How To Fix Your DJ Profile (In 15 Minutes Flat)

I get it, you’re a DJ, you’re in this because you love music. You can’t be bothered with playing the social media game, you don’t want an online profile, you don’t want to have to update statuses and chat to people and do all those things everyone tells you DJs have to do to be taken seriously nowadays, blah, blah, blah.

Again, I get it! None of this stuff was there 20 years ago. And especially if you don’t use these things in your daily life, you’re hardly going to want to use them now just because you want to get some success as a DJ, right?

But the truth is, it’s not 2004 any more! And the very first thing anyone does when you tell them you’re a DJ, the second your back is turned, is pick up their phone and Google your name. You can’t change that.

So what if I told you there’s a simple and easy way of maintaining a very basic DJ profile online that needn’t take much of your time, that isn’t hard or expensive to do, and that, whisper it, you may actually end up quite enjoying?

Well there is, and we’ve taught lots and lots of our students to do something very similar to what I’m about to tell you today.

So, take a deep breath. Suspend your judgment. And let me tell you how in 15 minutes flat, you could have an online DJ profile that you can keep updated from now on – easily, cheaply, and that’ll be all you need to tick this box and get back to the music and mixing. Ready?

How To Fix Your DJ Profile In 15 Minutes Flat

1. Get a mix on Mixcloud

You’re not a DJ unless there’s something online where people can hear you DJing. It doesn’t have to be much, just the latest or your favourite DJ mix, which I’d suggest you upload to Mixcloud – a legal place to share mixes.

(Note that for one or two mixes, it’s free – although for the price of a coffee or two a month, you can get a pro plan, upload as many as you want, and do loads of other things with this service. We are not affiliated with them in any way, just so you know.)

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It’s unique in that it’s a safe and legal place to share DJ mixes. So bite the bullet, put a DJ mix on Mixcloud (or anywhere else you can find is fine) and grab a link to it.

You’re gonna need that for step three.

2. Get an Instagram account

Sorry, but social media is not an option for DJs nowadays. Luckily, maintaining a social media account for your DJing needn’t mean anything more than posting once or twice a week.

So go for it – grab an Instagram account, and every now and then post something new on it.

Here’s a tip for how to approach that:

Spend about a third of your time dedicated to social media working on things you can say about yourself – A photo of your new piece of gear, the artwork from a track you really like, a picture of your hands on the faders with the description of the mix you’ve just done.

Honestly, we’re not looking to change the world here. We’re just looking to post stuff that looks like the kind of thing DJs would post. Still stuck? Just follow a few DJs you like (or those in your local area) and copy what they do. You’ll soon get the swing of it.

The next third of your social media time you’re gonna spend sharing things that you think will be useful to your audience. Big up other DJs in your area. Share cool stuff that you’ve seen online that you think DJs or people who follow DJs might be interested in.

This is generous. It means you don’t have to come up with all your content yourself. And people like it!

And the final third of your social media time is going to be spent interacting with anyone who interacts with you, or even before they do. Just like a DJ plays to the dancefloor but a dancefloor feeds back to the DJ, your job is to reply, to like, to love, to interact with, to follow or follow back, people you genuinely feel drawn to and like.

Done. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve got 10 minutes to spend every week or an hour a day. The most important thing is not the amount of time you spend today or tomorrow but whether you consistently do it for the next two, three, five years. So get started.

3. Get yourself a Linktree page

Other such services are available, but hey, it’s free – we use it, all the DJs that we work with use it, so you might as well just go there and grab yourself a linktr.ee rather than looking any further. (Again, no affiliation.)

But what the hell is that thing, you might ask? It’s simply a free one-page website where you can put your name, bit of artwork and then the links to the two things that you’ve just created, ie where your DJ mixes are and your social media.

The cool thing about it is that you can also put your contact details on a little form at the bottom. There’s lots to play with on Linktree, so look at what other DJs are doing and make yours look nice.

And again, there is a small subscription if you want to go really fancy, but you definitely don’t need to do that.

You’re done!

And folks, that is it. If you never do anything else, doing what I said then – uploading a new DJ mix occasionally, updating your socials once a week with a bit of interaction, and sharing some stuff that you think is cool – is all you need.

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When people Google you, these things are going to come up instead of that picture of you in your swimming trunks from seven years ago.

So don’t think you’re above all of this, and don’t think it’s impossible to do. You can do it. You’ll feel much more like a DJ when people find this stuff online and talk to you about it. And as I say (whisper it), you might just end up enjoying it.