Thursday 3 December 2009

Amazing juggling video number THREE

Another video from my good friend Sebastian Berger
More staff juggling but this time its FIRE staff juggling.
Once again with Seb clowning around, he just cant help himself lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCydfaQiLo
I have to say he one of the most inspirational fire performers I know. Not only does he have great skills but he is also great a performing.

Wednesday 2 December 2009

Amazing juggling video number two

OJ by Sebastian Berger,
This is a video of a friend of mine from Austria performing with staffs in a comedy/clowning routine.
My favorite bit is the 3 staff back crosses, he is the first person I know who has done them and they look awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bcadH7q0k
He is also an amazing fire performer and is one of a group of fire performers in Vienna called Fenfire.

Amazing juggling video number ONE

Checkout the link below, its a bounce juggling video with funky music and some great moves
Its one of my favorite contemporary juggling videos and has been for the last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSt4Bn5hzTo
The guys is amazing his skills are awesome, his movement is great and he is honest enough to put some of his drops into the editing.
Guys like this both humble and inspire me and my fire performers in our efforts to entertain the world!!!!
Perhaps I should start palying with my balls a lot more??

Wednesday 25 November 2009

Girl troubles

Me and my girlfriend are having troubles and its not conducive to work, training or marketing.................................or blogging!

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Success

Well the marketing seems t5o be working, if I'm honest I was a bit worried about this December, the recession ism still biting and I thought there might not be to many Xmas parties this year. As this is the last opportunity to make good money until next spring you can see why this is important. However lots of bookings are coming in for fire performers for this year and people are looking for wedding entertainers for next year and even 2011 so the marketing must be paying off!

Sunday 22 November 2009

Very tired arms

Part of my ongoing training regime is weights, the idea is to bulk up a bit and well as getting more toned and hopefully protecting myself from injuries.
Unfortunately I did a little bit to much yesterday and know my arms are very very tired!
I definitely need to learn not to try and lift to much weights in one go as its counter productive and hurts the next day.
So tomorrow I am going to concentrate on marketing got my crew of fire performers fore hire and not try to lift any weights.
I have found an interesting web tool which is a great backlink counter, the reason I like it so much is because it not only counts back links, it also gives the anchor text and whether or not it is a nofollow link. All you do is put in your web address's and then wait............be patient it takes a while.

Friday 20 November 2009

Wedding fairs and masterplans

The next part of my marketing mission is wedding fair, the plan is to get lots more work in the Northwest so I don t have to travel down South to make my money, this will give me more free time, save me money and overall improve my quality of life......in theory anyway!

The idea is to set up shop at various wedding fairs near Kendal, hopefully there will be lots of excited brides to be looking for unique wedding entertainers like me!!!
I will use my not inconsiderable charm and sales techniques to encourage them into booking an amazing fire show as part of their wedding entertainment package. I am now going tom stop blogging and start googling wedding fairs (or fayres as some strange people like to spell it???)

Thursday 19 November 2009

Christmas and winter.

The Xmas bookings are coming in thick and fast, there are lots of staff parties going on and luckily for me lots of them seem to want fire shows as part of their event entertainment.
After Xmas and New Years Eve things will definitely go quieter.

January to march is a quiet time for fire performers and wedding entertainers so I plan to spend the time training, marketing and work on my website. Hopefully we will be out of the recession by early next year which mean those of us who are on the ball with our marketing and sales efforts should see an increase in revenue. Fingers crossed!

Whilst this years business has been great especially considering we have been on the worst recession for god knows how many years, there is still lots of room for improvement.

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Another of my favourite sites

Another of my favourite sites.

One of my long term favourite websites is homeofpoi.com, its has a huge shop, tutorials, and a community forum for other fire jugglers etc.
It is a great online resource and is probably the biggest site one link for fire performers. The highlighted link above will take you straight to it, and before you ask, no it's not an affiliate link!!!! The only online marketing I do is for myself and my fire crew.

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Why am I so obsessed with juggling???

Why am I so obsessed with juggling?????
Lots of reasons; I've broken it into two parts.
First why I love juggling and also why I love watching other jugglers
  1. It keeps me active and reasonably fit
  2. I can get lost in my training for hours at a time
  3. It makes me feel great
  4. I means I don't have to work on building sites!!!1
  5. When I am juggling people clap, this doesn't happen when I worked on building sites!
  6. It's a challenge, some tricks take years to learn and when I have got the clean its a massive buzz.

Reasons I like watching other jugglers

  1. It makes feel like a kid again, I love watching people with great skill perform on stage.
  2. Fire performers especially inspire me to work harder and become a better performer.
  3. Check the link out NEED I SAY MORE????

Juggling.tv.....my favourite site.

The site I go to more than any other is Juggling.tv its an amazing resource for any obsessive jugglers. Its run by jugglers for jugglers and has videos from all the worlds greatest jugglers including me ;).
Mind you the only problem is that it distracts me from getting work for my fire performers and wedding entertainers so I try to only watch it late at night after I have finished all my marketing work. I figure if I'm watching videos late at night at least juggling videos are more healthy than some of the other videos on the net!!!!!.........................Although some people might disagree???

Monday 16 November 2009

Obssesive fire juggler: Succesful training session

Obssesive fire juggler: Succesful training session

Succesful training session

My first session back in the gym after a week sick leave went well, I manged to do two good hours of juggling, so I am much happier than I was a few hours ago.
My next mission today is to work on getting my site up the serps for fire performers and wedding entertainers this involves lots of very dull link building, still its got to be done so there is no point complaining.

Back in training

After a week off through being ill with food poisoning I am heading of to the gym to get back into training. I have just paid all my fire performers for all their hard work over the last month and now its time to get out of the office.
My next major admin work is to get more work for the wedding entertainers in my crew by targeting brides to be via google and wedding fairs.
I'm going to stop writing this blog now as if I'm honest I am just putting off going to the gym because I know it will hurt after a week off!!!!

Wednesday 13 May 2009

More from Juggling Inferno Creative Performers


Having spent all day training and handling clients I have had enough of making my living from fire juggling and now want to be an electrician again!!!

Although.....................I have lots of fire shows booked in for the summer and am looking forward to it as long as the weather is good then fire performance is a great way to make a living and I should stop complaining. Me and all my performers will be out and about all over the country providing fire shows, wedding entertainment and street theatre performances.
Finally checkout the photo on the left its on me doing a pyrotechnic fire display as the finale of one of my solo fire shows "Pyromania"

Sunday 10 May 2009

I am working on SEO checkout my glossary of fire eaters, fire breathers and fire shows

Thursday 30 April 2009

I am going performing at a wedding tomorrow in London, it will be cool as long as it doesn't rain!
Wedding entertainment and wedding entertainers UK


My life as a fire perform is varied and interesting but Im sick of the smell of parraffin and the daft questions I get asked on a daily basis ;).

If you are interested in seeing what I do checkout my videos, its pretty impressive even if i do say so myself.


I hope you like the videos!!!