Brides Choice Award

{Dubuque,IA} – January 23, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Alexxus Entertainment has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for DJ!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Alexxus Entertainment was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Alexxus Entertainment is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Alexxus Entertainment for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Alexxus Entertainment is one of the very best DJs within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

Weddings 2011

Here are some highlights of our weddings from 2011. Thanks to all of our couples for having us. Looking forward to Weddings 2012 - beginning March 17th!

Mike - Bob - Brian - Steve

"Our mission is to bring your party to life - NOT be the life of the party!"

Until next Time
~ Mike ~

Smokey!

Yesterday wasd a banner day for Alexxus Entertainment:

• We set a record for the most visitors in a single day to our website
• We added seven weddings to our 2012 calendar
• We received the Brides Choice Award for 2012 from weddingwire.com

This all does not come without the help of many. In fact one of the ways we've been able to reach this plateau is by following the advice of others who've enjoyeed success, as noted in my latest column for the Disc Jockey News, which is reprinted below:

The Way I see it: What does Smokey know about DJing?
reprinted form the Disc Jockey News, January 2012

Hennry "Smokey" Yunick (May 25, 1923 - May 9, 2001) was a mechanic and car designer associated with motorsports. Yunick was deeply involved in the early years of the NASCAR, and he is probably most associated with that racing genre. He participated as a racer, designer, and other jobs relating to the sport but was best known as a mechanic, builder, and crew chief¹ and later became a columnist for Circle Track Magazine. In my life BMC [that’s for Before Marriage and Children] racing was one of the activities I was involved in. As a subscriber of that magazine I would read Smokeys columns every month. But there was one column that has stuck with me for years. A reader had asked for advice on how to get his race car to go faster. Smokey gave him his typical answer. “The cost of speed is money.” he would say. “How fast you want to go depends on how much money you’re willing to spend.’ But then he added something that has always stayed with me.

“It depends on where you want to finish.” He told the reader. If you’re content on finishing in the back of the pack, get your advice from those who finish there. If you want to finish in the middle, then middle of the pack racers are the people you want to be talking to.

But if you want to finish at the front, then those that consistently finish there are the people you should be getting your advice from, he told his readers.

What great advice – and it doesn’t apply to just racing. For many of us Mobile DJs we are not just entertainers or music masters, but small businessmen. Fortunately for us there has never been a time when so much information is available to help us grow and improve our businesses. There are conventions, magazines, seminars, newspapers and associations dedicated to our industry. And at the tip of our fingertips are chat boards, marketing newsletters, e-books and blogs.

The way I see it, we can worry about our local competition and be muddled in a price war with them, or we can seek out the leaders in our industry and the information that is so readily available to us not only to improve ourselves and be front runners in our own communities, but also to continue to give our industry credibility as we build it into an occupation in which we can make a full time living of.

1. wikipedia

Now this is what I'm talking about:

aaron+judith surprise performance from studio205films on Vimeo.

Now this is what makes a wedding fun! Choregraphed dance for the bride, but the DJ is in on the fun and sets it up perfectly! Don't be afraid to be unique.