Saying Goodbye to The Michigan Real Estate Warrior Show

By Mark Ijlal on December 18, 2005 9:49 PM | 1 Comment

Christmas Eve, December 24, 2005 is my last radio show at WDTK 1400AM. I have decided to move the radio show to the Internet as a full fledge downloadable show / Podcast or better still go _____________.

Why? Well first I never thought that so many people would download the show from the site and especially from the Podcast. Here I am, driving around between Madison Heights and Bloomfield Hills, going by my way and hundreds and hundreds of downloads every day. Very humbling. And a great deal of responsibility to deliver.

Then one hour is not really enough to get into the really meat of things. I want to have a show where we can analyze the different ways there is money to be made in Michigan real estate, but radio has its own schedule and all they can give is 57 minutes.

Then I have been thinking about doing a television show – either on Comcast cable system or doing streaming video on the Internet.

I am a big believer in the power of Internet in transforming the business of buying and selling real estate and I think that a huge change is right on the horizon for people who are agile enough to cash in.

I am talking about video on the Internet. It has become cheaper and downright easier to put video on the Internet. All you need is a digital camcorder (DV) and a Firewire cable and you are in business in 20 minutes.

There is so much that video can show that radio cannot. You can show a house, see the wonderful people that make up my coaching group, meet real life Michigan real estate investors and also the advanced level plays being made by people in the know.

So with that circulating in my mind, I pulled the plug on the Real Estate Warrior Show. I can tell you one thing, with great satisfaction – in 12 weeks I have created the biggest weekend hit that station have ever seen in their history. They wanted me to coach all new radio show hosts to generate this much buzz.

Funny when you add the fact that I got turned down by every single radio station in metro Detroit area because of my accent.

But the new thing – whether Podcast, downloadable MP3 or video – is starting January 2006 – I am looking at all my options, wishing that I would have hurried up and hired the personal assistant that I need right now to play catch up with all this.

It was an interesting experience and helped me learn a whole about radio. We actually have an entire radio campaign running on 107.5 where I wrote the 60-second commercial to sell our properties. I will have the MP3 next week and I will put up here so everybody can listen to it. It is a different twist on selling houses and I think it will work very well in the long run.


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John | March 8, 2006 9:56 PM

So, where did the show go? Are there any more mp3 for download?