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What makes you different? is my favorite question when I am asked about our deejay services in Chicago

As far as I am concerned we don’t get asked enough! Most people want to know how much rather than whats the value proposition when hiring a deejay in Chicago.
As if price would be the deciding factor. If that’s your only criteria then we aren’t a good match. If you are interested in learning more about deejays in Chicago and what makes or breaks an event then we are the people to talk to.

What makes us singularly different is the fig brand of training – we are technically proficient of course but what most people don’t recognize is that it is imperative to have social and emotional training. How to read a crowd AND interact successfully with it. How to plan and provide an agenda based on years of experience then tailor that agenda to meet your client’s specific wants – wait hold on, to even know or care about a clients needs or specific wants and be able to strategically integrate them as well as work the crowd and live agendas at any given party. That’s skill. Yes we could show up and play music, no problem. If that’s all it was there would be way more successful deejay services in Chicago.

Our deejays are trained on the job and in team meetings to negotiate territories that aren’t even defined by a typical bystander and with that level of “tool kit” we create more good will and are able to drive in the most complex social environments. If anyone has worked a corporate holiday party for a big hotel for example will attest, you have the HR manager hiring the deejay then you have a few hundred people layered in cliques that can become nightmarish when filling a dance floor. Who can stand that kind of pressure- we can. I still meet the occasional client thinking that a club deejay could pull that off, maybe, I am not dissing club deejays we have residencies ourselves and deal with that level of work and how to stay in great shape around it but someone who has a following of their own stuff isn’t going to walk into a private event with the disparate elements involved and blindly achieve success time and time again, they might get lucky but its not the science of it. Our team brings its collective intelligence together to form a body of shared knowledge and elements that make a real force of positive impact at an event. We support our team fully and prepare for each event. We have a team meeting to discuss events after and sub teams to negotiate an apply best practices going in to an event. It starts with our sales people who come away with a meeting with a style sheet for our new client folder. Our goal- get recommended!

As seen @ The Evening of Bridal Luxury 2011.

“The triple threat of weddings. {deejay.films.photography} ” ~ Amy Allen, CS Brides Magazine.

Tag yourself in our facebook gallery below, view the fashion film that screened at the event and download fig deejay Megan Taylor’s mix from the night; Vibrant Bliss.

Vibrant Bliss 3 by djmegtaylor

Want to know more?

Visit our site @ www.figweddings.net

Follow us on twitter @figweddings.

~ by Michele Gustin

How do you tell a good dj company from a great dj company?

We recommend you ask these questions to find out.  See Below.

1. How long have you been in business?

2. Are you fully insured and what does that mean?

3. What venues do you work in regularly?

4. Are you on the referral lists at these venues? What venues/planners/agencies/individuals refer you?

5. What distinctions do you make regarding a wedding reception crowd?

6. How do you assess the specific music tastes of the couple and integrate them with their invited guests?

7. Do you play the music requested at a reception? Will you play the music I request at my party? Will you not play the music I don’t want played at my party?

8. Do you have back up equipment?

9. What is your back up plan for emergencies?

10. What is your experience with creating and or executing timelines?

11. Do you tailor your microphone persona and or demeanor to fit the style of the event?

12. Are your DJs full time employees or subcontractors?

13. What is the experience level of your DJs and what is your training like?

14. What if I don’t like the DJ after I meet him/her?

15. Do you drive the agenda and work closely with my vendors?

16. Do you do site visits and vendor walk throughs when scheduled or attend ceremony rehearsals if providing the music?

17. What is your alcohol policy?

18. What other costs are associated with you doing my wedding or reception?

19. Who is your competition in town?

20. Why are you better or worse than your competition?

21. How would you sequence my specific event?

22. What principles do you orient to as a company? During the event? After the event?

23. Tell me about flow.