The Sound of Music: Booking a DJ
Finding a DJ quickly became my least favorite wedding-planning task. With others there are tangible things I can sift through and get a feel for the service/final product we’re going to receive. With DJs?not so much. It didn?t help that a bunch of them that I talked to were soooooo sales-pitchy (totally a word). I know it?s a marketing technique, get a customer interested in your business, butter them up a bit, then slap them with the price info…but I was so not about that life. I am very much a straight shooter when it comes to this sort of thing…if your packages start at $1,600 and my budget is $1,000, then we?re both wasting our time talking. Bonus points to the ones who would give me the price info via email, and A++ to those that list prices on their website! Of course, there are some who insisted on a phone call. Maybe it?s the Generation Y-er in me, but listening to a long spiel on the phone from someone who is literally double our budget is not my favorite activity.
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I feel their pain, though—as someone who works in audio, I know it?s really hard getting people to understand the artistic side of it (GLARING at you, Tony Awards, for taking away the award for Best Sound Design). Marketing yourself is tough in any industry, so I could forgive the occasional overzealous sales pitch. What really got under my skin was how some companies claimed to use ?top of the line? and ?highest quality? equipment, when they?re actually ...
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