Ego Stroking
Call it ego stroking, call it what you will, I call it a bonus to the tour guide and the group.
You’re out on a walking tour, showing your guests the sights and sounds of the city when you stop to hear a popular musician play his tunes.
The musician is doing his thing, has the whole audience in the palm of his hands and he stops specifically in front of your group to say hello to YOUR guide and to his guests.
The tour guide gets a great ego boost, the tour guests get a good chuckle from being singled out and the entertainer gets a few more sales!
Here we have Carl “Safe Sax” Ferris. A well loved smooth jazz saxophonist who plays most nights on the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.
On a recent Vegas night tour, we stopped to hear Carl belt out a few of his own tunes and do his usual memorization of the crowd. Checkout Youtube to see him in action!
In-between numbers, as he schmoozed the audience than came to a halt in front of my group. Smiled that smile of his, posed for some pictures and said hello to me and thanked my group for coming down.
From there he signed a few autographs on some CD’s my guests were buying and posed for more pictures. Carl is such a ham! Ok, maybe we both got our ego’s stroked. But the guests love the personal attention!
FYI:
One of Carl’s songs is the theme song to the podcast I co-host for a Vegas Tourist website.
Still, it gives everyone a little boost to be intimate with a “star” on their tour!
See Death Valley
How would you like to see some of the most beautiful nothing on the face of the earth? Take a tour of a grand castle built in the middle of the hottest place in the western hemisphere? See where the Borax twenty-mule team really came from?? You can!!
Join me on a public tour to Death Valley National Park complete with a guided tour of Scotty’s Castle. This tour includes a stop at the visitor center with Death Valley museum, Ubehebe crater, Furnace Creek ranch with the Borax museum. And of course, the best guide you can find, Me!
Date: Saturday January 31, 2009
Tour begins and ends in Las Vegas
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