Greetings all - I'm a 15 yr experienced professional Tarot card reader, teacher, and author. My question today is - Has anyone done any kind of a "tour" thing before, whether that be to go from metaphysical supply store to store in a certain state or region, or to target psychic events the same way? And what does the model look like (marketing, producing etc) Many thanks in advance for your feedback. TR
I have friends who follow the circuit of festivals around the country. And Australia is a *big* country, roughly the size of the USA with festivals everywhere even in relatively small country-towns as well as all the capitals and big regional centres.
I tried it a few years ago, but I found it far too exhausting: I'm a double-Earth sign, and for me to be out-of-territory is physically painful, I *loathe* holidays for that reason. I made money, but it certainly didn't compensate me for the misery and I stopped pretty quickly.
A number of my friends, including the one who incited me to start in the first place, still do: and that one (we'll call him Mr J) makes really, really good money. He has health issues and his steady income is a disability pension: he makes two-to-three times that in readings by doing the festivals, even after paying for accommodation and fuel (he drives everywhere, he doesn't like flying, he'd rather spend four or five days each way crossing the continent by car). Of course, travel doesn't make Mr J suffer the way it makes me suffer, and he has a great pit-crew in his home to water his garden and feel his animal, which I don't.
Most of the people who do the Festival Circuit in Australia, simply do Facebook searches for the regular festivals that are held around the country, then join their mailing-lists to be informed up upcoming dates after that. Facebook seems to be the place where *everything* is advertised, so it's a great way of developing your personal calendar and travel-agenda.