Well I can only go by what you post I sure don't have the time to follow you around. According to you haven't done a gig in 2 years without some sort of drama or having to sell CD's to get paid
When is there an event that a potential client contacts you to that will have you say no to doing
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Well I can only go by what you post I sure don't have the time to follow you around. According to you haven't done a gig in 2 years without some sort of drama or having to sell CD's to get paid
You break them off some bread Mix. Don't have bank accounts Mix? I can't believe that a 60 year old man would have to ask this question. Should be common sense.......... UhOh
You're wrong on both parts. First the selling of CDs is people buying them if they choose to of the people who are speaking there or others from another event that was somewhere else.
I'm already paid for me as the DJ. That was a suggestion given to me to start doing that and I decided to try it. So far this Saturday will be the third time of us providing this service. It's coming along slowly. Which I already knew that was how it was going to be in the beginning.
All I can say is this Saturdays event will be drama free and super easy as they have been in the past when doing events for this committee.
Nope I have a network of DJ who trust that will be more than happy to fill in, this has been explained thoroughly at the time of contract signing, I’ve had this account for well over 10 years and have never had an issue
Mix most business owners don’t live hand to mouth like you do I have plenty of money saved to pay help if needed. And I don’t even have to live with my mom, and haven’t since I was 18 years old
If there was more room to type, you would have see.. (seen that it was an option you could have listed in your business plan to make sure something like this is covered, especially for something like long term contracts).
As of this day I have never had a client tell me what they want to pay, I tell them my price take it or leave it
What I was talking about are those that once you give a price they want to renegotiate for a cheaper price. Usually the price they have in mind is so low that I laugh to myself and end the conversation with a no answer.
why didn't you state it that way in the first place, I rarely negotiate, I will however given them options that may lower their cost
Mix, you HAVE to accept the fact, that the clientele you work with... 99% of us on here do not. I am in shock to read that at once you were doing all events because of needed exposure... but now you magically do not need that? You don't even have a steady stream of events, and I can't recall the last PRIVATE event you've actually done (not that you attended or a friend did). People on here may not realize this, since they're not from NJ, but you literally live 10-20 min away from some of the nation's most wealthiest towns, but you keep focusing on and limiting yourself to a few square miles of clientele... which unfortunately tends to be in an area where safety is a concern... or you focus on these organizations that clearly have no money whatsover. The fact that you are talking about trying to get better paying gigs, or sticking to your guns over $50... yet have to actually bid for a $200 job shows that you in fact don't have any strategy, and these conversations don't change anything about how you do things. I asked you last week after your hyped up gig, what gig you had next... and that one is for this weekend for another speaking event.
The bigger question in my mind is, why haven't you been able to get any actual Private Events, like birthday's (not at a run down bar), anniversaries, weddings, holiday events etc? Are you actively trying to DJ, or are you at the point where you dont care and just want to do jobs for random friends and people here and there.
The reason I selected those two venues as ones I don't want to be a part of, is not because they're on the super low end of things, but because I can't work in the conditions they've created. Galloping doesn't provide anywhere close to enough time needed for set up, and Snuffy's is just a nightmare to work with because of the fact that nothing ever flows right... and I am very particular of the way things are ran for my clients. I did an event there last year... it was a homecoming dance where there was no timeline or anything of importance. They ran 30 min late with dinner, and even when they told me to have guests seated for dinner... there was another 10 min delay before food was out. Just look at the last wedding I did... it was in a GYM... so it isn't necessarily about the venue itself. When you get to a certain price point, obviously other types of parties and potential clients are going to stop calling you. You are at the bottom right now and you will continue to get these situations until YOU DO SOMETHING about it. The clients you get wont change, and nothing you can do can change the way that your current network of clients behave. However, you can change your clientele base, if you change.
You don't like change clearly... you don't even like listening to more established DJ's on here. You don't answer 90% of our questions (I've asked repeated stuff multiple times to get ignored). You bring up stuff that despite how it's answered doesn't change any of your behaviors... and the only reason it's worth responding to is in hopes someone else benefits. You have to really examine your priorities, because until this point, you've done nothing to show any desire for self improvement.
I think part of it is Mix likes to play one style of music so that limits him
Again not true. What I don't like are events where they only want one style of music and that is today's hip-hop and r and b. It has to be in a safe environment or I will pass. Taso when I get to do an event for the 12 step program I'm a member of, not a problem. Unless I'm already booked. I believe if it weren't for those people in the rooms I wouldn't be clean and serine today. Certainly I would not be in business.
I didn't read your entire post but let me say I agree with the other things you posted.
Anyone wish you could flick someone on the forehead through the internet
Perhaps you should actually read an entire post (not just from me but from everyone else actually making an effort to offer guidance), and address what we say rather than try and counter a line here or there. And perhaps by doing so and making changes in how you do things, you'd actually start getting clients that want more than hip hop and rap... which is primarily because you're focusing on people that live within a VERY specific area of a couple of miles. It's as if you're afraid to work for people you don't have any connection to, and only want to work for people you personally know. Which essentially means we're going full circle with more of the same stories over and over.
As far as personal events... great! Do them! Give Back! I do events for the local Greek Youth community in NJ who were a huge part of my childhood, and at a huge discount... 4 events at $1250 an event for a package that normally costs $4000+. The difference is thats not all I do and It's 5% of my total events. You on the other hand seem to ONLY do these charity/personal/giving back type of events. Like I said, I can't recall any event that you had done with no problems AND was a private function in an actual venue. Even the one at Galloping you posted was not your event, but rather a friends.