6) Practice. Practice. Practice.

If you want to be a paid performer, you have to be good at performing. Whatever your skillset is, practice it. If you’re looking to make money, then you have to treat it like a job. Training, practicing – it is part of your job. If you want to make a full time living at it, practice, train full time.

Put in the energy to develop your skill set.

5) Develop a Routine

If you’re a movement performer then put a 3-6 minute routine together to music that you can whip out anytime. If you’re a comedian or musician – work on your set. Have it polished and ready to go so that when the producer asks to see what you got, you can whip it out on the spot.

4) Busk

Busking is the number one way to learn what attracts, or repels, your audience. It allows you to hone your craft, and as you get better at it then it allows you to make money while you’re travelling, especially in busking friendly locations like European countries.

3) Ask other people for critical feedback

Have someone whose opinion you trust watch your routine or your busking and then ask them for critical feedback. Listen to what they have to say with a grain of salt. That means take the criticism seriously, but remember that other people have their own emotional drama llamas and histories, so don’t take what they say personally.

The goal is to pull the nuggets of goodness out of the feedback and use it to grow.

Improve your craft with critical feedback.

2) Take care of your body

Having good nutrition is the number one way to energize and fuel your practice and performance. If you’re putting junk food or pesticide laden frankenfood into your body your output will reflect that.

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1) Don’t do it for free.

When you’re starting out as a performer and developing your skills, you’re likely going to perform for free. There are a lot of events where you can perform in exchange for a ticket. It’s a great way to practice in front of an audience and make contacts. Once you’re skill level has gotten to a good state though, you have to stop.

You have to set your boundaries.

If you continue to perform for free once your skills are worthy of being paid, you’re wasting your time and energy on people who don’t really appreciate you. You have to remember that event producers don’t pay performers because they are paying other people or pocketing the money themselves.

Ask to be paid and you will be paid.

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