If you thought this article was about hiring us to perform, try this link instead and book us now! A friend approached me with a question about LED gig pricing and, having taken a moment to send some good feedback, I thought my answers might be useful to other artists looking to set their rate... Continue Reading →
Do I need Another Social Media Marketing Account?
Today the question came in the form of Instagram on the Business for Flow Artists group, but the question is relevant no matter which platform is in question: Should I make one?! I don't think there is a single answer to that question. I've read articles that indicate that as we spread our marketing efforts... Continue Reading →
12 Reasons To Also Become A Jamberry Independent Consultant
If you haven't read my article, 10 Reasons I fell in Love with Jamberry Nails , you may not know that I recently became a Jamberry Indepedent Consultant. Here I am, about to finish my 4th month, and I absolutely love it! How it Began As a performer, I'm always looking for ways to add more... Continue Reading →
5 Ways to Develop Your Look as A performer
Today's question came from a comment on one of my recent blog posts on becoming a pro flow performer: How did you come up with your look? Especially when you’re performing with fire. Didn’t you feel limited in the beginning? Just curious about your process. What a great question and one I really wish I'd... Continue Reading →
10 Tips Soloprenuers Can Implement to Improve Facebook Efficiency
Over the past few months I've been maximizing my time on-line, figuring out ways to use tools more in a manner that feed me rather than drain time from me and I've codified some of that here. For the small artistpreneur, flowpreneur, soloprenuer or entrepreneur who uses Facebook as one of their (possibly primary) marketing tools who... Continue Reading →
13 Ways We’re Celebrating 13 Years at Temple of Poi
Temple of Poi celebrates 13 years this month! We're pretty excited about that here at headquarters but realized that 13 has a terrible reputation -- did you know that the gallows traditionally has 13 steps leading up to it and is cited as one of the sources of said bad reputation in some internet lore? We want... Continue Reading →
How to Sell Your Show without Selling Your Soul
I'm not sure if you've experienced this also -- where someone accuses someone of selling out in a way that really feels like a negative accusation. I look around the community and I consider the possibility of someone having actually sold out and it occurs to me that no one is making nearly enough money for that to... Continue Reading →
Make more Money Selling Shorter Shows
Prospects contact us asking for anything from 5 minute to 2 hour shows. I tend to wonder if they've thought it through when asking for 2 hours because that's longer than most movies these days and probably akin to going to a broadway show. While the extremes happen, one of our most common requests if for for 30 minute shows.... Continue Reading →
The 6 Most Dangerous Ingredients of Fire Performance
Most people easily consider that the fire itself is dangerous, which of course is accurate, particularly if you're undereducated about how to handle and extinguish it safely. If they are people that are qualified to be performing, we also hope they are considering other things that go along with that like placement of the depot, spin... Continue Reading →
11 Things to Help Artistpreneurs Make More Money When Starting a Business
As the 13 year anniversary of Temple of Poi approaches, I've been reflecting on the lessons learned over the years and how excited I am to be sharing them in the upcoming teacher and business training courses. While pondering things to share throughout the training, I got so excited I decided to share these 11 Things to Help Artistpreneurs Make More Money... Continue Reading →
2015 Business Ignition for Flowpreneurs (Email Class)
Welcome to 2015! With a new year, it's time to try some new strategies designed to help you garner greater success. GlitterGirl took some time to develop a 5 day, self-study action-oriented mini-course -- a small taste of the content from the upcoming 2015 Spring Flow Instructor Training and Building Your Business Courses -- and is making it available to... Continue Reading →
Fitness, Practice, Language & Success
Today's topic is about using language to structure our fitness and practice goals to garner greater success. Certainly, there's a lot of useful information to assist in building better results in the articles 10 Techniques for Getting the Most out of Your 10,000 hours and 6 Steps to Creating your 30 day Challenge though I'm pretty sure this topic deserves it's own article.Have you ever... Continue Reading →