What Is My Brain? by Zlatko Bijelic
Business
Summary
Recently on my podcast, I chatted with Thomas Haynes about how cool word-of-mouth marketing is, why real relationships rock, and how writing can totally boost your business. I was all about how trust and genuine vibes mean more than just chasing followers or engagement tricks. Thomas got into how he’s built brands with smart writing and newsletters. I threw in my two cents on the magic of storytelling and the realness you get from writing that’s totally unfiltered. Both of us love writing to bits—it’s done wonders for our businesses, and we’re even thinking about writing books someday.
In part of our chat, we dove into why it’s key to just start things without overthinking. Confidence and believing in yourself beats waiting for others to clap for you. We also talked about doing your own thing, not just following the usual rules or blueprints. It's about making stuff for you and loving the process, not just eyeing the crowd. Plus, we’re both keen on meeting people who get us, in the real world.
Wrapping up, Thomas and I got into why Twitter is such a great spot for networking and how it stands out from other socials like Instagram and TikTok. It’s all about those real conversations and finding your tribe. We touched on the quality of writing on Twitter too. Ending on a high, we speculated about TikTok’s possible ban in the US and what’s next for Twitter as a go-to for connecting and sharing stuff.
Takeaways
Sound Bites
"Word of mouth and building out that part of it... there's just this human touch that I feel like is unfathomable to anything else."
"Writing is the most powerful and important thing you can do right now in a business."
"Writing, in my opinion, has become this pillar. It surpassed everything else I knew."
"You can't make a mistake. Like nobody's looking at you right now."
"Just be happy with it. Like you don't need to sit here and oh, this person is better or this person is better. Like all that is complete noise that you don't need to worry about at the moment."
"The only way to get that self-belief is putting in the reps and putting stuff out there and trying and failing."
"There's no better app for networking than Twitter."
"Twitter is a written format and the written format works really, really well for people to bring people into an engagement perspective."
"Not everybody can write, you know. And I think there's more quality there than there is, you know, I mean I could post 16 pictures on Instagram today and I probably will get like three comments. But if I post, you know, 16 pieces of content over the week on Twitter, I guarantee you that there's going to be a much more thorough conversation with people."
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Discussion on Recent Soccer Games
10:02 The Power of Writing in Business
26:36 Enjoying the Process and Providing Value
32:48 Taking Action and Trying New Things
44:24 The Power of Community
01:01:43 The Power of Networking on Twitter
01:15:06 The Potential Ban of TikTok
S5 EP3 | Grace Nikae
S5 EP1 | Adi Verma
S4 EP10 | Hayden Cashion
S4 EP9 | Chenell Basilio
S4 EP8 | Justin Wiley
S4 EP7 | Anthony Ridley
S4 EP6 | Louis Shulman
S4 EP5 | Suzanne Huber
S4 EP4 | Angela Hollowell
S4 EP3 | Pia Mailhot-Leichter
S4 EP2 | Nikita Kazhin
S4 EP1 | Chris Boettcher
S3E10 | Chenell Basilio | From Personal Finance to Marketing Mastery
S3E9 | Sohaib Albadawee | From Aviation Engineer To Growth Marketer
S3E8 | Stefany Nieto | Microdosing, Brain Food and Start-Up Stories
S3E7 | Danny Miranda | Reinventing Entrepreneurship Podcasts
S3E6 | Sharif Virani | Building Products With Purpose
S3E5 | Yuxin Zhu | Revolutionizing eComm Empires
S3E4 | Wade Skalsky | From Law To Digital Writing
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