Tip jars come in all shapes.
This one can also be used as a beer mug at keg parties..just don’t leave it unattended
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Tip jar. First time for me.
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Tip jars come in all shapes.
This one can also be used as a beer mug at keg parties..just don’t leave it unattended
...why not put one out? We're all underpaid anyway...
At a hotel a guy here plays jazz in the lobby one night a week and he mentions the tip jar once each set, saying only, “We encourage philanthropy.”
just cause you eat 2 full meals like a psycho and get drinks for the entire band doesn't mean everyone wastes their cash.
There’s nothing wrong with a tip jar (where appropriate, of course). But I draw the line at having someone walk it through the audience. It smacks of extorting money out of friends and fans who have already supported you by their presence. Put one out, mention it if you do, say thanks to the people who drop something in, but don’t shake it under peoples’ noses.
I won't play under 250$ show .
compare to my country money if you wanna compare it to over all price .
It is about your 800$ .
compare to my country money if you wanna compare it to over all price .
It is about your 800$ .
Push that tip jar. We have always had one, but we have found that pushing it - after every other song and at breaks - has increased our always meager pay about an average of 25%. Sometimes we double our take for the night.
Second, whoever suggested getting a cute girl to haul it around and hit everyone up: that works. EVERY TIME.
You're a business and your business is making money from playing music. Maximize all your income streams. Don't be afraid of that. As Cory Wong said - really paraphrasing here - about some guy who was giving him the business for trying to sell merch: "half the time? I'm really disappointed. I am trying to sell you something 100% of the time I am on this stage, and I need to do a much better job if you thought it was only half."
Second, whoever suggested getting a cute girl to haul it around and hit everyone up: that works. EVERY TIME.
You're a business and your business is making money from playing music. Maximize all your income streams. Don't be afraid of that. As Cory Wong said - really paraphrasing here - about some guy who was giving him the business for trying to sell merch: "half the time? I'm really disappointed. I am trying to sell you something 100% of the time I am on this stage, and I need to do a much better job if you thought it was only half."
We stumbled into an accidental tip jar about a year ago.
I ordered band hats and got them offline for about $9 each, embroidered logo, very happy with the quality.
So what I started doing was to put a beer pitcher out with some slips of paper and pens. We make announcements that we're giving away a hat, just put your name in the pitcher. For some reason people started using it as a tip jar and putting their names in it. Yes, once in awhile you find someone's name on a 5'er or something but mostly it's a double duty pitcher. We pick a random person from the crowd to pick the name and we often see the hats back at repeat gigs.
I ordered band hats and got them offline for about $9 each, embroidered logo, very happy with the quality.
So what I started doing was to put a beer pitcher out with some slips of paper and pens. We make announcements that we're giving away a hat, just put your name in the pitcher. For some reason people started using it as a tip jar and putting their names in it. Yes, once in awhile you find someone's name on a 5'er or something but mostly it's a double duty pitcher. We pick a random person from the crowd to pick the name and we often see the hats back at repeat gigs.
The food was for me and the wife... I don't drink when I'm working... those two were hers.
Have had a tip jar out with most bands I've been in. It's always nice to have the slight bump in cash. We usually don't split it out but once a month. Never had anyone take it around like that though. I like that a LOT!
Then you can't count that as personal expenses. that's date night and it only cost 24 bucks.....The food was for me and the wife... I don't drink when I'm working... those two were hers.
I play with a guy who puts out a tip jar.
His gigs pay $100 a man. The funny thing about the tip jar is that he plays some classy places & the tips don't amount to squat.When we play more blue collar/middle class places the tip jar fills up.
He doesn't pass it around.
His gigs pay $100 a man. The funny thing about the tip jar is that he plays some classy places & the tips don't amount to squat.When we play more blue collar/middle class places the tip jar fills up.
He doesn't pass it around.
We put one out on the stage at all bar gigs. Corporate gig usually no. Typical take is around $20.
We got $250 once when a big wedding party swarmed a bar gig. And one time a guy dropped $100 if we would let him sing GNR Knocking on heaven's door. Of course we obliged even though we had never played it as a band before. He and his wife were thrilled.
We got $250 once when a big wedding party swarmed a bar gig. And one time a guy dropped $100 if we would let him sing GNR Knocking on heaven's door. Of course we obliged even though we had never played it as a band before. He and his wife were thrilled.
