This Mental Floss article on magicians' secrets quotes a number of famous prestidigitators, including Richard Bloch, who's also a lawyer and arbitrator.
Some of the secrets are common sense. If you ask a magician to work for you, pay her. If you ask a magician to reveal the secret of a trick, pay for the secret. Save the corny jokes--she's heard them before. And she didn't go to "magic school"--she worked hard on her own, or with professional magicians, to learn what she knows and to do it skillfully and entertainingly. Again, pay her for that knowledge, skill, and artistry.
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