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03-07-2006, 06:52 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: kcmo | | | Looking for clever ideas for the tip jar.
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The band I'm in uses the proceeds from the tip jar to pay most of the common expenses--travel, promotion, etc.
We have a couple of projects comming up that are going to require some extra cash. I would be interested in knowing how others promote tipping without it coming off like you're browbeating the audience.
We always encourage tipping of the bartenders/wait staff--I'm looking for suggestions of how we could do the same for ourselves--humorous banter/one-liners from the bandstand, funny signs on the tip jar, etc. |
03-07-2006, 06:53 AM
| | | | Introduce the member of your band, Phil, Phil the TipJar. |
03-07-2006, 06:55 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: kcmo | | (groan)  That's the kind of thing that I'm looking for. Thanks. |
03-07-2006, 07:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Saratoga county,New York,U.S.A | | | have a 50\50 raffle
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03-07-2006, 09:29 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: kcmo | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by flatwoundfender Introduce the member of your band, Phil, Phil the TipJar. |
How about this?
Last edited by emor : 07-24-2006 at 05:08 AM.
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03-07-2006, 09:31 AM
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03-07-2006, 09:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Franklin, NC | | | Make sure you get one of those humongous pickle jars if you can, and paint it florescent orange!
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03-07-2006, 09:41 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: kcmo | | | This one's a gallon--that ought to be sufficient. |
03-07-2006, 11:09 AM
|  | Habitual Shirker | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Bakersfield, CA | | | Send a babe around to solicit tips. Give her a cut. It works for us.
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03-07-2006, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: atlanta, georgia [satellites] | | | "tipping is not a city in china" |
03-07-2006, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Saratoga county,New York,U.S.A | | no really, have a 50\50 raffle...your are not asking(begging) for cash when it's a contest\drawing when someone has a chance to win money. It's kinda like playing the lottery,and more people are more inclined to buy a ticket. sell them for a dollar each or 3 for $2 or an arms lenght for $5..have the drawing at the beginning of your third set,then you split the pot with the winner..and the crowd stays all night...one band I play in does this all the time and it really helps our take at the end of the night..and it's not panhandling. 
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03-07-2006, 04:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | You could put a couple of quarters in phil the tip jar and use him as a rhythm instrument like maracas. Thus he will become phil the musical tip jar and he will get alot more notice as well.
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03-07-2006, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Montréal | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by flatwoundfender Introduce the member of your band, Phil, Phil the TipJar. | No good. We already have 2 Phils in our band. Quote: |
Originally Posted by theshadow2001 You could put a couple of quarters in phil the tip jar and use him as a rhythm instrument like maracas. Thus he will become phil the musical tip jar and he will get alot more notice as well. | Although... Phil playing Phil the Tipjar...
No. Way to confusing. Unless you don't have any Phils in your band, in which case the idea sounds pretty good. |
03-07-2006, 06:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | Tips? Why don't you sell merch like everyone else? |
03-08-2006, 02:26 AM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | | Pimp the drummer. Turn him out between sets.
I'm just saying.
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03-08-2006, 02:58 AM
| | Srubby wubbly | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Monroe, Louisiana | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Bard2dbone Pimp the drummer. Turn him out between sets. | But at least give'm a good pass or two with a water hose first. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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