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Would you like to be organised, save time and get more bookings?
Alan Vandome
It’s
the New Year and the perfect time to get yourself organised...once and for all!
Many of you know me for the oriental act Tensai, which my wife Caroline and I
worked for many years on cruise ships and other top venues worldwide, including
The Magic Castle. A few years ago we decided to stop long-term cruising in order
to spend more time in the UK. I now perform close-up magic, a solo act, and the
Tensai act at private and business events and both Caroline and I are also
extremely busy working independently as children’s entertainers. Business is
good, but all this new work created a huge problem for us both. A problem that,
many other magicians share...
We very quickly became completely overwhelmed with a flood of booking enquiries
and paperwork. Running our business in a professional way, logging all enquiries
for follow-ups, sending out quotes, confirmations and information packs etc
became very stressful and extremely time consuming.
A computer program that would store all of our enquiries, enable us to print out
and email, contracts, follow-ups, mailshots...plus other features was needed.
Like most magicians I tried adapting existing software, but nothing encompassed
all of our needs in one package. We were wasting time on unnecessary, repetitive
tasks and we needed a solution...fast!
We commissioned Mark Tait of MAT Systems Ltd, to build us a database and booking
system from scratch, to do everything we wanted... in one package. I spent
countless hours working with Mark, tailoring the application to do everything
that we could think of, but above all it had to be easy to use! The result is
MAGI a unique booking system that has quite literally changed our lives!
Magi was initially created for my own personal use and a huge amount of time and
effort has gone into the development of the application. However, we believe
that Magi is so good that Mark and I decided to join forces and market the
product for the benefit of all magicians and entertainers.
Magi has received rave reviews, and is now selling overseas too. Magi has so
many features (plus some new ones recently added) that we have produced a NEW
website
www.magi-software.com which explains all of the main benefits and features
of the software, as well as video demonstrations and a FREE trial download. If
you have previously downloaded a trial copy, check out the new features.
Purchasers have found MAGI hugely beneficial – you can see their comments on the
website.
The best thing about Magi is that a leading database design company (with my
personal input and suggestions) created it, specifically for magicians. It has
certainly saved me so much time and effort; I use it every day of my working
life and wouldn’t be without it!
© Alan Vandome MIMC (Tensai), January 2009