MB 149 – May 2013 – Available Online Now…

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…and hitting mailboxes soon.  [With apologies for production problems that have delayed the release of this issue.] It’s All About the Music… …isn’t it? Although music is covered in some way in every Mobile Beat, we take a whole issue every year to focus primarily on this foundation of what DJs do. In “Making the [...]

The Right Stuff – By Jason Weldon

PRACTICING THE RIGHT THINGS LEADS TO REAL PROGRESS I was reading an chapter in a book the other day and it got me thinking…How much do we actually practice? How much do we practice anything that we actually do on a regular basis? Many of us might practice mixing, or playing the piano, but do [...]

What’s in Your Library? – By Mike “Dr. Frankenstand” Ryan

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If you take all the music in the world and throw away every song not related to weddings, and then take those songs left over and throw away the ones that aren’t danceable, you’ll still have a supercomputer’s hard drive worth of music. Just how much music are we talking about? The largest source of [...]

Innovation vs. Imitation – By Stu Chisholm

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HAS INNOVATION LOST THE BATTLE? In those dark, dark days before Mobile Beat, and even before the Internet, a great many Americans launched careers as mobile DJs. Innovation was a daily occurrence, since we were basically making it up as we went along. My first (and oldest) road cases were made to spec from a [...]

MB 148 – March 2013 – Available Online Now

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…and hitting mailboxes soon! Mobile Beat, March 2013 (#148) For us here at Mobile Beat, the first two months of the year are always the busiest. In January, we head out to the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim. As usual, this year’s music industry extravaganza did not disappoint. Then, in February, we gear up for [...]

Creative Wedding Reception Video – By Lane O’Neill, aka VJinfiniti

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We live in a multimedia world and I believe that if you are not embracing video then you are falling behind the game, distancing yourself further from the leaders who are utilizing new forms of technology. Any Edward Jones rep will tell you to diversify your financial portfolio. Within the past five years, I have [...]

Shattering the #1 Myth About Wedding Sales – By Stephanie Padovani

Don’t miss opportunities to capture more wedding-related profits For over a dozen years, my husband and I have run a DJ company that specializes in weddings. Sure, we do the occasional holiday party, but other than that it’s nothing but weddings April through November. Which means, we once thought, no repeat customers. Unless they come [...]

Loving the Nightlife (Disco ‘Round) – By Jay Maxwell

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The Sound of Studio 54 Keeps on Spinning Normally the inspiration for my articles does not come from sitting in my favorite chair at home reading a book. But the idea for this issue’s list was born while my wife Donna and I were enjoying some quite time one evening immersed in the pages of [...]

MOBILE BEAT #147 – JANUARY 2013 – ONLINE NOW

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MOBILE BEAT #147 – JANUARY 2013 – ONLINE NOW – Print version hitting mailboxes soon! As much as we MAY try to avoid cliches, occasionally an overused expression puts up a good fight to avoid being replaced. Case in point: WOW. How to build WOW? Let us count the ways… Matt Blank takes a fresh [...]

“Wow” Doesn’t Happen By Accident – By Stu Chisholm

PREPARATION: THE ONLY WAY TO AMAZE Everyone is looking for that one big thing they can do to really set themselves apart. I remember my first “wow factor” moment. At a wedding, my cocktail hour music was playing as the bride’s mother came up to me and said, with excited expectation in her voice, “The [...]