Like
any professional career a slick Profile or Biography is an absolute
must - when applying for any job your CV is your first impression
and says everything about you - but it's even more important
in the entertainment business to ensure that first impression
is the right one. Simply being able to provide a polished
artist profile tells the promoter, venue owner or agent that
you are a professional performer that takes their career seriously.
Having a stunning graphical eye-candy biography?press pack
will make you stand out from the rest and highlight your achievements
- and will get your demo on the top of the listening pile.
Although
our service was originally created to fill a desperate need in
the club DJ market, and we do a lotof our work in the DJ sector
we can design CV's, profiles, promotional flyers or directory
adverts for just about any entertainment related profession -
dancers, performance acts, TV presenters, models, solo singers,
actors, stylists and more. We can design to just about
any style to fit your profession and target market or music style.
Don't take our word for it here's what previous customers
have said
Dex says "The
response to the profile and demo sleeves designed by Sparkle
has been astonishing - instead of me chasing up promoters, they
phone ME, to tell me what an impact it has had on them, and then
they book me for their events - it's made such a difference!"
Brett Wood says
"I won the DJ Mag 2005
DJ competition and needed a picture profile and professionally
written biography in just two days to meet the DJ Mag copy deadline,
Sparkle pulled out all the stops for me and came up with a profile
that is the absolute nuts AND they are going to use the photo
in the next issue - thanks Spike you're a star"
Miss Behavin'
- ex-Tidy Girl and Brits Award Nominee says "we
were offered a short notice space in DJ Mag to feature the girls
from our Female DJ Directory and we needed a advert designed
in just five hours. We've just opened this months DJ Mag and
it looks absolutely wicked, you can't miss it and our girls are
chuffed to bits. Can you do my business cards too please?
Mr Egg of EgeBamYasi
says "I canna thankegg
you enough for everything you've done to help me re-launch EgeBamYasi
- profile, eggsite - all are incrediblegg!" (Yes,
he really does talk like that!)
Miss Behavin'
- ex- Tidy Girl and Brits Award Nominee says "Wicked
profile, thanks Spike x"
Kaddy Lee-Preston
- BBC Presenter / Weather Girl says "Spike,
that's fab - thank you, I love what you've done for the DVD labels
for my showreel, and the CV looks great"
Ioan Evo says
"Once again thanks for
sorting out my DJ profile top job! I'd like to use that
image you created for my web site too is that OK?"
Standard
CV's are in A4 graphical format supplied as high quality single
print for ease of colour photocopying, plus high quality .jpg
and print ready CMYK formats and web/email friendly versions
supplied on disc. A stunning promotional aid for JUST £95 (each additional page
£80).We
are happy to quote for multi-pages or A3 or flyer style formats
too.
E-MAIL
USfor more information on getting youself noticed
by the industry.
A
slick website is probably THE most powerful weapon in your promotional
arsenal - it can establish the perception of you as a professional
artist of substance, or the happening club night of the moment,
it can showcase your mixes and demos, store downloadable press
kits, as well as sell your music, tickets, provide you with a
network of contacts and if used to best effect give you worldwide
advertising, gig bookings, industry interest and bodies through
the door .
All
very simple isn't it.. er except for the small fact that that
constructing a truly great website is both time consuming or
money consuming, usually both...until the advent of the template
website.
Off-the-shelf
templates previously available have been mediochre at best, but
when we saw these beauties, thanks to a tip from DJ MARK
MURRAY, we were absolutely
blown away.
We
simply can't recommend these highly enough to any DJ, Performer
or Band, Promotion or Venue seeking a quick, and simple way to
a totally stunning website on a low budget.
And
it is low budget - all this for less than UK£ 40 a go -
which frankly is an absolute steal - these designs if commissioned
yourself would cost nearer UK£ 2000. We've had a play with
them and the text and content are easily changed to meet your
own needs - and they come with instructions and easily customisable
parameters - you can even customise them online before you buy.
You
(or a friend) will need some basic understanding of websites,
a web editor and FTP program like FrontPage, a good graphics
program such as Paintshop Pro, Photoshop or Corel to slot your
own pictures and content into the template, and you will need
some webspace to host it on. Most home internet packages
come with a chunk of webspace
these days so check with your ISP, buying
domain names is cheap and easy - we recommend WWW.UKREG.COMfor domain names and
their partners www.FASTHOSTS.COM for
website hosting.
Browse through the many pages of music
club and DJ templates by using the arrows at he bottom right
hand corner of each section and click a template thumbnail to
see the website demo in action - play with the buttons and try
customising it online. Hundreds of templates are available
for music, fashion, small business and leisure, you name it you
should be able to find something suitable you can adapt for your
own needs. CLICK HERE for the full range of leisure and business
templates.
Great
deck skills, awesome tunes - but still not getting the bookings
you wanted? Not getting paid for playing? can't work why
less experienced DJ's are making it? Want to find out why?
Our
exclusive one-to-one industry coaching day is for the
serious DJ - a DJ who has the technical skills, isn't getting
the bookings or breaks and who really wants to do something about
it. This is the only course of it's type currently on offer
within the industry. You can't find this information in books
or DVD's - the content is exclusive to Sparkle Agency.
This
is NOT a course to teach you how to use your equipment - there's
plenty of those around elesewhere. This is an in-depth
look at you, and your DJ activities by our Agency Director, a
respected industry figure professionally trained in coaching
and course leadership with 30 years experience in the music business
as an international DJ, promoter, and successful agent.
The
day is held at our agency HQ in Tunbridge Wells, Kent so you
also see first hand how the agency works. Lunch is included and
is great time for questions and discussion.
You
will receive the information you really need to develop your
career as a successful club DJ, maximise your booking potential,
become an attractive commercial proposition for agents, raise
fee levels, and get recognised by the professional industry.
The
Coaching Day costs £395 and includes FREE mentoring
and advice for 12 months for any DJ career situation that you
need our guidance on.
We'll give you
the tips and tricks from inside the industry to get you booked,
noticed, and "walking the walk" of the pro DJ. We'll
dispel the commonly-held beliefs about getting on in the industry,
explain how booking agents really work, the methods they use
to generate bookings and how the professional sector operates
- the things established DJ's don't want you to know, and those
outside the industry think they know but get wrong time after
time. We can't guarantee you'll be famous (no-one can guarantee
that) but we will give you the right tools for the job, give
you solutions to the many DJ challenges you will meet, identify
any factors that are preventing you from getting on in your careeer,
and provide you with a vast amount of inside knowledge to go
out and create a successful club DJ career for yourself.
We
run one coaching day per week (Saturdays or Sundays can usually
be accommodated if it is more convenient for you). To ensure
you benefit fully from this day you must be a UK based club DJ
aged at least 18 with a minimum of 1 year behind the decks playing
in public in a club environment. Download industry press
by clicking HERE
Travel and accommodation
are at your own expense and not included in the cost - there
are several nice budget B & B's and hotels in the area, and
we can happily pick you up and take you back to the hotel or
our local stations.
We
can now offer the PRO INDUSTRY
COACHING DAY
content tailored to group sessions or a conference presentation
- in whole or part you can enhance the reputation and content
of your tuition packages or workshops and offer your DJ participants
the detailed career development advice they really need to be
successful.
Whether
you want a professional sleeve design for your retail CD or an
eye-catching "this is me" cover for your demo mix we
can deliver stunning results.
JUST £120
will
give you a professional set of art for standard jewel cased CDs
comprising front and inside cover, disc design, back tray and
edges - designed for use with opaque disc holders. We will quote
for other case formats, DVDs, insert books and multi-CD packs
or exterior wraps too. Professional industry use please call
to discuss your specific requirements. You can download
more details in Word format by clicking HERE
We supply finished
art on disc in both high quality 300dpi .tif CMYK printers format
( we will also email direct to your printer or pressing company
if required), and as RGB .jpgs so home users can print their
own using the many CD labelling kits on the market and your PC
printer. For a small additional charge can print small runs of
covers and labels for you to assemble at home.
Our turnaround
time from receipt of confirmed order/all materials is usually
2 weeks or less,and artwork is retained for 12 months from last
order. For hints on recording a good demo click here RECORDING TIPS
We also design
RECORD SLEEVES and RECORD LABELS, LOGOS, BUSINESS
CARDS, FLYERS and GIVEAWAYS - just about anything
promotion related - our customers include many top DJs, bands,
club and pop promoters, equipment manufacturers, record labels,
other DJ agencies, fashion outlets, tanning salons, hair stylists,
interor designers, and various small businesses!
Check
the A-list DJ's in the music magazines - they all have professional
publicity/press shots - it's what makes them look like stars
as well as sound like stars.
We can put you
in touch with excellent specialist photographers with years of
music and club photography and have provided hundreds of photos
for the major music and clubbing mags. The results are
spectacular and good press photos are one of the best investments
you can make as a serious artist. Shoots available from £200.
However you may
already have a favourite shot which you want improving or given
right feel for publicity purposes. That's where we come in -
we can apply digital magic to your own pro shots and create striking
publicity images from bland photos - like these here for Dex,
Sophie Sugar, Rachel Harvey and Pete Doyle
We
can alter or insert backgrounds from our huge range of professional
effects, club shots and gradients - we can apply lens flare,
filters and logos, blow up parts of pictures and airbrush out
blemishes or shine and generally lift the colour to give it vibrancy
- we have been asked to touch out tattooos, wedding rings and
nipples from photos - no problem. We can create motion,
zoom, blow out and blur effects to give movement or dig deep
into the texture for stark atmospheric monochrome studies if
you want to promote a darker or art house image.
One
for the ladies only - A years subscription to the International
Female DJ Directory service run by our colleagues at FemaleDJs.Com,
offering essential exposure to promoters and key people in the
industry - get your profile listed alongside Miss Behavin', Vicky
Devine, Femme Fatale and many more with links to your own email,
website (optional) and booking contact number. Click HERE
Does the directory work? Yes, we often use it and
refer clients to it, but click HERE to see what female DJ's
have to say!
These days, top level
dance music domain names are rare as rocking horse doo-doo. As
part of our online promotional strategy to build up the Sparkle
brand we bought a whole load back in the 90's and they have served
us well over the years - used as mirror sites to bring in amazing
traffic (we get 300,000+ industry hits a year now) and search
engine rankings (top 5 in most major search engines).
Now our industry
profile and branding are known the world over in dance music,
these have become surplus to our requirementsand are perfect
for someone seeking to start their own record label, production
company, DJ agency or DJ/dance music portal.
If
you are reading this perhaps you've already 'made it' in the
industry - and we're very glad to hear it, so why not treat yourself
to something a bit special from our VIP section.
YOUR
OWN AGENCY THE INDUSTRY'S FIRST PROFESSIONAL AGENCY
FRANCHISE
Ever fancied owning your
own global DJ Agency with a top name international artist roster
ready to roll from Day 1, alongside you/your own artists.
Sparkle Agency
are of one of the UK's leading international booking agencies.and
are pleased to announce the dance music industry's first agency
franchise, We have a limited number of franchises available featuring
top chart and other live acts, DJs, major brand Club Tours and
other optional content, complete with set up and ongoing support,
and website content ready for your own branding and addition
of your own artists.
For more information,
minimum requirements and basic cost and application information
go to our FRANCHISE
INFO PAGE
Established international
bookers wishing to become authorised agents for Sparkle please
E-MAIL
USfor more information.
S555CXY
looks great 'as is' in the standard approved EEC font - by a
trick of the eye/mind it still reads SSSSEXY (that's the
one-track human brain for you!). However using black fixing
bolts the effect is drastically improved and using showplates
as in the picture the results are stunning - perfect for your
sleek sports coupe, SUV, hot hatch or Subaru S555.
This
plateis on Summer sale at just £ 9,800 or
very near offer,and is currentlyon our
company car waiting for transfer to your vehicle. All transfer
fees (approx £125) are the responsibility of the buyer,
but as we are feeling generous we will refund them on final completion
of transfer and payment. Email us HERE, or bid via eBay HERE
If you are serious
about marketing yourself to the World there are some books which
you should serioulsy think about investing in - if not you will
be missing out on key information and resources. These 3 carry
our full recommendation and are excellent value for money. Other
highly recommended books in the lists below are shown highlighted
in orange.
Used
by industry pro DJ's, Promoters and Agencies worldwide, the Music
Industry Manual is the world's leading dance music directory
containgin over 100,000 in 90 different categories including
clubs and promoters, agents and artist management, record labels,
presses, distributors, club designers, door staff, recording
studios, flyer designers and printersand more - plus contacts
for major international DJ's.
MIM
comes as a 700-page directory, a CD-ROM and an online searchable
database. MIM's new email facility allows all subscribers to
use MIM's database to email its contacts. MIM has over 25,000
subscribers worldwideMORE
INFO
Everything
you will ever need to know about selling and showcasing your
music on the web - one of the best "how to" books available,
and being an e-book you can also sign up for regular updates
to keep abreast of the advances in web/music technology and how
you can best apply them.
This excellent
e-book is also focussed on actually making your music earn you
hard cash - a refreshing change! MORE
INFO
It
doesn't matter if you're just starting or have been DJ-ing for
years, this amazing book from Frank Broughton & Bill Brewster,
the followup to their best seller 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life',
will tell you everthing and anything you need to know about DJ-ing.
It covers all
the techniques from beat matching through to cutting & scratching
and has a big section on how to go about getting gigs and dealing
with the professional end of the music industry.
Easy to read
and packed with useful info MORE INFO
