How to charge more for your Roadshow Disco.

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how to charge more.
have a set price for a standard roadshow and as you add more gear, lighting, speakers etc you need to start to ask for more cash.
------------------------------------------------ Nothing in this tutorial is provided as legal advice. It is provided for information purposes only.

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[MrDjpete1]

Hi Jonathan

A great bit of info.

I have tried this and when you meet up with the people you will be working for it's nice to chat and offer them a choise. And to be honest why should us jocks all price our selves the same ! If your worth it then go for it .

All the best.

[RetroDJuk]

Hi Jonathan.

I found this video very helpful and will definately try to change the way I price an event but found that if I didn't give a price in the email or on the phone, they simply didn't bother to come back and I often lost the booking all together. I'm all for DJ's upping the game and took the advice about not giving clients a price over the phone from seminars at the BPM 2010 but unfortunately this doesn't seem to work for me.

[JesseCatnipJames]

Jonathan, this is an amazingly helpful video. I just got propositioned for my first wedding and I wasn't really sure what to charge or anything but this was really helpful my man. Cheers!

[djsmithy14]

well 400 are good but you could use a bass cab with it and it would take the load off and u couldplay up to 200 people with that

[djsmithy14]

yh take a variety of music because you wont play one type of music all night i done a gig with pop/hip hop then rnb then club classixs and some rock at the end

[DJLordstar]

your never going to make everyone happy ive been asked to play Only house music and no cheese by the person booking. Only yo turn up and its a familly party with kids from 6 to 6o years old.

i was a rock DJ and I got told i would not get paid unless I played what they wanted so I asked them to construct a list of artists they wanted playing. That way its there fault if they dont put bon jovi on the list.

97% of work will be cheese guaranteed!

this is where having a laptop is handy.

[VVooDz]

This is the strategy I would use.

However I'm thinking the down-side to this is your name and reputation. If your sound is designed for a 40sq/m dance area but your clients won't pay the extra for the required 80Sq/m area, your set is going to sound crap with a full dance floor. That's your reputation going down the drain. Playing good music is one thing and ultimately it separates the wheat from the chaff. However can you risk bad sound because your client is a cheap-skate?

[VVooDz]

Do you notice you've gone to some gigs and with the music for you client only to find out the other guest want something else? Do you take some other stuff with you just in case?

[VVooDz]

I could be wrong here, however what I've tended to see is an additional 1000w Bass to take the load off the twin 400's. You end up with fuller, more dynamic sound but will be far more easy going on your speakers.

[Disco247]

My tip is to use Google Earth and Google Maps to take a quick look at the venue you've been requested to quote for. Obviously you can't see all the problems you may encounter, such as stairs and parking (unloading etc) ... but it may help you to decide whether to pass the job on to the local DJ Dbl Decks ... and his/her Fal lighting show lol.

As ever EllaSkins ... respect.