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Creating smiles and laughter for people of all ages and walks of life, including your next business event. Dennis Porter is the entertainer and entrepreneur behind Happy Faces Entertainment. His business is funny. Literally.
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Jeff Randolph:
Welcome to the Small Business Miracles Podcast. I’m Jeff Randolph. This Small Business Podcast is brought to you by EAG Advertising and Marketing. We’re going to talk about marketing. We’re also here to celebrate entrepreneurs. We have marketing news and advice that business owners can use to keep moving forward. This week, we’re talking with Dennis Porter, the entertainer and owner of Happy Faces Entertainment. But first, we’ve got another small business marketing tip to talk about.
Jeff Randolph:
For today’s tip, let’s talk about that last step before you hit send on your email campaign. The campaign itself doesn’t matter as much, because this applies to any email you’re about to send. What should you do before you hit the button to send it to everyone on that list? Well, first, you built that email on a desktop computer, but a giant number of people who receive that email are likely to open it on their phone.
So the first thing you want to do is test it using your phone. And go through all the steps you would want a customer or an email recipient to do. Go through every one of them. So first, open that email on your phone. Can you read it? Is there too much information you’re trying to convey? Campaign Monitor put out a report that says that the ideal email copy length is somewhere between 50 and 125 words. Email copy between 25 and 50 words typically results in response rates over 50%.
Don’t make it too short though. An email with 25 words may perform the same as messages with 500 to 2,000 words, averaging response rate of less than 45%. Okay, so after you’ve read that email, take all the actions you would want someone to take. Are they clicking to your website? Do that. Is the ideal situation they click to sign up or join to buy something? Go through all of those steps and accomplish what you want them to accomplish. I know, I know, the website is a separate issue with its own problems, but it’s not a separate issue, is it?
If you want them to register or join, go through that process on your phone. If you can’t, or if it’s a bad experience, you want to fix that before you hit send on the email. Get your email right by making sure everything you want someone to do looks good and acts the way you want it to. And that is our marketing tip for today.
Jeff Randolph:
Welcome back to the show. I’m here with Dennis Porter. He is the entertainer and owner of Happy Faces Entertainment. Dennis, welcome to the show.
Dennis Porter:
Thank you very much. Glad to be here.
Jeff Randolph:
So tell us about Happy Faces Entertainment and all the areas where you have programming and products and everything, because there’s a lot. Happy Faces Entertainment goes fairly deep, like you do a lot of things.
Dennis Porter:
That is true.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah.
Dennis Porter:
When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say I’m a variety entertainer, because there is such a wide variety of that in Happy Faces Entertainment, which is 85% me, and then other entertainers also. So we have a full gamut from all ages. So that can include magic and storytelling, to game show parties and murder mysteries, clowning, drag, MC, strolling entertainers at events. So we do a wide range of things for public and private events.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah, I mean, there is a ton of stuff just in that alone.
Dennis Porter:
Yes.
Jeff Randolph:
Let’s dive deeper into a few of these. Because when we met, we caught up with you guys at the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and your booth was doing a game show party for attendees. Talk about corporate events, first, before I keep rambling on and do a setup, it was a good time. It was a good, adult good time. We had a lot of fun and won some prizes and it was great. So talk about those corporate events and the reception you’ve been getting from the game show party.
Dennis Porter:
So the name says it, Happy Faces Entertainment. Our goal and my passion in life is to make people laugh and smile. So for however amount of time that is, if that’s even a couple of seconds during a parade while clowning, or if that’s a couple of hours with your corporate holiday party or picnic or something, just to be able to forget about the world, good or bad, and just have some fun. Laugh, remember, “Oh yeah, there’s good here. Oh yes, I can laugh, I know what smiling feels like.” For those that sometimes forget, getting bogged down in life and work.
Jeff Randolph:
Hey, accounting, it causes frowns sometimes. You have to turn that around.
Dennis Porter:
I’ve heard of that, yes, right. So the game show parties is one of our bigger corporate things. We recreate television game shows. So you can get, come play Name That Tune, or Let’s Make a Deal, or we do The Newlywed Game for non-newlyweds.
Jeff Randolph:
Okay.
Dennis Porter:
So we call it The Newly Friend game. So that can vary if it’s a festival or something, maybe it’s kids and adults asking the questions. And then in the corporate, we have questions related to work. So, “What’s the first thing your coworker does when they get to work?” Okay, find that. My favorite one of those is, “What non-work task does your coworker do the most at work?” Which it sounds like, “Ooh, you’re really trying to get people in trouble.”
Jeff Randolph:
That’s right, you’re ratting out somebody.
Dennis Porter:
I’m like, I’m not. I mean, it could simply be he walks around every half hour to keep exercised.
Jeff Randolph:
That’s right. If your person goes there, that’s on your person.
Dennis Porter:
Right, exactly.
Jeff Randolph:
That’s all on you.
Dennis Porter:
I did have my favorite match one time, because someone wrote down that their coworker looked for another job, and then it was a match.
Jeff Randolph:
Everybody knows it.
Dennis Porter:
It was, I think, someone at very beginning level, maybe even intern level. So it wasn’t like the CEO was searching for a new job and everyone knew it. But it was just the fun. And pretty much that’s what I’m doing, is I’m just giving you the opportunity. A lot of my shows are interactive with that, which I just want to give you an opportunity to play, and have some fun with that. So with that game show party, we do that. Everyone loves to hit a buzzer.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah.
Dennis Porter:
Almost, so it’s like I could go play hit a buzzer and make a guess.
Jeff Randolph:
Or all of those times where I don’t feel like I get to show off enough at work. Give me those opportunities, that’s what I want. Let’s talk about ways that businesses can work with you. Do they need to in advance know, “Hey, I need to get a life-size Candy Land at our next event?” Or is this something where you can start talking with them and incorporate the right activities and entertainment to custom create something? How would a business, what would they need to know to approach you?
Dennis Porter:
They don’t really need to know a lot, except, “Hey, we need some entertainment.” And I’m glad to sit down and think, let’s find out what the best option is. Even when I get an email or an online suggest like, “Oh, we’re looking for this,” frequently I’ll say, “Okay, here’s what this is. Let me also give you some other options,” because they may have just not have known of the option.
Jeff Randolph:
Right, right.
Dennis Porter:
Or they might be telling me what they’re doing, I’m going to go, “Hmm, that’s not what I would suggest,” and I’ll give them the reasons.
Jeff Randolph:
Sure.
Dennis Porter:
Like for me, a murder mystery should never be a surprise.
Jeff Randolph:
Right.
Dennis Porter:
Because not everybody likes murder mysteries, and that’s perfectly fine. And I’ve been in this situation working for other people as an actor, that we came to a holiday party that they didn’t know there’s going to be a murder mystery. So you had the spouse, who didn’t want to be there in the first place, and now they’re being forced to go sit through a two-hour murder mystery. Like don’t put people in this situation.
Jeff Randolph:
Right, right.
Dennis Porter:
And frequently, if I say something, people are like, “Oh, that’s true.” Because sometimes the planner are like, “Oh, I’ve always wanted to do this. It’ll be fun, a great opportunity to do it.” I’m like, “Okay, but does everybody else in your group want to do this?”
Jeff Randolph:
Right, right.
Dennis Porter:
And then in that case, maybe a game show party’s better, because we’re playing nine different games. And if you don’t like Name That Tune, but you’re going to like The Newly Friend Game or you’re going to like Let’s Make a Deal instead.
So there’s some variety in there. So just a matter of talking through that. And some things are more customizable, that we can do a variety of different activities. Or you talk to them like that’s not a strolling situation that you’ve talked about. That’s a sit down.
Jeff Randolph:
Sit down and watch versus…
Dennis Porter:
That’s two different things. And they’re like, “Oh, well, yeah, okay.”
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah, yeah. They just maybe don’t know exactly.
Dennis Porter:
Sure.
Jeff Randolph:
You never want to surprise somebody at a dinner with, “Oh, there’s a body.” And if you’re a really good actor and that body is really pulling off that role, it can be a shock to people. You don’t need that.
Dennis Porter:
Our murder mysteries, and that’s our KC Mystery Players is on the umbrella of Happy Face Entertainment. I, upfront say, we’re a comedy show disguised as a murder mystery.
Jeff Randolph:
Perfect.
Dennis Porter:
So you’re not playing Clue, you’re not marking off who did it. There is a way to figure out who did it. It’s very minimal. But at the end of the night, you’re going to say, “That was lots of fun.” That is our whole purpose.
Jeff Randolph:
Is there, and you don’t have to out the organization if you don’t want to, but is there a corporate event that really stands out to you that is like, “Man, this was a good time. This was a great event?”
Dennis Porter:
I can think of there’s instances. Interesting enough, so particularly in the summer, I do a lot of libraries. Most of those are kids’ summer reading programs.
Jeff Randolph:
Hey, thanks for stopping the summer reading slide. Well done.
Dennis Porter:
Sure!
Jeff Randolph:
That’s great.
Dennis Porter:
And in the process, I also elude some murder mysteries and sometimes the adults are teens, but, there’s this little town of Fayette, Iowa, that is a very little town in northeastern Iowa. It’s my favorite place to do murder mysteries. And I’ve done three at this point. Just because those people, and there’s never more than 40, 50 people in the room because that’s as big as their community room fits at the library, and having dinner. But they just play. They have so much fun.
And I can give you a couple, I’ll give you one example. The lady, the volunteer that we kind of had to persuade to be a volunteer, and ended up being the best volunteer in my entire life. She was playing, her character was a salon owner. And so there was a little bit that the audience can ask questions. And so someone said, “Oh, I like your hair color. How could I get your hair color?” And the lady goes, “Just buy it.” And she rips the bun off the top of her hair.
I lost it. I’m like, I’m not even going to try to stay in character at this point. And I think I had tears of laughter rolling. And she’s like, “Oh, I’m sorry too.” I was like, “No, please, you are wonderful. I would stay here and just play with you for the rest of the night. But I have other characters I have to get to because of this whole storyline.”
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, outstanding.
Dennis Porter:
They just play, and from year to year, different people and they show up and they’re ready to do it, and they’re like, “Okay, do you got another new one for us?” We’re like, “Let’s see.”
Jeff Randolph:
Well, speaking of other characters, I’m curious what’s in the works, because the characters that you built, like Denny Ray Byrne, or Ruby, or Ringmaster Dennis, you create characters that drive entertainment value. Do you let the personality drive the product that you’re selling, or do you let the product drive the personality? And I don’t know, maybe there’s another personality in that works there.
Does the character come first? Do you create the character, or is it really like, “Hey, here’s an event,” here’s the corporate event or the party situation and I need to develop a character to fit that?
Dennis Porter:
I think the product comes first and then the character comes into it.
Jeff Randolph:
It develops around it, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
Yeah. Even though, like you mentioned Denny Ray Byrne. So that’s my game show party host.
Jeff Randolph:
Right, right.
Dennis Porter:
Which is taken from Gene Ray Byrne, who was the, well-known mostly for Match Game.
Jeff Randolph:
Classic, classic.
Dennis Porter:
Yes. And my middle name is actually Ray, so-
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, it just fits.
Dennis Porter:
Denny Ray. Yeah. And I have an orange plaid jacket that I wear for that.
Jeff Randolph:
The pictures on the website are spectacular for that.
Dennis Porter:
We watch Match Game before going to bed every night.
Jeff Randolph:
Match Game, 76.
Dennis Porter:
Exactly!
Jeff Randolph:
Oh yeah, no, no.
Dennis Porter:
So, it matches. So that kind of just fits that character there. Some characters actually have come from past. Ruby actually was created from working for another murder mystery company years ago. They were an out of town company, and our group here in town, they sent the script for a holiday show and at a different ratio of men to women. And they’re like, “Well, we’ll find someone else and you can just sit this one out.” And voila, we couldn’t. And finally my friend Patty said, “Okay, here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to put Dennis in drag and we’re going to do this.” Which I’d never done before. And I was like, “Sure, let’s go for it, okay.” Loved it. And 15 years later, now Ruby has her own show that I’m heading out to conferences in the next week or so to book across the US. So you just let it happen, and grow and doing other things.
Jeff Randolph:
And I know that Ruby is not one that you would get tired of, but are there characters that you go, “Oh man. Okay. Do I have to do this one again?” Do they have a shelf life for you, or is it just, you put that on and you’re ready to go?
Dennis Porter:
I don’t think I have any that have had a shelf life.
Jeff Randolph:
Wow.
Dennis Porter:
I mean, there’s been some that have come and gone, just kind of naturally, whatever that specific show was, I think. Or I’ve been clowning for 33 years, so that character has changed some. Well actually I changed characters. Some of that had to do with makeup and other things, with aging. It’s just a thing.
Jeff Randolph:
It happens.
Dennis Porter:
It happens, right?
Jeff Randolph:
It happens.
Dennis Porter:
But being such a variety person, and I love that variety and part of that’s the improv in me, that I like that mix. And so I love being able to pull different things. My end of the big top circus show, which was originally created for a preschool, that I’ve been doing for 25 years. But I’m not doing it every day-
Dennis Porter:
Yeah, you’re not living that.
Jeff Randolph:
I’m not living it. But also if some, actually, this happened a few years ago, a library said, “Hey, our entertainer got sick. Can you grab something?” I was like, “Yes.” I always know, I can go grab that and go. It’s give me a few minutes to set it up, and I can do that.
Dennis Porter:
It’s in.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah.
Dennis Porter:
Yeah. It’s ready to go. I can do it blind.
Jeff Randolph:
You talked about improv, I think that’s probably the best transition that’s unplanned that we could use to get into the lightning ground. Are you ready for the lightning round?
Dennis Porter:
Sure!
Jeff Randolph:
You don’t have any idea what topics we may talk about in this one, so good luck.
Dennis Porter:
Oh, thank you.
Jeff Randolph:
My own, my own Denny Rayburn. I want to ask what makes a good MC? You’ve been an MC at events for radio Disney, at club shows, fundraisers, auctions, and for clients ranging from the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, to the Kansas Department of Transportation. So that question about what makes a good MC, do you focus on one area or do you let your improv take the lead? How much do you plan that out in advance? How do you approach an MC role?
Dennis Porter:
Definitely it’s improv, because that’s what keeps you going. I say the best MCs have no ego. It is not about them. When I’m MC-ing an event, my purpose usually is to make sure that event keeps going, and stays on time, and everything happens as it’s supposed to. And in between I’m adding some entertainment to it.
Jeff Randolph:
You get to tell some jokes in between and make some people laugh.
Dennis Porter:
Aright, and keep it going.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah, keep it moving.
Dennis Porter:
And if something goes astray, I’m there with my improv skills to be able to go, “Okay, here, let me fill in this while you pick up the trophies that fell on the floor,” or whatever. So it’s not about me, it’s about the organization or who I’m there for, to make sure it goes well.
Jeff Randolph:
And keep the trains running on time.
Dennis Porter:
Exactly.
Jeff Randolph:
Spectacular. Let’s talk about the business for a minute. You’ve been performing and running events for almost 24 years now. If you could go back in time and talk to first year in business you, what kind of advice would you give you?
Dennis Porter:
I would probably say go for it sooner.
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, really?
Dennis Porter:
I’m not a cliff jumper in general. And so when I started the business, I had, I think at that point I had a full-time job. It was the side gig.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
Weekends and whatever. And then originally I was like, “Ah…” Because I was on the business side of theater at that time and I was like, “You know, I really would rather be on stage instead of just supporting the people on stage.” So then I got two part-time jobs, and did a little bit more performing. Then I got just one part-time job, a little bit more performing, and then finally went full time. Which is a logical, how you probably-
Jeff Randolph:
It’s a good, safe way to go.
Dennis Porter:
It’s probably responsible of me right to do. And might’ve been it what, I mean, it’s exactly how I was it supposed to have been.
Jeff Randolph:
Sure.
Dennis Porter:
How it was. But I might have said, “Hey, try to do a little bit more performing.”
Jeff Randolph:
Just go for it.
Dennis Porter:
Try, just go for it. Yeah.
Jeff Randolph:
Just push out there, believe in yourself.
Dennis Porter:
Yes. Knowing that it is my passion.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah.
Dennis Porter:
This is what I’m here to do, this is my purpose, and I need to do it as much as possible.
Jeff Randolph:
Tell me, still speaking about the business side of things, what part of the business do you wish you knew more about?
Dennis Porter:
Oh. I guess it might be, I would say probably marketing.
Jeff Randolph:
Well, we’re here. If you’ve got a question, put me into the lightning round, we’ll make this happen.
Dennis Porter:
Exactly. Flip this around on you all of a sudden. Just because unfortunately I’m ambidextrous. I tell people that, and I feel like my brain is too. And I’m very fortunate, I went to William Jewell and they let you self-design a major.
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
So I actually have a theater business major.
Jeff Randolph:
Okay.
Dennis Porter:
I’m the only person in the world that owns it.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
Because I made it myself. So I have the knowledge of both sides and the understanding of how to do it. My heart is a performer, so I would rather do that more. And that’s where some of it’s like, as you know, marketing is constantly changing.
Jeff Randolph:
I’ve heard that. Yeah. No, it is.
Dennis Porter:
And like no, if I’m constantly changing things, I want to be learning new skills that I can perform.
Jeff Randolph:
Right, right. I don’t want to learn something like that. That’s-
Dennis Porter:
That’s another webinar.
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah, exactly. There’s no passion there for that.
Dennis Porter:
Right, yeah.
Jeff Randolph:
I get it. But 100% marketing can be a thing that people don’t always know enough about. And if you can focus on areas that you’re comfortable with and have a great time with, and leave the marketing to somebody else, somebody else can help out with that.
Dennis Porter:
Yes.
Jeff Randolph:
Clowning is a thing. Magic is a thing. Both are solid professions to be in. If I put you in some kind of weird constructed situation where you have to choose just one, for the rest of your life, and the other one can’t happen. Do you choose magic? Do you choose clowning?
Dennis Porter:
Clowning.
Jeff Randolph:
Really?
Dennis Porter:
Yep.
Jeff Randolph:
Tell me more.
Dennis Porter:
Clowning is much more improv, and interactive. Magic is too, at least with strolling, you still get to interact with it. But clowning is also part of my goal in life of having less things.
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fewer props?
Dennis Porter:
Fewer props, right? You have to have at least a deck of cards or something usually to do the magic. Even in mind reading, you have to have some kind of props. Which clowning is just playing. It’s just letting a character interact with other people and have fun. One of my, my very favorite festival is in Salina, Kansas.
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, of course.
Dennis Porter:
Middle of Kansas. They have the Smokey Hill River Festival, they’ve almost done 40 years. I get to go and I’ll do a stage show at the kids’ thing, and then I get a stroll. And at this point, they have no idea what I’m going to do every year. Because I’ve been there for 10 years or so, and every year I get to make up new things of interacting with people. This happened to be an Olympics year, so I have an Olympic torch relay, and it’s one of those little fan light flames-
Jeff Randolph:
Oh yeah, so a fake fire looking thing.
Dennis Porter:
Yeah. So I’m in clownish and I run in slow motion with Chariots of Fire music playing-
Jeff Randolph:
Perfect.
Dennis Porter:
Slow motion, and I pass off the flame to people, and they pass it around and pass it back, and then talk in slow motion. “Olympics.” And it’s just silliness and playing. This year, one of the photographers, it was a three pictures that told the whole story of this bit, of me. And what was even better was it was a group of teenagers. It shows we come in, shows when the kids take it, and it shows me running away from them, and all of them in the backgrounds and they’re laughing. I’m like, “Yes.”
Jeff Randolph:
Yep, that’s it.
Dennis Porter:
And I mean, teenagers aren’t the easiest market.
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
Especially in clowning, because they’re going to be a little, “Uh, I don’t know about…”
Jeff Randolph:
That’s right.
Dennis Porter:
So it was like, yes. You told the whole story of what this bit is, which sometimes is hard to sell.
Jeff Randolph:
Oh, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
They’re like, “You’re doing what? Do I get something? Do I get a balloon? Do I get,” I’m like, “No, you’re getting an interaction.” “Do I want to pay for an interaction?” “You do. You just may not know it yet.”
Jeff Randolph:
Yeah. Teenagers are a tough crowd too. Because they literally say, “Who’s this clown?”
Dennis Porter:
Yes, yes.
Jeff Randolph:
Like literally will say that when you walk out. That’s too much. Can we talk juggling for a minute?
Dennis Porter:
Sure.
Jeff Randolph:
People who have seen my bio on the website know that I can juggle. You work that into your shows, but you’ve said before that you wouldn’t hire yourself as a juggler. Are you continuing to practice, or did you reach a level of payoff for the practice needed and say, “Yeah, that’s enough, I can do what I need to do,” and walk away? Or is there more juggling in your future?
Dennis Porter:
I don’t have any planned more juggling. So because I’m pretty much a jack of all trades at times, I’ve just had to say, “Okay, I have too many trades.”
Jeff Randolph:
I get it, yeah.
Dennis Porter:
So for a few years, I actually did face painting and then went, “I’m okay, but I’m going to hire some face painters that do only that, and they’re going to have amazing work. Let them do that.” I did balloon twisting, balloon art for many years, and just in the past few years, it’s like, “Okay, I’m going to get rid of that because there’s not as much performance to it.” And I really want to be more performing. And then on a small level I just didn’t like the inventory of balloons. Not that big of a deal, but I was like, “Oh, I’m not going to do that.” Less physical stuff.
Jeff Randolph:
Less physical stuff. Yet there is a lot of physical stuff with juggling. There’s a bunch of stuff.
Dennis Porter:
Right. So I have just enough to be able to throw in a little, I can do three items of multiple different items, that can add a little something extra to show or put that in there. But I don’t need to be figuring out, “Oh, I’m going to learn an eight-ball cascade or something.”
Jeff Randolph:
Right.
Dennis Porter:
I’m going to go, because that’s also, that’s a lot of practice.
Jeff Randolph:
I can tell you that, yeah, that is-
Dennis Porter:
That’s a lot of time involved in there. And I had a friend who did improv with who said as comedians, he’s like, “Well, I do improv because I’m lazy.”
Jeff Randolph:
I don’t want to memorize stuff.
Dennis Porter:
Exactly!
Jeff Randolph:
Right, there’s writing, there’s-
Dennis Porter:
Stand-up comedians, they write this material, then they keep track of what got laughs or didn’t, and then they have to figure out, “Oh, well this will go in a better order or whatever.” Like give me a suggestion. We’ll go for five minutes.
Jeff Randolph:
That’s right. Give me a place and a thing.
Dennis Porter:
Right.
Jeff Randolph:
Speaking of, so that pre-show warm-up, vocal exercises. I know if I’m about to get a speaking gig, I’d stretch out by saying, toy boat, toy boat. Or red leather, yellow leather. Do you have a go-to vocal exercise that we can end the lightning round on?
Dennis Porter:
I do. I did it today.
Jeff Randolph:
Did you?
Dennis Porter:
Yeah.
Jeff Randolph:
See, see, that’s why we do that. That’s why you do it.
Dennis Porter:
And that comes back from my many years of in choir, growing up through school, just the red leather, yellow leather, aluminum, linoleum, unique, you nork. And then the final one is the, that’s kind like the siren of a, you try to get as low as you possibly can and as high as possible.
Jeff Randolph:
All the range.
Dennis Porter:
The whole range. But that’s at the end, you got to do all your A-E-I-O-U’s in the way there. But just get your voice going. You’re warming up, and-
Jeff Randolph:
Maybe we should have done that question at the beginning instead of the end. Now that we’re all warmed up and ready to go and we are all thinking, “Toy boat. Toy boat.” All right, I’ve taken you out of the lightning round, Dennis Porter, you’ve made it. Tell people where they can find you, where can they get more information? Where should they look?
Dennis Porter:
Sure. The quickest place is HappyFacesEntertainment.biz, that’s B-I-Z. We’re in showbiz.
Jeff Randolph:
That just makes sense. It just makes sense.
Dennis Porter:
Sense. And it is Happy Faces Entertainment, keep that in mind. So the website and you can see all the different things that are going on and coming up and around. And then we’re also on Facebook and Instagram for Happy Faces Entertainment. Casey Mr Players also has a Facebook. And then Smiles With Ruby is specifically stuff that Ruby’s doing on Facebook and Instagram both.
Jeff Randolph:
And also, let’s make sure we talk about where people can see you. Do you have shows coming up in the very near future? We are recording this in 2024, all of the people in the future. So what do you have coming up?
Dennis Porter:
Well, our upcoming public shows. Ruby’s actually doing bingo on September 13th this Friday evening down at Center for Spiritual Living. It’s just a community event. So come down, pay 10 bucks for 10 tickets or 10 cards, and have a fun evening. The public item, I believe would be an October at the Merriam Community Center. We’re doing one of our murder mysteries. It is Cleaver Class of 19 Deadly 2. It’s a high school reunion going on there. So that’s a Friday evening, I believe, the 18th of October.
Jeff Randolph:
Outstanding. Yeah. Check your local listings, go to the website, take a look at it. Definitely go out and make sure that you, if you’ve got an event coming up and you need some entertainment of some kind, check them out. Dennis Porter, entertainer and owner at Happy Faces Entertainment, thanks for being with us today.
Dennis Porter:
Thanks for having me.
Jeff Randolph:
And that is our show. Thanks to our guest, Dennis Porter, and thank you for listening to the Small Business Miracles podcast. Remember to subscribe. Leave us a five-star rating and review. Drop us a line on the website at E-A-G-A-D-V dot com if you have any thoughts. Until then, we’ll be out here helping entrepreneurs with another small business miracle.