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“Can We Come To One Of Your Weddings and Watch You?”

Brides and Grooms….Don’t do this! 

Many brides and grooms want to know if they can come to a wedding I am performing at to see me in action. My answer is emphatically….No!

Why not? You may ask.  I suppose it would be okay to watch a wedding DJ in action if….he is the spoon-fed, in-house DJ who does the same thing at every wedding.

For those of us who take pride in customizing, personlizing and crafting unique weddings…the answer should always be, “respectively no”.

Brides have so many different tastes and personalities.  They may get the wrong impression watching you do, play or say something at that wedding.

The last thing you want as a DJ is to have a potential client see you doing something at a wedding that completely turns her off.

Even though you explain to every bride that you will do exactly what they desire, it does no one justice to see you with another bride.

No woman wants to see her man with another woman (even if it’s her DJ)

So I decided to add a short video on my website of me at several weddings performing.  And still I get some who absolutely love what I do and some who are turned off. Even though I explain to them that I can do whatever they want, they see me in action and will immediately decide yay or nay.

Tony Laub is a professional DJ who specializes in Weddings

http://www.SoundProEntertainment.com

Tony wrote a 98 page guide on how to plan your own wedding. Everything you need to plan the wedding of your dreams!

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10 Things The Wedding Industry Won’t Tell You…#8

8. “This is the first time I’ve ever used a video camera.”

How do you know if it’s the next George Lucas you’ve hired to shoot your wedding — or Ed Wood? “If someone was charging $800 for a wedding on a Saturday, I’d be suspicious,” says Jack O’Brien of Video Life Productions in Middletown, N.Y. The high-end digital equipment that a professional videographer should use costs tens of thousands of dollars — too much to justify package prices under $1,000.

It’s also important to hire someone who will let you have the digital master tape, in addition to the VHS copy. “Anyone who holds a VHS tape in their hands thinking they’re going to show it to their grandchildren is mistaken,” says O’Brien. He recommends transferring the tape from the digital master to a DVD.

Then there’s the question of who owns the footage. On many contracts, it is written that any and all footage becomes the copyrighted property of the videographer’s business. So what can a couple do if an unscrupulous or unknowing videographer tries to sell a hideously embarrassing moment on their tape to, say, a TV-blooper show? “They would have a right-of-privacy claim, so it would certainly be a mistake,” says Lisa Alter, a New York entertainment and copyright lawyer. “But technically, if you own it, you can do what you want with it.”

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You…#10

 “We’ve Done Over 20,000 Events, Yet Most of Those DJ’s are Gone”        It’s always good to find a DJ with lots of experience. Many of the big named DJ companies claim to have many years of experience. That is, combined experience with over the hundreds of DJ’s  they’ve hired in the past 30 years.  DJ’s come and go with the bigger companies like they do with fast food chains.       So how do you know the DJ that you get wasn’t just hired last week, or has any experience at all? Also the DJ you think you might have may leave to go somewhere else, then you get someone you may never meet until the day of your wedding.       Setting up turntables at your friends house parties doesn’t count as experience either. “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten”

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You…#9

“We’ve Done Over 20,000 Events, Yet Most of Those DJ’s are Gone”

  It’s always good to find a DJ with lots of experience. Many of the big named

  DJ companies claim to have many years of experience. That is, combined

  experience with over the hundreds of DJ’s  they’ve hired in the past 30 years.

 DJ’s come and go with the bigger companies like they do with fast food chains.

 So how do you know the DJ that you get wasn’t just hired last week, or has

 any experience at all?

Also the DJ you think you might have may leave to go somewhere else, then  you get someone you may never meet until the day of your wedding.

Setting up turntables at your friends house parties doesn’t count as experience either.

 “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten”

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You…#8

“You Pay For Our Advertising, Office, & Overhead”       

 Most muli-operational companies have outside offices, managers, and huge       advertising budgets to keep all  their DJ’s booked. When you hire their services, most of that money goes to the company, not the DJ. In most case the DJ for your wedding gets less then 50% of the cut of what you pay.   If the DJ uses company owned audio equipment, he gets much less. What you may end up with is a DJ  that gets paid very little, and may not put forth much of a effort in planning, &  performing for your wedding.        

What you should pay for is talent, quality of service, experience, & expertise.

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You…#7

               7.  “We Charge the Same Price for Any Kind of Service”       A Disc Jockey has many more responsibilities when it comes to a wedding. If a DJ charges the same price for wedding as he would for a kids birthday party, they will more than likely will  bring the same equipment, no matter how big or small, play  the same music, and give you the same kind of service. This usually means just show up and play music.      Cookie-cutter price = cookie-cutter service

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You…#6

“We Pay to be Voted The Best DJ Service”

             Some of the smaller local wedding publications will feature an annual “Best of” issue for the local wedding vendors to boost their circulation.  The readers          (Brides) vote for the vendors they hired or used for their wedding. 

There are many very good DJ’s in the Valley, I have a hard time believing these same readers (Brides) have had the opportunity to view all other DJ’s. So they really have nothing to compare to.

This makes the “Best of “irrelevant. Ironically the “Best of” winners year after year are always the ones that advertise in the publications the most.     

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10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You…#5

“We Help Ourselves to the Open Bar”

 When Michael Sullivan and his wife Suna got married in California two years ago,

        they were in the mood to celebrate, so was their DJ. He arrived several hours

        before the reception with a friend and began drinking. “When it finally came   time for him to play music, he was totally blasted and seemed

to be on drugs,” says Lesley Stein, one of the two photographers at the event.

        Sullivan says the music was lousy, the DJ missed his cues for the father- 

 daughter dance and the cake cutting, and guests left early. “It was really obvious that it was fun for a lot of people, “ Sullivan says. “He really ruined the day.”

            A DJ can make or break a wedding reception.

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You… #4

“I’m a  Part-Time DJ”

     Would you be confident hiring a part-time photographer, caterer, florist, etc for

your wedding? 80% of mobile DJ’s are part-time and work full-time jobs during

the week. Yet most all mobile DJ’s call themselves professional. I don’t think you

would allow a part-time dentist to fill a cavity, so why would you want a part-time

DJ be your spokesperson, in front of your friends & family for the first time on one

of the biggest days of your life?. The most successful weddings are the one’s where Brides hire the best professionals.

Part-time is not professional.

10 Things Mobile Disc Jockeys Won’t Tell You… #2

#2  “We Pay Kickbacks to Be on Preferred Vendors Lists”

Wedding planners, Venue Coordinators and others will be all too happy to provide a list of recommended vendors. But don’t think they’re doing you a favor. More often than not, insiders admit, the businesses that pay the highest price are the ones who get the referrals. Disc Jockeys should be on preferred vendor lists based on performance,

and clients feedbacks, not by how much money they can kickback to the vendor.

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