Sell Yourself Without Selling Out with Marc Ecko
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2017
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Marc is a creative entrepreneur who’s probably best known as the founder of the apparel brand Ecko, which began in his parents’ garage and eventually grew into the largest brand in streetwear with a global footprint and over $1 billion in revenue. He’s also the author of Unlabeled: Selling Yourself Without Selling Out - the book we discuss in this episode - the creator of a video game called “Getting Up” and the founder of Complex Media.
Today on the podcast,
* Some super-actionable tactics for promoting your work - one that I really love is Marc’s concept of a “swag bomb,” which is a package that you deliver to someone to get their attention- for example when he’d send some Ecko gear to rappers.
* Why the biggest barrier to success is - for most people - a self-imposed one: fear. Specifically, the fear of public or peer ridicule.
* The power of humble beginnings. There’s this idea that you have to have best-in-class tools from the jump in order to get your start and frankly, that’s complete bs.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, fans, collaborators, buddies, homies, however you think about yourself in my world, I think about you as my friends. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Chase Jarvis. |
| 0:14.4 | I want to welcome you to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:18.5 | This show is where I sit down with the world's top creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought |
| 0:22.6 | leaders, and I do everything in my power over the course of the next, I would say, hour, |
| 0:27.1 | oh, that's a rhyme, to unpack actionable and valuable insights to help you live your dreams |
| 0:31.9 | and career, in hobby, and in life. |
| 0:34.7 | If you've been following my social feeds lately, you'll know that I've done a couple posts |
| 0:38.8 | on a couple of different platforms, |
| 0:40.0 | specifically leaning into authenticity. |
| 0:43.7 | That word, it's so easy to throw that word around, |
| 0:46.0 | but so hard to tap into. |
| 0:48.0 | So I thought that made me think about this conversation |
| 0:51.9 | that I had a couple years ago |
| 0:53.4 | with a good friend of mine named Mark Echo. |
| 0:56.0 | You know Mark's work. Mark is a creative entrepreneur. |
| 1:00.0 | He's probably best known as they founded the apparel brand Echo. |
| 1:04.0 | Started off as a t-shirt airbrusher in his mom's garage. |
| 1:09.0 | Eventually grew that into one of the largest streetwear brands in the |
| 1:13.9 | world with a global footprint over a billion in revenue. You also may have seen this viral video |
| 1:18.5 | that he did of him tagging the Air Force One plane. If you don't know what I'm talking about, |
| 1:24.6 | look that up. He talks about that in this episode. And most |
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