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Topic: How cheap can you be Mr. Owner.............

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Below is a quote from an ad for a Dj in Pasadena, California

"TOP 40 : you can rock the house. Smoke it. and know music including retro - current as well. know the billbord top 40 across genres from the disco era ( 1978 ish ) to now.......The club is a multi millionndollar club. Must understand the reason you are here in the end is about sales to the club. $100 - $150 a nite till you prove your self."

You want experience, music knowlege, top notch skills AND a Dj that understands his real job is not "spinning" but working the crowd to increasing sales..........so you want a REAL PROFESSIONAL DJ but you oily want to pay bedroom Dj rates. There is one multimillion dollar club failure that will be for sale very shorty!

Ante up a bit tightwad....remember, you usually get what you pay for!
 
Posted Sun 10 May 09 @ 12:01 pm
Club/bar managers/owners are notoriously cheap. Any DJ worth their salt will see "multi-million dollar club" and "100-150 a night" and snort out a giggle and keep moving along.
 
If a club is that prestigious, then it won't need to try cheap-shot ads like that, it'll go source/headhunt the good DJ's directly. Sounds like the Club's prestige is in the mind of the owner...
 
Wow...

That's some funny sh*t.

To the owner......Good luck with that one.

Ha ha.
 
problem is if a dj needs work or money no matter how good they are they are at the mercy of what the club pays
 
sirkitbreaker wrote :
problem is if a dj needs work or money no matter how good they are they are at the mercy of what the club pays


I agree with you to some extent, but I wouldn't lower my rates (or standards) to such an extent that it's not worth my while doing the gig, just to get the gig. I see guys under-cutting their fellow DJ's all the time just to get gigs on their books. Yes, it's a pain-in-the-ass, but I think the club/bar/hotel/whatever-manager will realise that they get what they pay for. Might take them a while, but they will realise it eventually. Their realisation will probably come from poor sound/lighting (possibly cheap equipment), poor choice of music and inability to read the crowd, equiment failure with the cheap DJ and no backup plan, etc. - all of which can drive out the punters and result in lost revenue to the owner.

When I'm having a job priced on my house from a carpenter/plumber/tiler/electrician, he'll quote me a price for the service I want. We can negotiate back and forth and probably reach some common ground, but I can't offer him a ridiculously low price and expect him to just accept it. Sure, I could have gone to another tradesperson with my offer price and end-up with a disaster on my hands - and cost me twice as much to fix it.

You get what you pay for...
 


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