How Private Event DJs Stay Sharp

Welcome And Pre-Gig Banter

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Happy June, everybody. Welcome to Beyond the DJ Booth, your favorite private event DJ podcast with two of your favorite DJs. Right? Yeah, sure. Brian B here. Yeah, Joe Bunn. Glad to see you. Yeah. What's up? You're not hungry anymore? You've already got a few. No, man. We crushed the salad.

SPEAKER_00 0:20

What'd you get?

SPEAKER_01 0:20

You got turkey?

SPEAKER_00 0:21

I don't, I'm not a Jersey Mike's guy. Oh, I'm not either. I just do it when we're here because it's quick.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah. What'd you get the? I don't know. Just number two. I don't even know what that was. Turkey? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

I didn't look at it. You just told me to order it for you.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

I just picked the most basic thing I could find. I go roast big growing. They go too heavy on the sauces, bro. Like the sauces are just yeah. I'm like, I don't want it to be, you know, like this isn't a drink. You know what I mean? Like, I just want it to be a sandwich. Can we go a little lighter? Yeah. It's on my I'm though I'm a Jimmy Johns guy. Jimmy Johns is my move. Yeah. Dude, it's my go-to meal when I go to a gig. Okay. That's the that's the pre-lunch. If I can't find a Jimmy Johns, yeah. Didn't you have like a thing at the collective? Like you were.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

They served it to us too much on the in the green room. I told those girls, stop with the Jimmy Johns. If I have another fucking Jimmy Johns, I'm gonna turn into Jimmy John.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

So good.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Well, let's get into it.

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Let's thank some of our uh back room members. We got a slew of people, as you can say, of people to thank. Uh, I'll go first. Brett Swain. You know where he's from?

SPEAKER_00 1:21

No idea. Swain. Uh, Australia. He said, I'm gonna see him this summer. Did I misspell it? I think it's Swain with an M on the end. M. Okay. He's in Australia, bro. Okay. Yeah. When are you going? Uh end of July. Oh, it's coming up. Yeah. I'm going to Tokyo first. Wait, what? Yeah. Just for fun? Yeah. Wow. I'm out there, bro. Wow. Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

You already booked the ticket?

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Yeah. What are you taking? I got the good, like the bed and A flat?

SPEAKER_01 1:46

You spent money on that? Yeah. Oh, man. I had to, bro. I'm scared. I've never been that far. Yeah. I gotta get the compression stuff from. Oh, yeah, yeah. You gotta get the compression.

SPEAKER_02 1:55

No, you've been that far, hadn't you?

SPEAKER_01 1:57

I have been to Japan once. Yeah. But yeah, I always do it on the points. I'll I'll use all my points to do it. You went to Dubai, too. I went to there, yeah. Went to Australia.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

I ain't been anywhere. Yeah. You're going to Sydney? Yeah. Okay. And um the Gold Coast. Okay. Yeah. Sydney and the Gold Coast. Shout out, Brett. Who else we got? Uh, Chad Smith, the drummer for The Chili Pepper. I'm glad he's. Yeah. He's gonna learn a lot. Uh Chris Davis. Yes, Chris Davis.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

Tom Sawyer from the book. Uh, Oklahoma. He's from Oklahoma DJ. I thought he retired, but maybe he's back. No, maybe he's back. Okay. And then we got Michael Murphy, not related to my mother-in-law, Michelle Murphy. Completely different Michael

Member Shoutouts And Travel Talk

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Murphy. Yeah, but different. Like the name. Gotta be an Irish. Shout out to Murphy's, yeah. That's great. Probably. Um, I thought we'd hit a topic. This is comes from our boy Trego.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

I didn't. This was TLDR for me. I too long didn't read. Well, so he sent this. He sends things at wrong times.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Well, and and also the voice note thing. Like the I haven't figured out how to translate it? Two speed it. Oh. Like you could with like a any other thing.

SPEAKER_00 3:01

Yeah, I would rather read it. Oh, it doesn't transcribe for you? It does, but it I think it truncates it. Ah. You like that word? Yeah, truncate it. You shorten it. Okay. Go on.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

So you were talking about um clothing. What do we do with clothing? Like, first of all, if you had a double, you had a double last weekend? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure you're not wearing the same suit. I did not, right.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

But if you know the road and had and I and I had minimum packing space.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

How do you freshen these things up? Is there a trick to that? Like he was talking about using this like downy wrinkle spray that we'll show a picture of. I definitely have a travel steamer for the suit.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

And then I always iron the shirt in the hotel room.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

In the hotel room.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

With the hotel iron.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Okay. Never had a problem? I saw that Jamie Perez had an issue with her dress at Midwest. Like she said she burnt it because of the hotel iron.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

I didn't see that. Yeah. That would suck.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Yeah. And then it wasn't like a black color. It was like, you know, white or even worse. So she had to go figure it out. But uh yeah, this is a toughie because I mean, here's the thing. I think where he was going with this is like dry cleaning is expensive these days. Oh yeah. And he's like, do I really like I he's not a sweater, he says.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Um, so he's like, Do I take the jacket and like every gig take it to the dry cleaner? It's expensive. Oh, I don't know. But you just want to freshen it up.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

So what's the move to like having it smell clean, keeping it wrinkle free if it's a pair of pants that you want to reuse? Because I mean I mean the shirts, I I take it to dry hungers

Keeping Suits Fresh On Doubles

SPEAKER_01 4:31

no matter what. I don't care. Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

That's a no, that's a not wearing a repeat of a that that's a non non-starter.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

But the jacket, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Uh I haven't tried this wrinkles, the wrinkle spray stuff. Have you? Wrinkle release or wrinkle releaser. No? Now on the right, that bottle on the right, I use these little um beads that I sprinkle on top of the laundry before I hit start.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

The same company. I I recognize that bottle. Got it. You ever use those, the little beads? I have used the beads. You know what I mean? Yeah, but I feel better. Not for the jacket. No, no, no, no. For my my like workout gear and drawers and socks.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Totally. Yeah. I don't know what the move is on the jackets. I do the same thing. I do the steamer. Yeah. And uh the steamer works fine for me. It's it's faster than iron. You don't need an ironing board.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

I feel like these have smell in them. And if I had to, I can't do cologne. I can't do if I had to smell some smell all day on my jacket, it gives me a migraine. So what if it's uh lightly uh tinged jackets? Oh, I'll throw it in the bushes, I'll set it on fire. I can't do it. But when you take it to the dry cleaner, that'll make it smell better. No, when I go to the dry cleaners, there's no fragrance added or anything. Nothing. No, not even standard. No, I mean it just smells like it's been dry cleaned, which is not like uh, you know, this is like fresh linen or like rosemary uh lemon scented or whatever. Like I can't do that. Okay, I don't like that shit. Okay, I don't do the flavors either, but uh flavors, yeah. I don't want any flavor on any part of me. I don't want it on my skin. I get it. You don't wear cologne, do you? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Yeah, I mean deodorant.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

I mean, that's it, but even my deodorant's unscented.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Really? Yeah, you go unscented on that. Yeah, I think it's women's.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

It's like a band roll on. Wow. You remember band roll on? Oh man. From like 88. Yikes, the white stuff. It's got that little ball. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Yeah, but it's unscented. Dude, did you ever look I'm not pitted on it? No. You know what my dad used to get? The Avon kind, those roll-on. It was like the lion on the front of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was the ball. Yeah. I man, I just ball is classic, bro.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

That they still make that? Yes. At the store. Ban. Okay. Unscented. I think it's for women.

SPEAKER_01 6:44

All right, I'll check it.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

It's like strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. I think that was their marketing campaign campaign. You don't remember that? I do remember it. Yeah, no, I think about it. Maybe I'm making this up. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

Well, I don't know. I don't have anything to recommend for you, buddy. I don't either, man. I would just say do what you're doing. Get a steamer. Get a steamer. Um, I wanted to hit you with another topic real quickly, with the whole AI, you know, thing kind of being in vogue right now. Are you running into this? I want to ask you on two different levels. The first is I think some of my clients are copying and pasting my form, bro, into chat or into one of those things and giving me answers. Oh no. And I'm like, this doesn't even sound like you. Yeah. And it I can kind of tell by the way that the M dashes are there, number one.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:32

And I'm just like, is this gonna be a thing now where people are using it to like get through like whatever they're trying to get to, just busy, who knows? Like, is it even telling me that that's really them? Like, you know, that this is really their preferences bar.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Event sync will not let them do that. My new app. It won't let them put in AI answers. How will they know? Because it looks more like a conversation, like a chat a chat conversation. So it's asking them, you know, is this still your first dance? Yes or no? Like it it's not a form. Okay, there is no form, it's one-to-one question. Or we're not doing that, so it skips to the next thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Eventsync.com. Yeah. Eventsync.com. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Uh have you run into this yet though? No. I I mean, now that you're saying it, I'm like, I I can see why people, especially busy people, would do it. Right. But

Spotting AI In Client Questionnaires

SPEAKER_00 8:21

it seems to take a lot of the personalization out of what you do. Yeah. As like, because I was telling somebody about this the other day. We were talking about the money thing, and I was like, listen, man, yeah, you can probably if I can get $5,000 now every weekend, right? I'm I'm at that point. Right. I can't get $10,000. And they were like, Yeah, you can. I go, I yes, you're right, I can, but I would have to do what Brian did, which was change everything. Right. Change the planning, right? The the the this, the that, yeah, the every the the music search, how much time he spends digging for gold, yeah, how much time he's spending prepping the set. Like, yes, I can, but I don't think I have the time to to add in that $500, $5,000 worth more of value. Right. So we were just talking about that, and it was like that's that's part of his thing, right? That's his it, right? Is that experience. Right. And it's not about copying and pasting it into chat GPT and saying, fill this out for Brian.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Like you're kind of defeating the point of paying the extra $5,000.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Well, and that was almost like I I guess then my other next question was, how do I approach a client like that? Like, I I can tell it's not them, but I don't want to call them out if especially if it was if I'm wrong, you know, but I can kind of sense it. So like I almost am like, is this accurate or is this just like are they even seeing what they're pasting? Are they just like literally copying pasting everything? And I just worry that this is gonna come back.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

Via them via chat.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

It's it's you know, it always goes back to that last call. Right. That final call is like, hey, I don't, you know, uh, I don't know if you like, did you guys feel this out or did you guys know? Well, well, one of the ways I'll do it is I'll say, like, uh, one of my questions is Or there's some discrepancy here on how I think our original call was and this call or this sheet looks like I don't know how you really approach it, but I think you have to say something, especially if something looks wonky, right?

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Right. Well, and especially when I'm thinking about it when in terms of music, right? Right. They just go, hey, what's the top 100 songs? Let me just you're brickhoused out, right?

SPEAKER_00 10:33

You're playing your your your brickhouse and you're you play that funky music. Exactly. You're back. I'm back.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

So one of my questions I always ask, especially as it relates to this, would be uh when it comes to the attendance question. Because sometimes they fill that out right away, right? Like they fill out this like what's the attendance? Like how many people are coming? How many people are coming? Okay. And it'll say, let's just say 150 to 200. Okay. I'll ask, I'll say, hey, I don't know when you filled this out, but is this number still accurate? 150 to 200. Have you had any more? Do you have less? For me, the reason why it matters is because I want to know what kind of sound system to bring. You know, if it's 250 people, I'm not bringing, you know, two column speakers. Right, not gonna work.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

So that's one of the questions I will ask again, even though they've already filled it out on the thing, is because it doesn't log. This is uh maybe a thing for event sync. I wish it would log for me when they answered that specific question. Like a timestamp almost. Yeah. I don't need to get granular with a time, but just date. Right. Or if it said edited, yeah. You know what I mean? So I knew that it was like filled out, that would be helpful.

SPEAKER_02 11:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Because questions like that shift over time if they filled it out early.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Right.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

So that kind of gives me a way to lean into hey, and about this question. Yeah. Did you fill this out early or two? I just want to make sure I'm correct on what you're saying. I can kind of get around this AI thing. Okay, that's part one. Part two AI for reviews. I know of a DJ who came to me. He I'll he asked to be remain uh nameless, so I will keep it that way. But he was having issues with clients leaving reviews. He's followed up a few different times, not getting them to fill this leaving a review.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

Even after he crushed or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

Right. So then he used, I think you use it too. Poppy.ai. Do you use poppy?

SPEAKER_00 12:14

I use poppy.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

And I think Claude does this too, where you can literally dump all of the conversations you've had with them. Oh. I didn't use it, I don't use it for that. I use it with helping me with scripts. Okay. But you can add in Dropbox files, um, any email correspondence. Websites, whatever. So this person's been using this to say, hey, based on this data and me just telling you a little bit about the event, can you write a review in their voice? Wait, wait, I'm not saying post it. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

So this is after the third time with no response. And he felt like the wedding went, he crushed it. Yeah, right. And he's like, I don't understand why they're not leaving me a review.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

So he sent this email said, hey, listen, I probably I'm just gonna assume you've been busy. Wanted to give you one more uh another option here. I've actually run this through uh AI AI, admitted it, right? Yeah, and wrote the review for you. Yeah, all you have to do is copy and paste it. Oh my god. And he's saying he's getting it at a 90% clip

AI Written Reviews And The Ethics

SPEAKER_01 13:13

of people on the this he didn't do it to start with. This is up to the third. Right. But 90% of them are using it. I don't hate it.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

So ethically, do you think it's uh the right move to Well, yes, man, because they still have the opportunity to decline. Yeah, or to or to not respond. Right. Be like, uh, we didn't believe that, or lastly, you know, to to copy and paste it and go, Yeah, I wouldn't say that, or that doesn't sound like my voice, I'll tweak this. Like you know, I'm just thinking, well, would Bun DJ Co nah, I don't think so, man. We we we're so reviewed up, man. Like it's just like we have thousands upon thousands between Google and the not like it's not super high priority for me.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

I like to get them. I think it's very validating. I love to see my guys get them even more. Right. I send it to the guy, I hype him up, yo, you're crushing it. Like, I'll always do that. You know what I mean? And every once in a while I get one, and Randy will be like, Oh, it looks like you finally fucking got one, pal. Like, because he gets one every week. Yeah, but he's so he does so much to get it.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

Right. You know what I mean? Totally. Um, so not you don't see anything wrong with that at all. I don't I'm just asking.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

I don't see anything wrong with that. I don't either, but I'm just asking because I thought you were getting ready to say he posts it as them or something, and I was gonna be like, no, holy shit, man, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

No, no, but he's I think a reason why a vast majority don't leave a review if it was a great event is that they're busy. 100%.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Like that's the last thing I want to do. I rarely leave reviews for anything, right? And if I do, it's normally something so bad. Right. So bad. Right, yeah. Not not moderately bad, like the server was not uh the food was okay. No, like has to be bad, bad.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Right. I've had to balance mine out every now and then because I felt like I've gone on a streak of too many bad ones. Bad, bads, yeah. I'm like, I gotta at least put some good ones in there so this guy doesn't think this guy. Because that's the first thing they'll say is like, look at all of his reviews. They're all negative. Right, right. Well, no kidding. That's the only time I really need to leave it. It's the only time most people jump on. Totally. I don't think there's a problem with it. I think the issue I would personally have is forwarding an uh an AI generated thing that says, dude, Brian crushed this event. He was like the best DJ I've ever heard in my life. Because I literally got something like that. I sent to you. You sent it to me, yeah. It said an email that said, best uh night of our lives. I I can't write that to Ford to somebody to like say this. No, like there's a little bit of genuineness in it that like I don't know. I I think that would be my only qualm. Like, I don't know. I'd have to see what kind of email is written that doesn't feel generic, where it still calls out something, but how does it know? I don't know. That would be my little issue with it. Because after a while, they would all start to sound kind of similar, I would think, even if it's in the name voice. Because like how generic of a oh, you did a great, you played all the music reset, you know. Like, how are they gonna know all of that? I mean, unless you sent in the history and you know, you gave it some kind of context, I just feel would feel weird forwarding this to somebody like, hey, I wrote this from you for AI, and it's like so glowing that it almost doesn't even feel right.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Yeah, I I don't know, man. I I it's never something I would do. It's not morally wrong. Again, they can always just reject it or rewrite it. Yeah. Or maybe it does spark them to go, man, this guy really wants a review. You know what I mean? Like, let me write. I mean, I can write a review in 15 seconds. Right. You know what I mean? Like a positive review. Right. And it only needs to be a few sentences. You don't have to write a now.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

I'll be fair. I had a uh a vendor say she's a new planner. She's like, hey, we work together. Can you send me a review? Yeah. What do you think I did? Chatted it. Yeah. Wow. So, hey, give me this. This this lady, this is some things I enjoyed about it. So I'm doing it myself, anyways.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

You know, I've been once in a while, especially the newer planners or newer vendors, but I usually just can crank out something good. Yeah. But I'm also the guy that can grab a birthday card off the shelf and just take the pen and it just starts to flow. Oh, like I've seen people sit there for 15 minutes trying to decide what to say. Yeah. I just know, like it goes right from my brain right to the pen. Yeah. What do you are you a sitter?

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Would you sit there and yeah, yeah, and and actually I'm a drafter, so I actually do it on a piece of paper first because I want to make sure it fits the card right now. Sure, sure. I don't want me going like last two sentences, you know. All small down at the bottom. But I'm just thinking, like, I'm busy. Yeah. I don't want to.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

The world is busy, man.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Yeah. So I am using it to my advantage. You are, you know? Yeah. So then I kind of think of it that way too. So it's like, to your point, they could say no.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

And not use it. But this guy's getting, I'm just bringing it up as something that people haven't thought of. He's getting a 90% hit rate on the third. That's pretty high. I mean, I don't know. Shout out to him. All right, let's hit the gear corner.

SPEAKER_00 18:02

The gear's here.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

The gear is here. Is here is here. Is here is here, is here, is here, is here, is here.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Um, so I told you I'm playing with some musicians. Yeah. And I was trying to think of the way that I could also go wireless. Because again, I was using these N-ears. And the one thing I noticed is that my cord is longer with my headphones. So every time I would turn my head, like it would yank out. So I was like, I gotta go wireless. Gotta go wireless. Um, I'm mainly doing this for out of the Alan and Heath mixer. There's some outs, extra outs that are aux ends. Sure. And so for my drummer, he had a hard wire. And I'm like, nah, I'm not gonna run you a hard wire. I'm gonna have you go wireless. It looks bad. I don't want to, even if I tape it down. Why? Let's just go wireless. And I'll use it for myself uh for when I'm using it for any or stuff. Enter in this new bad boy here. It's the uh what is it? It's up on the screen there. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Oh, yeah, I've I I've had these.

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Have you seen this bad boy? Yeah, I think we gave these away on the show one time. Did we? Okay, yeah. This is a little bad boy. The only thing is with this, if I were to go into the X5, yeah. The mixer.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

This is an Audi though. Like this is an Audi. Like this sticking out of the mixer. Oh, I know. Wouldn't work. I know. So I need a I need a

Gear Corner Wireless In Ear Setup

SPEAKER_01 19:20

I didn't use it. Oh, you need a 90. I need a yeah, is that what I got? Yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

90 degree. So it's like that.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Yeah. All right. 90 degree quarter inch to male XR.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

I would do it anyways. I don't want this big old thing sticking in the output of the mixer, like this. Like a flat one, anyways. Oh, a flat one? Yeah. I just think it looks better than that big old thing stick sitting out.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

That's a lot. You know, I thought you meant on a DJ mixer because then it would be hitting you in the wiener. That's true. It would be hitting me in the wiener. Like right in it. Right in it.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Um, we we gave this away. Oh, we did. Okay. Yeah. I thought it was a good, I've already tested it. Works good. Yeah, no, I know they work great. $249. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because this will work for your inner too, though.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

That's what you were saying? Yes. Yes. Okay, I got it. I was trying it with the inner this last weekend. Right. And I'm like, this thing's sticking out too far.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Stick this on your belt, eighth-inch cable there.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Yep. It's rechargeable. Yep. Both of those pieces are. Should have it on both sides.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Um, but 250 bucks if you're looking to go in here or for giving your drummer or sax player an in-ear monitor. Actually, it pairs with this specific Sannheiser thing.

SPEAKER_00 20:29

This wasn't cheap though, from what I remember. 250. Yeah. It's not cheap, cheap, but. I know. Now I'm pissed off that we gave them away because I kind of want it back. Yeah. Yeah. No, totally.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

That's nice. Yeah. So just want to mention it if you're looking for something to give you a thumbs up.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

X5U4. There you go. There's a video wireless in-eark. Uh video on my YouTube channel.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Okay. Cool. What's it? The question of the day.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Shout out my YouTube channel. Question of the day. Question of the day. Let you go for it. My man, Marty Nightingale, from uh from here. Yeah. No, from Durham. Okay. Honestly. You never met him?

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Didn't he come to the collective? No, he wasn't there. He's coming this year. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Maybe not then.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Yeah. I thought I did. Good dude. Uh, when you know a couple as a wedding planner, do you ask the couple some of the same event questions you know the planner will be asking? For example, timeline details, names of people giving speeches, locations of the ceremony, who's releasing tables to the buffet, etc., or just ask the couple the music-related questions and wait for the initial timeline from the planner that has the most current version of the event info. Cheers. You go. Um I am my go to is always to wait for that initial planner from the wedding planner, which is 95% of my shit.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Well, because you wait till the week of to have your final call. So they're gonna have it.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

I like to have that when I'm going into the final planning call. And then ask anything that I'm missing. Now, with EventSync, what I do is I take that planner,

Planner Timelines Versus DJ Questions

SPEAKER_00 22:10

it scans it, it takes out only the stuff that I need. Then, if I want to, I can invite the client to that event to fill out the stuff that is missing. So then by the time of that final planning call, I literally have a final run-up show.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

Do you have planners who ask for the get event sync to do it on their behalf for the client because they're basically trying to be white color?

SPEAKER_00 22:36

No, I don't think it's for that. I don't think it's for that. And by the way, even more so, it's not really, it's it's really genuinely for DJs and their couples. But if you have a planner, it still works well with that because it does that scanning feature. I will say this. I put up a sorry go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Can the client uh scan anything too or only?

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Because they if if they happen to get the planner before I did, they can scan it in. Because it says, Do you have a wedding planner? Yes. Then the next question is great. Um, have they given you a timeline? Yes. Great. Can you upload it here? Boom. Got it. So yes, they have the ability as well.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

But how do they, if you've already uploaded it, it knows that it's already asked that question? Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

It's already it's just gonna skip anything that's already been scanned off of the document.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Got it. Okay. So are you asking some of the same questions if they've already asked asked them? Not with a get event sync, because it kind of knows.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

I'm only asking, regardless if I had event sync or not, I'm only asking stuff that I'm truly missing. And so let's just say that they have the father-daughter dance as you know, My Little Girl by Tim McGraw.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

The main thing I want to know now that's never on any planner I get is what is the fade time? Or are you dancing to the full dance? Which is super rare that people dance to the full dance. Yeah. Oh, no, no, we want to fade it around a minute and a half. Perfect. Write that down. Yeah. Even something like what are the colors of the wedding? Oh, it's light blue. Okay, I'm gonna wear a light blue suit. You know what I mean? Like stuff like that. I don't get on the planner. Right. Sometimes I don't even put the number of people that are coming. Right. I would like, like you said, is it 70 or is it 270?

SPEAKER_02 24:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

Big difference. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:15

Totally. Um, I would like to say that I ask better questions than the uh planner. Maybe not my crapping on planners, but like again, all related to things that I would need that you need. Like a good example would be um not just who's uh in our platform that I use, I use Vibo. Um not only who is giving the welcome, but what table number are they at? Wow. What's the or table name? Upload a picture of what they look like. A picture of you and them.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

I want to know who I'm looking for. I don't want to be guessing. This is massive for the grand entrance if I'm doing and I don't do a ton of them anymore that have you know paired up people. But when I was having a picture of them all paired up or not, uh just individual pictures. So I'm looking at, oh hey, this is Susie. Oh, hey, Susie. Yeah. You're like, how do you know my name? I look a rock star. Right. You know? Yeah. But to your point, it's it's like, do I need to fade out here? Uh questions related musically to and one of the questions I ask uh that I don't think that even the planner's asking is um do you have a uh a Canva link or um a Pinterest board for inspiration? You know why I go on there? Every now and then they're taking screenshots of song lists. Yeah, right. That they're putting on there. Yeah. I would never have seen that before. No. So, like, what are the questions? Not to, I'm not trying to be better than the planner. I'm just trying to get what I need out of it. Deeper. Yeah, and and all related to the entertainment. Right. Um, do I ask for the floor plan? Absolutely. I want to know where I'm setting up. Me too. You know, I don't want to be at that.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Uh now I am running into it a lot too, where a lot of these clients are more so now than probably even a year ago, they're hiring a lot of month of planners. Okay. So sometimes if I'm meeting with them, I try to meet with ours 45 days out. I know it's aggressive. Yeah. But um, I want a baseline of at least know where I'm going with this event. So I can be so so I'll say, hey, even though the planner hasn't met with you yet, let's put together a basic timeline. 90% of my couples always follow this, anyways, regardless of the planner, whoever it is. Any major tweaks, no big deal. I'll just adjust it. But at least we have a conversation. Baseline. And it always pays off because they think they feel so relieved that they've met with me and that I know where we're headed.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

And if anything, I find that if I get to them first, I was about to say, you now have planted the seeds for the timeline that you like. Right. Right. So I think when the name me with their planner, they're like, well, Brian said that it works a little bit better to do all three dances in a row or whether I like that.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

That's and I'm never throwing the uh the planner on the bus. In fact, that's the other thing I would say is I record those calls and I forward it to the planner.

unknown 27:04

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

So that she can see I was glowing in my conversation.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Oh, you've got the best planner. Right. We would never work without a planner.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

And I'll say, hey, listen, here's the timeline. If we need to adjust, because hers will always supersede mine. Absolutely. You know, just like white gloving. Lay it on. Thick, lay it on. But um, will there be some overlap and questions? I'm sure, you know, but I try to find the ones that are gonna move the needle from an entertainment perspective. Right, right. Hope it helps. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Thanks, Marty. Appreciate you, man. Good looking out. Let's put a bow on this. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been the Beyond the DJ Booth Podcast, sponsored by DJ Event Planner, DJEventplanner.com for your CRM needs. New episodes every Wednesday on Spotify with the video version now on Spotify. Video version on are we still gonna keep it putting it on YouTube? Hell yeah. YouTube and uh Apple Podcast for the audio. And I think there's a couple others, but I don't know what they are. I don't either. All right. Deezer, weezer, pleaser, and steezer. There you go. Thanks, y'all. See you next week.