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Topic: DJ Placard/Booth Sign/Banner

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Love that pic on the right, of you!
 
geposted Tue 20 Oct 09 @ 4:25 am
For weddings I do not use any signage. I tell my brides this is their day, so I will not use it to promote myself that way. My work will speak for itself. For bars/saloons my laptop has a decal on it. For bridal fairs I have a 2x4 foots sign. I also have several different polos with my company name embroidered on them I wear to corporate events.
 
I don't wanna whine, but i will whine shortly now.


Rudedog! Your cables on your setup are all over the place! Hide them! makes everything look much cleaner. Just some grey tape to attach your wires to the back of your trussing will help alot!


On topic: we never advertise like that, we always have some business cards with us and people that are truely interested will come and get one. :)
 
TearEmUp wrote :
For weddings I do not use any signage. I tell my brides this is their day, so I will not use it to promote myself that way. My work will speak for itself. For bars/saloons my laptop has a decal on it. For bridal fairs I have a 2x4 foots sign. I also have several different polos with my company name embroidered on them I wear to corporate events.


perfect Terry.
 
if you notice it's set up in in rudes own house (either that or it's a bloody small gig), totally different to when you take the time to set up for a gig...
 
I have the wires all over the place because I just set it all back up in my house. It was apart for days, I was to lazy to set it all up after this weekend's gig.

Back to the sign, while I agree with Terry about weddings and making it the bride's day, my sign doesn't convey anything that would detract from that. That is why my main logo is the bride and groom. My performance at their wedding conveys to the bride as well as everyone there who's day it is. No disrespect Terry but IMHO it's all in the presentation and a little logo tossed in doesn't hurt one thing. There is so much going on that it couldn't possibly distract anyone from the main event!

As for business cards, they have the same thing on the front and a view of the Pioneer gear on the back. In a sea of DJs one has to stand out or you will just fade away in the crowd. My logo hasn't affected my business negatively, it's not a bad thing really! People hire me because I'm good, word of mouth goes a long way.

DJ RuDe
 
Hey Rude, I think your sign is a good one. I have one that I use when I'm doing a fundraiser or an event where the promoter won't mind. But, I check whoever is booking me to see if it presents a problem. Usually people just come up and ask for my card. I also say my name and website enough so that they remember it. Again, great sign, I'm one of your fans, I love to fish.
 
I like the sign, but again do not put one out at weddings. I DO put out request slips with our name on it on every table b4 and that seems to help my guys with any requests as they are used to hosting karaoke and also gets our name out at the same time.

All of our business is word of mouth. No advertising whatsoever to this point other than the website & facebook facebook facebook lol.
 
TearEmUp wrote :
For weddings I do not use any signage. I tell my brides this is their day, so I will not use it to promote myself that way.

I totally disagree with Terry, you have to promote yourself and leave an impression.

 
Paul, if I may ask, why did you ask for feed back if you already knew how you felt? Not trying to start up anything, just curious. You started this thread asking what we did. Then took issues, politely, with my response. I'm cool with it, don't get me wrong. Just seems a bit odd to start a thread asking questions, then point out your thinking. I hope this isn't coming across wrong. We're cool, you and I.
 
Note to self: Never ask Terry if I need a BOOB lift.
 
If they need lifting Renee' let me know..I'll make sure my hands are warm.....
 
 
That one of us above is way before we were using computers. We left our phone number out so people would come and meet us and ask for a card. As all of you, never at weddings, but at most of our residencies, where we get most of our weddings.
 
TearEmUp wrote :
Paul, if I may ask, why did you ask for feed back if you already knew how you felt? Not trying to start up anything, just curious. You started this thread asking what we did. Then took issues, politely, with my response. I'm cool with it, don't get me wrong. Just seems a bit odd to start a thread asking questions, then point out your thinking. I hope this isn't coming across wrong. We're cool, you and I.



Lol, Terry, all I said was "What do you think?". You popped on and said how you felt about promoting yourself at weddings and all I did was disagree, pretty normal action & reaction I thought.

I said "What do you think?", you told me and I responded. How did you think that a conversation like this would go? My name is DJ RuDe, if someone says something I don't agree with DJ RuDe answers back! ;)

None of your opinions were off-base and impolite and I didn't think mine were either.

When I said "What do you think?" Did you think that I would only listen and not reply? Forgive me if I missed the unwritten rule where a petitioner can't respond to the respondent?! lol ;)

No worries my friend, wait... we're still friends right?


DJ RuDe
 
djrenee wrote :
TearEmUp wrote :
For weddings I do not use any signage. I tell my brides this is their day, so I will not use it to promote myself that way.

I totally disagree with Terry, you have to promote yourself and leave an impression.



Nice one Renee! You are quite the computer whiz! For a girl! lol ;) Just kidding, I like your brand of sarcasm...



Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "My chronic nastiness and obdurate refusal to look on the bright side of things goes far beyond garden-variety misanthropy". -- Joe Queenan


You do have to promote yourself in this competitive world. My sign is no different than other branding practices you see out there in our commercial world.

No one at a wedding is there to see me nor do I make it about me. What happens is people go to be with their family member or friend who has just gotten married. they're having fun, dancing, listening to the music, mingling and subconsciously seeing my logo while taking all of this in. It is a psychological factor that only the subconscious mind picks up on. This technique works well in the corporate world by using this psychology to get us to remember them, if not consciously... it is ingrained in our minds subconsciously.

They will say "Jon and Kathy's wedding was off the chain!!" Then later when they hear a song played that night or see my logo somewhere all of those memories of "Jon and Kathy's bangin' wedding will flood back to them because of a slyly placed logo and because of what they experienced while not paying attention to my logo. Chances are they will want to have the same experience with their own wedding or other shindig and hire me based on what they remember and because they recognized my logo from that experience.

It's called "brand recognition", they will associate that night with Jon and Kathy just by seeing my logo. My kids when they were just starting to experience the world at about 9 months to 1 year couldn't even say "I have to go potty" before they could say "McDonald's" or "Burger King" just from seeing the logo while we were cruising around town in the car! Same concept. They weren't fixated on the logo, but yet they instantly recognized what they saw because they had been exposed to it previously, even if they weren't paying attention to it at the time!

This takes nothing away from the bride's night, but it can add $$ to my pocketbook...




DJ RuDe
 


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