Throw a party: 8 simple steps you can follow
A small guide to people who desire to throw a party
To resume:
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Contact your friends and connect with local artists
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Create a concept visually and on social media
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Find a place where you can throw a party in exchange for a fee
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Find and manage artists according to their skills and when people are more likely to come
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Prepare all the work to do in advance and spread it between all your co-worker to have a smooth work environment
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Market your party on social media (both paid and not)
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Prepare all the small details
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Throw your party, enjoy and repeat
This is how you’ll organize great parties.

This article is an introduction to a course we made on Lesk. If you want to know more about the course, you can click on the button under.
1) Ask your close circle
Ask your friends if they want to throw a party too. It’s a funny activity, and it makes you a cool/active person. The first and easiest step to do is to ask among your friends. They are the more likely to follow you. Ask them who would like to throw a party with you.
If your close friends are not really up for that, start asking people in your circle that can be interested. Maybe at your school, work, university and so on. As it is a work/passion, you don’t have to be friends with the people you’re organizing something. Keep in mind that you should at least have compatible tastes for music. Otherwise you might clash with them on the way.
Once you have found people, you can start motivating each other and plan what we’ll see in this article.
2) Connect with local artists and local party people.
Send messages to see if you can connect or help them to throw a party. If you are ready to work for free, as a a volunteer, you will start meeting people. Then, you will make connections and see opportunities everywhere.
Once you start frequenting those people, you will be in the world of party organizing. There, you will understand how everything works. More opportunities will pop up. You will be able to know where and how you can throw a party. The people you will frequent might even help you organize events.
DJs and promoters often have tons of ideas and tasks to do. If you help them to accomplish them, they might welcome you. Be careful, do not transform into a slave. If you don’t find your pleasure in helping people, don’t. But if you can get the contacts for artists, places, and anything worth taking, don’t hesitate.
Connecting with people will help you going out of your comfort zone. The first step is painful but the next is only pleasure. Once you know enough people, the snowball effect is activated and possibilities are duplicating.

3) Create a proper concept of events
Create a concept with a proper name that you would choose. Add some beautiful aesthetics. Such as logo, poster, banner etc. Finally, create your social media to help people understand what everything is all about. This should tell people that you intend to throw a party easily.
You don’t need to be perfect. You just need to exist, be understandable, and be reachable. People need to project themselves into the fact that you want to throw a party. Even if it’s not the reality yet, it all starts with playing with people’s imagination.
4) Find a place to throw a party
There are two ways to approach this. In this article we will see both.
Rent a place
To throw a party, you can start finding places that are made for that. It can be to privatize a club, to rent rooms or any option where you have a place. This is the common method that we don’t recommend and you will see why in our second solution. But let’s see what you need to think about:
- Sound system – If the room doesn’t have one, you’ll need to rent one.
- License and permits – You will need to unsure that your party is legit. Which means authorization for alcohol, protection against fire, security etc. Here is an example of what you can expect here.
- Enough alcohol – Because, you throw a party, not a fair.
Partner with a business
There are plenty of restaurants or bars that have sound systems but have a hard time attracting customers. They are craving to make money. Then, you can partner with them if you want to throw a party.
If you know enough artists to perform. If you know how to spread the word to attract enough people, they might be interested in you. Then you can run an event and take a fee out of it. This fee can be the entrance ticket or a percentage of all the sales during the night. This exactly what we’re explaining in our course.
Take your concept with you and visit the clubs, bars, and restaurants. Ask them if you can work together. If they reject you, this is normal. Just don’t forget that you need only one Yes to throw a party for the first time.
Understand also which kind of place you’re dealing with. Sometimes, they already have people who organize events. Sometimes, they regret their old-time parties and would love someone to reactivate their old soul. In any case, you need to understand why they want to do business with you.
5) Manage people and artists
Many local artists and people would love to promote their local scene, which means that you might find people interested in working with you tp throw a party.
For artists, ask for their mixes and their style. Then, you will be able to understand the type of music they are playing. Depending on their energy, you will determine when they will play. Understand which kind of energy they can bring depending on the place’s frequentation.
Place the less skilled when people are not here and the most experienced when people are here, even if YOU are the least experimented. This will make the difference when you will throw a party.
For the people working with you, you will have to split the tasks between you. The best way to do so is to plan. Spread all the tasks between your crew before accomplishing them.
If you are leading, you will be the one organizing shifts and work. As you’re working with people, don’t forget that they might be late doing stuff. Prepare the work in advance and make them have an easy time.
Understand why people are doing what they are doing. It will help you understand why they act the way they behave. Someone who wants to become the next David Guetta might tell you the day before he won’t come if he finds a better gig. Someone who wants to improve the local scene might help your competitors without seeing any problem. If you understand that, you will avoid problems in the future.
6) Market your party
To make your event credible and throw a party noticeably, you will need to make several pieces of advertisement. A poster is good, but come on, you can do better. Make a story, a video, a copy in addition and show people that it’s real.
Create a Facebook event and post it in every related group you can.
Ask your friends to share the event. The merrier, the better.
Pay some Facebook ads as it’s very effective.
Post on Reddit.
See how you can duplicate those same strategies to other platforms.
7) Prepare everything
Fire
Normally, the owner has it covered if it’s a legal place. But be careful and be on point with all the legislation. This is why we advise to partner with a place already. They might know everything about it and have it ready. Then, you won’t need to care too much and focus on your strengths.
Security
You will need to pay some security person if you want to be sure that your party goes well. If you partner with a place, they might have contact with companies. But if you are alone, this responsibility is up to you.
The noise disturbance
Try to avoid cops coming in the middle of the party to shut down everything while you throw a party. Ask for the owner of the place if they had any problem previously.
Handle cash
Find ways to handle cash and be paid surely. Be able to give recipes too, like small invoices. Find a way to have a simple accounting. Depending on your country, you might not need to start something, but it’s better if you keep track of the future. Maybe tax offices might ask you for proof later on.
The wardrobe
Find someone YOU TRUST for the wardrobe. Either employ someone you know. Either ask the owner of the place (if you partner with him/her) if they have already someone.
Understand the sound system of the place
Be ready for any problem and see if your DJs can plug themselves. Come several times the week before your event to be sure that everything is smooth.
Bring food and drinks for the people working with you
It’s nothing, but it shows consideration. A small sandwich and some cans of soda and everybody is happy. Be careful to take anyone food restrictions in consideration.
Organize meetings
It helps people to structure and speak out on the project. The more you let people showing implications, the happier they will be.
Come before and stay after the party
Help to organize the room. You will gain credibility among everyone. Be careful, do not do someone else work if they are paid for that. An example is cleaning the place after if there are people paid for that.
Be easy to find
Nothing is more frustrating than not finding a party. So put your location on Google, your event and anywhere you can. Make it easy for others.
8) Throw your party, enjoy and repeat
This is the strategy I applied when I was studying in Sweden. I started organizing parties from scratch in a country where I couldn’t even pronounce the alphabet. I also didn’t have DJ skills by the time. So if it worked for me, it should work for you.
If you want to know more about party organizing, we have a forum and a course dedicated to lesk.club, don’t hesitate to check it out.