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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:51:36 GMT
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On 2004-10-23 (hankalrich) said:
Is this REALLY a business where we brush aside potential
customers, instead of taking a few minutes to be pleasant and
maybe point them toward someone who does offer the service they
want? You're a contractor. You build houses. Somebody calls up
wanting to know how much a house costs, and they're expecting to
hear a number about one-quarter of the cost of a basic house.
Further, they have no house plans, no lot or land, and no financing.
How much time can you invest in nothing?
NOt much. I suggest to these folks when they make contact that I"ll
build the arrangement for them but we might want to replace midi
tracks with actual instruments etc. to really pout their best foot
forwrard on their demo. AS often as not they'll get scared and walk
away.
I had one broad one time whom I met through a friend. sHe wanted to
do some of these meditation tapes, but she didn't want to use any
music which she'd have to license. I started out by telling her I
could do the whole thing, music bed for her one hour meditation
program voice and all for about $2k. sHe started trying to lowball me
on the money. Hence I decided to sic her on two other studios in the
area to compare and price shop. sHE never called back so I figure she
got the same answers from them.
Otoh I had a karaoke dude who'd written some songs and wanted to do
two or three covers plus his five or six originals on a cd. I charged
him $125 a song for the originals and a straight $25 per hour for
midi-ing up the covers and doing his vocals on them as he did harmony
overdubs etc. OVer the course of about a year I think I got about
$1.5k off the kid. HIs originals sucked but we gave him the country
sound for 'em and took his money.
These were one day a week sessions, another half a day or so to whip
up midi tracks to back him up for each song. I even got the kid to
spring for some real musicians (guitar dummer) to make his two best
originals stand out. AT first he thought I was feeding him a line of
BS when I told him not to waste time with the karaoke singer friends
for backup but let me find a couple of people. After spending some
money on the clock and not getting usable tracks he finally decided I
knew something about this stuff and let me bring in a couple of pros
for that too.
even though I got paid I don't think I'd go into such a project again.
Beat me up pretty good on the time I spent.
Richard Webb,
Electric SPider Productions, New Orleans, La.
REplace anything before the @ symbol with elspider for real email
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