Funny’s entertainers Meetings and Conventions
The warm climate and endless selection of tourist attractions makes Orlando, Florida an ideal location for conventions, conferences, and trade shows. In fact, Orlando hosts literally hundreds of national and international meetings every day of the year. As your attendees attention will often be drawn away from your convention to the theme parks and nightlife in Orlando, it is important to provide extra live entertainment and activity incentives at your event. Whether your event is at the Orange County Convention Center or Walt Disney World, this article will give you helpful tips for hiring live entertainment for your Orlando meeting. Be creative in your scheduling, because adding a little unexpected fun throughout the convention will help keep your attendees energized and positive. Thinking outside the box with your entertainment will help make your convention a stand-out event.
Once you know where you want the entertainment, then you can begin focusing on what type of entertainment you want. Nowadays, corporate entertainment options are virtually limitless. You could choose to entertain your guests with costumed stilt walkers, magicians, comedians, hypnotists, fire eaters, bands, headline singers, fortune tellers, or acrobats. If your event has a theme then you might want to try to fit that theme. The theme of The Magic of Customer Service fits hand in hand with a magic show. A Mardi Gras event may benefit from fortune tellers, jugglers, and other street entertainers. If you are opening up a session with some entertainment, perhaps you want to consider a comedian or a comedy actor who could present a fake motivational speech to get everyone laughing. Don’t be afraid to break away from tradition. If you always have a stand-up comedian at your dinner, try a comedy hypnotist or corporate game show to give your guests something fresh and new. How long of a show do you want? (Planning hint: Most after dinner shows run between 45-60 minutes, any longer and you risk your audience getting restless). Does the performer have to work with any special performance restrictions (is the show outside, is space limited, etc)? All of these items on your list should be used to screen potential entertainment choices.
You can start your search for entertainers online. There is no shortage of entertainers with websites. If you find a site of an entertainer that interests you, contact the entertainer to find out their fees, availability, and to see if they are able to meet your list of criteria. If the performer is a true corporate entertainer, they will have already performed for a client in the same industry as your company.
When you are searching online for an entertainer, beware of directory sites such as Gigmasters, who list thousands of entertainers who have paid to advertise on the site. Many of these websites will take your contact information and send them to dozens of their entertainers, and you will be barraged with emails and calls from entertainers you are not even interested in.
The Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando Resorts both have live entertainment departments that organize entertainment for the theme parks as well as for conventions held on resort property. If you are holding your event at a hotel or venue on one of these theme park properties, you can ask your site contact about entertainment options available.The positive side of booking theme park entertainers is that it allows you to bring a little bit of the theme park magic to your convention guests.
The stress-free way to hire an entertainer is to go through an entertainment company who specializes in corporate entertainers. Corporate Funny Entertainment helps companies and associations hire entertainment for Orlando meetings by negotiating the best possible performing fees with their comedians. When you book through Corporate Funny, you can afford to bring national entertainment to your meeting.
Corporate Funny makes the selection of a comedy entertainer easy, because they have reviewed hundreds of national acts to bring you the top six for corporate audiences. These acts have been selected based on having a clean comedy show appropriate for corporate audiences, flawless references, professionalism, and the total entertainment value of their performance.
For Orlando meetings, Brandy Swardson, the booking manager for Corporate Funny, recommends comedy magician, Chris Linn, who has an act that is fresh, exciting, and unlike any magic or comedy show audiences have ever seen. Chris was named best comedy variety entertainer by the 2008 Best of Corporate Entertainers and Speakers awards.
If you want straight-up laughs at your event, then a stand up comedian like Dante or Rob Little, who have made appearances on Last Comic Standing, HBO, and Comedy Central is sure to get your crowd rolling in the aisles. Show sample videos and show information about all of Corporate Funny’s entertainers are available at their web site.
