By Andy Ebon, “Wedding Marketing Expert” Communicating effectively, with customers, and within your company is a critical aspect of wedding business marketing and operations. In an Olympic relay, the 4-person team involves 3 attempts to pass-the-baton, and finish the race. Drop-the-baton and the race is over. It is the ultimate critical error. Train, Role Play,…
Category Archives: Networking
7 Things DJ Entrepreneurs Should Never Do
By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe If you want to be a successful DJ entrepreneur, you have to bleed confidence. Starting something on your own takes tenacity, faith and determination to make it work. To have a business that makes it past the first 18 months, these qualities of poor leaders are certainly going…
Become a Proactive Team Player
By Dave Ternier, Guest Writer Your willingness to be an amazing team player plays a bigger role in the success and longevity of your DJ career than you might realize. Part of what defines some of the most successful and sought after mobile DJs is their willingness to be an amazing team player (even if…
How to Promote a Special Offer
By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe Is your DJ service running a special offer to attract clients? If you want your promotion to be a success, you need to get your offer in front of prospects who are interested in it. What’s the best way to get in front of the right type of…
Meal Companion Networking: Who and Why
The art of face-to-face networking is not a random event. That is particularly true of a lunch or meal function. In most cases, you will be seated between two people. At any meal event, you have many choices: Sit with random people you don’t know. Sit with friends and/or people you do know. Choose to…
Mining for Referral Gold
By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe If you are a DJ business owner who isn’t constantly mining for referral gold, then it’s high time you develop a referral strategy that will lower your client acquisition cost while bringing in the type of client you are looking for. How You Generate Referrals First, start by…
Collaboration at its BEST!
By Elisabeth Scott Daley, Wedding Entertainment Director®, ABC™ “A Passion for Performance” Stepping In to Help Almost a year ago, my business partner, Peter Merry, was asked to step in for Wedding Entertainment Director, Jeremy Brech, in Sioux Falls, SD. One of Jeremy’s best clients’ daughters was getting married and Jeremy was already booked. Jeremy’s…
DJ Tips in Under a Minute: Dropbox for File Sharing or Storage
DJ Jay Brannan talks about Dropbox, a great FREE program that allows you to store audio, photo or document files. You can invite people to see or share your files or leave them there for easy access. www.dropbox.com Check out more DJ Tips in Under a Minute at www.DJvideoNetwork.com.
Coordinating a Flawless Wedding
By Chris Rice, Owner - Music Makes You Happy Entertainment Just like your body, every moving part of a wedding reception has to work together if you want the event to be a success. If your right leg doesn’t know what your left leg is doing, soon you will be walking around in circles getting…
The Value of an Ensemble Cast
By Elisabeth Scott Daley, WED®, ABC™, “A Passion for Performance” One of my favorite categories in the SAG Awards® is “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.” I think of it as the “Best Ensemble Cast” award. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio…
