Breaking News About The 2018 ConVENTion

Breaking News About The 2018 ConVENTion

Today, Mark Wade released the news: BIG NEWS FOR VENT HAVEN ConVENTion FANS! We are changing hotels … our new home will be the Cincinnati Airport HOLIDAY INN (which is one exit from our former location). We will also have a new way of registering, so check our...
Past, Present & Future

Past, Present & Future

Clinton Detweiler ran Maher Studios from about 1979 through his retirement in the early 2000’s. He continued to be active in the vent community until his unexpected passing on January 22, 2013. I say this because there are some new members to the vent community...
I Looked Into The Future

I Looked Into The Future

I wrote this article on Feb 2, 2017. It accidentally published then and was live for about two hours. So if you caught it then, you looked into the future too! July 12-15 I knew I would be at the Vent Haven International Ventriloquist ConVENTion. From past experience...

I Can’t Get In …

Almost everyday I get an email from someone having problems with either the Maher Studios or Learn-Ventriloquism website. At the same time, hundreds of members go through the sites each day and don’t seem to have any problems. (Or maybe they just don’t...

Improving Your Brand

This summer’s Vent Haven International conVENTion has the theme of Improvement. Mark Wade asked me to present a lecture, which we titled Improving Your Brand. Most people think of a brand as a professional marketing tool. It distinguishes one product or service...

What Does It Take To Go “Pro”? – Revisited

In August of 2015, Mark Wade published a post here on the Maher blog about what it takes to go pro. It has been almost two years since Mark shared that post, so I thought I would look back and add some thoughts of my own. Ventriloquism is fun. It seems like a great...