Who can benefit? Stand-up comedians:
would-be comics, open micers, emcees, middle acts, headliners.
Variety acts:
ventriloquists, singers, musicians, jugglers, magicians, etc.
Keynote speakers and business trainers:
All platform
speakers—
humorous, serious topics, motivational, etc.
Other professionals who want to become even more effective:
CEOs, sales people, management,
actors, writers, club owners, TV producers, filmmakers,
attorneys,
politicians,
ministers, health professionals, educators, etc.
Video tip: "Why get Jim's notes
after you perform & before
you go to sleep?"
One-on-One
Sessions, Private Groups:
I offer personal coaching
and private workshops for smaller groups,
tailored to meet your performance needs.
Please contact me to get information and fees for the following areas:
Four ways to market your act:
Make the audience like you a lot so that they can identify
with you
How to evaluate agents and managers
No-nonsense plans of action for becoming a national celebrity
Crystallizing your act for national TV
Writing jokes:
Organizing your jokes into bits
Writing one-vocabulary and two-vocabulary premise routines
Make bits heckle-proof
Acting:
Stage Movements that sell the joke
Delivery:
Your vocal signature
Improvisation:
Thinking on your feet
The act to defend your act
Ten ways to improvise
You and your character:
How to create and sell your character in the right market
Selling your act during interviews:
The act to sell your act —
Newspaper, radio, web and TV
Jim Richardson's
Coaching and Co-Writing
Your Stand-Up Comedy Act
or
Business Keynote Speech
If you've never hired a consultant,
you may wish to begin with my most frequently asked question, "Why do I need coaching?"
Then, return to this page.
I am available
at all stages of your stand-up comedy or serious keynote speech development:
to help you address specific needs of your individual act/talk.
To move at an accelerated pace, begin
by:
sending me what
you now have
of your act/speeches in script form and/or on video: email me a direct
link to your video web page(s) or snail mail your video to me via CD,
DVD, etc.
(Note: It
is perfectly ok if you are yet to perform and have yet to create a script
or get your performance on video. I work with clients who are just starting
out as well as folks who have been doing stand-up comedy or business presentations
for a number of weeks, months or years.)
ordering all
of my Home Study Program materials, or
at least begin with some of my smaller, stand-alone audio/workbook
packages.
My materials will give you a national and international perspective for
setting your career goals in a step-by-step achievable process.
Consultation is
available in person; through sending me your audio or video, CDs,
DVDs, scripts, etc.; we can also communicate via telephone, email,
web video conferencing, letter and/or FAX.
I can help you with:
Speech and joke writing
Researching public domain jokes that fit your speech topic
Show you how
to develop new material
without making radical changes in your current comedy act
or business speeches
Editing your
core comedy act or speeches
Matching jokes to your character
Directing the acting part of your performance
The three "acts" that
encompass your stand-up comedy or speaking career:
The act itself (your performance)
The act to defend your act
The act to sell your act
How to get hired and demandtop price
Appointments:
I require 48 hours
cancellation notice, or bill you for time reserved.
Commit to a fixed appointment
time-frame that both begins and ends at the agreed upon time.
Sending
video or audio or scripts of your act/talk:
On
the phone or over Internet video conferencing from your home computer, I can
give you notes after I review your materials.
Or, bring your materials with you
for in-person office appointments.
Appointment
fees:
Consulting
fee: $200/hour
(all fees are to be pre-paid in United States Dollars). More than one person attending = an additional $100/hour per additional person; i.e., two people would be $300/hour, etc.
For various discount packages,
please scroll to
the bottom
of this web page.
To secure appointment dates, please:
send me a check,
or charge to your credit card by emailing me your authorization for the appropriate amount
(be sure to include relevant card information)
I also can take payments via PayPal.com made
to my email addressed: jim@JimRichardson.com
Please
schedule two weeks in advance, paying at least
half the
anticipated balance. Balance due by first appointment.
Fees include hours billed for your pre-approved, advanced reviewing of your video
or scripts, if any, plus hours worked with you at each appointment.
Media review
fees:
To review your audio or video before your appointment:
I charge three
times the running time of your audio and/or video to give me time to stop-and-start
the media as I take notes.
So, if your media
are a total of one and a half (1 1/2) hours long, you would be charged
for four and a half (4 1/2) hours = $900, etc.
Please enclose
an estimate of
each audio or video's length.
I hope we will
be working together soon.
You will be in good hands!
Shotgun: I
can shoot-from-the-hip, watching your video and making comments as you listen
on the phone or via video conferencing.
Advantage: cost-effective
Disadvantage:
I don't have time to reflect so less valuable re.: marketing you
nationally and internationally
Script Marking: mail,
FAX or e-mail me scripts typed triple-spaced.
I mark and send
back to you at $50/page.
Cost-effective,
this great for catching writing errors before you memorize the
material
.
Discounts
for blocks of coaching/writing hours: paid for in advance (assumes
my hours working on both writing and coaching will be completed within
12 months):
50 hours: 10% discount ($9,000)
100 hours: 20% discount ($16,000)
150 or more hours: 33.33%
discount--plus, any of these "Deluxe
Packages" listed below also include my world famous Home Study
Program ($1,000 value):
150 hours ($20,000)
200 hours ($26,666)
300 hours ($40,000)
$200/hour for any additional hours
If you have any
questions about my fees and what time(s) I will be available for a one-on-one
appointment(s) with you,
please email at jim@JimRichardson.com
to set up a mutually convenient time to chat briefly over the phone and/or by
Internet video conferencing.
I look forward
to receiving your performance video(s) and script(s).
And/or attending
your live comedy act, speeches, etc., either in-person or live over Internet
video conferencing.
Page last updated: Wednesday,
February 19, 2014, 11:54 am PST and Wednesday, Octobeer 9, 2019, 4:56 pm PST.