HOW TO GET FREE DJ KIT from the likes of Pioneer, KAM, Chauvet, ADJ and others

0:01 Of this video is about getting

All right, ladies and gentlemen. The first part of this video is about getting free kit if you're a DJ. The second part is a few clips from the May Ball in Aberystwyth 2013. The track you'll be listening to, by the way, during the course of the May Ball clips is from Lenny Fontana. And now we're going to talk about how to get free kit. Now, it's in two parts. The first part is very, very difficult. If your mind is set on what you want to do and you put all your energy into doing it and you are persistent, you will get a free kit. I promise you. Well, the promise is down once again to you, but you can do it. First of all, you need to do as I've been doing some video tutorials, some demos on the kits you have.

Try and be as precise and concise as possible when you're doing your tutorial or your demo. Try and have the emphasis on the kit as well as you, so don't just have it on the kit and the person or people can see hands. They want to see you, so all of a sudden you've become a presenter. Try and be as natural as possible. Don't become a television advert because that just doesn't work anymore. You need to be you. If you're a bit bubbly and wacky, then add that into your videos. Be bubbly and wacky. If you are straight-laced, be straight-laced because the people watching out there will know if you're trying to be someone you are not. And that follows suit with if you're trying to be the opposite, if you're bubbly and wacky and you want to be straight-faced and whatnot, then they'll suss it out and vice versa. So let's imagine you have got an XY controller, any controller.

2:28 Practice and enjoy if you want to

When I say XY, I'm just saying XYZ controller. Full stop. It doesn't matter. A make. Anything. Go back to basics. Maybe do video one about the very basics of that controller. Then video two, three, four. So you've got sets of them. Make the video start like hello and welcome to my tutorial. My name is and I'm now going to demonstrate this and I'm going to explain this or that. So straight away you've given an introduction and at the end you can say something. Practice and enjoy if you want to. It's entirely up to you or your own saying. Once you've got your selection of videos, you need to promote them. You can promote them via your Facebook, your YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, Vimeo. Google the top seven video sharing websites out there and put all of those videos on all of them. Try and link them together. Get people talking about them. Post them not just once on your Facebook page but post them three or four times a week.

Because maybe on a Monday certain people will look at your Facebook, but on a Tuesday and Wednesday they won't. But then there could be people on Tuesday or Wednesday look, but they don't look on Monday. So if you post them different times, different people will see them. The second part about getting the free kit, this is where you do get the free kit, is the most difficult part. But this is where persistence will pay off. And it's promoting your videos to the companies. Google, for example, the top companies. Contact them. Phone them up. Get emails of managers, of the people involved in promoting their content because I'm pretty sure now 99.9% of the companies out there will have their own video work. Try and find those people. Try and find the people involved with those people. Try and find the managers of those people. Get their emails and send them your video links.

4:27 You offer your services

Don't then sit back and think, I've done it, relax. Send it again, and again, and again. Try and phone them, try and speak to them. Happy medium here between being persistent and being a downright pain in the frigging arse because you're just hassling them all the time. But if you're persistent and your attitude is, look, these demos and tutorials I've done are good, they're educational, people like them, then they may start to listen and look. Then you offer your services. Look, I would like to demo that new product you've got and you may not get it for free straight away. They may send it to you with a proviso that you do demos but you send it back. That's really, it's almost like part two, step one. And if they like what you do then they may do it again with another piece of gear but the second piece could be slightly more expensive, third, fourth, fifth.

Somewhere down the line, and this is where your part one about your promotion is very important, and they see that you're getting a lot of hits and views, they may think well we like this because it's product placement, it's also demoing, it's also giving tutorials, people are seeing our products, we like this guy or girl because they're getting 1, 2, 3, 4 thousand hits. Maybe in six months it's 20 or 30 thousand hits. Now at that point We have what's called the tipping point where it could go from, we'll give you that for a couple of weeks, we want it back to, well, you can have that on sort of a permanent loan. And a permanent loan in other words is, well, keep it, do whatever you want, you can't sell it, but in two years time we may want it back. Or in two years time, you know what, give us 50 quid or $50 and you can keep it. But that's if they're even bothered because they can write certain items off.

To answer your question, because a lot of people have asked me, how do I get free kit? Can I get free kit? You can. It's down to you being persistent, being true to yourself and also having confidence in what you do. Practice and enjoy. Let's watch a few clips from the May Ball. Thank you. Almost forgot, it's the 11th of May 2013 and Yvette DJ Sauce, also known as YvetteB24 on YouTube and myself, we're going to do a bit of a live set. On Ustream TV, the link will be down there in the description along with the info from Lenny Fontana's pretty good tune. And we will see you there around about 8-9pm UK GMT. Thank you.

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