I have 60 uplight programs, and 80 moving head programs. Do more work with higher quality gear... get better results.
I'm assuming these are programs your group designed?
I have 60 uplight programs, and 80 moving head programs. Do more work with higher quality gear... get better results.
DMX can make a huge difference... but not if you're using mediocre at best lights. People are not impressed with mediocrity. No one ever said to their friends you have to try that mcd's burger.... but they will say, at some point in your life you gotta go to this place in NYC that has this $200 burger... its expensive but its the most amazing burger, and you gotta try it once before you die. If you want people to be impressed, mediocre just won't cut it.
I have 60 uplight programs, and 80 moving head programs. Do more work with higher quality gear... get better results.
I am going DMX to make life easier.
I am usually hired for my reputation, experience, personality, and by word of mouth.
All of which are subjective enough that you have to keep them fresh and unique.
Ha! I remember saying exactly the same thing.
You're right, the first few events it was included at no extra cost... in fact at first I always included Moving Heads in my package (2 of them), up until I started booking for the 2016 season. I never charged extra for that... just extra as my base price for the overall experience I provide. I think some don't realize that I sell an experience not equipment. I sell what a particular enhancement can do, not the specifications... at this price range people assume I have the best for their needs, and that they don't need to worry about quality or whats what in my setup. However, I do have it a bit easier than others... www.vimeo.com/djtaso has over 200 videos of events of mine so people can see what I'm doing and what I'm using to create those results. Videos go back as far as 5 years ago, so this isn't something new that I'm doing, but something that I've put in place for many years to make my selling process a whole lot easier.You can run into the chicken or egg situation - Generally to sell something you need to be able so show it - and programing lights takes time, etc - so before you can go ask $1500, 2500, etc you need to invest $10k in gear.
With no guarantee anyone will spend $2500. Or that enough will spend it.
It would be difficult to do more than 3 or 4 proms here in a season - they all pick the same flippin night or two. So it won't pay you back in year 1. Or maybe 2.
Perhaps you can upcharge for homecoming and such and use it there, get some more payback.
But it's still gonna take more than a new visa card balance to justify double or tripling your rates. Odds are it will take a few years to make this happen.
Building a reputation takes time.
I will disagree on the need to invest to charge more I was the $500 dj for a long time and was in super high demand I had a mentor make realize I should charge significantly more over the course of 3 years I went from a $500 average to $1500 sure a replaced some gear that made the job easier but I added no new features my standard show had always been tops subs a wash effect and some sort of mirror ball effectYou can run into the chicken or egg situation - Generally to sell something you need to be able so show it - and programing lights takes time, etc - so before you can go ask $1500, 2500, etc you need to invest $10k in gear.
With no guarantee anyone will spend $2500. Or that enough will spend it.
It would be difficult to do more than 3 or 4 proms here in a season - they all pick the same flippin night or two. So it won't pay you back in year 1. Or maybe 2.
Perhaps you can upcharge for homecoming and such and use it there, get some more payback.
But it's still gonna take more than a new visa card balance to justify double or tripling your rates. Odds are it will take a few years to make this happen.
Building a reputation takes time.
Trust me, Rick....it is not my first choice.
Perhaps using the phrase "my life" was not accurate....
but it will make using my two light fixtures easier...
considering there is no other way to do what I want to do.
DMX can do some really neat things. Taso obviously uses it to up his presentation game, as do others. I liked dinking with it but I just couldn't see where it was anything financially beneficial to my biz. Yours could be a completely different situation. Go for it.
I said it before, it has nothing to do with money.
Just a means to an end.
...and it might be fun to dink with it.
(unless I am wrong about what "dinking" is...)
Then again, dink and Tinder are too ...I think dink and tinker are synonymous... not sure though.[emoji1]
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Where and how much bro? I was looking at one about a year ago!I founda Chauvet Obey 40 with four DMX cables for a great price. I'm probably gonna pull the trigger on it tomorrow.
Idjnow.comWhere and how much bro? I was looking at one about a year ago!