FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
There are many ways to keep your skills sharp as a Mobile DJ, but as far as continuing education for this DJ, I do my best to attend the annual Mobile Beat Magazine DJ conventions hosted around the country (I like the one in Las Vegas!), keep a constant eye on the music charts (Billboard Magazine), take frequent online training at Mobile Beat Magazine (www.mobilebeat.com) and utilize Mobile Beat's Top 200. MB Top 200 is a list of songs submitted by DJ's from all across the United States and I have found it to be a very valuable tool in generating just the right mood for events I that do! Another excellent tool is to actually read the follow up questionnaire from clients!
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
This is a very good question! I've always enjoyed music, but started to get the DJ "bug" in high school and at a summer camp in Maine that I worked at for 4 summers. While at the camp, I had the incredible opportunity to rub elbows with counselors that were running the camp radio station. Most of these folks came from a college radio station background and between them and the campers, I was exposed to some amazing music! After my service in the US Air Force, I started filling in at nightclubs and eventually moved to Mobile DJing for wedding receptions and a variety of other types of events. One of the things that I pride myself on when performing at a wedding reception is playing music that people WANT to hear, not what I want to play!
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Party Time Productions specializes in wedding receptions and corporate events, but we also perform for a variety of other events. If the schedule allows, we also do picnic's, luncheon's, BBQ's, pool parties, retirement parties, reunion's and, on occassion, bachelor, bachelorette and divorce parties. You read that correctly, divorce parties! Divorces are emotionally, mentally and physically draining. It can completely wear a person down especially if the process takes a long time. Getting through it is absolutely worthy of a celebration! Some see a divorce only as an ending, and while it is an ending it can also be a new beginning. A divorce party celebrates that new start and can help you focus on the happiness that lies ahead rather than what you're leaving behind.