Making money as a magician or illusionist is certainly not an easy task. While magic may be seeing a renaissance of sorts with many new street magicians such as David Blaine and Chris Angel inundating the airwaves, becoming a full-time magician (and earning well for it!) is still easier said that done.

For example, it’s difficult to be a full-time magician, since you’ll have to string together a lot of projects and always keep yourself on the go.  And the truth is, it’s not always so easy to get hired for an event besides your usual kiddie parties.  The good news, however, is that you don’t have to stop at your tricks to start making money.  All you need is your own domain and your blog, and you’re all set and ready.

With your own domain name, you can have a blog that can not only advertise your magic, but also impart your knowledge for a fee. In other words, you don’t just get to reach out to a larger audience — you also bag the opportunity to make money online!

1. Teach Magic In An E-Course
Since you’re already an expert in your craft, shouldn’t it be just fair to share some of your knowledge to other people, especially to aspiring magicians? You can actually accomplish this by sending out instructional e-mails to paying subscribers on a regular basis.

As the teacher, you have many options as to how to offer your course.  You can send them plain-text e-mails that give excellent tutorials to some basic tricks, or maybe even show instructional videos of yourself performing a particular magic act.  The choice is yours; just make sure that the fee you’ll be charging covers all your expenses!

Getting your newsletter service up and running shouldn’t be too hard, and, at most, will require a small investment in an autoresponder service that will automatically send the e-mails for you according to your settings.  By introducing an e-Course in magic through these newsletters, you can reach out to more people, establish your reputation as a trusted magician, and make money blogging all at once!

Put Your Knowledge in an E-Book
An e-Book, or a book written electronically, is another way you can impart your knowledge about your chosen profession.  It can be of any length and can contain as much information as you wish, and, of course, should be sold for a fee.

An e-book that compiles a large amount of magic tricks can be quite easily sold on the Internet, and you can easily do that directly from your blog! After all, your visitors are obviously interested in magic, and which budding magician can turn down a book full of neat tricks? Take the opportunity to sell products like this, and you’ll soon see a significant jump in your earnings.

3. Get Asked To Perform At More Magic Shows
Blogging on your own domain is also a really good and inexpensive way to market yourself and promote the kind of services that you’re willing to offer to clients.  Through your blog, your potential clients can get to know you and the nature of your performances better, upping your chances at actually landing a good gig.

Now that you have an online presence, just about anyone can contact you and inquire about your services, no matter where they’re situated.  Not only is your business open ’round the clock, it also fans out to locations you wouldn’t have dreamed of reaching!  You don’t just get the chance to keep in touch with local clients; if you impress your readers enough, one of them might be happy to pay for your plane tickets and book your next performance a state or a continent away.

Sell Other Websites’ Wares
As mentioned earlier, you will get visitors from all over the country (and world) reading your blog posts and appreciating you and your magic, and you may encounter situations where your visitors ask you to recommend a product or service related to your craft. You can use this as a money making opportunity by becoming Affiliates of websites that sell magic-related products and services and by recommending your visitors to their website (via a special Affiliate link), you stand to earn commission.

You can also recommend other magicians (that may be better located, perhaps, for an event) in exchange for a referral fee. A blog certainly gives you as a magician a wide array of new opportunities of making money, and in truth, all you need is to spend a few hours a day writing for your blog and you’ll soon be able to put the above into practice to start earning money. How’s that for some magic?