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Check Please! Chapter 9: Check Your Emotions!

Are you a puppy on parole?  After all the house arrest we've experienced as a country, it's hard not to cut loose!
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice Art business development Business growth Courtesy Customer service Entertainment Entertainment services Ethics Human nature Kindness Networking
Custom illustrations by Michael Ganser

Check Please! Chapter 8: Check Your Environment!

Are you a tiger in a society of rabbits?
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth Customer service diversification Human nature Networking Professionalism Strategic planning Teamwork
Custom illustrations by Michael Ganser

Check Please! Chapter 7: Check Your Plan!

It is said, "Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans."  I've seen that so often - indeed, hasn't 2020 been pretty much a 180 on almost everyone's plan for the year?
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice Birthday Party Plans business development Business growth diversification Professionalism Strategic planning
Mime entertainment for events

Check Please! Chapter 6: November: Check Your "Friends!"

It took me a long time to understand "R.O.I."

 

— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth Ethics Human nature Kindness Networking Professionalism Strategic planning Teamwork
The TAG Art Fun Farm in New Haven Indiana

Check Please! Chapter 5: Check your business!

Or perhaps "mind your own business" would be more appropriate these days?
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice Art business development Business growth diversification holiday party entertainment Human nature Professionalism Strategic planning versatility
Stilt walking entertainment for events

Check Please! Chapter 3: Check Your Priorities?

How badly do you want it?
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth Courtesy Customer service Ethics Human nature Kindness low-hanging fruit Networking Professionalism Strategic planning versatility
mime entertainment; stilt walking entertainment; themed entertainment

Check please! Chapter 2: Check Your Team!

A key to success is "you can't do it alone."
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth Customer service diversification Ethics Human nature Kindness Professionalism Strategic planning Teamwork versatility
Event entertainment; Charlie Chaplin; Costumed characters for events

Check please! Chapter 1: Check Your Ego

This is the first of a series of writings meant to offer perspective (in as humble a fashion as possible) for the benefit of any who hope to make their...
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth diversification Entertainment Human nature Kindness Professionalism Strategic planning
Left Shark; Costumed characters for events; Event entertainment

We're All In This Together Alone In The Same Boat

If I have to watch one more celebrity tell me "we're all in this together" and "we'll get through this" and "we're all in the same boat" (have you seen...
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth Courtesy Customer service Entertainment Ethics Human nature Kindness Professionalism Strategic planning versatility
Mime; Themed entertainment; Entertainers for events

Don't Keep it a Secret!

Is your attendance down?  If you were you, would you attend your event?
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice business development Business growth conference entertainment corporate entertainment Courtesy Customer service Entertainment Entertainment services family-friendly entertainment Human nature Kindness low-hanging fruit Networking Professionalism Strategic planning themed entertainment trade show entertainment
Dinosaurs; Dinosaur entertainment; Event entertainment

Oh, you do that too? Tips for creatives forced into sales

It's the sales person's job to provide a complete set of options, but in our "bigger, faster, stronger" culture, shouldn't it be the customer's job to want more?
— Troy Ganser
Tagged: Advice Art business development Business growth corporate entertainment Courtesy Customer service diversification Ethics Human nature Kindness Professionalism Strategic planning versatility