Marcel combines the power of Magic and Message, using tried and tested techniques and tools, to help create valuable relationships that will directly influence your bottom-line.

For the past 5 years, Marcel has presented customized performances for team-building events, keynote speaking, marketing presentations, entrepreneurial training & sales events.

Marcel’s strength lies is being able to understand your company’s event goals and to deliver them so that the audience locks in and remembers the key points.

Marcel also offers a unique feature – a ‘Customized Script Development’ service that can be of immense benefit to your event!

Marcel travelled to the USA to be personally trained and mentored by the world’s leading infotainer, Joel Bauer, in presenting customized performances that deliver your message in a engaging, interactive & compelling manner.

Marcel can be engaged to speak on the following prepared topics:

• “The Magic Within You“
  A highly engaging keynote designed to inspire your audience, Marcel demonstrates that everyone has the ability to be remarkable & that creating “magic” in your business or job is a matter of making the right choices.
• “You Make The Magic“
  Originally designed for Volkswagen & Audi South Africa, this keynote presentation focuses on the importance of great customer service & how it impacts your business’s bottom line profits.
• “Branding & Illusion“
  Originally designed for the UCT Graduate School of Business, during this keynote Marcel gives insight into how your prospects & customers attach an emotional meaning & context to your business’s branding, & how every staff member is responsible for reinforcing the brand.
• “Creating Customers For Life“
  This 90-minute seminar is filled with the best strategies & techniques taken from Marcel’s book, “The Serious Business Owner’s Guide To Creating Customers For Life”. Your audience will walk away with a greater understanding of sales techniques, why great customer service is vital, & how to turn prospects into life-long customers.
• “Marketing Magic“
  During this workshop, Marcel demonstrates how to “think like a magician” when creating & initiating your marketing campaigns. He teaches & helps the group to implement a simple step-by-step formula that explains how to create a compelling message,  deliver it to a targeted audience & how to maintain the campaign’s inertia to generate continuous referral business.  Although designed for small business owners & entrepreneurs, this formula can be used by any business in any industry.
• … or your own CUSTOM message!
  Provide us with the topic & research material & Marcel will discuss how he is able to turn ‘boring’ content into a exciting & valuable presentation.

Your audience can also learn from Marcel’s insights with his presentation based on his first business book, ‘The Serious Business Owner’s Guide To Creating Customers For Life‘.  Not only do we offer this book as an excellent gift to every delegate, but we can also print your company logo with a special message to each reader. This is an excellent way to provide even more phenomenal “take home” value to your audience!

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I really do enjoy these presentations because the class & I have a lot of fun being amazed by magic, but also connecting the experience to simple but important marketing tactics.  But I must admit … I was a little intimidated by the list of respected experts who were also speaking during this course.

“Presenters that I would like to give prop’s to are Dave Duarte (programme founder and much more), Mike Perk (MD at World Wide Creative), Rob Stokes (founder of Quirk eMarketing — check out their text book licensed under the creative commons agreement), Marcel Oudejans (Magician and Marketer, I kid you not!) and Allan Kent (Group Head: Saatchi & Saatchi @Play). I found what they had to say especially interesting (Dave and Allan took the time to chat to me over lunch regarding my development in the field, which was not necessary, and which i really have respect for), so if you want to find out more, follow their links.”

Source: markpretorius.com

Unfortunately, due to scheduled meetings, I was only able to be there for my own presentation so I was unable to watch all the speakers.  But Mark Pretorius, who works at Old Mutual, wrote a blog post with some of his highlights:

“My most important out-takes from the course for me were:

• Strategy embraces trends, and tactics use applications
• Be relevant, authentic, succinct and immediate
• Think like the client (this is the most “duh” item, but it really does take someone to remind you to do this when you get into the daily grind of things)
• Sell the advantages, not the features
• Talk to people in the common ground between what i believe to be true and what they believe to be true, or they won’t understand me or care
• Create a media neutral campaign and use that across mediums, don’t create something for TV and adapt it to other media.”

Source: markpretorius.com

Although I didn’t know it, Mark was filming one of my demonstrations with his cellphone camera, which he was kind enough to share on Youtube.  Apologies for the quality of the sound, but it was a great attempt nonetheless. Thanks Mark!

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