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The DJ Business
6 courses · 48 lessons · 6 h 23 min
DJing as a job: getting booked, what to charge, weddings and mobile work, clients and contracts, marketing yourself, and the scams to avoid.
Courses
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Course 1 of 6
Getting Your First Bookings
How the work actually arrives, which is rarely by sending out a demo. Approaching clubs, getting the first mobile gigs, and - his most watched business lesson by a distance…
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Course 2 of 6
What to Charge, and Getting Paid
Pricing is where mobile DJs undersell themselves for years. What to charge, how to put the fee up without losing the client, which extras are worth offering, and the mechanics of…
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Course 3 of 6
Behaving Like a Professional
What separates someone who gets asked back from someone who does not, and almost none of it is mixing. Taking the booking properly, what to say on a microphone, handling the drunk…
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Course 4 of 6
Music, Copyright and the Law
The part most DJs guess at. Whether you are allowed to play other people's records at all, what happens when you put a mix online, and the licensing questions that turn up once…
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Course 5 of 6
Scams, Fakes and Free Kit
Counterfeit gear and unlicensed music are both easy to buy by accident. How to tell a real bargain from a price that cannot be genuine, where the licensed music services sit, and…
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Course 6 of 6
Gig Logs: Real Nights, Start to Finish
Not instruction - observation. Ellaskins filmed his own gigs for years, including the setup, the awkward bits and the pack-down, starting with what he claims is the first mobile…
