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Kids Entertainers Academy – Lecture

Remembering Kids Names

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Agenda • What Names can do for you • How our memory REALLY works • Introducing the kids • Memorizing lists • More kids arrive to the gig • Memorizing people • Bonus – ideas on making your own name memorable • Bonus 2 – a few tactics on Audience Management

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What Names can do for you

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What Names can do for you

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What Names can do for you

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What Names can do for you

• Control the Kids • Impress the Adults • Establish YOUR Name

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How Our Memory REALLY works

• Endless • Purple Cow • Practice • Memory tricks

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Introducing the kids

• Credit – Eran Katz

Tommy

Silvia Rachel

Bob

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Memorizing lists

• The Bell • The Absurd Story • The Greek Room

More kids arrive to the gig

• Tommy, Silvia, Rachel, Bob, Janie

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Memorizing people

• Face tells a story • Shirt and clothes tell a story • Ring the bell • Make it absurd • BAM!

EVEN More kids arrive to the gig • Tommy, Silvia, Rachel, Bob, Janie, Scott

5 minutes later • Tommy, Silvia, Rachel, Bob, Janie, Scott

30 Minutes Later

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Bonus – ideas on making your own name memorable

• Repeat your name many times • Great Zucchini – ZK Card • ZK Song (x3) • Name Gag (Gary Dunn) • Backdrop & Car Wrap

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Say bye bye for the kids

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Bonus 2 – a few tactics on Audience Management

• Complement the kid who sits next to • Give away ZK points (its free) • Add dancing • Make kids into judges • Volunteer from all ages • Change the style of the magic words • Avoid SUGAR at all cost

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From ZK

Thank you KEA Nation

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