How do you stand out in a world full of competition?
Jason Zygadlo, founder of Build.Your.Own.Brand., joins me to share his journey from creatively breaking into pharmaceutical sales to becoming an expert in helping people and businesses stand out. Jason’s stories are filled with grit and ingenuity, like the time he wore scrubs to prepare for a medical sales interview or how he turned video messaging into a game-changer for building relationships. He’s passionate about teaching others to be different and memorable in a way that creates genuine connections.
Jason also talks about his love for video communication, explaining how it can help salespeople, businesses, and job seekers stand out in a crowded market. Whether it’s thanking customers or grabbing the attention of a decision-maker, his tips will make you rethink how you connect with others.
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Hi everyone, and welcome to this week's episode
of relationships rule. I have a great guest with me today who I
think I met for 20 minutes and we never stopped talking, so I'm
really excited to have him on the show. Jason zygadlo, did I
say it right. You're
very close. It's actually, it's okay. Z gatlow is
Yep. You were good. You were good. Okay,
okay, Jason, welcome to the show. First of
all, thank
you so much, Janice for having me. It's a
pleasure to be here, and I have to echo what you said. I do feel
like when we spoke the other day for the first time. It was a
great conversation and felt like it, you know, could have went
way longer. I'm happy to be here.
Thank you, and I think that speaks also to the
fact that we're both relationship people. And I think
that always makes it so much easier for me when I know
someone gets me right away. And yours, you know you you were
very passionate about the work that you do, and I'm excited to
share it with with my audience. So just a little background. Can
you give me a little give my audience a little snippet of
where you came from and what you're doing now?
Yeah, it's a good question. So I graduated from
Kent State. I was a first time first generation college
graduate, proud of that, and then wanted to get into sales. I
wasn't exactly sure what. Jumped into pharmaceutical sales, very
tough industry to break into. I have a creative story of how I
did it, of standing in a parking lot and handing my resumes out
and being different and memorable and creative.
It's a great story. It's, don't gloss over
it, because it's part of what made you what you do now. So be
for sure, share it.
Yeah, yeah. So you know, I was it was getting
rejected, applying online, being told I didn't have any
experience. And so I felt like I needed to just mix things up and
do things a little differently. And so I would go to where the
sales reps were, and that was at a doctor's office. Basically
loitered around in the lobby. And this is pre LinkedIn. This
is early 2000 so when the Chevy and Palas and Ford Tauruses were
pulling in, those were the those are the company cars. Typically
at the time, I would approach a gentleman or gal in a suit who
was jumping out of their car and filling their bag up with
samples and pens to go take into the offices and approach them. I
had a shiny folder that I had purchased Janice and made my
resume and printed my own business cards with simply my
name, my email address, my phone number, and would approach
these, these folks, and say, Look, can you help me? I need
help, and I don't have any parents or neighbors or anyone
that's in the medical space, but can you pass this along for me?
And I think some people probably looked at me like I was crazy,
but little did I know, when someone got out of the passenger
seat, it was a sales manager working with their sales rep for
the day, a ride along, common thing. And so you can only
imagine how they saw me, gritty, creative, different, doing the
job and not afraid to cold call, right? And so my resume got into
those hands. I spent some a few years doing that line of work,
pharmaceutical sales. And then I don't want to say I got bored. I
just wanted a greater challenge. I was dropping lunches off and
dropping off samples, and wasn't having the discussions that I
really wanted to. And so similarly, I was labeled as a
pharmaceutical rep. You don't sell anything. You drop off
lunches and bring samples. And I'm like, precisely, this is
kind of why I want to do something different. And so was
constantly being told, No, no, no, no, no. And again, I put my
thinking cap on and thought, how can I be different in a way that
I can capture some attention? And so I had an upcoming
interview, after several interviews that that didn't go
anywhere, and I put the scrubs on, I took the suit off, I drove
out to a local hospital, which was in my area where I sold
pharmaceuticals. And I I'll never forget, I knew these
products that I would potentially be selling were in
the operating room or in the ICU, and I knew I couldn't break
into the operating room, so the next best thing was to figure
out a way to get into the ICU. And I held my breath. I pushed
the button. It said, Do not enter. I walked in, and I hear
all the sun with scrubs on, yes, and so I happened to just see a
physician who was there rounding on his patients in the evening.
This is when I went. I felt like maybe it was a little bit more
sly to go in at night. And he's like, Jason, what the heck you
doing in scrubs? And I said, Doctor, you know, here's the
story. You actually written me a recommendation letter. You know,
I've been looking from new opportunities. Here's the deal.
These products I know are in the OR. In the in the ICU, and can
you show me what they look like? Can you tell me how they work? I
want to come prepared to this, to this interview. And so, you
know, to make a long story short, we sat down. I was taking
notes. Smoke was coming off the paper, and I wanted to document
everything Janice, because in this relationship building, you
know, I talk about you've heard of everybody knows, know like
and trust. So when you're interviewing, you only have a
small window of time to build some trust and likability. So
when I sat down with this hiring manager, I said, before we get
started, can I share a story? He said, absolutely. I pulled the
scrubs out with the receipt to validate what I was about to
say, and then I proceeded to explain to him the story. And I
pulled a business card out from the nurse who had her name on it
and phone number again. And she endorsed the idea that if
someone needed to call and validate the story, by all
means, please do. And so this manager was just like, what you
did what? And so that was how I broke into medical sales. I
ended up getting that job. I spent 20 years roughly, selling
medical devices of all sorts of things. And in 2019 I was
diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. And so for me, it was
a time to, you know, simply reflect, is this what I want to
continue to do as a career? And I chose to then pivot out of the
cardiothoracic and vascular space into selling oncology
products a smaller company, and then I've always liked the
smaller, privately held companies, and then pivoted,
and, you know, the bigger carrot was dangled in front of me. I
went chasing it to another job, and then it was quickly laid
off. That's kind of the high risk, high reward of medical
devices, especially in the startup world. And so from
there, I just over that 20 years that it was selling medical
devices, I was somehow anointed as the person to come to when
they were job searching because of my approach and being
different and unique and memorable. And so, you know,
with the encouragement of my wife, she was like, why don't
you make this your your career, this is your real passion. I see
how excited you get when you help people. Why not do that?
And so I'm like, Well, I'm just a little old sales guy. I don't
really know and and here I am now started build your own
brand, and that's exactly what I do. Help individuals and
businesses try to be different and memorable when it comes to
prospecting or or whatever it is, and there's a lot of
creative tactics and tools that I use for for businesses and
individuals to do just that. So it's
a great story, and thank you for sharing,
because there are, there aren't that many people that can be or
have that creativity and pull it off and, you know, actually go
through it. I had a friend who sadly passed away a couple of
years ago, and we've known each other since university, and she
was like you, she reminds you. Remind me of her in this in your
brain, because she used to come up with these wacko things that
definitely got people's attention, and she could pull it
off, and she'd spend a lot of time prepping for one of these,
you know, projects that she was doing to to make that happen.
And I hadn't, I haven't come across anybody like like her for
a long time. So that was one of the things that that I noticed
when I first talked to you, and I love the story about the
scrubs and having the guts to do that anyway as well. But being
prepared is really the motto there, being prepared, but doing
it in a different way. So I do know that today it's funny,
because when you were saying when you first did that, and you
got the the validation of the nurse and the doctor, whatever,
and today we just take a photo of them right, holding it, and
we'd have it with us, right, sure. So it's a little easier
today to make that happen, but, but one of the things that you
and I talked about, that I know that you are using to make these
things happen is video, and video is a big thing these days.
It's big on LinkedIn, and I talk about it with video messaging on
LinkedIn and things like that. And I know that you do a lot
with some of your your clients, like job seekers in particular,
on LinkedIn, but with a as business owners and and sales
professionals, they have to stand out too, and we don't all
love video. So tell me how to make it easy and talk me into,
you know, finding ways to make that work for me. Yeah,
it's a great question. So you have to first,
you know, comfort is the enemy of growth, right? So, yes, you
have to practice. You have to turn that camera on and just in,
just practice. And before I launched my first video, I think
it was like paralysis by analysis, right? I'm sitting
there and I'm, I don't want to send a video, because I'm like,
wait a second. I said an um or an uh, and I did, wasn't
looking. Exactly at the camera. And so, you know, at the end of
the day, we're not professional video people, right? And and I
think that's a part of the genuineness and authenticity
that people can see in the videos, is that what you see in
me right now is really who I am, and a good snapshot into my own
personality. So I just encourage anyone to, if they're interested
in using, or thinking about using that type of technology,
to just practice. I sent my wife more videos than I really want
to acknowledge, but it was just to kind of get comfortable and
get the flow down. And finally, you just have to say it's okay.
Maybe I did leave off something, maybe I did have a number and a
but again, I think that's just the way I speak, and that's who
I am, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I
think we're hard on ourselves. And I gave a keynote
presentation not that long ago at a university, and there was a
video that I had prepared, and it wasn't my best video, Janice,
but I left it in there intentionally, because after I
played the video, I paused and I said, I want to go back and
watch the video, and I want to tell you all candidly, I almost
took this out, and I shot this same video probably 10 times,
and finally, I just went with this version. And let me just
tell you a couple things. You know, you can see that I didn't
do this or I wanted to say that, and they didn't know that. Yeah,
right, that's the beauty. Yes. And so it's okay to send a video
and and maybe not be perfect. That's, that's what I tell
people. And it's, it's just important to get past that
hurdle. That's
a huge one. And I think that that that is really
great advice. My problem, I, I'll, you know, I always say I
it's, I see the real me on there, especially on my phone.
You know, on Zoom, I can have a little bit of a filter on it,
and I can't find a way to filter it on my phone properly, or I'm
but I have bought a a tripod, a little tripod, which is better,
because holding the phone is the worst for me, and so finding
little things to help along the way, and then doing what you
just said, letting go of it, having to be perfect, and just
realizing, like at the beginning of this episode, I had to
restart the beginning or do it over because I bobbled my words.
But again, even though I did that, I in the real version of
the in the second version of of the introduction, I got your
name wrong, and I thought, oh, but you know what? It's okay. It
is. We
could have started over again, right? But
you just choose to roll with it, and it's as simple, Hey, is it Z
God low? Z God low, yeah, we move on and and that's the
beauty of just being genuine and real and authentic. I think
sometimes when it's too perfect Janice, it almost looks
scripted, and therefore minimizes some of the
authenticity in general. You mean, yeah, great point.
Okay, so tell me about as a business owner or
sales professional, really, or how would I use video to stand
out from the crowd, from Yeah? What do you share, share with
people? How do you teach, yeah? So,
so as a sales professional in the medical
device world is when I learned to start using these videos and,
and I was trying to chase down busy doctors, and had a large
territory, trying to cover a lot of ground and, and the fact is,
if you're driving all over God's green earth and just leaving
information because you stumble upon the gatekeeper, who you
know doesn't let you see the the end user. And for me, at the
time, it was the busy surgeons. I had to figure out a better
way. And so how can I now create a video, send it when I had
their email address or cell phone number, and text it, or
even through LinkedIn, multiple ways to send them. But the
beauty was this, you and I send emails today, and we don't know
if they're opened, I mean, for the most part, but the video and
the platform and the technology, there's some analytical
components to it that allow you to see when the video was
opened, how long the video was watched, and that become
extremely important to me. If there was a particular physician
that I was trying to, you know, really put a lot of energy into
tracking down, then I can gage, okay, he's watched some of the
videos. He's watched them in their entirety. You know, I know
he's gotten some of the messaging. When I first took the
job, I would send an intro video. Hey, Dr Janice, it's
Jason. I know we haven't met yet. I just wanted you to put a
face with the name. I am your new sales rep for this product,
and here's my contact information. And by the way, I
did leave some information with Gloria, the gatekeeper. I just
want you to know it's there. Now I'm putting her on the hook a
little bit too, and creating some accountability. That
message or that information better get to him. But I was
constantly just finding ways to add value, never sending
anything. And so. So that was one way I would use it as a
sales professional, and then secondly, as a thank you. If I
were to work in the operating room with the physician, maybe
for the first time. Or, you know, I typically don't send
email thank yous anymore. I send a video that just simply says,
Hey, Janice, it's Jason. I wanted to say thank you for the
podcast time today and the conversation, it was great
listen. I could have emailed you, but I wanted to send a
message in a more creative and personalized way to let you know
how grateful I am, and that's the differentiator. But it was
an email. It wasn't an email the video that you sent. Oh, so, so
the video that I would create could be texted, could be
texted, yeah, or it could be sent by email, or it could be
sent through LinkedIn. Oh, god, okay, yeah, okay, but, but my
point is it I could have, I always kind of like to say I
could have sent a traditional email, but I wanted to send you
some, send you something a little bit different and more
creative and personalized, and I get a lot of feedback. Wow,
that's so cool. How'd you do that? Can you show me how to do
that? And people like that, because you're seeing more and
more communication being done by video.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I, I, whenever I
introduce that video messaging on LinkedIn, people go, I didn't
know you could do that. Yes. So, and it does make you stand out
from the
crowd. So it does. And for businesses, how do
you prospect? I mean, as a sales person, my example is getting to
the doctor, getting to the end user. Maybe it's a nurse, maybe
it's a purchasing person in the hospital. You know, you can send
all of them messages in lots of creative ways. But as a business
owner, I you know when I talk to clients that are business owners
and trying to again, they have their own glory of the
gatekeeper. They have their own, you know, gatekeepers that
they're trying to get past. How can we come up with the strategy
to send messages and tailor it to that respective business and
get the message out? And then as a thank you. I think you know
oftentimes, and we may have talked about this when we spoke
the other day, if you watch TV for a few minutes, you'll see
commercials all the time geared towards the new customer. But
what about the customer that you work so hard to earn and that
you've had now for X amount of years? How nice would it simply
be to just say, hey, Janice, I just we haven't done a good
enough job to say thank you. You've been a customer of ours
for seven years. It looks like, according to the you know, the
data here, and we just want to say thank you so much. We
appreciate your loyalty. And we just thought we would reach out
to you in a more creative and personalized way to let you know
how grateful we are for the relationship that we've built,
and we look forward to doing it for several more years. Thank
you. And that's just a way to really recognize those folks
that you've worked so hard to earn. You don't want to lose
them. Then you play this game of lose customer, gain new
customer. We got to give them love too, and it's just a very
simple way to just let them know. Yeah.
I think it's a great tool to have in the
toolbox, I think. And we're going to talk a little bit
offline about this, I think, afterwards, but I think it's a
good fit with people. My audience know that I've talked
about sending cards and gifts to people as well and dripping on
them when they're not expecting it, or sending them a card when
they're not expecting it. And I think the video does the same
piece, and I think mixing it up is really good. I do think that
the key, going back to the know, like and trust factor that you
mentioned earlier, the key, though, is to be sincere. And I
think sometimes with the, I don't know, maybe with bigger
companies, because when you just talked about, you know, sending
that video to the to nurture your clients, and I say, Be
sincere. Don't just do it like once, do it every, you know,
like I used to know this guy. Well, I still know him. He was a
client of mine with Send Out Cards, and he is an insurance
agent, and he had a rhythm and a system with his phone calls. And
he every three months, he would call me just to say hi, probably
leave a message, because I nine times out of 10, we don't answer
our phones, although I think that's coming back a bit, I
hope, because that's always showing my age. That's always my
first go to is I want to phone someone, but I do always say,
Now, is it okay to talk for a minute, or do you have a minute?
You know, if not, I'll, you know, we'll go another route,
but, but I think that, in his case, he did it on a regular
basis, not just like that one time in the year kind of thing,
and that's what makes it special to me, and better, it's
so true. And shout, first of all, shout out
to you. I received my thank you card well, and I got my thank
you video card. Yeah. So we exchanged pleasantries, but the
the card ID. It is so awesome in its own way. It's sitting on my
desk. It's a constant reminder that Janice reached out in a
very kind way, and it is just a neat way. The snapshot that you
take from the Zoom call that we had is just a neat little touch,
but what I'm thinking
of us combining the two. So when you take a
video, can you, can you upload it to somewhere like YouTube, or
somewhere where, or maybe it doesn't have to be on YouTube
where you can make a QR code of it, then that QR code can be in
a card.
Interesting, I don't know the answer to that.
We should, we should look into that, because that's a fantastic
idea. Yeah,
so there's there, you're combining both, and
they're getting the card in real life. So they're, yes, actually
going to open it, and then they'd be curious, is, what's on
the QR code? So I could see there being some in Yeah? Be
fun.
Absolutely, my answers would be peaked if there
was a QR code. And I'm like, Well, what is that I got? Of
course, what am I going to do? I'm going to scan it. Yeah? So,
great idea. Yeah, super
cool. So I mean, lots of ways to to draw
attention to yourself, to show that you care, as I said, as
long as it's done authentically, right, absolutely, which you
did. And yeah, it was fun that we were both trying to share,
and we couldn't. We can explain it, but it's much better when
you experience it. It's 100% true.
I everyone likes to get mail. I shouldn't speak
for everyone, but I know I love mail. So when I see something
that has my name on it, it looks like a card and not a bill.
That's fun, right? So I tear open the card and I'm like, wow,
this is really well, I'm
also thinking about those gatekeepers,
Gloria's in the world. I love that GLORIA The gatekeeper, and
how sending her a card and a gift to say thanks for helping
you out, then makes her love you even more when you want to go to
that you know, that manager or that business owner and say, by
the way, Gloria has some material. I said, you know,
Gloria is going to just tell, you know, so many cool things
about what a nice person you were. So there's lots of ways to
put it all together. So can you think of a business situation
where you you coach somebody else to doing something that was
a great success with this, yeah,
with the videos. So, yeah, I think it's the first
story that comes to mind for me. Is my my fraternity brother, who
owns a painting company, and, you know, I was at the Chamber
of Commerce, he's the President of the Chamber, and we were
having this discussion. And, you know, I was explaining to him
that sometimes the videos get pigeon holed into being more of
just a white collar kind of tool, right? And so he as a
painting company. And what I was explaining to him was, and
coaching him was, listen, imagine if in your blue collar
world, you can put a white glove touch with a personalized video.
So for example, you're sending Janice a quote because she wants
her house painted. Now, you know, here in the Cleveland Ohio
market, there's a plethora of other painting companies. But
how different would it be if I said, Hey, Janice, it's Jason,
the president of the painting company. And I just wanted to
say thank you for letting my team and I come into your home
and evaluate what project you want. We know in this market,
there's a, you know, a plethora of other painting companies.
Here's the quote that you had asked for, and I could have just
sent it over, but I wanted to send you a message to just say
thank you, on behalf of our entire team for allowing us to
provide you a quote. And we really look forward to
hopefully, you know, working with you that is so different,
yeah, as as it relates to just providing a quote that most of
the companies that I know of in that space and beyond aren't
doing that. And again, it's just a way attention is the new
currency, right? I preach this, yeah, like, gotta find a way to
stand out. And so that is one way for a title.
There's a title. What's that? A title for the
podcast episode? Oh,
yes, attention is the new currency. And and so, I
mean, at first, you know, like most people, they're, I don't
know, and I'm like, Just give it a try. You have nothing to lose.
And so this, this conversation was very recent, so, you know,
we're scheduled to kind of speak again, so I don't have a good
answer as to whether or not it was adopted and how successful
it's been, or maybe it wasn't even adopted. But that, to me
was, let's not just limit this to a certain. Certain audience,
Oh, for sure, so versatile that it really can be used in so many
different creative ways.
Well, I would take that one step further, by
the way. And if that painting company did send that video and
they, they, they didn't get the contract, okay, first, if they
didn't get the contract, sure, then they send a card or a video
that says, Thanks for giving us the opportunity. Maybe, maybe
next time, you know type of thing, we're still here. And the
other one is, if they got the contract, of course, then they
would send one saying, Thanks for your trust in us. And they
would probably send something after the job. But yeah, so I it
just makes me think of this guy that I used to know in in LA,
that he had a company that he adopted the the card system for
his company, and it was a props for the movie business he used
to be in like outside traffic cones and things that the the
movie companies had to for on location. They had to rent all
this stuff. And there were, there was a system for how they
how they did it in LA and they had a book with all the
different or, like a directory with all the different
companies. His wasn't the cheapest, it wasn't the most
expensive, but it was higher than than average. And when he
saw the card system, he said, This is great. I'll use this for
like, my direct mail. And just started to blast stuff out.
Nothing happened, and it's kind of a sideline story as well,
because nothing happened because he was sending those cards out
to get to get business. And when he finally realized, after going
and listening to our CEO and the philosophy that you want to send
out to give, not to get, the law of reciprocity will do its job,
and things will come back to you, and that's where I got the
idea about the cards that I just suggested to your client, for
example, to send if he doesn't get the job. Because my friend
changed his whole philosophy and started to send cards to say
thanks for the business. Sorry we didn't get the business,
whatever it was. And it became more heartfelt, and that's why
we're back to authenticity. We're back to being sincere,
being honest, and those things come back in the right way. It's
so true. I attended a business meeting not
long ago, and they said, givers, gain, oh, that's BNI. That's
BNI. Yeah, it's BNI. It was a BNI meeting. And I was, I was
in, I was never, I didn't even know that existed.
Oh, okay, I was in BNI for four years. It's
like, it's almost like a cult. It's like, it's, it's a great
way to learn how to network when people don't know how to
network. It's also very time consuming and a specific way of,
you know, doing business, but doing business with people, you
know, like and trust, but that's their motto. And it's funny
because it stuck with me. Yes, it would. It's it absolutely
givers gain. That's exactly what they what they and it's a great
organization. It's worldwide. You can go anywhere in the world
and find a B and I meeting, just like an a meeting. You can go
anywhere and find one. But anyway, I don't need one of
those, but I just thought I mentioned that anyway, this is
great. This is all really good. I know that we both feel the
same way about how to stand out, and we just use different tools,
but it makes sense and it it works, right? It helps people
feel comfortable about referring people as well, right? Because
you know that they'll do a good job, and therefore your
recommendation was seen in a good light. And you you know,
because for me, when I recommend or refer somebody, I gotta make
sure that the person I'm referring to meets my standards.
If I'm bringing them someone from my database, right?
Absolutely,
yeah, yeah, you're putting your name on it,
right, and else, yeah, it's coming back to you. So you want
to make sure it's someone that you you trust, and that Exactly,
yeah, absolutely.
Okay. Just a couple of quick questions before
we we wrap up and away from what we were doing. So my favorite
word is curiosity, and I just like to ask you this two part
question. Part one, do you believe curiosity is innate or
learned? And part two, what are you most curious about today?
There's no right or wrong answer. It's just your thoughts
on it.
Yeah, I it's a great word, because I think it,
it fuels growth and it, it reminds me you just, you know
Curiosity, you have a thirst for knowledge and want more. Whether
it's innate or not, is such a such a good question? Question,
I knee jerk wants to say, man, it's so tough. Knee jerk tells
me, no, okay, because and I don't really have a strong I
guess what I'm what I'm trying in my own head to figure out is
when I was a little guy, was I very curious? Because now I am.
I feel like my curiosity now is far greater than I what I
believe it was when I was a younger, younger person. And so
wish my mom was around to validate that. But I do feel
like it is certainly a thing in my, my adult life and
professional life, whatever is, is certainly there. And I'm
totally curious about a lot of stuff. So
curious about right now,
um, I'm curious about the the election here in
the United States, you know, lots, lots going on around that.
I'm curious to see where, where the future kind of takes this
business. It's so new and in its infancy stages that I'm
exciting. Yeah, it's exciting. I'm excited about the
opportunity and and, you know, to just give and help people get
better and businesses get better. We just had a little
one. We introduced a little guy back on September 6. So I'm
curious to know he his hair right now is like a blondish but
maybe a little reddish tint. So my wife and I were just talking
about this, we want to know, like, does he is he going to
have red hair or not? So that's just some kind of fun things
that. So
I was going to say, when it comes to your
thoughts around curiosity, you I can tell you don't have kids
yet, like, you've got a newborn and and it's going to be a while
before you see, you watch. You watch whether, what's his name.
He's a junior, Jason. He's going by Jay,
yeah. See how, see if he's curious, and how
curious he is. Because I'll tell you, it's really interesting
watching children, I think, and I was a teacher, so you can see
it. They're not all the same, but it's just, it's a fun place
to be to think about curiosity. So thank you for your question
on it. Yeah. And last question, sort of two parts too, is what
business advice would you like to leave with my audience? And
then secondly, where can they find you? And I will put it in
the show notes.
Sure. So I would, I would like to leave the the
message that, you know, being different and being memorable is
is so important that sometimes better isn't necessarily better.
Being different can be better and and that, you know, look for
different ways to stand out and and be different. Because that,
again, I think there's some curiosity. I'm
sorry. I'm just I'm laughing because I just
thought of an old, an old, a former president of a company I
used to work for many years ago, and then he retired, and he went
out on his own as an entrepreneur, and he wrote a
book, and the book is called, be different or be dead.
Oh, yeah, right. Pretty bold, yeah, yeah. So,
yeah, you know the and again, I think the personalized videos,
if it's, if it's something that's piqued your interest, you
know, certainly look into it. I think that, you know, I took a
course on it myself to learn how to do it. Shout out to my friend
Matthew Ray Scott, who really taught me how to use these
effectively. But, you know, just and I said it earlier, right?
You have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. You know, comfort
is the enemy of growth. And if you're not happy with where
you're at, then consider looking at doing things a little bit
differently. And that's what I did early on in my career, when
I was trying to get to where I wanted to go professionally. And
I think that any any business or any professional can can adopt
those same tactics and strategies perfect,
and they can find you@build.your.own.brand.com
correct? So, actually, so the website is www,
dot career coach, oh, b, y, O, b.com, as career coach, build
your own brand, not bring your own beer, yeah, I need to make
that clear. Www, dot career coach, byob.com and then
certainly on LinkedIn. I love meeting new people and making
new friends, so feel free to connect with me. My last name,
as Janice said earlier, is Z, Gad low, Z, Y makes me just
about last in every single thing I do. I. So maybe if you type in
Jason's EY, I probably will pop up because I'm probably dead
last in the LinkedIn database. Well, thank
you again, Jason, for being here. You gave some
great food for thought, for people and for people to get out
of their comfort zone. Do a little video show up differently
and not be dead. No, I don't know why I said that anyway,
thank you. Thank you again. And to my audience, if you like what
you heard, please let us know, and remember to stay connected
and be remembered.
Thanks for having me. Thank
you. You're welcome.
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