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Thanks to Erick!... You'r turn to inspire and teach!

DJ business Stage 8: The DJ Business November 2009

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0:01 Jonathan, I need your help please

Alright folks, I want to show you this. Jonathan, I need your help please. Dear Jonathan, you inspire me and drove me to be a turntablist and just to be a nice guy. So since I know you're a famous DJ on YouTube, we'll cut the famous bit out, you have a lot of subscribers including me. Just wanted to give back. To all the underground and unknown DJs on YouTube who can't get into the spotlight. So, this guy's created a website and there it is. That's it. I will put a clickable link in the description to this website. Please go and check it out. Let's just go back to this. And basically you guys asked me for a favour to promote this sort of website. Now, I'm all for promoting etc. I try as much as I can to promote other people.

There's a lot of people out there who are possibly thinking that, you know, I've had my day and it's all just demos now and new releases. Well, in a sense, there's only a certain amount of tutorials you can actually do. And, you know, you're just going over the same thing over and over again. Occasionally, I will find I think, oh, that's a good idea and I'll do another tutorial on a certain subject. But what you must understand is that quite often... When you do the likes of a demo, you're teaching people how to use the kit as well as showing the kit. More importantly, you're teaching them how to use it. Okay, admittedly, there's a new piece of kit comes along and it's very flashy and it's got lots of buttony bits, etc. There's possibly a lot of people out there who wouldn't know how to use that item unless people like me showed them how to use it. So that's very important, the demos. Also think about it, the new releases, CD Pull, Mix Mash, DMC, etc.

1:47 Watch, control control, release

Very often I do get people emailing me saying where can I get new music from? Well, if it isn't for people like me then a lot of people out there say wouldn't know where to find that music. So when I do the likes of a new release section on CDpool then at least you think wow I know where to get the tunes from. And maybe let's say I do a new releases today, then a year from now someone could watch that video and think wow, I've been after that track for ages. I know where to get it from now. So that's important. Now also let's say for example you've got a thousand people who watch a new release video. Well there's maybe one person who will watch that new release video and see me like flick the crossfade over or turn the bass down a little bit or whatever and they'll think well that's a good idea.

I never knew I could do that. Then they'll go to their kit and do something like that. Well, guess what? In essence, that's a bit of a tutorial because they've learned something. So you need to open your mind and look at every single video from all angles, not just the fact that there he is promoting some music or there he is showing off a new piece of kit. It is vitally important that you understand this. Now, again, you need to watch other DJs as well, not just me. And there are a few people who've said, oh, you know, it's getting crap, I'm going to unsubscribe. Well, do it, I don't mind. There's a thousand million videos out there. There's a trillion or so, God knows how many, websites. Take your pick. You're in control of that thing, you're in control of that thing and you're in control more importantly of here.

3:46 I want people to watch me a little bit and get inspired

Do what you want. Now, this video is going out to this guy here, Eric, alright? Because he has now been inspired enough to make a website for other people. That is the most important thing that I want. I want people not just to watch me and think they've got to watch me all the time. I want people to watch me a little bit and get inspired. But I just want to inspire and help people. The most important thing in my life is my family comes first, family comes first, family comes first, first, first. All this is secondary. I cannot stand, I can't stand, I'm sitting down actually. I can't do this 24-7 but it does take up a lot of my time. So you know to do a new tutorial sometimes I've got to think about it. So again quite a few new releases, quite a few demos, fine.

Tutorials will come, and they will come, and they'll continually come. This though, on the other hand, is inspiring. Something like this is more inspiring hopefully than I am, okay? So Eric, this video is to you. Please check out the link in the description to this guy's website for all you new DJs out there because maybe, you know, you can start to talk and interact a little bit more as well. And the more websites like this we can get out there, the more chance there is of people being seen Thank you for watching.

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