The question about how you get more money has had an answer, not the only one, perhaps--but a good answer. You must build up a reserve, so that you can grow and improve--every good employer knows that in the long run, the better wages you pay, the better, and more consistant the work that you get is.

Some of you performers here seem to think that the house must give you every penny that is taken in, or you are being robbed. The fact is that the house is entitled to its share, which it is entitled to spend as it wishes, including paying other performers for other engagements--when you operate a venue, you must plan for, and invest in the future. A performer who demands the seed, so to speak, to my mind, both greedy and short sighted.

For a lot of my performing career, my day job was in advertising and marketing--and the principles in both worlds are the same--though managing a folk music venue is more challenging because aesthetics, rather than profit is your guide--and in the business world, no one questions your right to a share of the till.