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Cincinnati writing for Cincinnati trying to figure out business like everyone else
we’re in the same business we both sell one of the more common products and all the differentiates us is our style and there’s this monster demon business force that we’re competing with but we do it anyways
if i was you to spruce up your shop i would put a sign up sheet out for talent so that you could spend 6 months collecting phone numbers until the day you have enough for an open mic night if you have no talent connections you have to sign them up
thats what coffee shops are good for and cincinnati is good for an open mic i never went to a bad one
then you can film the open mic and post the open mic on youtube and host the youtube video on your website and transcribe the video and put it up for sale on kdp.com and post the sound track for sale on iTunes and you can all that and more if you have an open mic
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politics of the money is the hard part
because you’re taking advantage of open mic performers the night of the show maybe pay each performer like $50 and $100 for the feature and declare a two drink minimum for the show in the audience and then you can clear consciences sell your show but you provide so much you provide the spot the audience the insurance the money they provide the talent and the poetry and the singing and i write books i know i get $1 of my book sale amazon gets $14 and you get $25 when you resell it i get $1 so same deal with the talent at FABLE money is all around them and they get $50 or $100 as a feature and that’ what they get because they also get the fame and the weird sex at the end of the night that no one else gets they get to set the vibe they get to share their sales pitch on them to the lovely people in the audience they get the memory of having done it they get to smoke trees out front waiting for their time to shine and they get interviewed by city beat magazine and basically they get the credit for the entire operation they just don’t get the money just like me
cincinnati is famous for not paying anything at an open mic but with the iTunes and KDP and YOUTUBE where you can sell advertising space on each format and with the money you can make online from a single open mic maybe pay the artists something and then you get known as a spot on the underground railroad where people show up and get a little money for their show thats all cincinnati needs is a little money for it’s show
i’m 45 i did 20 years in spoken words games i used to print off my poems and read em fresh i had my printer help me at the open mic and then i had a couple memorized pieces i did the same show every time except when i was doing the fresh prints then i tried out new material but i got paid one time and just thought it was a cool hobby
you want a scene you want like 8 coffee shops doing open mics paying $20 each artist instead of 1 coffee shop paying $100 if the goal is to get $100 a week in performances if you’re tied into 8 shops you can do 5 shows a week and make your money but all the coffee shops have to collude to keep wages down
because they don’t need that much
and they’re still getting more than they would normally get
we’ll see would be the vibe
i knew the guy that organized the open mics so i have some thoughts on it now the internet isnt just bigger it’s a commodity it’s like the sidewalk ubiquitous so i figured out some side walk chalk
which is how much content you can get from an open mic
cities are boring
without a show a city is just rooms
the open mic scene in 2005 was organized it was at like 7 different coffee shops and venues there were like 60 performers we just kept rotating around
it was fun and you could do it for the handshake or the nod or the front row seat
you could sell videos and audio and text files with e junkie
you could do the work of itunes and kdp and youtube with that
i been waiting to tell someone about that
this is just me trying to sell you on a book about business plans i’m pretty good at it
you have a cool coffee shop
this is how i say hi
hi
if you’re real smart you can do an easy show called GOOGLE ME it’s a trumped up Q and A session about anything where they treat you like a search engine and it’s square one for figuring out whats wrong with these people
places i did it before were Sitwells Greenwich Tavern Rohs Street Cafe Mexican Cantina Catskellar on UC campus Echo Star Urban Artifact Jupiter Room cincinnati was pretty thick like that
give the artists a little map on the website of the paying venues that are turning the art out and reselling it for a profit and representing the city and causing a scene i’m really talking about a scene though the greatest thing a city can have is a scene hollywood is a scene new york city underground rap is a scene atlanta has a scene in music any show done right is a scene
i’m up in lebanon without a car so i’m sorry i can’t stop by to chat about anything
i’m a big fan of coffee shops
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