false 2009-11-05T07:02:14-08:00 <p>My last year in middle school, my friend and I were faced with a idea from or Future Problem Solving adviser. She brought it to our attention that the year before the organization&#39;s annual Luau Dance had only made a small amount of profit because of the extravagant cost of Disc Jockey services. Knowing I was a true techy at heart she asked my friend and I if we would be willing to DJ, all we had to do was find the equipment. I said okay and that night started my search on Ebay and at local rental places. Driven by the thought that I would be a better DJ anyways I spent hours educating myself on everything there is to know about Professional Audio Reinforcement, watts, amps, ohms, etc, all terms that were previously completely foreign to me. Meanwhile I kept my Internet-deprived friend informed about what I was finding, how cheap it would be to get a DJ setup.</p> <p>About a month later we had to make the decision, two thirteen year old kids were about to go into a partnership investment of close to $1000.00, a large junk of change for any normal 8th grader.My first ever sales pitch was to my parents and my friends parents . In our kitchen we broke it all down, figured out how fast we would have our investment back, if all went well, and that night my friend, now unofficial business partner, wrote me a check for his half and I started buying equipment that night. As the event came closer we did a few trial runs and worked the kinks out of our system. This would be MJ DJ Services first school dance.</p> <p>We bought speakers, and lights, and a Mic, and music, and an amp, and scrounged around our houses for electrical cords and whatever else we needed. I already had the two Apple Ipods we needed to use with our mixer and we already had most of the music needed so we were ready to go. The dance went off with out a hitch, we got payed, and found we loved it. What better job is there, save for the odd hours, that you can play music for three hours and get $250 cash put in your hand.</p> <p>WE loved it and over our freshman year in high school, we made back our investment plus some. Our biggest accomplishment in the summer that year was to get a website up using Microsoft Office Live Small Business, got business cards through Vista Print along with postcards to send out to area schools. Never deceived any feedback, which was discouraging, but with our connections at our middle school we got every dance there for the whole year. Business dropped with the market, but is thriving again</p> d-e8zNYHSr3QjyacfA8pyY false true false 2009-11-05T07:02:17-08:00 0 true 0 false false false 1 DJ's From the 8th Grade 2009-11-23T05:33:03-08:00 bh4CH5YHGr3QjyacfA8pyY DJRaffi 30 0 dY1Ghod6ZhRBWr3AL8abBw