Mobile Beat Question

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For what purpose do you read Mobile Beat Magazine?

  • DJing tips

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  • To learn what's new for DJ equipment

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  • All of the above

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  • Total voters
    25
I think the next brainwave for Mobile Beat should be Pet of the Week and the Fat Bastards Recipe Corner.....
 
I had found there is no real information in Mobile Beat. Their writers are very narrow minded. It also seems that they favor any equipment that buys advertising. Their annual gear review is a joke.

I've been writing for MB for 5+ years now. I've never been told to give a good review for an advertiser. I can't speak for the other writers but I've written good & bad things in every review I've done. I don't read all the reviews but the ones I do read seem impartial to me.
 
I've been writing for MB for 5+ years now. I've never been told to give a good review for an advertiser. I can't speak for the other writers but I've written good & bad things in every review I've done. I don't read all the reviews but the ones I do read seem impartial to me.

I don't know - the last article was VERY slanted toward DJ Intel for comfort...
 
I had found there is no real information in Mobile Beat. Their writers are very narrow minded. It also seems that they favor any equipment that buys advertising. Their annual gear review is a joke.

I'm with you on that one.....
 
I don't know - the last article was VERY slanted toward DJ Intel for comfort...

I don't know if MB edited what I wrote but here's what I sent:

An example of a call to action on a DJ website is an availability checker. A prospective bride is perusing your website, skimming the text and looking at the pictures when she sees a box that says “Select your event date to instantly check availability. Request additional information at no obligation.”

Without even really thinking about it, she inputs her wedding date. It brings up a new page that says “Good news--we are available for the date of your event! The next step is to get a free, instant price quote using our automated online system.” On this page it’s asking for her contact information and information about her wedding. She enters in all the information so she can receive her instant price quote. The best part about this is this can be done from anywhere at anytime—whether she’s at work and can’t make calls from there about her wedding or it’s 2am and there’s no way she’ll get someone on the phone, she can get a price quote.

After she hits submit, a new page comes up with her price quote. She can stop there or go even one step further and hit the ‘book online’ button at the bottom of the page. Using that button she can print a contract and even pay her deposit online with a credit card. If she decides she wants to think about it a little more or possibly talk to the DJ company before booking now at least the DJ company has her information to follow-up. Without all these calls to action she might’ve just bookmarked the site to check out again before booking her DJ and maybe she would never get back to the site.

Tell me how that's slanted towards DJ Intelligence? Did I even mention DJ Intelligence? Did I say DJI is awesome? Did I even comment on if I like it? No, all I was doing was giving an example of tools you can put on your website.

I think you're grabbing at straws with your post.