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Brian B's April 2024 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 23, 2024 16:54 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
INTERVIEW: DREW PIERCE - What Songs To Play vs The Knot's DNP List (Part 2)
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 19, 2024 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsEarlier this year, the Knot published 26 "Do Not Play Songs" from the perspective of a guest attending a wedding. Some (not all) DJs made comments to the effect of, "These are go to songs for me" or "I'd feel handicapped without them." In an effort to help those DJs, Drew Pierce (fellow DJ, edit...
INTERVIEW: DREW PIERCE - What Songs To Play vs The Knot's DNP List (Part 1)
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 18, 2024 15:48 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsEarlier this year, the Knot published 26 "Do Not Play Songs" from the perspective of a guest attending a wedding. Some (not all) DJs made comments to the effect of, "These are go to songs for me" or "I'd feel handicapped without them." In an effort to help those DJs, Drew Pierce (fellow DJ, edit...
INTERVIEW: Joe Bunn - How To Save Your 2024 and Build For 2025
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 15, 2024 18:29 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIn talking with DJs weekly, I get the sense we're headed for a similar 2023 where a decent amount of DJs aren't having the year in 2024 that they had hoped for as it pertains to both bookings and revenue. In the same breath, they are hopeful based on inquiries for the upcoming year (2025). I've ...
Is Scaling The Only Path To Happiness?
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 10, 2024 19:27 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsI was targeted with a Facebook or Instagram ad by a business coach in the event industry space who made the claim that scaling your business was the only way to achieve true happiness. Having run various types of DJ businesses - from a large scale multi-op to a boutique agency to a single-op, I...
2 Ways You Can Win With A Booking Besides Money
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 05, 2024 18:51 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsMost people think the only way you can win with a booking is by getting paid. No doubt, that is important. But in this episode, I offer two other "wins" you can gain from a booking that are rarely talked about but will absolutely move the needle forward in your business. I also discuss 2 monetar...
Are You Really Triggered By The Knot's Do Not Play List?
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - April 04, 2024 19:03 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsI had a completely different direction I was going on the podcast this week and then the Knot's Do No Play List article (from January 2024) made the rounds on social media. As usual with these things, it conjured up a lot of emotion within the DJ community and boy did we see a few folks get trig...
Brian B's March 2024 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - March 28, 2024 04:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
6 Time Efficiency Tips For DJs
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - March 14, 2024 15:33 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsBeing a mobile DJ owner is not for the faint of heart. Since running my own business, I've never found a time where I was like, "I'm bored." It doesn't matter if you're a single-op or a multi-op owner; you will always have a never ending list of things to do. That being said, we should never b...
High Priced DJs: Mastering Preferred Venue Lists
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - March 07, 2024 11:13 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsA homemade Halloween costume, Chevrolet Astro van seats, and blowing $1000. What do these things have to do with being the highest priced DJ on a preferred venue list where you find yourself unable to land events due to the other lower priced DJs on the list? You'll have to listen to find out. ...
Brian B's February 2024 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - February 22, 2024 14:34 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
Brian B's January 2024 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - February 20, 2024 15:24 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
5 Networking Efficiency Tips In 2024
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - February 17, 2024 15:47 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIs networking your kryptonite? Or maybe you find it challenging to do it efficiently (and effectively)? As someone who books business around the country (and a few internationally), it's important that I have a system that not only works but is manageable with all the other things I have going ...
Are You Asking For A Client's Event Budget?
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - February 17, 2024 04:10 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsThis episode could be a game changing listen for you. At the very least, it should give you all the confidence you would ever need to go out to the world with your pricing, no matter what it is. In the last month and a half, I've been asking clients this question: What Is Your Overall Event Budg...
DJs Beware: Planner 'Dream Team' Verbiage and Fake Inquiries
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - February 06, 2024 15:43 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsI haven't done a rant in a while but this one is warranted. This "dream team"verbiage you're seeing by planners is not helping the industry. In fact, it further divides it. By creating this elitist category of creatives, it also has led to fake inquiries. Nobody deserves that. I address the ele...
W2 (Employee) vs 1099 (Subcontractor) Classification
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - February 02, 2024 17:49 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIn response to the last episode, some listeners wanted me to cover W2 (Employee) vs 1099 (Subcontractors). I've actually run my company both ways a few different times. In this episode, I share the pros and cons to both and give you an option at the end that may be advantageous for those wantin...
How To Pay Your DJs: 3 Options
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - January 26, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsOne of those "learn on the job" things in the mobile DJ world is how to pay your DJs if you become a mutli-op owner. It usually starts with a copy and paste of someone else's way of doing it and then it morphs into whatever it takes to keep your Djs on the staff. Guilty, party of 1 of those appr...
Goal Setting Strategy in 2024
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - January 25, 2024 15:39 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIs goal setting hard for you? It was for me. For years, I felt like I struggled striking the perfect balance between making goals too easy and too hard for myself. There was no rhyme or reason to how I'd figure out what my goals were. A few years back, I started to get real intentional about my ...
INTERVIEW: Malike Adigun - The Building Of A Brand
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - January 10, 2024 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsI thought this interview was lost. We recorded this 5 months ago but the file was corrupted. Somehow, I worked some voodoo magic and I was able to bring it back to life. Thank God because there's some gold in here. Malike Adigun is crushing it in Florida with company, Curate Entertainment. A ...
Airline Loyalty Programs
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - January 08, 2024 16:51 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsRecently got off a mileage run and documented that journey. I was flooded with questions about what that meant and why airline loyalty programs matter. With that in mind, I decided to record an episode on it. I'm on YOUTUBE! Please subscribe and share. Thanks in advance. Check out my podca...
Brian B's December's 2023 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - January 01, 2024 20:48 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
The Fifty Thousand Dollar Theft (Update 3)
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - December 08, 2023 16:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsLast year I posted an episode (Season 4, Episode 50) about a $50K theft I experienced. I had some progress on that front and shared update #2 (Season 5, Episode 22) in May of this year. Here's update #3 (more than 20 months after the theft occurred). Cliff notes version: I'm stilling clinging t...
Brian B's October's 2023 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - December 04, 2023 03:28 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
Brian B's November 2023 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - November 20, 2023 15:31 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
With Bad Customer Service Comes Opportunity
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - October 04, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsI've been noticing the denigration of customer service...not just on the national level but on the local level and even within the event industry. Therein lies the opportunity. In this episode, I talk through some of things I've noticed with the decline of service and I give a few tips on how yo...
Travel Hacks: Courtyard Marriotts, Mileage Match, and Airport Parking
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - September 18, 2023 14:03 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsIn this episode, I share 3 travel hacks - Courtyard Marriott hospitality/amenities, mileage matching with airlines, and keeping your paper airport parking ticket. I had to deal with all 3 this past month. Traveling as much as I do, my hope is that these hacks can save you headaches and improve ...
Brian B's August 2023 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - August 28, 2023 13:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
Brian B's July 2023 Music Review
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - August 21, 2023 14:58 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWith my music episodes, I try to present to you evergreen tracks that will be with you for a while. I subscribe to a ton of record pools beyond digging through blogs, Patreon, streaming services, Shazam, and the like. I thought I would share my top 10 most interesting musical track finds with yo...
Is Expansion The Metric For Success?
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - August 18, 2023 16:03 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsRecently, there was a discussion in the private event DJ world about how the McDonald's model should be considered as something to emulate - selling services for cheap (and potentially even a subpar product) to produce big net revenue numbers. But is that fool's gold? What are the pros and cons ...
What Happens When The Bottom Falls Out Of Your Pricing Model?
The Travel DJ Blend with DJ Brian B - August 10, 2023 20:17 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsWhen the financial belts of our clients tighten or a disaster strikes (hello wildfires, oil spills and COVID), you're able to really test how resilient of a pricing model you have. When it comes down to it and things aren't booking, what do you do? A lot of companies are dropping their prices in...
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