Question for DJ's / Club Promoters
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- duhsign0
good luck, toughest business ever. Most good nights are at hot new places or well known standbys. The only way in is to come up with something really unique and fresh and meet an unmet need in your nightlife community, or if your lucky ride the coat tails of whatevers most popular in your area.
Did some years of promoting everything from undergrounds in a local abandoned gym to Electric Daisy, Nocturnal, Audiotistic, Jujubeats. Small club nights are really hard because you need to build, every week has to be better than the last. Do you have 200 people you can get in the door twice a month to start? If not I would suggest they run the promotions and you will spin for a set fee and call it a day. If you want to take on the whole deal then you will be spending way more time and energy than money coming back in. That's the way it is. And you will have to deal with slow nights and feeling like an ahole because no one came.
You should be concentrating on your music not promotions. That way if your DJing is good then people will come to see you not to come to some restaurant that you are promoting for that you promise will be a lot of fun but when they get there it's not that fun and the dj is all stressed out from promoting and poor turnout and plays a typical set you could hear anywhere in town.
- rockstars don't promote bro ; )duhsign
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