Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference.

This is Anika Jackson with your brand Amplified and I am super excited to have

somebody or how to say one of my people before we got on on the show we're both Asian in

some regard or other so I love that I love seeing successful people in this space

particularly because I don't think there's a lot of us in the US that can

show up like this so Jason Bisico busy your company thank you for being

here hey thank you for having me.

Yeah.

So you have been in digital marketing for quite a while and now you have changed course a little bit.

So I'd love for you to talk about your background, what you were doing, and then the pivot that you took.

Yeah for sure I always wanted to get into marketing so the very beginning that's funny

so back when I was like 18-19 I knew already then that I wanted to get into marketing but no one was gonna take me seriously with no experience and also being young.

They're like, oh, no, kid, like,

give it a couple of years, right?

I got that.

So I was just like, well, what company would it take someone

for free if they were willing to work like crazy?

Right, right.

So actually my first bit of work experience, I worked full-time 1819 at this agency and even back then when it wasn't usual to do remote work

I worked for them remotely so actually almost my whole career was remote but I worked for them for free

and my gig was this you teach me how to do this stuff

I'll repair you for free and so I did that for five months before I ever started

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