Let me start off by saying that the 75.00 karaoke "cheepies" don't last long in a club mainly cause of their selection and inablity to motavate people. They are basically their because the owner has agreed to let them drink themselves silly. Now with that said let me say this any one who has been in this business for any length of time remembers when laserdisc came out and when karaoke was just becoming popular in the United States. You could basically book a club at 300-400.00 a night and be sucessful with it. Now the market has become so saturated with wanna be kj's that that price has become hard to impossible to get. I once wrote an article titled "What Are You Worth?". In there it explains how to sell yourself and your experience.

You as the emcee are 1. the band 2. the dj 3. the host for the entire evening 4 the person who can motivate people to do things they would not normally do at a club like sing in front of an audience. The job of a kj is to break in at least 3 new "virgin" karaoke singers a night at each of your clubs that you do.

What i am about to say may offend a few but it needs to be said. The karaoke show that you do is not about you. If you sing more than one song a night then you have an ego problem. Your job as stated before is to motivate people to get up and sing and have FUN doing it. I have been in this business since 1989 and have come up thru the ranks from learning from others. I started out as a roadie for 3 years learning how to motivate people from someone who was and still is as far as I am concerned "The Best" at what he does.

You need to be able to convince the the owner of a club that 1. you are about to enter into a "marriage" with the owner to increase his profits. 2. You have a following that will be there. not all at the same time every week.
but you can provide the club with your expertise. Your sound gear you MUST know inside and out how to set up a quality sound system that will have your singers saying "God was that me?" not just call up a person insert a disc then go talk to some hot girl in the audience. Which by the way i have seen Way too much of in night clubs around the country.

YOU NEED TO BE ALBE TO DIAL A SINGER IN EVERYTIME THEY GET UP! now you going to ask what does he mean dial a singer up? 1. set the efx for that singer. 2.set the balance between high's mids and lows so that singer sounds as best as possible even if they are tone def.

Ok what if i have no singers you may ask. then here is what you do 1. Play some dj music then go into the audience and introduce yourself strike up a conversation and gain the confidence of people that don't know you. watch what will happen before you know it you have singers.

Now with that all said and done "What Are You Worth"