them yourself, if you don’t believe me!)
Now, let me share with you some of the secrets
that I've learned over my
years as a professional entertainer that can help you become a top notch performer
in magic:
Four Essential
Steps
For Making Your Magic The Best It Can Be:
1. Set a Goal and Determine to Reach It
Nothing focusses your
efforts like having a specific,
realistic, but inspiring objective to reach for. What would you dare to dream if you knew
you couldn't fail? Set a goal that's a first step in that direction.
2. Find Your Uniqueness and Capitalize on It
One of the most important (if not the most
important) things you can do to become a successful performer is to discover your performing
character. I once asked Shimada how he'd developed his awe inspiring act. He said that
the most important thing he'd done was to find his character, and that after
that, everything else just fell into place. Your performing persona will be the foundation
for everything else you do.
3. Study the Fundamental "Techniques of Magic" and the
Performing Arts and Apply Them to What You Do
In this sense, when I say "techniques of magic", I'm NOT
talking about how to do the tricks. I'm really talking about presentation, showmanship, and
other theatrical performance skills. The magic is important, but without the performing
skills to breathe life into it, it's nothing more than a bunch of interesting puzzles, at best.
I don't have the space to list them all here, but some of the things you'll want to give
attention to are character development, timing, pointing (or direction), and blending the
magic effects with the expression of your personality.
4. Find Expert Guidance to Help You on Your Way
There's no reason to re-invent the wheel when you don't have
to. Learn from those who have the experience and the knowledge of having done it, so you
don’t have to take the long road of making mistakes that have already been made for you.
If you purposely follow these simple steps, you'll move unmistakably towards your dreams
in magic. These are some of the most important actions you can take to become a truly
skilled performer.
However, it's…
Simple, But Not Necessarily "Easy"…
You'll notice I didn't say it would be "easy". Becoming a great
magic performer,
like anything worthwhile, takes effort and dedication. As I said before, your success will
be based on how much you want it.
Do you have a burning desire to become better and better? If so,
sooner or later, you'll
find a way to do it. The only question is how long is it going to take you to achieve
your goal?
The Problem Is…
It Can Be a Rather Challenging Quest!
- Almost as soon as you set a goal, you'll encounter obstacles.
- Finding your character can a complicated process. (Even though it seems like it
"shouldn't" be, learning to just "be yourself" can in fact be a tough thing to do.)
- Searching out good sources of information on performing can be another monumental task
in its own regard.
- And the same is true of finding good guidance and coaching. Where do you look to find
someone you can trust to have the skills, the knowledge, the experience, and the
insight to give you good feedback and steer you in the right directions?
Can You Do It?...
Do you want it badly enough to overcome these obstacles, to find
shortcuts and simplify these steps so that you can move forward more quickly? If you do,
if you're truly serious about creating strong magic and becoming a better
performer, and if you have a strong desire to make your magic the absolute best it can be,
then I'd like to offer you my assistance.
I've loved being able to share such valuable information in my
lectures, but recently I learned something rather interesting, and more than a little bit
troubling:
It's a scientific fact that at least half of the information that we hear in a
lecture is forgotten within 24 hours. And much of the remainder is gone within 30
days.
I wanted to find a more complete way to help magicians work with
my information and actually be able to USE it to dramatically improve their magic.
So I’ve taken all my experience from years of creating,
performing, and teaching the art of magic, as well as what I’ve learned from other top
professionals in magic, and put it into a course that YOU can use to improve all
your magic.
It’s called the Act Building Toolkit for Magicians.
It’s a complete home study course on how to create an artistic and entertaining
magic act, and strongly improve all your magic, regardless of your experience or skill level.
Can you begin to imagine the progress you'll make when you have these
valuable tools and information to study and use, at home, at your own pace?
Here’s
Just Some Of What You’ll Learn In The Course:
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How to find inspiration and
use it to develop your own original magic routines, or even
design an entire, unique and original magic act.
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How to make your magic more artistic, more
expressive, and lots more fun to perform.
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Simple techniques that you can use IMMEDIATELY
to make your magic stronger and automatically get more
audience response.
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How to choose and design magic that’s uniquely
suited to you and your personality.
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How to simply and effectively integrate music
into your act.
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A powerful method (originally
shared with me by Channing Pollock) of using physical movement to dramatically
enhance your magic in a variety of ways.
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How to use the practice and rehearsal techniques
of the top pros to get the absolute best results with the least time
and effort.
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How to give all your magic more meaning and
purpose.
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A simple way to make all your magic appear
more natural.
But
that’s really just the beginning. In the
Act
Building Toolkit for Magicians
Imagine how quickly
and easily you’ll learn
from all the following valuable tools:
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A 63 page
Manual designed to thoroughly teach you all the principles
and techniques that I cover in my lecture, and much more.
With practical tips on how to apply them to any type of magic
you do. The Manual is structured in an easy to follow format, with
a detailed table of contents that makes it simple to locate any specific
section.
Since this is information you’ll want to
refer to again and again, the Manual comes in a handy, “loose-leaf” ring
binder which makes it much easier to study than a traditional “hard-bound”
book.
AND... in addition to the information that I normally
cover in my lecture, in the Manual I also provide:
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Details on character development not covered
in the lecture.
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How to structure routines, (or even an entire
act) from start to finish.
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How to effectively design music into your
act.
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How to use improvisation to enhance your performances
and create new magic.
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Several PRACTICAL EXERCISES that help you put
the various ideas to work in your own magic.
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Advanced practice and rehearsal techniques
of the top pro’s.
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Tips on marketing your magic.
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Several WORKSHEETS designed to help
you go to work to apply the principles effectively.
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A Video Tape
of my entire acclaimed lecture on approaching magic as a self expressive
art form. This is the lecture I’ve been doing for the last ten years,
that’s inspired so many magicians and helped them to improve their magic.
Please understand that this is a "bare bones" tape. It wasn’t my aim to produce some
fancy video with bells and whistles and special effects, but instead to simply provide you
with all the valuable
information in my lecture, and let you SEE
it applied.
This tape was edited together from the “best of” a series
of lectures I did in the summer of 1997.
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Two Audio
Tapes:
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A tape on
the Creative Process. In this tape you’ll learn the
artistic process of finding inspiration, turning it into ideas, and then
creating new magic routines from them. Also included are systematic
methods of solving problems, getting great ideas, and “tweaking” those
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A tape on
Balanced Movement. This is the powerful and versatile
technique I share in my lecture that allows you to do SO MUCH MORE with
your magic. This audio tape walks you through exercises that help
you learn to use the technique and begin applying it to your magic.
You can use the Balanced Movement technique to...
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Express your character more effectively and
dynamically.
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Create automatic, built in misdirection in
all your routines.
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Learn sleight of hand MUCH more easily.
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Invent your own sleight of hand and other new magic
techniques uniquely suited to your performing style.
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Automatically and invisibly blend the magic
technique into what you’re expressing openly to the audience.
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Accomplish EVERYTHING in your performances
more effortlessly.
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A Complete
Book:
A Coin Routine: A Study in Naturalness,
Focus, and Self Expression in Magic
This book reveals every detail of
a commercial, sleight of hand coin routine that I’ve performed for several
years. But the routine is really just the background for a valuable
lesson in the practical application of the principles of naturalness,
focus, misdirection, and much more.
You may want to learn the coin routine,
and use it as a standard in your performances.
I’ve used it effectively in both close up and platform situations, and
it contains some strong visual magic. But even if you decide not
to learn the routine itself, the book will teach you exactly how
to apply several of the most important principles from my lecture
in step by step detail.
The techniques in this book are ones you
can apply to any of your own magic to IMMEDIATELY make it stronger,
much more natural, and to get vastly better audience response.
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I’ve tried to put everything in the
Toolkit that you’ll need to begin designing or improving your act into a truly commercial,
entertaining work of art. I WANT you to succeed, so I’m providing every scrap of information
I can!
What
Is All This Worth To You?
If you had to hire an expert
to help you improve your magic this way, what would it be worth to you?
Private lessons from any of the top professionals in magic can run $100
or more per hour! You could easily spend thousands of dollars
getting your act up to speed.
When I took the Chavez course
from Neil Foster back in 1981, the rate for the course was $5000.
And I thought it was worth every penny.
If the improvements to your
magic bring you more shows, what could the increased income be worth to
your bank account? And of course, if you book even one extra
show as a result, it could more than cover the cost of this course...
World Champion Magician, Johnny Ace
Palmer says that my Act Building Toolkit is the "Best Bargain in Magic!"
Yes, There Is a Catch,
and Here It Is:
You Must Act Now, Or You May MISS OUT on Your Only Chance to Get Your Copy of This
Valuable Program!
For the last five years, I've been selling the
Act Building Toolkit at my
lectures, through the mail, and at a handful of select magic shops. Magicians in various
parts of the country have benefited from this valuable tool.
However, I've decided that, among other things, I don't want to
sell the VHS video or the audio cassette tapes anymore, so I'm going to discontinue the
course in it's current form, and I'm clearing out my remaining stock on the
toolkits.
I haven't decided yet if I may sell some different version sometime in the
future. But for now, once these are gone, that's it!
Previously the program has sold as high as $199 in magic shops
and elsewhere. As of this writing, I only have 27
22 17 4 kits left! While they last, you
can purchase your course for only $97.50! Once this stock is gone, this version of the
Act Building Toolkit will never be available again!
IF I do decide to offer another version in the
future, it will be in some other format, and will either be much simpler, without all the
current features, or it will be an improved version and will sell for a much higher
price.
Now, If You're REALLY Serious
About Supercharging All of Your Magic…
I'd Like to Offer You EVEN MORE!…
If you're truly determined to make your magic
the very best it can be, then I'll go the extra mile, and put my money (and my time) where
my mouth is.
For me, there's very little that's as fulfilling as finding
students of magic who are driven to succeed. If this describes you, you'll want to invest
in my DELUXE VERSION of the course, that gives you even more valuable tools,
including my personalized assistance and coaching.
You can work really hard on your act by yourself, but you know
that nothing can beat expert feedback from an experienced coach or director. I’ve helped
many top magicians significantly improve their acts, and I can help you too!
In addition to everything in the standard kit, the
Deluxe Version also includes the following incredibly
valuable extras...
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Two Consultation
Certificates: these have a total combined value of
$300. This is what I normally charge for this type of written
consultation. This is a true value, worth WAY MORE than
your investment in the Act Building Toolkit..., making your
course, virtually free!
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A Video Tape
Critique certificate worth $200, which allows you to send
me a video tape of your act or routine and receive a detailed and
thorough written critique, coaching, and directing session from
me on it. I’ll take my time and give you the best feedback and assistance
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A Performing
Challenge certificate worth $100, which you can send to
me with a specific description of any problem, obstacle, or other road
block you need help with in designing and improving your act. I’ll
send a detailed written consultation, personally designed to help address
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Copyright
Free Worksheets on Computer Disk: these are the various
worksheets included in the manual. I furnish you with a computer
disk which contains these worksheets, ready to print from your computer,
so that you can use them again and again and truly get the most from them.
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Previously the Deluxe Version
of the Act Building Toolkit sold for $275. But while my remaining stock lasts,
you can purchase it for just $149.50!
OWN IT NOW!
    
And as if all this wasn't enough, I'm
also going to provide this…
VALUABLE FREE BONUS...
Yes, I said FREE!
If you order the DELUXE VERSION of my Act Building Toolkit from this website, I'll
also throw in the following...
FREE BONUS:
Free Personalized 20 Minute Phone Consultation:
I was hesitant to include this, as I didn't want to make the time commitment. But here goes…
If you buy the Deluxe Toolkit from this website, while supplies last, I'll give you personalized
access to my experience and insights in the form of a free 20 minute phone consultation.
I normally charge up to $150 for this type of personalized coaching. You can
consult with me personally on any specific problem or obstacle you encounter in designing or
improving your act. (I may decide to remove this bonus at any time, so don't delay...)
OWN IT NOW!
You CANNOT lose by
ordering this kit, and here’s why...
If for any reason,
once you’ve had a chance to take in the information in the course and made
a sincere effort to apply it to your magic, you don’t agree that you can
benefit substantially as a result, just send the kit back to me any time
within thirty days of receiving it, and I’ll give you a full refund,
NO QUESTIONS ASKED!
Now, I realize there are those
who won’t give the Toolkit a fair shake and won’t even try to apply the
practical techniques and principles. And then they’ll say it “just
didn’t work.” So all I ask is that you really put yourself into it
and give it a fair try. If after that, you don’t see the value, send
it back, and I’ll give you your money back.
I know there are also those
dishonest individuals who would try to take advantage of me by making copies
of the tapes and materials and then asking for their money back.
But I’m willing to bet that you’re not one of them. I know that if
for some reason you decide not to keep the toolkit that you’ll be honest
about it and respect my copyrights.
And frankly, I’m so certain
that you’re going to be thrilled and inspired by the information
in the course, that you’ll want to keep it, to study it inside and out,
and to apply it to every aspect of your magic.
That’s why I’m willing to
make this amazing guarantee. When was the last time
you got this kind of guarantee on a magic book, video tape, or other information???
Probably never!
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Here’s what you get... |
| ACT BUILDING
TOOLKIT FOR MAGICIANS |
Standard
Version:
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63 page ring bound, detailed
Manual.
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Video Tape (approx.
2 hours) of my lecture.
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2 Audio Cassette Tapes:
The Creative Process and Balanced Movement.
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A Coin Routine:
A Study in Focus, Naturalness, and Self Expression in Magic book.
Price
including postage
(in the USA):
just
$97.50!
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Deluxe
Version:
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All of the above,
plus the following...
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Video Tape Critique Certificate
(a $200 value.)
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Performing Challenge Consultation
Certificate (a $100 value.)
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Computer Disk with Copyright
Free Worksheets.
Plus the following FREE BONUS:
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EXTRA FREE BONUS: Free 20 Minute Phone Consultation.
Price
including postage
(in the USA):
just
$149.50!
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CLICK
HERE TO OWN IT!
Remember, the
Act Building Toolkit for Magicians home study course
is only available while the limited supplies last. And the offer for the
SPECIAL FREE BONUS PHONE CONSULTATION may end at any time.
Don't put this off and miss out! Why not order your kit
right now, before it's too late?
ORDER NOW!
Yours truly,
Mitch Williams
P.S. Click
Here only if you've decided NOT to order.
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