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Showcase Your Talent

Anyone with a knack for the offbeat can turn that ability into a moneymaker. When she was 16, Liisa Pyke enjoyed watching her brother juggle and decided to learn how to do it herself. "It was a very male-dominated field -- young men -- and that appealed to me," she says with a laugh.

Pyke kept adding to her skills and now runs a part-time business in Charlotte, North Carolina, as an entertainer at children's birthday parties and festivals. Clowning, face painting, making balloon animals, juggling, leading games -- she does it all for about $100 an hour, depending on the client's needs and the distance she has to travel.

How do you get into this field? Pyke suggests connecting with clowning, juggling or other entertainers' organizations in your area. Promote your work by listing your name in directories like balloonhq.com and by contacting local event planners.

From Reader's Digest - May 2007

 

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