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Three Rules

Making Your Ideas Happen

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Self-improvement, Education

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Chu runs a small agency called The Stitch Effect that’s dedicated to social good. And he was one of my oldest client’s, when I was still struggling to start my business while living in my parent’s basement. We talk about why being proactive is the most important skill you can develop today, starting a client-based business and much more.

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0:00.0

80% of it or 90% of it is execution. Everyone has a great idea, but if you can't really ground it

0:06.4

in terms of an execution, it goes nowhere. That's Jerry Chu, and he runs a small independent agency

0:12.0

that's geared towards social good. And he happened to be one of my earliest clients when I was

0:17.2

still living at home in my parents' basement. If you're good at what you do, people are going to talk about it.

0:22.5

We talk about how to get clients by strategically planning cold calls

0:26.4

and why being proactive is the most important skill you can develop today.

0:31.3

If you want to learn something, you've got to do the extra homework

0:34.0

to figure out what it is to be proactive.

0:36.7

This is the ground up show.

0:50.5

So tell me a little bit about some of the work that you've been doing lately, like the past year or so.

0:56.0

So the past year has been an evolution of the last seven years of developing my startup.

1:02.0

Um, because of the market has changed. What I do now is a creative development for companies and brands that have some sort of social good for individuals who need

1:12.9

assistance, whether it's, you know, it's a give-back process. Working for an agency in a past,

1:19.5

it's always about developing brands for for-profit companies. But have I, you know, now that I've

1:24.6

started on my own, I have more leisure time to think about things

1:28.5

that can actually make an impact on people, whether it's empowering them, whether it's giving

1:33.0

back in a funding donation kind of way, or even teaching the new young minds what they can do

1:41.8

with their lives. Yeah, I think that could certainly be difficult working in the agency world where generally

1:48.1

it's not about the greater good and it's more about the bottom line and these companies

1:53.9

all they really care about are profits and clicks and views.

1:58.4

So that's nice.

1:59.6

What are some of the projects and the organizations that you've

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