In my opinion, you have all rights to market yourself seeing as you’re the guest DJ. As to how to go about doing it, I would try a combination of both. Asking the MC if the announcement is OK to do would be a logical first step though. You also might try to tape your CD to the bathroom stalls XD (I know I used to do that with my flyers when I do events, like if I’m hosting an event, I go early to the clubs and tape my flyers in the urinals and stalls at eye level so people can read them while using the bathroom). There is no limit to the amount of CD’s you should bring. For arguments sake you could bring 30 to the club and have another 50 in the car. CDs are cheap and in this case over-prepared is better than under prepared. In this business even if you scorn the microphone you still need to learn how to strike up conversations with random strangers(because not doing so would do more harm than good). You simply approach the clubbers, make eye contact, smile(practice this beforehand if you dont generally smile or are not good at interacting with random people), hand them the CD and then lean in close(not too close) and say clearly(not too loudly) that you’re the guest DJ who Just finished playing(because the best time to hand it out is right after your set while its still fresh in people’s mind.
Example: *Makes eye contact with partier and smiles* *approaches and hands them CD* “Hey I’m DJ ______ who just finished playing, here’s my mix CD, please take a listen”
It’s best to have a sort of generic phrase and method that you develop to do this as you will be doing it often, and it doesnt look good t stutter when trying to come up with a unique approach every time (unless the person seems genuinely interested).
Also remember this is a club, people are careless, drunk and rude. So by the time said Party-goers leave, some of your CD’s will be thrown away, dropped, or forgotten.
I suppose that this is also why you ask the MC to make the announcement for you because then the announcement will attract people who are genuinely interested in hearing you play again.
There are alot of other rules and methods that other DJ’s have developed, but y’know, different strokes for different folks.
Hope this helped 🙂
– BoomDraw
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