Mixes, Posts & Live Events

Adding a Mix

Mixes are usually the fastest way a client decides you're right for their event. Add them at Content → Mixes. Adding one 1. Go to Content → Mixes and select Add Mix. 2. Enter a Title. 3. Select Select next to Genre(s) and pick the genres this mix covers. 4. Under Audio File, choose Upload a file and select your audio. 5. Use Upload a cover art to add artwork. 6. Add Streaming Links if you want — Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, YouTube. 7. Select Add. To change a mix later, open it from the same page and select Update. Titles that work Clients skim. A title that says what the mix is — the occasion, the energy, the venue — does more than a date or a volume number. "Wedding Reception, Open Format" tells someone planning a wedding they're in the right place. "Mix 47" doesn't. Genres The genres you tag here are per-mix, and they're separate from the genres on your profile. Tag what's actually in the mix rather than everything you play — a client who opens a mix expecting Afrobeats and gets house learns the wrong thing about you. Cover art Every mix shows as a tile in the grid on your profile. A mix without artwork still plays, but it looks unfinished next to ones that have it. Square images work best. Which mixes to add Three strong mixes beat fifteen average ones. Lead with the occasion you most want to book — if you're chasing weddings, your first mix should be a wedding set. Showing them The Display on profile switch at the top of Content → Mixes controls whether the Mixes tab appears at all. If you're still building your list, leave it off until you have something worth playing. Importing instead If your mixes are already on SoundCloud, you can bring them across in a few clicks rather than re-uploading. See Importing Mixes From SoundCloud.

Importing Mixes From SoundCloud

If your mixes already live on SoundCloud, you can import them rather than uploading each one again. This is available on Pro and Platinum. Connect your account 1. Go to Settings → Integrations. 2. Find the SoundCloud block and select Connect. 3. Sign in to SoundCloud and approve the connection. The block then shows Reconnect and Disconnect instead. Import your tracks 1. From Settings → Integrations, select Import on the SoundCloud block — or use SoundCloud Sync at the top of Content → Mixes. 2. Pick the tracks you want. 3. Select Import. Importing runs in the background and can take a few minutes. Finished mixes appear under Content → Mixes, where you can edit the title, genres, and cover art like any other mix. Which tracks can be imported Only tracks that are fully streamable. If a track is set to preview-only, or SoundCloud blocks it from playing outside their site, it can't be imported and you'll see an alert next to it. Changing the track's settings on SoundCloud and trying again usually resolves it. Genres and tags We map SoundCloud's genres and tags onto ours where they match. Anything without an equivalent is skipped, so it's worth checking the genres on each imported mix afterwards and setting them yourself. Only import what's yours Import tracks you own or have the rights to stream and share. Uploading someone else's work can lead to the mix being removed and, for repeat cases, action on your account. If you're using a mix that contains other people's recordings, make sure you have the right to distribute it. Disconnecting Disconnect on the SoundCloud block stops future imports. Mixes you've already imported stay on your profile — disconnecting doesn't remove them.

Adding Streaming Links to a Mix

Each mix can carry links to where it lives elsewhere. Set them when adding or editing a mix under Content → Mixes. The four - Spotify - Apple Music - SoundCloud - YouTube Paste the full URL into each. If a link isn't valid you'll see Oops, this doesn't look like a link! — usually a partial URL copied from a share menu. Why add them A client who plays a mix on your profile and likes it has somewhere to go next. Someone who follows you on SoundCloud after hearing one mix is a client who remembers you months later when they're actually booking. It also signals that you're a working DJ with a presence, not just a profile. Only add what exists Leave a field blank rather than pointing it at your general profile on that platform. A link labelled as this mix that opens something else is worse than no link. Which matter most SoundCloud is where DJ mixes actually live, and where a client is most likely to find more of your work. YouTube is worth it if there's video — a set filmed at a venue does something a mix alone can't. Spotify and Apple Music make more sense for original productions or curated playlists than for recorded sets. Where clients see them On the mix detail on your profile. There's also a toggle in the mix widget for whether streaming links show when the widget is embedded on your own site. See Embedding the Mix Widget. Sharing a mix Each mix has its own share action that produces a link back to your DJfindr profile — useful when you want the traffic coming to your booking page rather than to a streaming platform. Keeping them working If you take a track down or move it, update or clear the link. A dead link on your profile is a small thing that reads as neglect.

Showing or Hiding Your Mixes

There's a Display on profile switch at the top of Content → Mixes. It controls whether the Mixes tab appears on your public profile at all. What it does Off, and the section is hidden from clients. Your mixes aren't deleted — they're just not shown. When to hide it You have nothing up yet. An empty Mixes tab is worse than none. It reads as an unfinished profile. You have one weak mix. One average recording does less for you than no recording. A client who plays it and isn't convinced has actively decided against you. You're rebuilding. Hide it while you swap things out, then switch it back on. Your mixes don't match the work you want. If your only recordings are club sets and you're chasing weddings, they may be pointing clients away from what you're selling. Better hidden until you record something that fits. When to show it As soon as you have two or three mixes that represent the work you want. This is the highest-value section on your profile for converting a visitor into an enquiry. What clients see when it's on A grid of tiles with play buttons on the Mixes tab, with View All Mixes if there are more than fit. The player follows them down the page, so they can listen while reading your reviews. The other display switches Same pattern for Posts (under Content → Posts), Intro Reel, and Profile Tags. See Controlling What Shows on Your Profile. Checking it Open your profile in a private browser window. That's what a logged-out client sees. A note on ordering If you have several mixes, the first one is the one most people play. Make sure it's your strongest, and the closest to the work you want to book. See Adding a Mix.

Creating a Post

Posts are your feed of recent work. They show on your profile under the Posts tab and in the Discover feed. A profile with recent posts reads as an active, working DJ — which is exactly what a client is checking for. Creating one 1. Go to Content → Posts and select Create Post. 2. On the Media tab, either add a Video or use Upload for images. 3. Move to the Details tab and fill in: - Caption — what happened, in a sentence or two - Location — search for the venue or city - Event Date - Occasion — the event type 4. Check the Preview tab. 5. Select Create. Editing and deleting Open an existing post from Content → Posts. The same dialog reopens with Update and Delete. Pinning You can pin a post to keep it at the top of your feed. Use it for your best recent work, or for the event type you most want to book more of. What to post The floor from behind the decks. Your setup at a venue. A short clip of a moment that landed. Clients are looking for evidence you do this regularly and that people are enjoying it — not for polished marketing. Filling in Occasion matters more than it looks. It's how a client browsing your posts sees that you've actually worked the kind of event they're planning. How often Enough that your most recent post isn't visibly old. A post from last month reads as active. One from two years ago is worse than none, and worth hiding — the Display on profile switch at the top of Content → Posts turns the whole section off without deleting anything. Likes Posts show a like count. It's a light signal, not something that affects your ranking or your booking chances.

Pinning and Managing Posts

Posts build up over time. A little management keeps the feed working for you. Pinning A pinned post stays at the top of your feed regardless of date. Pinned posts show an indicator on the card. What to pin Your best recent event. The one you'd want a client to see first. The event type you want more of. If you're trying to move from bars into weddings, pin a wedding. Your feed is one of the clearest signals about what kind of DJ you are. Something seasonal. A Christmas party post through autumn, when people are booking them. Editing and deleting Open a post from Content → Posts. The same dialog reopens with Update and Delete. Worth deleting: posts with poor-quality media, anything from an event you'd rather not be associated with, and duplicates. Worth keeping even if old: posts from prestigious venues or notable events. The date matters less when the content is strong. Filling in the details Each post has a Caption, Location, Event Date, and Occasion. The occasion is the one people skip and shouldn't — it's how a client browsing your feed sees you've worked their kind of event. Keeping the feed current The question a client is answering when they look at your posts is is this DJ actually working? A post from last month answers it. One from two years ago answers it the wrong way. If you can't post regularly, hiding the section is better than showing a stale feed — the Display on profile switch is at the top of Content → Posts. The Discover feed Posts also appear in DJfindr's Discover feed, which puts them in front of people who aren't on your profile. See Appearing in the Discover Feed. Likes Posts show a like count. It's a light engagement signal — it doesn't affect your ranking or your bookings. How often Once or twice a month is plenty. Consistency matters more than volume.

Appearing in the Discover Feed

Discover is a public feed of mixes, posts, and live events from DJs on the platform. Clients browse it without searching for anything specific, which makes it a route to people who weren't looking for you. How you get there Post and upload mixes. Your content appears in Discover automatically — there's nothing to submit. Why it's different from search Search is intent-driven. Someone types a location and an occasion and compares who comes back. They're comparing you against filters. Discover is browsing. Someone scrolling sees your work before they see your rate, your service area, or anything else. If a mix catches them, they're on your profile with a favourable first impression already formed. What works here Media that reads at a glance. A cover image or a video frame that's clear as a small tile. A dark photo of an empty room doesn't stop a scroll. A caption that says what the moment was. "Last night at a 200-person wedding — the floor didn't empty from 9 till close" gives context. "Great night" doesn't. Consistency. Posting occasionally over months beats ten posts in one week and nothing after. Real events. People can tell the difference between a photo from a busy room and a promotional graphic, and they respond to the first. Your first mix matters When someone arrives on your profile from Discover, the first mix is the one they play. Make sure it's your strongest and it matches the work you want. Hidden content doesn't appear If you've turned off Display on profile for mixes or posts, they aren't in Discover either. See Showing or Hiding Your Mixes. What Discover won't fix It brings people to your profile. Whether they message you is down to your bio, rate, policies, and reviews. If analytics show views but no requests, Discover isn't the problem. See Profile Analytics. A realistic expectation Discover is a supplement to search, not a replacement. Most bookings come from clients who searched with a date and a venue in mind. Discover is worth the small effort of posting well, not worth building a strategy around.

Creating a Live Event

A live event is a gig you're playing that you want people to know about — a club night, a festival slot, a party. It appears on your profile and in DJfindr's Live Events discovery. This is separate from bookings. A booking is a client hiring you privately. A live event is something people turn up to. Creating one 1. Go to Content → Live Events. 2. Select Create Live Event. 3. Fill in the details. 4. Save it as a draft, or publish it. What you'll fill in Title — what the night is called. Description — what to expect. Who else is playing, what the room is like, anything people need to know before turning up. Start and end date and time, plus the timezone. Location — the venue address, and a place name if the venue is known by one. Cover image and flyer image — the cover is what shows on cards and in discovery; the flyer is the full artwork. Genres — what you'll be playing. Organizer — who's putting it on, if it isn't you. Entry restriction — see Tickets, Pricing, and Entry Restrictions. Visibility — public or unlisted. See Public vs Unlisted Live Events. Tickets — whether it's ticketed, the price, and where to buy. Why bother Your profile shows what you can do. Live events show what you're actually doing. A client comparing two DJs will read an upcoming events list as evidence you're working — which is the thing they're really trying to establish. They also give you somewhere to point people. A link to a proper event page beats a story that disappears in 24 hours. Managing them Content → Live Events lists everything you've created. There's a Search live events box, plus Sort, Status, and Visibility filters. Each event shows when it was Last modified, with actions to edit, share, archive, or cancel. Empty list shows No live events found. Showing them on your profile There's a Display on profile switch at the top of the page. On, and an Events tab appears on your public profile. Off, and the section is hidden without deleting anything. If you've got nothing coming up, visitors see No live events coming up, yet! — worth switching off until you have something. Before you publish Check the date, time, and timezone, and that the venue address resolves to the right place. You can preview the page before it goes public — see Previewing and Sharing a Live Event.

Public vs Unlisted Live Events

Every live event is either Public or Unlisted. You set this when you create it, and you can change it later. The two options Public — Visible to everyone (shown on your profile and the Live Events page). It appears on your public profile under the Events tab, and in DJfindr's Live Events discovery where people browse by location and date. Unlisted — Anyone with the link can view (hidden from your profile and the Live Events page). The page works for anyone you send it to, but nobody finds it by browsing. When to use Public Anything you want people at. Club nights, festival slots, bar residencies, ticketed shows. Public is the default choice — the whole point is being found. When to use Unlisted Private parties. A wedding or a corporate event where you want a page for the client's guests but not the general public. Something not announced yet. Build the page, share it with the promoter to check, and switch it public when the lineup drops. Guest-list-only nights. Where turning up without an invite isn't the idea. A one-off you only want to send to a specific group. A mailing list, a group chat, the people who were at the last one. Switching between them Edit the event and change the visibility. Going from unlisted to public puts it into discovery; going the other way pulls it out. The link keeps working either way. Unlisted isn't private Worth being clear: unlisted means unlisted, not secret. Anyone with the link can open it, and links get forwarded. If something genuinely mustn't be shared, don't rely on visibility to protect it — use the entry restriction as well, and be careful what you put in the description. Filtering your own list Content → Live Events has a Visibility filter, so you can see just your public or just your unlisted events. Useful when you've built up a few and want to check nothing private slipped into discovery. Both still show on your dashboard Visibility only affects who can find the event. Both kinds appear in your own list, and both can be edited, shared, archived, or canceled the same way.

Live Event Statuses: Draft, Published, Archived, Canceled

Every live event has a status. Filter by it on Content → Live Events using the Status dropdown. | Status | What it means | |---|---| | Draft | Being built. Not visible to anyone | | Published | Live. Visible according to its visibility setting | | Archived | Taken down. No longer in public discovery | | Canceled | The event isn't happening | Draft Where an event starts. Nothing is public, so you can build it over several sittings, wait on artwork, or hold it until a lineup is confirmed. You can still preview a draft and share that preview with a promoter before anyone else sees it. See Previewing and Sharing a Live Event. Published Live. Where it actually shows depends on whether it's public or unlisted — see Public vs Unlisted Live Events. Archived vs Canceled These are different and the distinction matters to anyone who was planning to come. Archived — the event is done, or you're taking the page down. Use it for past events you don't want cluttering your profile. Canceled — the event was going to happen and now isn't. Use it when people may have been planning to attend, or may have bought tickets. Both remove the event from public discovery. Confirming either shows: Please confirm that you would like to [archive or cancel] the event: your event. It will no longer appear in public discovery. If you cancel a ticketed event Setting the status to canceled takes the page down. It doesn't refund anyone — tickets are sold wherever your ticket link points, so refunds are handled there. Do that first, then cancel the event here. Someone who paid and finds a dead page has a worse experience than someone who got a refund notice. Tidying up past events Old events don't remove themselves. A profile showing a night from eight months ago as the most recent thing reads worse than an empty section. Worth a periodic pass: archive what's finished, keep what's upcoming. The Status filter makes this quick. Hiding the whole section instead If you've got nothing coming up, the Display on profile switch at the top of Content → Live Events hides the Events tab entirely — better than showing No live events coming up, yet! to everyone who visits.

Tickets, Pricing, and Entry Restrictions

Two parts of a live event tell people how to get in: ticketing, and the entry restriction. Ticketing Mark an event as ticketed and set: - Ticket price - Ticket URL — where people actually buy On the public event page this becomes a Get Tickets button. If there's a price it shows as Starting from that amount. A free event shows FREE. Tickets are sold elsewhere This is the important bit. DJfindr doesn't sell tickets or take the money — your ticket link points at whatever you're using, and the transaction happens there. So: - Test the link before publishing. A broken ticket link on a busy event page costs real attendance - Keep the price accurate. If your ticket platform has tiers, the price here should be the entry-level one, since it displays as "Starting from" - Refunds and questions go to your ticket platform, not to DJfindr Free events Leave it unticketed and it shows as FREE. Right for a bar residency or anything with door entry. If entry is free but there's a guest list, use the entry restriction and explain the process in the description. Entry restrictions Six options: | Setting | What it tells people | |---|---| | None | No stated restriction | | All Ages | Everyone welcome | | Ages 18+ | Over-18s only | | Ages 21+ | Over-21s only | | Private / Invite Only | Not open to the public | | Other | Something else — explain it in the description | Setting it properly Age restrictions are usually the venue's rule rather than yours, so check rather than guess. Someone travelling to a night they can't get into remembers it. All Ages is worth setting explicitly for family and community events — people assume a DJ night is over-18 unless told otherwise, and saying so brings people who'd otherwise not consider it. Private / Invite Only pairs naturally with unlisted visibility. See Public vs Unlisted Live Events. Other needs the description to do the work. Use it for anything conditional — members only, ticket holders from another event, industry guest list. Put the detail in the description The restriction is a label. Anything with a process behind it — how to get on the guest list, what ID is accepted, whether there's a dress code — belongs in the description where people will read it.

Previewing and Sharing a Live Event

Two different things: a preview link for something not published yet, and sharing a live event once it's out. Previewing before you publish You can generate a preview link for an event that isn't public. Anyone you send it to sees the page exactly as it'll look, without it being live. Useful for: - Checking your own work on a phone before announcing - Sending to a promoter or venue for approval - Letting another DJ on the lineup check their billing If a preview link can't be created you'll see Preview unavailable — We couldn't create a preview link for this event. Please try again. Preview links expire They're temporary by design. If you're sending one to someone who won't look immediately, generate it when they're ready rather than days ahead. Sharing a published event Each event in Content → Live Events has a Share Event action. The public page also has Share this event, which produces a message along the lines of Check out this event on DJfindr: with the link. Where to share it Your social accounts. The event page carries your name, the venue, the date, the artwork, and the ticket link in one place — better than a story that vanishes. The venue and promoter. Give them a link they can push out. It points back at your profile, which a venue's own listing doesn't. Anyone who asks what you've got coming up. One link beats listing dates from memory. What people see The public page shows your artwork, the date and location, the description, Host details with View Profile and Message, entry restriction, and Get Tickets if it's ticketed. At the bottom, More events by you and More events in that location — so someone who found one of your events can find the rest. The link works either way An unlisted event's link works for anyone you send it to. Making it public later doesn't change the link. See Public vs Unlisted Live Events. Embedding it on your own site There's a Live Event widget for putting an event on your own website. See Embedding the Live Event Widget.