A simple DJ fix

Today I was at one of my best friends daughter 1rst birthday. And oh am I upset at what I witnessed today. So they had a DJ already reserved and he called in the night before saying he couldn’t make it. So they called in someone else at the last minute. WOW! Was this guy dumb or what? So the sound was absolutely horrible and full of static. I analyzed him the whole afternoon, and he would unplug all the cables and blow in them and plug them in again. It still did not fix anything. It got to a point that I got really upset, and approached the guy and asked him if everything was okay. Mind the fact that it was really windy out today. His answer was that the wind was affecting his equipment. I mean this guy just pissed me off at that point of how illiterate he was sounding at that moment.

I politely asked him if I could intervene and possibly resolve the situation, he said yes. The first thing that I immediately did, was turn everything off and unplug the speaker cables. I ran to my car and swapped the cables with some spare cables that I had in my car. I came back and plugged in the new cables and turned everything back on. The music sounded crystal clear with no more problems. I simply told the gentlemen, wind has nothing to do with it, it was the cables that were bad.

I guess what I’m trying to get across with this. Is that there are a lot of people out there that are ripping off people for something that they have never even done in their life. This makes us the professional’s look really bad. People need to be conscious of what they are doing before they go out in public and make themselves look really bad in front of everybody. At the end of the party the guy went to the dad of the birthday girl and gave them their money back.

http://www.howtogeek.com/66124/how-to-fix-damaged-or-broken-audio-cables/

http://www.guitarcenter.com/DJ-Gear-Pro-Audio.gc

 

The Business Side

So today I had an unexpected meeting with a few of my neighbors. One of them has been helping me out lately in opening my own business. He has been pointing me in the right directions in order to get what I need. The most recent roadblock that I have faced is that banks are requiring you to have at least 10% of the amount of money that you are asking for in the bank. Obviously as a young aspiring entrepreneur I don’t have that kind of money to have sitting in a bank account.

So during this meeting we were strategizing different ways of getting around things in order to successfully get my business off of the ground and start working. We went back and fourth with different ideas. Until we were able to figure out that its not the fact of having the physical money in the account or not. It is all about making the numbers work. Getting 15 or 20,000 dollars is not the biggest problem here. The biggest problem is getting the numbers to look good enough that the bank will just oversee the fact of not having the money in the account.

I learned through this meeting that my overall goal when presenting my business plan to the bank is to make sure that they absolutely do not have any questions in regards to the business by the time that they are done reading that packet. I want to try and cover all of my bases within that package in order to minimize the number of questions that I am going to get when they are done. Not only will this help me out with their financial decision but also it will show them that I am a very organized person and like to keep things simple enough for them to understand it easily.