Category Archives: WRITERS

10 Quick Tips to Branding Building Brilliance

Brand Awareness

By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe Assuming you are a mobile DJ business owner who wants to stand out from your competitors, you’ll want to follow these tips for building branding brilliance: #1) Have a Unique Website Design - Don’t copy another DJ. Create something new looking, and stand out. People want to do…

#1 Mobile Headache: The Load In/Out

Load in

By Stu Chisholm, “The Complete Disc Jockey” If you’re like me, then some of your more interesting ideas are inspired by online forums. I participate in quite a few, and this topic from one of the better Facebook forums is one that every mobile DJ has at least one horror story about: getting in and…

7 Steps to Becoming a Multi-Op Millionaire

million-dollars

By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe What kinds of things should you do to increase your chances of joining the millionaire multi-op mobile DJs club? Here are the steps I’d suggest. They’re neither fast nor easy. But, if becoming a millionaire is your goal, they’re worth the work. 1. Stop obsessing about money. While…

A Wedding DJ looks at the LDI Show 2014

LDI

By Alan Dodson, “Wedding Wizard” Lasers, Walls, Trussing and Balls….. When it comes to attending conventions and shows, most DJs will choose between the International DJ Expo, Mobile Beat or the Las Vegas DJ Show if they plan to attend a larger event. Some will attend ARMDJS or Midwest DJ Live and of course our…

Using Music Playlists To Grow Your DJ Business

Music Playlist

By Gregg Hollmann, “Party Professional” As DJs, we regularly compile playlists in preparation for parties. Have you ever thought to publish these playlists on your website or blog? Alternatively, playlists can be shared in your sales kits. Listed below are five reasons to publish your playlists. Following the list of reasons, I’ll share information about…

11 Not-So-Secret Guidelines for Customer Service

Guidelines for Customer Service

By Doug Sandler, Nice Guys Finish First” Charlton Heston has 10 Commandments to follow, Stephen Covey has 7 habits to make people more effective and Kevin Bacon has 6 degrees to separate from, so it makes perfect sense that customer service for professional DJs has its own set of guidelines to follow. The best part…

Copyrights in Music

Copyrights in Music

by Bob Moffett DJs - You may reprint this article with appropriate attribution and original source link: http://proformancedj.com/copyright.htm Copyright in prerecorded music is an issue revisited dozens of times by law makers in the last half-century. But not since the early days of “radio” has there been such heated debate about the boundaries. With the…

Are You Worth Your Booking Rate?

Money

By Stu Chisholm, “The Complete Disc Jockey” A couple weeks ago, my esteemed chief scribe here at ProMobileDJ.com asked me to write on this question: “How do you know if you are worth your booking rate?” My first impulse was to flippantly reply, “Because I get it.” But even I knew that was a cop-out….

DJ Spotlight: Brooklyn Dicent

Brooklyn Dicent

By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe For the last two decades Brooklyn Dicent has been entertaining people in corporate and private events. She owns and operates Brooklyn Dicent Entertainment out of Seattle Washington. With her booking calendar filled with events, Brooklyn performs in front of close to 6,000 people a year as an MC…

Finding and Selling to Your Niche Market

Niche Market

By Stacy Zemon, Publisher & Chief Scribe Your Niche. Your Unique Selling point. Your Value Proposition. Whatever you call it – why is it so darned difficult to find it, define it and then ‘sell it’ to the prospects you want to book your DJ services? Okay, so you (kind of) know that being unique…