I Want My DJA Radio (part 2)
Here is my response to some negative remarks on DJ Chat sites and on the DJA Radio blogs made about DJA Radio and it's Pod Cast Personalities
To Mark, Peter, Bill, Jim and everyone involved with DJA Radio:
Your pod cast programs are a major step in the improvement of our industry. DJ’s all around the world are improving their talent, skills and techniques all because you are willing to share your time, experience and talent to anyone who has a need to be better, no matter how good they are.
The “Getting what your worth” tour was the beginning of a movement that has changed the DJ industry for the better. The DJ conventions, magazines, news papers all add into this equation to elevate our chosen profession.
DJA Radio is the next generation of education to the industry. I know that there are feelings that sometimes it’s just not worth it when so many DJs still charge so little, so many still do a sub standard level of performance, and so many just don’t care enough about what they do, what they represent or how they run their business.
Because of you many DJ’s are stepping up and deciding to be better, to charge a rate that represents a professional business and to be the best DJ that they can be.
It is true that this movement is taking what seems to be such a long time, but look how far it has come for those who “get it” and have raised their quality of performance. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Entertainers like myself have progressed so far but still have a long way to go. Things change, updates need to be made, and information needs to be shared.
If you stop now I Believe it will cause an adverse effect on the industry as a whole. In a few years we will be back to where we were five or ten years ago. NO ONE WANTS THAT!
Maybe things like the wedding guild as Peter has spoken of will be the next step. Maybe licensing DJ’s is a step in the right direction, I don’t have the answer, but what ever it takes to continue improving the industry will not happen if educational materials like DJA radio disappear.
You have to forget about all those who are not on board with the program and believe in and trust those who are following you into the future of a Professional Disc Jockey.
I believe that once there is a committed level of Professionalism established among the industry and the general public begins to see this, the majority of those who reject your teachings will fall to the side and eventually disappear.
There will always be “Bottom Feeders” in every industry, we have to stop concentrating on them and concentrate on those who want to improve the industry.
One suggestion I have is not to allow those who make posts on your site that are in a negative, derogative or non productive approach and only allow posts of those in a positive or educational manner.
Like any 12 step program it is acknowledged to get rid of the negative things (people) and only allow the positive in your space no matter the price.
DJA Radio and all the members of the staff are the positive in our world; please don’t give up on us.
From everything I have learned about pod casting this adventure was costing the producers of the show upwards of $30,000 from their pockets. Advertisers would help off set that cost. Who here could put out that kind of capitol for something that is given away free to people who some just don’t seem to appreciate (get it) it at all?
I also believe that if DJs are serious about DJA Radio and really wish to learn and grow, then they should be willing to pay a nominal fee to listen to the shows.
I truly believe that the information given out by the staff of DJA Radio is “worth” a cash value. Why shouldn’t the pod cast hosts expect to receive a paycheck for everything they do? It is time consuming and not as easy as it sounds to put together a comprehensive pod cast every week, week after week.
Those who make negative comments about the value of DJA Radio and the pod cast personalities getting paid for all they do should either step up and try doing the same thing for free or just realize that they might not know enough about running a successful business enterprise.
Many of these DJs making horribly inaccurate and/or degrading comments are those who do a less then adequate performance and/or charge far below the market value and/or cost of running their business and/or all of the above. They are in no way qualified to make such defaming remarks.
Jeff Richards: