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Jesse Cole

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1089 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And he's like, no, that's the normal way of selling a book.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

What did I do?

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

I bought an entire retail store in Minneapolis, a couple thousand square feet.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And I made my own bookstore just for one book, my own.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And so he had his book, Innovation on Demand, on all different sections, like business and self-help and history.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

He had a sign for Shoplifting's Encouraged.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

He just wanted people to have his book.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

People Magazine, NBC, Fox, CBS, everyone did a story on the one book, bookstore.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And so what that concept is, if everyone's going this way, I'm going to go this way.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And so he has inspired us tremendously and still a good friend to today.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

But even my first book, Find Your Yellow Tux, we did a world book tour at Epcot.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And so we literally went to Epcot and did the world book tour.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

No one gets excited about normal.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

No one comes home and says, honey, I met the most normal person today.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

He was so normal.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

Like we get excited about memorable, remarkable.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

And so whatever the normal things in your industry are,

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

What would be the exact opposite?

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

Start creating that way.

The Best One Yet
๐ŸŒโšพ "Burn the Boring" โ€” Savannah Bananas Co-Founders Jesse & Emily Cole

That's what creates attention.