DJ - MDJ Business 101 - Getting Started
The SBA has a vast resource to help those just getting started & those that have screwed up miserably & are mature enough to realize they need to start over & do things right.
http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/startup/guide.html
The current dilemna facing the Mobile Disc Jockey industry has been created by legions of DJs side stepping a time honored tradition of learning the ropes.
Mobile Disc Jockey are gambling with their financial futures just like pioneer travelers that bought wagons & headed west without the necessary knowledge to survive. The trails of the old west are riddled with graves of those less fortunate victims of impulsive capitalism. Albeit, the risks were more easily defined by pioneers...you screw up you die. Mobile Disc Jockey is many cases simply don't or can't comprehend the risks they are taking.
Imagine filling your calendar with gigs you have to travel to increasing your odds of a fatal car wreck for the least amount of revenue...
Hidesite is 20/20 for a reason!
Learn from the mistakes of others! You won't live long enough to make them all yourself!