Talented and skilled DJs bring life into events. Use these guidelines for finding the most suitable DJ for your event.
If you are dealing with the agency or the manager of the DJ seek assurance of the person that will be sent to entertain the guests. If the DJ is not available they should let you know before you make your booking and offer you alternative DJs who match the qualities that you want for you to choose from. You may need a DJ who is best known for playing great hits of a specific genre or the DJ should be of a specific age, gender, religion, nationality and so on to avoid cases where the DJ will feel offended when asked to play specific songs.
Your agreement between you and the DJ or the agency should be put on paper and signed by both of you. Never sign any contract or document before you understand its terms and conditions to assure yourself that you will conform to them. In case the agency or the DJ raise complaints against you in future, there is a signed contract to defend you. The contract can be used to get justice for yourself if the DJ does not turn up on the day of the event, entertains the guests for fewer hours than the agreed-upon hours or they breach the contract in any other way.
Your guests will enjoy the quality services of the experienced DJ for they know the game and are great at it. The experience of the DJ or agency will enable him or her to anticipate and warn you about challenges that may arise at the event because they have worked for many clients, experienced the difficulties and solved them. The DJ or agency will advise you on the most appropriate time to play which type of music, the public address systems that should grace the venue, the best location in the venue for him or her to set up his devices, the size of dance floor that you need and so on.
Hire a DJ who can confidently stand on the stage and make announcements to the audience. You will have to make public announcements to guide the guests so that there is order at the event while some guests will come to you will problems like lost car keys and kids hence the DJ should also be the emcee to save you the costs of hiring two people.
You need to prepare for emergency cases in case the system of the DJ fails hence ask if the DJ or agency will be able to offer you a backup system if that happens. Time should not be wasted hence the DJ must bring two systems, so that is on fails he or she will switch to the other one immediately instead of spending time to call people to transport the other system to the venue.