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What are the business skills of an Amateur Stand-up Comedian?

  • Posted by ChuckRoy
  • Categories Blog
  • Date May 19, 2018

Show Business Skills for Amateur Stand-up Comedians

Amateur stand-up comedians successfully perform on a variety of shows. To perform on comedy shows, you’ll need to demonstrate an understanding of the basic business skills of stand-up comedians.

What can the average Amateur Stand-up comedian successfully do?

Funny amateur stand-up comedians are successfully able to write, perform and create  stand-up comedy that meets or exceeds industry standards. At Comedy101, we believe in providing quality professional development training for stand-up comedians. You can learn more about our business skills courses at the Your Logo Here School of Intergalactic Fair Trade Stand-up Comedy Show Business.

Amateur Stand-up Comedians demonstrate basic Comedy Show Business knowledge:

  • Identify comedy show business opportunities for stage time.
  • Reproduce marketing and promotions material that sells tickets to comedy show.
  • Recognize the criteria for booking gigs.
  • Quote customers the price of a ticket or comedy show.
  • Match audience, venues and producers to comedians and comedy shows.

Amateur Stand-up Comedians comprehend basic Comedy Show Business skills:

  • Paraphrase your act for interviews.
  • Provide reviews of your comedy.
  • Convert audience, venue and producers to your comedy show business customers.
  • Calculate the revenues, costs and earnings of stand-up comedy shows.
  • Cite the correct date, time and ticket price for comedy shows.

 Amateur Stand-up Comedians apply basic Comedy Show Business concepts:

  • Experiment with business and marketing plans.
  • Produce quality promotional materials.
  • Create successful advertisements for your comedy.
  • Complete workday, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly show business reports and operations.
  • Explain your comedy show business profits and losses to tax collectors or retirement planners.

Amateur Stand-up Comedians use a variety of assessment tools to analyze their skills.

  • Estimate artistic and comedy show business satisfaction.
  • Diagram marketing and promotions plans.
  • Prioritize show business operations.
  • Question and answer peers, customers, audience, friends and family about the fairness of your comedy show business practices.
  • Distinguish yourself as a reliable comedian.

 Amateur Stand-up Comedians can evaluate basic Comedy Show Business concepts.

  • Debate and criticize solutions to comedy show business problems.
  • Fix errors and prioritize corrections to comedy show business operations.
  • Justify expenses, revenues, earnings or losses in comparable business reports.
  • Decide how to fairly operate your comedy show business for intergalactic success.
  • Convince audiences, customers, venues and producers to continue to consider your comedy shows.

Amateur Stand-up Comedians complete basic Comedy Show Business operations.

  • Create funny comedy that meets or exceeds industry standards.
  • Write funny show business materials including promotions and marketing media.
  •  Originate and propose funny comedy routines.
  • Invent opportunities for performing and earnings.
  • Manage and operate a small comedy show business

If you’re ready to start learning about the art of stand-up comedy and basic comedy show business skills, please sign up for a Comedy101 Membership.

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ChuckRoy
    Hi! I'm Chuck Roy, professional stand-up comedian. I teach Comedy at the Community College of Denver and online at Comedy101. You may benefit from my experiences performing in TV Shows like Will & Grace and 3rd Rock from the Sun, plus movies like Ralphie May Presents and Louie Anderson Presents.

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