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Today’s DJ industry is more competitive than it has ever been. Engaging with your guests and building your own personal brand are crucial to staying successful and relevant. Traditionally, song requests were seen as a pain. Guests would come over and shove their phone in your face, perhaps spilling their drink on you in the process. People were shouting at you while other guests felt intimidated to approach the DJ booth. There had to be a better way to connect. Cue RequestNow. RequestNow is a modern engagement platform that simplifies the song requesting process while also acting as a DJ branding and marketing tool. ... [read more]

We are in our 3rd and final installment of How To Deal With Emotional Employees Article Series.  Here's my final thoughts. Finally, relieving employee stress doesn't have to cost you money.  Sometimes you wake up and realize that you just aren't going to be productive that day.  That's ok. If an employee comes in with a bad attitude suggest a session to talk about it.  Then (if workload permits or whenever possible) give them a bit of time off to re-energize themselves.  The additional time away can allow for reflection and allow them to come back to work a bit more rejuvenated, eager to get back at it and thankful that y ... [read more]

All right. DJ tips in under a minute. These are wedding invitations and usually these are done maybe before you're even hired as the DJ, but one thing that wedding invitations can sometimes have is the end date of the reception. It might say, beginning at 5:00, ending at 10:00 or whatever it says. The reason I'm bringing this up is it was brought to my attention that whenever a party has an end time, it tends to give guests a little bit different perspective as to how long they should stay. And I noticed most of my events on the outside of the room will have an end time. See if you can get the end time taken away. So just reception to begin at 5:00 o'clock. That way there is no sense of when am I out of here? Because I think if you have it in your head that this ends in two or three hours, you gauge how long you're going to stay and I think guests at weddings do the same thing. So the po ... [read more]

Cumberland RI, USA (May 21st, 2019)—Denon DJ (www.denondj.com), a leading manufacturer ofpremium DJ products and solutions, today announced its Prime Series DJ hardware will soon beenabled for both hard-wired and Wi-Fi internet connection. This exclusive, ground-breaking innovationbrings the capability of playing digital music content from the world’s premier DJ streaming services aswell as directly from the Prime Series units, with no necessity for a laptop computer. Denon DJ has partnered with a selection of the industry’s most cutting-edge and content-rich digitalmusic platforms to bring streaming music inside a DJ’s hardware. Exclusively for Denon DJ and the Prime Seriesunits, DJs will now be able to access milli ... [read more]

We continue and finalize the Brand Loyalty vs Customer Service with our Action Steps: ACTION:  List out ways that you currently stay in touch with your clients and how many touch points you have.  Now list out ways you can increase and/or improve your touchpoints. KEY POINT: The touchpoints have to BENEFIT the client in some way, and not just some cheapy thing that you give to everyone.  Do this for current external clients AND potential clients, then look for ways you can take care of and build brand loyalty and customer service for your internal clients, you know, the photographer that you worked with on Saturday, the ... [read more]

It's no secret we live in a world where the "PC" culture runs amok. Everything is offensive. Everything "triggers" someone. Statues, flags and historical markers are being torn down and removed from public view at an alarming rate. Some for good reason and others for reasons a little more obscure. The music industry hasn't been exempt from scrutiny either. There has been much debate lately over playing songs from artists like Michael Jackson and R. Kelly - not because they wrote songs that are particularly offensive or racist, but because of actions in their personal lives. Whether or not they've actually been convicted of a crime in a court of law has no bearing on the court of public opinion. Here's wh ... [read more]

We're back with the 2nd part of our three part series on how to deal with emotional employees.  Another way to relieve emotional stress and ensure employee loyalty is to have a quarterly, semi annual or annual outing or party with your team.  This is where you can create bonding opportunities that happen off the clock, allowing the team to make stronger connections with the other team members and see each other as people and not just a co-worker.   What benefits can you provide as help for emotional employe ... [read more]

All right. DJ tips in under a minute. You see this, this is the MagSafe to MagSafe 2 converter. It's that little thing right there or it's that little thing right there. I have a MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro has this, this old style and the MacBook Air has the new style. So for $9.99, I bought a converter, which now allows my old MacBook charger to charge my new MacBook Air, really cool. I do have a charger for both computers, but knowing that I can bring just one and charge both is awesome. I can't do it the other way. This charger won't work with this MacBook Pro, but that's okay, because now I've got one charger that charges both. So I can plug in one event and I'm good to go. So $9.98 saved me some Cache Money here, in under a minute.