DJ Associates Disc Jockey Association
www.djassociates.org and www.djassociates.co.uk
Back in November 2005, two months after the PPL launched the Digital DJ License; the DJ Associates Disc Jockey Association was publicly launched.
Although there are DJ Associations with standing than this newly formed one, one striking feature that sets the ‘DJ@’ apart from the others was that it was the first DJ Association to provide a free-to-join online ‘service’ with no silly incentive gimmicks, first to ‘stand up’ and raise awareness within the industry about the new Digital DJ License and the first DJ Association to ask its members if they wished to ‘lobby’ the digital license!
The Association has a simple code of ethics that members are expected to adopt in promoting good business practice, in turn, raising the standard that helps improve the public perception of the industry and consequently improves the DJs own business market.
When a member applies on-line to join the DJ@, he or she will be required to fill in the usual application details and submit Public Liability Insurance document info as well as Portable Appliance Test info. That done, the applicant can also list areas of cover which are promoted on the member map for direct client contact.
As long as the member can do all this and submit PLI and PAT information as required by the association from time to time, membership can quite easily be for life!
In return, as well as the members promoted on the DJ Association website map which links to an optimised DJ Association member web-page, there are downloadable banners and logos from the Association site for members to place on their website to promote affiliation to the DJ Association. This helps promote the members own DJ website via network back-links and the logos can be incorporated into a DJs headed paper / company literature to promote themselves as a member of an association that promotes ‘end-client’ service professionalism. It’s really just that simple!
You will find on the DJ@ website monthly news section and entertainment news, simple information for perspective clients looking for and booking DJs, health and safety information on electrics, risk assessment form downloads, affiliated disco retailer contact section and various interesting links including one to the Djsunited online forum (www.dj-forum.co.uk) which apparently provides a scrolling RSS feed at the top of the main page!
DJ Associates is totally free to join and a non-profit DJ Association.
The chairman has stated that he will not ask members to subscribe to the DJ Association because adopting good business practice can only benefit everyone in the industry at the end of the day and because he feels that new DJs need all the help they can get!
“Getting on to the entertainment ladder is hard enough. The DJ@ is here to help in whatever way it can.”
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