Turning The Dance Floor!
TURNING THE DANCE FLOOR - is a term that is used to describe the way you handle your crowd in relation to the Gig you are performing at. We all like to see the dance floor packed, it's great for our ego, but at times it's not so great with the bar manager. If you're playing a wedding or private function, your main job is to keep the people up on the floor, so you play great dance songs and you really don't have to worry about it. Playing at a bar or club is quite different. The club owner wants profits, your the key to those profits. Everything else aside, you need to "Turn the Dance floor" - quite simple, yet very important. Every time you play a song there are people who are dancing, then there are the people who are drinking. Here is the problem. The people dancing are not spending money and the people drinking are not getting hot and sweaty so they drink less. While it's great to have the dancers happy, you must make sure that they only dance to 2 or 3 songs in a row. So you change the type of music after say the 3rd song. Most likely you will find that the people dancing will sit down (their now hot and thirsty and ready to spend $) and the new style of music will induce a new round of drinkers up to the dance floor ( so that they can get hot and thirsty again) you could have 3 different styles of music which would mean that you would get three different sets of people up on the dance floor (or sitting down and drinking) every 9 songs (3x3). This is a proved way to get people to spend more money per evening, which makes the bar owner happy and makes you the DJ to Hire because you bring in more cash. The patrons will be pleased with this also. Time to drink, dance and socialize. Everyone wins when you turn the dance floor......
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