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    Looking for guidance for quoting a small, local, music festival

    Yes, we're growing and learning, so console control is a high priotity but at the moment we only have one console between the both of us. The direction I received was to populate an estimate ASAP with what we could provide if the event was next week (if for no other reason than to give the...
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    Looking for guidance for quoting a small, local, music festival

    thanks for the point-by-point of what you would charge, that's actually very helpful and I plan to use something similar to that in order to populate my estimate.I'll take any opportunity to expand my network. Tell your relatives that this festival is about 45 miles north of Detroit...
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    Looking for guidance for quoting a small, local, music festival

    I planned to quote at 3% for the daily rental fee or 10% for the weekly rental fee. So that's for the 3 days of show plus another day to setup = puts us at the 10% weekly rental fee. We're working with about $20,000 worth of equipment that we would include in the quote. So here we'd be...
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    Looking for guidance for quoting a small, local, music festival

    Thanks for the input. Believe it or not, I haven't actually been hired for too many jobs, I started about 8 months ago and my friend started 2 years ago. We've been hired for a few small jobs, but we my friend and I are still getting into the scene. The experiences we've gained have given us...
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    Looking for guidance for quoting a small, local, music festival

    I hope that I'm posting this in the correct spot, if not please let me know and I can try a different thread.My friend and I are fairly new to lighting, but have learned a lot between both of us we have enough (indoor) gear to light 2 to 3 small stages for DJs/Bands/etc. The experiences...
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    So less of a "sell out" and closer to a "buy in". It was cool reading that thread nearly a decade later, it sounds like it's been very successful.
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    Awesome advice, I'll pick up that book today. I already have an LLC filed for this effort so I'm partway there. Thank you.
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    that was a good thread. I felt a little sad that he sold at the end....lol
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    thanks Derek! reading during my lunch break.
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    That's very good advice, I'll look into hold harmless agreements. I didn't even THINK about that.
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    Thank you for that reply, it's very helpful. I think I have enough information to move forward. I appreciate this more than I can write in a text reply.I'm hoping to build a good relationship with these two guys, I'm blurry really interested (currently) in renting out to just anyone, but I...
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    Replacement cost for all of my equipment is about $4k.What kind of insurance are you taking about?
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    The two guys are other qualified lighting techs, they certainly have much more experience than I do with this kind of equipment.They seem plenty trustworthy, but at the same time I have only met them within this last month.Thanks for the cost percentages. Do you generally charge a security...
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    Looking for advice on renting my lights to people

    I've recently purchased some lighting gear and I've run into two other local lighting guys that are interested in renting some of my equipment.I'm looking for advice on how to protect my gear as well as what is a fair rental price to charge.I'm looking for some guidance on the following...
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    New to everything, driven to learn

    Fair enough. I'll look for a quick guide. Thanks for the tip.Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Tapatalk
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