Originally Posted By: Rfinnshw
"So if in your area a moron is gigging for $100 a gig, people will think youre way to expensive when you charge $300 a gig."

Bachus,

I totally agree with your last comment... As long as there is some Moron doing the same gig for $100 that is what really kills it for being able to get compensated for today's reality of pricing. $$$

Just like any market, "supply & demand" as long as some idiot is causing the fee structure to crash, then it becomes challenging to justify what the year 2013 reasonable compensation should be.

In my area: Southeast Florida, I blame the guys that work the same circuit as me, that are still charging what the fee structure was 28 years ago, for the realistic reason why my fees seem so "out of line" compared to what they are still working for which is only $50 per hour!!!

The person doing the hiring at the Venue constantly gives me the rebuttal that: "The other guys are doing the gig for $150!"


Ron, in Port Saint Lucie, Florida [Southeast Florida]
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Obviously a player needs to be worth the money you ask for, ....you have to back up your playing and singing WAY above all the rest when you ask for more money and be ready to prove it to your perspective clients making them "look to hire you" what do YOU do in your act that is better then the competition?, are you putting in the hours to make clients know who you are? what you do? how good you can entertainer their people at a gig? make countless phone calls, sending out flyers, advertising in news papers, visiting clients locations, auditions, using agents, etc,. if your not ready to go "FULL BORE" to get work anywhere your music will be appropriate then you have given up and will languish with the other $50.00 gig players,who are a dime a dozen,...but, if you want to soar above them in this business you gotta care about what your doing big time and make it happen at all costs doing the legwork, homework every day. It can be done, you get the one shot if your music is subpar or just average your just another player in the mix, if the crowd leaves and you can create a "WOW" factor after a gig you will leave them WANTING MORE & MORE and that is the KEY!!! I cannot stress this enough!!...EVERY GIG!!!!......or you can sit home and make squat.
but,how much does somebody want it only you can chose your destiny?.... wink


Edited by Dnj (03/03/13 09:09 AM)