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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 97581" data-attributes="member: 24"><p>Re: What is your competition like?</p><p></p><p>I have learned some amazing things from my competition through the years:</p><p></p><p>1. Go ahead and poach bands and gigs from your competition by either drastically underbidding the cost/equipment or by promising to buy new equipment you don't have. When you get the new band/gig, post pictures of them using the competition equipment on stage on your own website. When you buy that shiny new equipment and can't figure out how to use it, you call always call the competition for help.</p><p></p><p>2. If you make at least one weekend van trip a year, advertise yourself as experienced in touring. If you make two van trips a year, then you can consider yourself "specializing" in touring.</p><p></p><p>3. Make sure you have a schedule of events on your website. Make sure everything music related is listed. If you are sitting at the bar while the house guy mixes your friends band, list it. If your band gets an opening slot for someone people have heard of, list your band and the headliner on your schedule. Working as a backstage volunteer at a festival where the only thing tech related you touch is your cell phone, list that too. Hell, nothing else going on so you buy a ticket to an act you really like, list that as well. (Be sure to take lots of pictures from the viewpoint of the people actually doing the work).</p><p></p><p>4. Don't forget the sales aspect. Make sure you keep a running list of all your broken gear so you can sell it to those bars who stuff is in even worse shape. Make sure your company logo is on all that stuff, so we know who is providing the monitors with blown HF, boom mic stands with booms that don't lock in position, intermittant cables, effects units that are missing half the buttons, ACP88's (in general), and mics that have been dropped so many times the ball looks like a taco.</p><p></p><p>Thats some for now, I will probably think of some more things later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 97581, member: 24"] Re: What is your competition like? I have learned some amazing things from my competition through the years: 1. Go ahead and poach bands and gigs from your competition by either drastically underbidding the cost/equipment or by promising to buy new equipment you don't have. When you get the new band/gig, post pictures of them using the competition equipment on stage on your own website. When you buy that shiny new equipment and can't figure out how to use it, you call always call the competition for help. 2. If you make at least one weekend van trip a year, advertise yourself as experienced in touring. If you make two van trips a year, then you can consider yourself "specializing" in touring. 3. Make sure you have a schedule of events on your website. Make sure everything music related is listed. If you are sitting at the bar while the house guy mixes your friends band, list it. If your band gets an opening slot for someone people have heard of, list your band and the headliner on your schedule. Working as a backstage volunteer at a festival where the only thing tech related you touch is your cell phone, list that too. Hell, nothing else going on so you buy a ticket to an act you really like, list that as well. (Be sure to take lots of pictures from the viewpoint of the people actually doing the work). 4. Don't forget the sales aspect. Make sure you keep a running list of all your broken gear so you can sell it to those bars who stuff is in even worse shape. Make sure your company logo is on all that stuff, so we know who is providing the monitors with blown HF, boom mic stands with booms that don't lock in position, intermittant cables, effects units that are missing half the buttons, ACP88's (in general), and mics that have been dropped so many times the ball looks like a taco. Thats some for now, I will probably think of some more things later. [/QUOTE]
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