Digital Social Hour
How The Secret Networking Strategies Behind My Success | Markley Medina DSH #888
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Discover the secret networking strategies behind Sean Kelly's success as he chats with Markley from Pullup VIP on the Digital Social Hour podcast! 🚀 Packed with valuable insights, this episode delves into Markley's incredible journey from an Uber driver to creating unforgettable rides for A-list celebrities like Drake and Jake Paul. 🌟 Join the conversation as they explore how Markley's innovative approach to customer experience and relentless determination changed the game. 🎉 Tune in now and immerse yourself in stories of passion, creativity, and the power of attraction. 📚 Markley shares how books like The Law of Attraction and Brian Tracy's No Excuses transformed his mindset, leading him to conquer the ride service industry. Don't miss out—this podcast is a must-watch for anyone aspiring to turn dreams into reality. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets from the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories and tips. 🌟 #mindsetmentor #businesscoach #howtonetworktherightway #rideshareprofessor #strategicnetworkingforsuccess CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:33 - How Markley Met Sean 18:55 - Importance of Reputation 20:01 - Life-Changing Books 21:54 - Mark's Encounter with FoodGod 25:40 - Mark: #1 Uber Driver in the World 27:55 - Driving to a Haunted House 28:50 - Booking a Ride with Mark 29:00 - Mark's New Business: Pull Up VIP 30:10 - Shoutout to Coco Love APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Markley Medina https://www.instagram.com/mrcocolove/ https://www.instagram.com/cocolovewater/ https://www.cocolovewater.com/ SPONSORS: BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: How did Markley meet Sean Kelly?
two books really changed my life one of them was the law of attraction once i learned that everything had a frequency and i can control my own frequency i started to eliminate negative thoughts from my mind and change the way i thought get anything i ever wanted i have to put the action and by reading another book by brian tracy called no excuses taught me that if it's meant to be it is up to me
All right, guys. Got someone I've known for a long time here, Mark Lee from Pull Up VIP. First podcast too, right? Yeah, first podcast.
Chapter 2: What life-changing books influenced Markley's success?
Damn, breaking their virginity. Yeah. I'm sure you get asked to go on them all the time. All the time, but I wanted to start it off with you. Love it, man. I appreciate that. You're someone I've known for, what, eight years now? Yeah, eight years. I think you were the first driver I've ever booked. Really? Yeah. That's amazing.
Yeah, and back then I was broke, dude, so I appreciate you hooking it up back then, you know? Yeah, man. I'm just glad, you know, I remember you just like, yo, can I make you a jersey? That was my classic line, dude. That's how I got in the door back then.
Bro. Yeah, bro. Take me a leopard jersey. Sure. Let's go. I had just seen you made one for Supreme Patty. Yeah. And that's how we met. Right. Yeah. Patty. Yeah.
Yeah. He was he was living out here back then. Yeah. Yeah. He was big, big at the time doing the lemon thing. Yeah. Do you remember back in the day that Nelk Boys used to live at that house? Which one? The one on the Harbor Islands over here where you think you were there with me. Was I? Yeah. It was probably a while ago. I don't even remember. Yeah. That's when they were first starting off.
Chapter 3: How did Markley become the #1 Uber driver?
Damn. Yeah. They've come a long way. You were around in that circle. Yeah, no, all those kids. It's cool to see where everyone's ended up now. Yeah. Well, a lot of them fell off, and then there's some that are still around now, but it's cool to see the trajectories everyone went. Yeah, absolutely. And I think when I went in your car, I was with Jet Set Fly. Who's that?
Exactly my point. Just fly? Jet set fly. Oh, I don't even know. That's funny. Is he big now? No. That's what I'm saying. There's two different trajectories. Some people take off and then some people kind of fall off. Yeah. But I'd love to learn how you got started with the ride service industry. Uber. Uber. You started off as a regular Uber driver?
I was starting off with an electric skateboard company back in the day. And I was already connected with a lot of people because I started off back in the day learning about social media. And I started to work a few big people. And along the way, I ended up meeting this electric skateboard company. They were just starting off.
and I wanted to help them out with their social media, and I was connected to a few big people, so I was like, all right, I'll fly with you to L.A. We went to a Flo Rida party. At this Flo Rida party, I ended up meeting Jake Paul there, and he fell in love with the skateboards. At the time, I didn't even know who Jake Paul was, you know, and I'm at this crazy NASCAR party full of celebrities,
And I was like, hey, if you guys know any celebrities in town, I would love to come bring them a skateboard and let them try it out. And I was there and he's like, I'm a celebrity. And then Jake Paul, he at the time, he had like a million followers on Vine at the time. And I went and met up with him. We started riding skateboards around. He fell in love with the product.
And we became best friends. Wow. And it's great to see, you know, all these people that you meet at an early age, you know, just become superstars. Yeah. He's crushing it now. He's crushing it. And it's amazing, you know, all these friends that we made.
along the way um became superstars now and you know if you don't know them back then you can't get to them no you're not getting it now yeah it's so funny looking back like just so innocent not even even you you're you're big time now you know it's 11 million followers on social media now if you don't know sean kelly from back in a day it's hard to get a hold of them because how are you going to compete with 11 million people sending you a message you
yeah they get buried well it's mainly just because like so many people hit me up now that it's like i kind of have to be closed off in a way yeah you know because i'll just get like used or scammed or whatever exactly a lot of people are messaging me now and you don't know like they have a verified blue check mark and they're like trying to they're starting off with like a hey and then they're like trying to sell me something or like classic like uh can i help you with your social media
Yeah, I get those all the time. The giveaways or like growth or making shorts. I get making shorts every day. But I just started off. I was in L.A. I was my skateboard broke down. I was pushing the skateboards. I was in love with the product. I started riding electric skateboards through L.A., introducing celebrities to it.
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Chapter 4: What unique experiences did Markley create for his passengers?
I put my mom's car on there, and I started driving Uber. And my first week, I made 500 bucks. Wow. And to me, that was like, whoa, because I had a salary with an electric skateboard company, and I had to wake every two weeks to get paid. So that week that I didn't get paid, I drove Uber, and I made 500 bucks right away, only working three days. And I was like, what the fuck? This is crazy.
It was like... you know, like that moment. And, uh, I immediately went even harder. Every time I leave work, I'd go work, drive through the night. And my next week I made $1,200 on Uber. And I told the electric skateboard company, I'm like, Hey, you know, I think I'm going to have to do something different because this Uber thing is paying off pretty good. And, uh, Everything I do, I go 100%.
And literally, I just started driving Uber, stacking up my money, and it was time to go to another level. And I convinced my mom to go with me to a dealership and buy me a Suburban and put it on her name, and I would make the payment because I didn't have good credit. How old were you? I was in my 20s. I don't know exactly, but it was like 10 years, like 10, 12 years ago. And I think it was 2013.
Okay. So I was probably around 25, 26, I think. And... it just really changed my life. Knowing that I can go out every single day and control my own hours and make as much money as I want gave me the freedom to really change my life. And given the opportunity, I just go at 100%. And as I started to drive Uber, I realized that I was really good at communication with people.
I was really good at talking to people, getting in my car, then instantly I would... Get comfortable. Get comfortable with them. And along the way, I wanted to make my car different. I heard that sometimes if you only do something 10% different, like a restaurant or something, you can really just... Changed the whole game. And I really went at it 100%.
First, I started off with putting some LEDs in my car. And then the LEDs, I wanted to put more. I created my own LEDs, and I put it in the pockets of the bottles. So the bottles would light up in different colors. Then I put LEDs under the pockets. Then I changed the light in the ceiling. I put blue lights, so it would be like black light inside the car. Then I put like...
I bought some neon glasses and I had everybody in the car wear the neon glasses. Next thing you know, I wanted to do the sound system in the car. The next thing you know, I went to a T-Pain party, not knowing that I was going to a T-Pain party, but it was an Xbox party. I show up there with my friend Patrick, and not knowing what it was, I just walked right in. There's like Xboxes everywhere.
I see T-Pain. I go up and introduce myself. I told him about what I do. Told him I want to take him for a ride. Next thing you know, I'm filming a video. He's like, hey, I'm going for a ride next. And this guy overhears it and he's like, can I go for a ride too? And I'm like, yeah, sure. So I take him for a ride. I show him my car and he's like, hey, I want to gift you with something.
He goes over and gets me a gift. I unwrap it. It's a brand new Xbox. Wow. And he's like, my name is Aaron Greenberg. I am the GM of Xbox. Holy crap. And it was just like, whoa. Those are hard to get these days.
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Chapter 5: How did Markley turn his Uber into an entertainment experience?
And I was like, wow, you know, this Xbox is probably worth a lot of money, but I'm not a type of person that just takes something, right? I want to add value because I think that's the most key thing to life is learning how you can add value. So what I did, I went to the drawing board. I got my friend Zach, who was an inventor. I'm like, Zach, listen, I have this crazy idea.
I need you to help me figure out how to make this happen. Shout out to Zach on that. The genius inventor here in Fort Lauderdale. And I actually lived with him. He was an important part in my success. Nice.
So Zach was this crazy, like, he looks like Jesus. I was living in his house. He has a pet lemur. He has a zombie apocalypse car. This guy's different. And I'm like, Zach, I need you to help me invent how to put a TV here and here so I can make this Xbox experience happen. So I went into Best Buy. I found the biggest TV I can find. It was a 24-inch TV. And I put each one behind the headrest.
And Zach came up with the zip tie system that went into the four screws there and zip tied it to the headrest. And we made two TVs on each side that were 24 inch. And it really changed the whole experience. Yeah. Now I created a video and I sent it over to Aaron Greenberg from Xbox and he posted me to 10 million people on Xbox Twitter account. Damn.
So that kind of started the relationship with Aaron and Xbox. Full circle moment. And just talk about being at the right place at the right time, getting an opportunity to get an Xbox and putting it in your Uber car, which I've never seen that before, and just creating an Xbox experience out of my car.
And that really, after that Xbox and those TVs in my car, it led into me creating my own systems in the car that would communicate with the passengers and also allow them to play YouTube videos.
dude you must have had five star reviews on you on uber you must have been the most highly reviewed i wanted 10 stars five stars wasn't enough because i was gonna engage you on so many different levels from sight see i even created my own um juice that i would put into the fog machine yeah that would give you would taste the chocolate in the air
It's like those Vegas casinos that put scents in the air. Yeah. You had that in the car. Yeah. I got like some organic ones that my friends helped me find from Whole Foods. And I would mix it inside. We even created our own smoke juice that was organic. Wow. My friend Zach. Yeah. So it was easy to breathe in. Dude, you went all out.
Bro. All out is not even the word. You know what I'm saying? Because if you go through my Instagram, Sean, like you've seen it over time, you can track the progress. It's not. It's not like luck is I envisioned it in my mind and little by little, I upgraded and upgraded. And each time somebody is like, yo, you can't make your car better. And I was like, boom, I made it better. It leveled up.
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Chapter 6: Who are some celebrities that Markley has driven?
Um... Okay, so the biggest one that is well-known is Drake. He promoted me. He loved my experience in the car, and he did a full karaoke experience in my car and paid me. That's awesome. He gave me a $100 tip at the end. He's like, yeah, this is for you. But it was... It was just the fact that like the first time I met him, I was actually at his album release party.
I was driving this girl named Yes Jules. And Yes Jules at the time, she was one of the biggest Snapchatters in the world next to DJ Khaled and Dr. Miami out here. So she was kind of on my radar that I wanted to build a relationship with her. And over time, we became really good friends. And I ended up driving her to Drake's album release party.
Every single event that she had, I was driving her around and became really good friends. And I had her in the back seat of my car. And all of a sudden, we pulled up a little early. And all of a sudden I see police and things shutting down. I'm like, what the heck? It's the president pulling up. And it was Drake. He literally, Sean, pulls up like the president.
He has five or six escalades, ten motorcycle cops. It's like the craziest thing. You think that the president is really pulling up. They're closing down streets and... He pulls up the first car. He rolls down the window, and he walks straight up to my window and leans on the side of my window. And he's like, bro, this is amazing. And then I was like, hey, man, thank you.
He's like, hey, I've been watching you. Keep up the good work. Wow. So he already knew you. I guess. That's awesome.
And he comes up and he says hello. And I'm like, bro, I'd love to drive you one day. And he walks away. And I'm like, I don't even know if I can even get into this party. Like, he knows me now. Maybe I can get in. And then I texted Jules. I'm like, you saw what happened. Like, he knows who I am. Maybe I can get in. She's like, yeah, I'm going to talk to his manager.
Next thing you know, they come out, grab me. I'm inside hanging out with his dad. And like two months later... He ends up going... He had two concerts that were sold out here in Miami. Yeah. He goes to the top restaurants, Swan in Miami, and I... Somebody told me, he's like, yo, Drake's inside. And I was like, wow, really? He's like, yeah, he's inside with DJ Khaled.
And I was like, wow, it's amazing. So I had some clients in between. So I went and I took the clients and I came back. I saw that Khaled's car was still outside. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to post up here. I'm going to set up the red carpet. I'm going to show Khaled my car, put on the vibes, put on the red carpet, have Khaled's music blasting.
And when Khaled walks out, I'm going to give him the experience and give him something to post about. I look around, and Khaled's already in his car, and he took off. But I look across the street, and there's Drake. So I immediately switched gears. I played sicko mode. And all of a sudden, Drake looks at me. And he's like, what the fuck? He's like... So I immediately got to walk over him.
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Chapter 7: What networking strategies led to Markley's success?
Okay. It might have been crypto. Might have been crypto week or something. Crypto week, yeah. Okay. But still, dude, no, you're the same. We're always running into each other and each time we're on new levels. Yeah. No, it's important that you said that because in Miami there's a lot of scammers and people don't care about their reputation. Yeah. But it's important. Yeah.
You know? But out here, dude, there's some weird scams. Do you read any books? I'm more of an audiobook guy. Yeah, me too. And podcaster, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why? What books are...
So I want to say like two books really changed my life was one of them was The Law of Attraction. Because it was learning. that I have the power to attract anything I want into my life. And learning that everything in life revolves off of attraction. And I can go and attract anything into my life. Learning that everything has a frequency.
Once I learned that everything had a frequency and I can control my own frequency, I started to eliminate negative thoughts from my mind and change the way I thought. So every thought had to be a positive thought. I eliminated negative thoughts and... What I learned was that was only one secret to it.
Learning about the frequency was one thing, but learning that in order to get anything I ever wanted, I have to put the action behind it because nothing will be given to me. And by reading another book by Brian Tracy, called No Excuses, taught me that if it's meant to be, it is up to me. And the moment I started to realize that if it's meant to be, it's up to me, I have to go get it.
I have to go attract it. I have to go do it. If I don't put in this work, it will not happen. So even if I go broke, I got to go do it. I got to complete something. And even if I don't complete it, at least I'll be one step closer to my dreams. And that always leveled me up, leveled me up. I love that, dude.
To the point where I had become the top driver. I had Drake talking about me. I had. I drove Kim Kardashian's best friend, Food God. Oh. He became a really close friend of mine. Nice. I met him through this guy called Murder Murphy. I know Murder. So I met him through Murder. And Murder was kind of his manager at the time.
And he was like, listen, I'm going to connect you with my guy, Jonathan, Food God. And I want you to meet him. And I'm... I couldn't meet up with him when I wanted to meet him, but I met up with him. He had broken his phone, and he was at the Apple store in Brickell fixing his phone. And I went and I met him underground in a parking garage where nobody would bother him, and we can do our video.
I rolled out the red carpet. filmed the video and like a month later he posted it. But when he posted it, he was at dinner with Kim Kardashian in Miami. And it was like two chains wedding. And there was like a big media thing in Miami. He, I didn't know what was going on because I was filming some stuff with Supreme Patty, but everybody started blowing up my phone.
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