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A “DJ Resume”

August 20, 2010

Have you ever prepared a “DJ Resume”?

In todays ever changing society sales managers at venues are constantly being rotated, each time requiring you to meet with the new sales manager and try and gain their trust all over again.

I decided to create a Resume, and it ended up doubling as a nice marketing piece for my preferred vendors which are listed as Professional References.

See my 1 page PDF at http://www.thedjrebirth.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=0&func=view&catid=89&id=251

Membership Required – but it’s FREE!

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Facebook Face-Lift

May 4, 2010

Does your Facebook Profile look like everyone else?

Tired of the existing Facebook Design?


Who believes in Randy Bartletts 1% Solution?  I do…


YOU WILL NEED:

  • Graphics Program:  Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, or other.
  • Time:  Approximately 30 minutes to perfect your image
  • Skill Level: Medium.  (Gen know how of creating an image, and uploading a profile photo)

Lets change:

By adding larger (200 x 600 pixel) Profile Photos.  This size is called Skyscraper Banners in web lingo.

Now see how the above can change your page…

And now my example of my page…  Notice how since my face is on the Profile Image/Skyscraper Banner at 134 x 172, it makes a perfect Thumbnail next to my posts.



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Capitalize on social networking

January 20, 2010

The DJ Intelligence News & Information Blog allows you to quickly and easily publish articles on your website. The benefits of writing articles for your blog are vast, and experts agree that publishing a blog is a one of the leading ways to increase traffic to your website and gain free exposure for your business. The articles you post on your DJ Intelligence News & Information Blog are streamed directly into the Google search index (and other top tier search engines) which means that unlike traditional web pages which can take days, weeks, or months to appear, you will often find that your blog posts show up in the Google results within hours, giving you immediate exposure. Additionally, your clients and prospects can subscribe to your blog’s RSS or Atom feed to automatically be notified anytime you publish a new article (unlike bookmarks which depend on visitors to return to your site to read the newest updates). These two elements alone can drive significant traffic to your website, but there are other simple steps you can take to further enhance your blog’s reach.

Using free services such as TwitterFeed and Ping.fm, you can effortlessly syndicate the articles you publish to your Twitter page and Facebook wall (as well as countless other social networking sites) using your blog’s RSS feed. If you do not yet use Twitter and Facebook for your business, consider setting up accounts. These are two great methods for communicating with clients and prospects, while further spreading the word about your professional services through the power and reach of social networking.

As you know, DJ Intelligence is also fully integrated with MailChimp, a leading broadcast email provider, so you can send mass emails to your past, present, and future clients. Using your RSS feed, you can set up an “RSS-driven campaign” to automatically email your clients the day after you publish an article to your blog. This is another great way to stay in contact with your client base. If you do not yet use MailChimp to send broadcast emails, consider signing up and integrating with your DJ Intelligence account.

To find out the URL of your DJ Intelligence blog’s RSS feed, visit your blog’s home page and click on the “RSS” icon. The URL which appears in the address bar after you click the “RSS” icon will be the direct URL of your RSS feed. If you have any questions or need our assistance, please contact the DJ Intelligence support team anytime 24×7 at http://support.intelligenceinc.com

So the only question that remains is, what will you blog about? Share company news & information, author and publish articles pertaining to your company or industry, tell stories from past events, share client testimonials, or post any other important information you wish to share with your customers and potential customers. The possibilities are endless. If you do not yet use DJ Intelligence for your business, please sign up today and start reaping the rewards of blogging!

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Did you find the Year End Charts helpful?

January 6, 2010

Did you find the Year End Charts helpful? In other words…

Did you digg it?  http://digg.com/music/Year_End_Charts_The_most_requested_songs_of_2009

MARKETING TIP: Use this list at Bridal Shows to reiterate to your client that you use reliable sources, and are current with the music their guests will want to hear!

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Google #1 Page Ranking

December 1, 2009

There are a lot of so called “SEO Specialists” suddenly poping up, making unsolicited offers to make your website appear on page 1 or even  #1 listing on the search engines.  I probably don’t have to say this, but “Don’t believe them!”  — If they are as good as they claim to be, do a lookup on the search term, “SEO something-or-rather” and see if they appear #1 or on page 1 – do they?  If they do, then they have bragging rights and by all means must have some idea what they’re doing.

Here’s the shortcut key points to getting your website ranking higher:

(1) Choosing Keywords – What keywords are you targeting?   If you’re looking up “Robert Starkey’s Wedding Entertainment” then of course I’m going to show up as listing #1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10 (figuratively speaking).  However, a client isn’t likely to find a DJ in that manner, they’re more than likely going to use their city, event type, and the initials “DJ” or words “Disc Jockey” — ie. “Lake Havasu Wedding DJ”.

(2) Keyword research – Google offers an awesome realtime reference to keywords you enter, and even offers alternatives.  Are you targeting the right keywords?  Find out here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

(3) Ranking Results – Is a competitor ranking higher for a keyword then you are?  Visit their page, and count how many times they are using that keyword.  Then, include it just 2 or 3 times more than them.

Final note before I leave you today — Google is checking relevancy of keywords throughout the site, and making sure it is inline with your <TITLE> tag (what shows up at the top of the browser window next to the browser icon).  Make sure your content is all relative to the keywords you are trying to target, and KEY: “Only try and target 3 – 5 keywords, don’t try and target to many or you may find your spreading your site thin.”

Until next time,

Robert Starkey

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“There’s an APP for That!!”

September 21, 2009

We’ve all heard the newest phrase hitting all generations, young and old — “Theres an APP for That”. There’s probably even an APP for breaking 90 on the golf course. Well regardless, if you’re one on trying out new iPhone Applications – here’s one you’ll want.

I was recently alerted to DJ E Motion’s (Rob Nadigel) “DJ Sampler” APP he designed that is now available. This particular APP is a sampler that helps with transitioning from one song to another whenever we’re performing. Most of the samples are 2-5 seconds long and range from “Swooshes” to “Sirens.”  These can be looped and downloaded straight to your computer if you’re into DJing digitally.

For more information on Rob and his APP, visit his websites at:

djemotion.wordpress.com

robnadigel.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/nadigel1

Hope you find this interesting!
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jeff stiles
Photojournalist

3108 Central Avenue

Dubuque, IA 52001

weekenderman@mac.com

563-590-1367


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Three (3) Different Ways To Make Your DJ Intelligence Quote Generator Work for YOU!

August 28, 2009

Even if you’re against pricing online, read this…

In speaking with many DJs, offering your prices online seems to be a preference of choice which, varies from company to company.  I want to take a moment to share with you “Three (3) Different Ways To Make Your DJ Intelligence Quote Generator Work for YOU!”

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Best Flash Layout – Advice!

March 14, 2009

Recently I had a discussion on HTML vs. FLASH – this was my opinion…

While flash looks great, it does not always serve to the advantage of you or your clients unless planned properly. Most web designers like to create a whole screen flash with creative menues and actions based on what you do on the screen, where they drop the ball is often times they do not make an HTML counterpart for those that can not or choose not to view a flash website.

If designing a website in flash, it is recommended that you design flash headers, sidebars, or footers, and layer them around a standard HTML content main window. This gives the search engines content to index your site from, an option not made possible by a strictly flash website.

The above method also allows you to insert iFrame code, one of the preferred methods of tool integration amongst DJ Intelligence subscribers as the tools become part of your site, not an outside set of tools which you can only link out to – as flash requires you to. Another drawback to a strictly all flash website.

Remember that the trick to SEO is in structuring your website copy to contain keywords cleverly written into intelligent, thoughtout, but respectfully keyword packed. This only plays, again, with flash headers / sidebar(s) / footer and a plain HTML content center.

Hope this provides some informative insight.

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Marketing Tidbit: SPAM Prevention

January 7, 2009

With email serving as a large method for communicating with your customers, preventing SPAM from arriving becomes an overgrowing challenge.  The following Marketing Tidbits can help you alleviate the problem:

1) Remove any direct links to your email address from your website. 98% of the time, this method of making your email address available usually revolves around the ever so popular  MAILTO: tag which is largely recognized by the spam bots searching websites on a daily basis.

2) Use of a contact form with CAPTCHA. A large percentage of contact forms on websites these days, process the information submitted behind the scenes, ensuring that your email address is never exposed.  An example would be the Contact and Message Form as available through DJ Intelligence.  CAPTCHA is the method of asking the submitter to verify they are a human by copying the letters and numbers randomly displayed on screen.

3) Use of Image to display Email Address. If you feel that you MUST have your email address visible, typing it out on a graphic file such as Email Address for Robert Starkey.

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Google Opens “Friend Connect”

December 5, 2008

In an effort to move our websites into the new “Web 2.0″, Google’s Friend Connect was publicly made available as of yesterday (Thursday, Dec 4, 2008) which will allow a client to log-in to their Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID user name and password from your website and access social data such as Friends Lists, Profile Information, Feed Messages, Reviews, Ratings and more.

For testing purposes, I have placed the Friend Connect on my Wedding Website at http://www.HavasuWeddingDJ.com – as well as http://www.OutsideTheBox.biz (lower left of page). Feel free to add yourself if you wish to play around with this application.

We’ve all seen “Guest Books” and “Graffiti Walls”, as well as even “Rating” applications – this takes all that to a whole new level.  While most of our websites probably will not be utilizing these tools, there are more to come as developers adapt to this new technology so I encourage us all to stay informed. Other advantages will come in to play by being able to pull the persons Name and other available information, and insert it right into the content of your website, once they do log-in.  Imagine:  A client visits your website, joins your site as a member/friend, then immediately they see that the message on screen in your sales copy addresses them by name — “Congratulations on your upcoming Wedding Julie” — and all they did was log in.

Facebooks has Friend Connect too, just to keep you ahead on this technology. While Facebooks has the “users and the momentum” as stated by TechCrunch contributing author Erick Schonfeld in his article, I believe personally that Google has the larger following, and with the ability to login once through one application and immediately be logged into the rest all at once, plus Google’s “Google Checkout” for some websites – it would not suprise me if you start to see Google pull ahead on this, as they were the first to develop it in the first place (just last to make it publicly available – Google’s was in Invitation Only Alpha Testing up until its Beta Release as spoken about in this article).

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