Do you consider December a good month for making money as a DJ looking at your calendar for December right now? Or is it a weak sauce month?
December used to be 4 gigs a week plus NYE but the last 10 years it's dropped off to a trickle I'm lucky to get 5 or 6 in the month
Are we talking weddings or regular events. For weddings I no longer consider December an off season month. It used to be up till 2017 but then it really started filling up. It seems as if people are taking chances as we haven’t really had bad weather during December.
Yeah weddings are taking the chance of good weather in hopes of incredible pricing. Can be as much as 50% off if you choose a winter Sunday. However smaller events and holiday parties just never made it back to what they once were.It can be for weddings or parties, or just in general. It sounds like it is a busy month for you in terms of weddings now.
Yeah weddings are taking the chance of good weather in hopes of incredible pricing. Can be as much as 50% off if you choose a winter Sunday. However smaller events and holiday parties just never made it back to what they once were.
Idk if it’s a market thing, but sundays are big here. Perhaps bigger than fridays.I took the Sunday discount down on my website. I was offering a 15% discount.
I think I may still offer the discount for customers who contact me for a Sunday, but honestly, I only had a single Sunday inquiry in the last 12 months, and they booked! lol
I am debating if I should have a separate Sunday price for weddings, and advertise it on the site, or just advertise a "Sunday Discount", or don't do anything for Sundays at all since leads for Sundays seem very rare for me.
Idk if it’s a market thing, but sundays are big here. Perhaps bigger than fridays.
I took the Sunday discount down on my website. I was offering a 15% discount.
I think I may still offer the discount for customers who contact me for a Sunday, but honestly, I only had a single Sunday inquiry in the last 12 months, and they booked! lol
I am debating if I should have a separate Sunday price for weddings, and advertise it on the site, or just advertise a "Sunday Discount", or don't do anything for Sundays at all since leads for Sundays seem very rare for me.
I have stopped discounting for anything on a weekend. Mid-week I might still entertain something less, but not for a weekend anymore.
If I had no job, My mindset would be reverse like it was just 2 months ago! lol
If they want to book you, would you take it?I think a market thing. The slower venues don't even hardly book anything on Sundays. Most of the hotels will end up booking a Breakfast for the wedding party/guests after the Saturday night wedding.
The wedding Factory venues will book their Sundays though...at least most of the Sundays during wedding season.
Now that I am working 40 hrs Mon thru Friday I have no intention of booking Fridays. Plus the traffic is way too bad. a Friday event takes my whole day because they are usually 60+ miles away too. I will throw any Friday events at my bro or sis moving forward.
I did just actually get a Thursday wedding lead in though. It's at a wedding factory type of venue on the water. It's not really what I would consider a wedding factory. They are set up like one, but I don't think they are THAT busy. Last time I spoke with the Owner, they were doing about 60 weddings a year, that was in 2017.