DAVID: Your comment “my views that questioning the status quo and rewriting the rules is a great way to go.”

I will go further and add that IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO GO … for the survival and continued growth of all “businesses” per se.

And similarly, no offence intended (sometimes it’s like walking on egg-shells when posting a differing view on this site, as people do take things personally), but I don’t think it holds true for an otherwise already successful karaoke-show that’s been running for 8 years and still going strong. For this karaoke-show I would question “why fix it when it is not broke?”

Now, the following ASSUMPTIONS accompany my statement above:
(a) No host here relies on his/her karaoke show/s as his/her sole source of income.
(b) The majority of hosts here are hobby or part-time hosts with 9-5 real jobs or they operate other businesses, or are retirees keeping themselves busy.
(c) The majority of hosts here cannot physically take on or consciously do not want to take on more than 1-2-3 gigs a week.

So, to me, unless one desires to build a karaoke-business as one’s sole source of income (necessitating the replication of similar karaoke shows at various venues and running simultaneous multiple gigs on some nights), why would one want to play around and tweak something like an 8-year long successful karaoke-show?

On other hand, I do agree that other businesses have to continually reinvent and upgrade themselves and their products / services to remain in business and to grow.

I work in (and am a minority shareholder of) a company in the IT industry – we develop and sell super-computers (we have moved from workstations and servers to clusters for CSIRO, Defence Department, Universities, etc.). To survive we have to come up with a new product or upgrade / develop new features every 3 - 6 months to keep ahead of the pack. We also have 2 sister software companies serving the TV and radio industry, and film production (animation) : with these 2 software development companies we have a big R&D Team working 24/7 to try to maintain leadership in those 2 industries - most of the R&D Team’s time is spent on works just to maintain our status quo, while trying to steal another step or two ahead of the genuine competitors and the underground copiers and counterfeiters.

Somehow I can’t see how all that needs to be implemented to an otherwise successful long-running karaoke-show …. Please correct me if I have, once again, misunderstood what you are trying to put across.

My answers to the other questions you posted -
(1) On conversion of non-singers to singers:
Yes, this is an idealistic answer - I for one would be extremely happy with a karaoke show of 14-16 singers (giving me rotations of 1 hour duration, enabling each singer to have at least 3 songs each). I would not encourage additional singers when I have 14-16, but I will encourage them to return another night and be part of those 14-16 singers then!
(2) High proportion of non-singing audience to singers:
The bigger the non-singing audience, the more $$$ will be rung through the tills, as they are the ones who will spend - singers just simply don't.

Submitted by CHINA, from CAULFIELD on 12-11-2011

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