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DJ uses Groupon to attract new customers
1A local Chicago DJ troop has taken to the crowd-sourcing deal website Groupon.com to attract potential customers. His offer: 56% off a wedding DJ packages valued at $675 according to the listing. This kind of deal seems almost to good to be true, especially considering the fact that Groupon.com charges a whopping 50% from any sale acquired through the site. Star Plus DJs, the company behind the offer, is probably banking on a rush of fresh customers to offset its losses. A typical DJ wedding package runs in the high thousands of dollars when customers add in lighting and premium sound packages.
http://www.groupon.com/chicago/merchants/star-plus-d-js/deals/300-for-wedding-dj-deluxe-package-at-star-plus-d-js-675-value
Happy New Year/Happy Nu Jea!!
0Happy Nu Jea pa to mi gente!! Happy New Year to all! Hope you all had a blast counting down 2010. I rocked out @ The Parlour on 86th all night long. Played everything from hip-hop to house to old school! Crowd definitely was feeling and had a blast. One year down, many more to go! Some pics from the night:
Feb 21st Highlights
0Some highlights/clips from a 50th birthday party/advanced surprise wedding I did on Feb 21st!! Video shot from my handycam:
DJDownload.Com Presents: How To DJ
0I found a great video mini-series that explains the basics of DJing with CD players and electronic dance music. They do a great job of covering the basics as well as more advanced topics.
Check out the intro video:
Check out the full miniseries at djdownload.com.
The DJ Business – DJ Equipment Video Reviews
0Found a new website dedicated to the DJ business as a whole. The DJ Business focuses mainly on mobile and club DJ equipment and offers video reviews with real-world demos of all units. They cover everything from lights, lasers, cd players and midi units. The reviews are concise yet detailed enough to give you a great idea of whether you would consider purchasing any equipment. There are also short clips with relevant industry news to keep you up to date with the trends around the business.
Have a look at The DJ Business here.
Facebook fan page is up
0The facebook fan page is up!! Be sure to become a fan as I will be posting exlusive new singles/remixes, news and events.
Check it out at:
VCI-100 Arcade Edition
0Check out this VCI-100 mod by Ean Golden of djtechtools.com. His custom edition replaces the vci-100′s cue buttons with big arcade controller buttons. He combines this with his custom mapping for Traktor that allows the jogwheels to be used as a 5th button! He shows off how creative and fun this type of DJing can be ! Check out his live set:
You can get your own custom VCI-100 with arcade buttons here.
Twitter DJ Publishes Song Names In Realtime From The Booth
0A recent study revealed that 80-85% of “tweets” on twitter are totally useless “what am i doing now” posts. I have a twitter account myself but haven’t been compelled enough to actually sift through the 20-30 tweets just to get to a few, if any, useful ones.
Twitter DJ is an example of a creative and innovative way to leverage the power of twitter to connect with your audience in real-time. Developed by DJ Producer and label owner, Richie Hawtin, Twitter DJ broadcasts the track names of the current song live to Twitter.
It uses Traktor’s broadcasting technology to tweet using the DJ’s twitter account. That means that his followers will be able to know exactly what he’s playing. How many times have you wondered what the name of that hot track was when you were on the dance floor? It’s a cool way to promote songs and artists and connect with your audience at the same time.
Check out the interview with Richie Hawtin over at djtechtools here.
Hype Machine Tracks Online Music Trends
0The Hype Machine is a website dedicated to tracking online music trends across popular blogs on the web. It tracks what songs are hot by gathering data on what songs bloggers are talking the most about.
The website collects this data by partnering with major music blogs around the web. Whenever a link to an mp3 is posted to a blog, the Hype Machine indexes this, much like Google does, and sorts this data. In addition, it also gathers data from twitter.com by crawling through tweets and hashtags for links to music files.
