#165: Digital Marketing Executive Alex Ciccimarro

A Waste Of Time with ItsTheReal

ItsTheReal

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4.8 • 817 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 106 minutes

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This Week on A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, we welcome our great friend and digital marketing guru, Alex Ciccimarro AKA The Bald God, to the Upper West Side! Alex discusses growing up in Brooklyn, his parents' van being stolen on a weekly basis, calling Bad Boy Records as a 10 year old, getting into music management as a teenager, dedicating himself to the idea of working in the record business and simultaneously giving up on high school, going to Full Sail University, passing out fliers at 3am outside clubs in Orlando, Florida, working at a store in Walt Disney World called Once Upon a Toy, and eventually building up a resume through digital marketing relationships with the hip-hop blogging universe. Alex talks about linking up with Al Lindstrom, working his way into Sirius Satellite Radio with Tony Touch and Statik Selektah, hanging out in the studio with Just Blaze, road managing Two-9 around the South, going to Fadia Kader's Broke and Boujee parties in Atlanta, mastering online monetization, and spending his last money to catch a flight back to Brooklyn to do digital marketing for Rich Homie Quan. Alex gets into independence, mentors, working for HotNewHipHop, and his big break with Atlantic Records, where he worked with Gucci, Cardi, Kodak Black, PNB Rock, Meek Mill, Jill Scott and many more before moving to Universal Republic. All that, plus the funniest stories about Ron Browz, Jack's 99 Cent Store, shooting a video with the Dolla Boyz in Philly, and much, much more, including news about his brand new work opportunity, which was announced today! AND TO ALL OF OUR NEW YORKERS, DON'T FORGET: WE'RE PEFORMING LIVE ON WEDNESDAY AT SOB'S, SO GRAB YOUR TICKETS NOW AT ITSTHEREAL.COM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you.
0:03.5	Actually, let's do it again. All right. Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm fucking fantastic. How are you?
0:08.9	I'm fantastic as well, thank you. I was looking at our numbers today, and I don't spend an awful
0:13.9	lot of time looking at our numbers, but I felt like I want to see how our podcast was performing.
0:18.4	And our plays per week. Yeah. We're getting
0:24.3	as many now in one week as it used to take us a month to do. That's crazy. Last year. And our
0:30.9	biggest audience is obviously in New York. Right. Our top three markets, according to SoundCloud, are
0:35.5	the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn.
0:38.4	Shout out to all of them and no shout out to Queens or Staten Island, I guess.
0:43.6	None.
0:44.3	Yeah.
0:44.7	Like, if you're living in Staten Island, do not talk to me.
0:47.7	I am very on board with Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Bronx, though.
0:51.3	Just be clear.
0:52.5	And, you know, there are places in Queens and Staten Island.
0:55.8	Top three only. We're drawing a line. Yes. But I do want to say we wanted to shout out a bunch of people from New York.
1:03.0	We put out a call to everybody on Twitter who wanted a shout out for this episode that we're putting out tonight.
1:07.8	So we said, hey, you want to get shouted out? Pay us $5. We got to make money somehow. And here are the shoutouts to all of our friends who responded. Shout out to Varun Chetty. M.P. Trey, Sierra Raquel, your man, Sean, all of our friends at the world's famous forecast. Shout to Top 2 Lindo on Instagram, Nikki Chulo, who's been bodying your favorite pieces of album art for a while now. Shout out to July 2 Lindo on Instagram. Nicky Chulo, who's been bodying your
1:27.6	favorite pieces of album art for a while now. Shout out to July Diaz says to shout out to the Statue of Liberty. Sure. Shout out to, no, I'm not shining out the Statue of Liberty. I'm shout out July Diaz. Shout out to Jeff Meltz of the culture of me. Shout out to second gunny up there in the Bronx. J.D. Timminsky from Def Jam, Wesley Ring from the Upper East Side.
1:45.0	Oh, fuck the Upper East Side. Shout out to Sky Trilly, who said, awesome purchase ladies are throwing the music networking event on Wednesday that you want to be at. This is not only artists, but also anyone who supports them in business. Come have a drink, make friends, and join in on an open conversation about dreams, goals,
2:00.9	and work that goes into making those dreams of reality. That's at the Spread House Cafe in New York
2:05.0	City. Go check that out. Shout out to Sky Trilly. Also, shout out to Stephen from New Jersey,
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