Where to Get Puppets: How to Start Your Own Puppet Company Home Business

Series Summary

For thousands of years, puppets have been used to transmit the values and ideas of cultures from one generation to the next. Puppets are inanimate objects used to tell a story in a play or presentation. Usually they are moving characters, but not always. The puppet is either operated directly, by a person’s hand, or indirectly, by the use of strings or mechanical controls. There are many different kinds of puppets, including the hand puppet, marionettes, supermarionation puppets, rod puppets, light curtain puppets, shadow puppets and ventriloquist dummies. In this free video series for puppeteers, learn how to start your own puppet company home business, with tips on where to get puppets, what equipment you need and how to train puppeteers to put on a successful puppet show. Also learn how to market your company to schools and corporations, and how incorporate yourself. Get valuable advice on many startup materials and resources you’ll need to start your own puppet business in this unique set of instructional videos.

Video Transcript

"My name is Paul Louis from Puppets and Stuff Puppets and I like to welcome you on how to start you very own puppet company. Okay you loved puppets all of your life, you loved them as a kid and now you still love them as a adult well what can you do to further your interest in puppeteer. Well you could start your very own puppet company and you could actually make money doing it to. Yes you can. Now I'm going to give you a few tips on how you could do this. One thing you could do is you could start a puppet company for schools and for ministries and well you don't make money you just share the joy of puppeteer with people. It would be nice if you could share the joy of puppeteer with people and put a little green in your pocket to. So first you are going to need stars and I'm talking about your puppets. Now there are tons of different puppets out there that you could purchase on the Internet. You could use finger puppets, you could use hand puppets, hand puppets are the little puppets like this were the mouths don't move. You can use moving mouth puppets where the mouths open and close kind of like the puppets you see on most televisions shows. You could purchase these puppets on the Internet. Just do a search on puppets. A good resource is a sight called puppet port that is actually a site that I'm a partner with and it is basically a portable for a everything puppeteer related. So check that one out because you would find a lot of puppets that you need for you very own puppet company."