Topics: International Speakers Bureau, Inc. |
Fee Range: $5,001 to $10,000 (fee note) |
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 Biography: Billy Riggs blends world class illusions, spellbinding communication and ground-breaking content to create an experience available nowhere else. Billy is a consummate self-directed leader, magnetically drawing people to himself and motivating them with the power of vision. Relevant, insightful and life-changing. Those words describe the message of Billy Riggs. Without an accurate perception of reality, morale, sales and motivation suffer. In addition to being a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Billy is also a world class illusionist, delivering his spectacular illusions on ten cruise ships and before audiences as large as 20,000. With more than 10 years experience as a founder and CEO, he understands the human potential. In each of his life-changing presentations featuring spectacular magic, uproarious humor and a life-changing message, Riggs helps bring perception and reality together, dispelling crippling illusions while propelling managers and employees toward explosive success. |
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Programs: These programs represent a perfect "middle of the road" approach by combining first class entertainment with a powerful message. How To Sell Like Magic: Shattering the five psychological illusions that reduce sales, and unleashing the reality that makes them soar! How To Achieve the Impossible! Demolishing the four illusions that prevent managers from enjoying spectacular success! The Magic Of Attitude: Reshaping your company by the power of a positive mental attitude. How To Provide Magical Customer Service: Exploding the five myths that impede fabulous customer service! Metamorphosis: Breaking the six mental barriers that prevent lasting change. Grand Illusions: Exploding the three most debilitating myths of life, and building self-esteem on life's grandest realities. No Illusions About Network Marketing: Multilevel marketing is built on proper beliefs, so explosive downline growth is created by eliminating the five illusions that paralyze network marketers. The content (message) of the topic chosen is the same in platinum, gold and silver presentations. PLATINUM ILLUSIONS The Platinum presentations include three illusions that are not in the Gold and Silver. They are: LEVITATION: In this illusion Billy levitates a member of your audience (you get to pre-select). All three of the Platinum-only illusions require air cargo shipment. The cost of this shipment is built into the additional fee. ZIG ZAG: (cutting a member of your audience, whom you pre-select, into three pieces): In this illusion a lady is placed in an upright box, metal blades slide into the box and appear to cut the person in three pieces. The middle piece is then slid to one side while at the same time the person inside is talking, wiggling fingers and toes (an action going on in each of the three sections). The box is on wheels so it is then turned around so all can see nothing is happening in the back and Billy's hand is run through the space where the midsection was. Middle replaced, blades removed, doors opened and the person steps out. SPIRIT CURTAIN: An astounding and hilarious re-enactment of a method used by fraudulent mediums to convince others of the presence of a conjured spirit. Five members of the audience assist in this illusion. One sits inside the curtain and four work outside as assistants in securing Billy with ropes, blindfolding, lifting and dropping the curtain. Inside the curtain various things happen to the volunteer while Billy is completely secured with ropes. ALSO INCLUDED IN THE PLATINUM SHOW ARE: THE PAPER BALL MIRACLE: This powerful mystery is customized for every client. A ball of paper is randomly tossed from person to person in the audience. Each person who catches the ball is asked to make up a characteristic of a hypothetical customer (gender, age, favorite product, amount of latest purchase, state of birth, etc.). The last person to catch it selects a name for the mythical customer from the local phone book. Finally, the paper ball is unrolled where a prediction has been TYPED which perfectly matches each audience choice! MR. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD: This tribute to the late great Fred Rogers will leave your members in hysterical, riotous laughter as they witness an unfortunate "child" (Billy Riggs re-enacting his magical debut) trying to follow the TV personality's simple instructions for learning a magic trick. GOLD PRESENTATION When the Gold presentation is chosen, Billy inserts two smaller illusions that cost less to ship than the platinum. Again, the shipping charges are included in the fee and do not increase your cost. PROZAK, THE PSYCHIC HEAD: The world's worst psychic (a live human head carried through the audience on a silver platter) "psychically" answers questions from the audience in hilarious fashion, does funny readings, then mysteriously predicts the humorous content of several identical sealed fortune cookies. THE FLOATING TABLE: A randomly selected audience member places his or her fingertips on the edge of a small table. Billy Riggs does the same, and the table mysteriously begins to rise, "walk" across the stage, spin, and float out into the audience down the center aisle. SHOOT THE CARD: Time permitting, an audience volunteer will be asked to make a selection from a jumbo deck of playing cards, replace it in the deck, and then shoot it with a gun (blanks only, of course). Told that the bullet will penetrate the deck half-way, coming to rest on his card, the volunteer is shocked when his first shot "misses" and breaks a nearby microphone stand in half. Subsequent shots tear the tablecloth from a table, knock a rose out of a vase, and finally cause the table on which the deck sits to be demolished altogether. Finally, the volunteer's card is revealed in a surprising way. THE PULSE TRICK: One of the most astounding demonstrations of apparent psychic power you will ever see. Members of the audience write names of long-lost friends or relatives on slips of paper, fold them tightly, and drop them in a bowl. Another member of the audience (preferably a doctor or nurse) monitors Billy Riggs' pulse (and a heart monitor machine beeps with his every heartbeat) while a randomly selected audience member pulls various slips of paper out of the bowl. Mr. Riggs' pulse quickens as he names the person described on one of the slips. Then, his pulse stops, (confirmed by the doctor and the heart monitor) as one slip is removed from the bowl. The magician announces that this person is deceased, and reveals several pertinent details about the person's life. The slip of paper is burned and the ashes are rubbed on Mr. Riggs' arm, where the dead person's initials appear written in charcoal. The person is then named to the utter shock of the volunteer who wrote the name, and to thunderous applause from the audience. ALSO INCLUDES THE PAPER BALL MIRACLE and MR. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD (above)! SILVER PRESENTATION - CHECKED BAGGAGE VERSION - AUDIENCES OF 200 + In this presentation of many "classics" of magic, all props are shipped as checked baggage. The larger illusions described above are replaced with baffling and entertaining illusions easily visible to a few hundred people. Be stunned by psychic-looking effects and dumbfounded by the timeless illusion of the Chinese Linking Rings. The same message points are still made and the illusions are very entertaining. ALSO INCLUDES THE PULSE TRICK, THE PAPER BALL MIRACLE and MR. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD (above)! SILVER PRESENTATION - CARRY-ON BAGGAGE VERSION - AUDIENCES OF LESS THAN 200 All illusions can be transported in carry-on baggage. The Chinese Linking Rings are replaced by linking borrowed finger rings from the audience. There is a heavy emphasis on mentalism (apparent psychic effects) in this program. The powerful message remains the same. ALSO INCLUDES THE PULSE TRICK, THE PAPER BALL MIRACLE and MR. ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD (above)! |
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