As most seasoned professionals in the entertainment business know, the travel associated with performing can quickly become tiresome and lonely; especially for those hoping not to empty their wallets while working in order to fill them, navigating a life on the road often requires a certain degree of wisdom and long-term relationship building. Having spent many years traveling around Ohio and the United States as a whole while building and maintaining my magic business, I…

Towards the beginning of my career as a magician and entertainer, I was about as social-media averse as they come; not only was the internet a very different place in the early 2000s, but it was not yet advanced enough that it was giving rise to these simultaneous online platforms for advertising and places to post cat videos! Around the time of the explosion of Facebook, however, it became clear to me (and most other…