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It would not be a group audit--too hard to keep track of--just a series of one-on-ones in the area. And yes, it would still be $125.

@both - Agreed - Free music does not make anyone a professional entertainer.

Even experienced, quality, legal, professional karaoke entertainers want to reduce the cost of doing business so they can increase their margins. When a perfectly capable karaoke entertainer reduces their cost of doing business to 1/10th of what another perfectly capable karaoke entertainer does, how can you even remotely argue that there won't be a shift in the economics of the industry?

@rick - When you entered the biz in 2006, rates were already pushed low by the pirates. The reality you live in now is not the reality of what piracy has put upon the industry over time.

If I used the same basis for my business plans, I might think that $75-$100/night is an excellent rate since that is what a lot of the hosts charge around my area. Personally, I won't work for that rate even to get my foot in the door.

-Chris

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-Chris

DITTO!!! I'm very tired of illegal KJ's taking my gigs for less than half my price! I've spent years and thousands of dollars to build my library (karaoke and DJ). This isn't a fun second job for social pleasure, to me this is a business that has to support more than one family. I don't like DJ's or KJ's pirating music! It's getting more and more difficult... working for less than I did 5, 6, 10 years ago.. while the cost of everything else has gone up! I run a legitimate business, and I don't mind competing with legitimate DJ's or KJ's...a fair playing field is all I ask.

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