
- Joined the National Speakers Association (national and state)
- Joined Meeting Professionals International
- Created a web site with promo and video
- Created an identical web site without any contact info, for bookers' clients
- Offered to customize the show to the client, industry, or association
- Offered to fly in day early to make sure I'm there for the show
- Work with speakers bureaus and entertainment bookers
- If the client is unhappy, gave some or all of the money back (excluding travel)
- Helped other comics that I know and respect to get corporate work
- Mailed, not emailed, all the bookers a promo piece and candy every quarter
- Joined Kiwanis
- Tried to make and sell audio tapes, VHS tapes, and finally DVDs
- A Google Ad
- Worked with a number of shady bookers and bureaus (call for a list)
- A John Edwards impersonation (would have worked if he'd have won)
- A Bill Clinton impersonation (would have worked if Hillary had won)
- Last Comic Standing (turned down four times in row)
- Comedy contests (won one in 1985 and haven't won one since)
- Joined several Convention and Visitors Bureaus
- Joined several Chambers of Commerce
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