Interview with Phil Morse, author of Rock The Dancefloor! 2nd Edition: The proven five-step formula for DJing like a pro
Phil Morse, author of Rock The Dancefloor! 2nd Edition: The proven five-step formula for DJing like a pro recommends a brilliant bunch of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Phil's book:
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Rock The Dancefloor! 2nd Edition: The proven five-step formula for DJing like a pro
Want to DJ like a pro, share the music you love with other people and perform amazing DJ sets you can be proud of?
This second edition of Rock the Dancefloor! is the essential one-stop handbook for new and experienced DJs. Completely updated with the latest developments in DJing and expanded with new chapters on sourcing and organising your music, using subscription services and creating DJ mixes, its proven five-step formula covers everything from getting your gear together to DJing success. Whether you're just starting out, or already know your stuff and are looking to improve your game, this book will help you to:
Understand modern DJ gear and avoid expensive mistakes
Assemble the best music collection to please any audience
Quickly master techniques to make your DJ mixes sound amazing
Perform like a pro at parties, in bars and clubs or as a mobile DJ
Get noticed, share your mixes, livestream your sets and more
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Bookshop.org UK £16.23
Bookshop.org US $25.99
Blackwells £19.99
Waterstones £19.99
Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
Million Dollar Consulting Toolkit - Step-by-Step Guidance, Checklists, Templates and Samples from The Million Dollar Consultant by Alan Weiss. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
This is a book for business consultants to help them escape the 'pricing by the hour' trap and start charging what they're worth for their services. I read it 20 years ago when I was a partner in a small internet agency. Back then I applied its principles to the way we dealt with our clients, but even when I was no longer in that line of work (shortly after that point in my life I set up my current company, Digital DJ Tips, teaching DJing online), its message has continued to resonate with me. Basically, it taught me not to underestimate the impact we are able to have on other people when we do work that matters, and thus how to avoid undervaluing yourself.
Million Dollar Consulting: the Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice
In a world of rapidly evolving technologies and business paradigms, your consulting business needs to radically adapt its techniques and models. Taking full measure of these changes, Alan Weiss, the “Rock Star of Consulting,” will guide you through the process with a revised and completely updated sixth edition of his authoritative guide to consulting success.
Weiss updates his time-tested model for creating a flourishing consulting business, while showing you the many dynamic changes in solo and boutique consulting, coaching, and entrepreneurship. In addition, he offers you invaluable guidance on raising capital, attracting clients, and creating an airtight marketing strategy.
This new edition is packed with step-by-step advice on how to:
Use volatility and disruption as offensive weapons
Maximize fees by adopting a “value mindset”
Build a successful model for marketing remotely
Master cutting-edge technology to reach the broadest audience
Form powerful alliances to increase reach and impact
Think branding—and think global
Generate six-figure projects, six-figure retainers, and seven-figure incomes
Million Dollar Consulting has been the go-to classic for consultants for nearly 25 years. With cutting-edge new content, Alan Weiss will show you how to grow your business into a seven-figure firm today.
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Bookshop.org UK £21.84
Bookshop.org US $27.90
Blackwells £22.99
Waterstones £22.99
Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
Peter Attia teaches strategies to live a longer, healthier life, based around exercise, nutrition and so on. I've always found him a bit too 'Silicon Valley' and in-depth when I've happened across his podcasts, so I decided to read his recent book to see if he distills it all down into more bite-sized insights. Indeed he does (and honestly, I didn't learn too much, not to say it taught me nothing). But what I really enjoyed was the final part of the book, when he opens up about his personal journey. Here is a flawed man on a steep learning curve, and that really resonated with me. It's a brave book, because ultimately, it poses the question: What's the point of living to 100 if you're healthy but miserable?
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
This is the ultimate manual for living better and longer.
For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifespan at the expense of quality of life. Dr Peter Attia, the world's top longevity expert who is featured on Chris Hemsworth's National Geographic documentary LIMITLESS, believes we must replace this outdated framework with a personalised, proactive strategy for longevity.
This isn't 'biohacking,' it's science: a well-founded strategic approach to extending lifespan while improving our physical, cognitive and emotional health, making each decade better than the one before. With Outlive's practical advice and roadmap, you can plot a different path for your life, one that lets you outlive your genes to make each decade better than the one before.
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Bookshop.org UK £23.75
Bookshop.org US $29.76
Blackwells £25.00
Waterstones £25.00
Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
Mad Things to Make from 'Vision on' by Wilf Lunn.
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Vision On was a kids' TV programme in the 70s in the UK, and Wilf Lunn was its resident inventor, always coming up with crazy things for kids to make at home with pipe cleaners, cardboard tubes, yogurt pots and so on. I lost my childhood copy of this and actually found a second-hand one recently. It's pleasingly impractical and silly, with projects entitled things like 'Recreate the old-time sounds with a horse clippety-clop machine'.
Mad Things to Make from 'Vision on'
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Abe Books £247.50
Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
Dislike audiobooks as I can't easily bookmark or take notes. Kindle for day-to-day reading (or rather, an unlocked Kobo, because I despise being tied to Amazon's bookstore). I'll sometimes put digital books onto my reMarkable tablet too if I know I'll want to quote from and reference them, because of the ease of adding handwritten notes. But also, I'll often buy the physical book if I think it's got 'family appeal', popping it on the shelf in the hope my kids may pick it up should the internet go down one day or similar, which I suspect is what it would take!
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Sadly, no. There are no bookshops left where I live, and much as I hate it, when it comes to ordering actual physical books, Amazon rules. I spent many happy hours in bookshops over the decades, but I can't remember the last time I went into one to be honest. Probably in an airport terminal waiting for a plane - isn't that where most people last bought any kind of physical book 'in person', so it were?
Many thanks to Phil for recommending a brilliant bunch of books! Please don't forget to check out Rock The Dancefloor! 2nd Edition: The proven five-step formula for DJing like a pro.
Daryl
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