This YouTube interview clip (Mark Evans DM, Sept 10, 2022) centers on the value of relationship capital in entrepreneurship and social outreach. The unnamed speaker recounts shifting focus from transactional outreach to building relationships after observing Mark Evans’ long, one-on-one "DM family" conversations; Evans emphasizes investing time in people, small supportive interactions (hearts/messages), gratitude for engagement, and the potential for single connections to change lives.
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You know, and something I want to point out, that's. That puzzled me until I got to know you and your mindset and how you think, how you work is, why is he doing this? And then when you told me the other day, maybe it was on your podcast. So Mark has the making of a DM podcast. I was listening to the podcast and you talked about how many conversations that you have going on. And when I was first, you know, blowing up my socials and blowing up my value and trying to add, I was getting inundated and I was aggravated by it. I didn't like it. It felt like an intrusion. And then I think I see you doing this and you talk about how many conversations going on and how many people you're helping. I'm like, dang, if Mark Evans has the time to respond to these people, to engage in conversations, to build these relationships, that's where it's at. I'm missing that part. And when I started to focus on the relationship versus the money, the money flowed and the relationships flowed too. And I feel like you're just the king of that relationship capital, Even I think coined that term. Is that. Is that one of the reasons why you're doing the DM alliances? To build more relationship capital, deeper relationships with more people?
Yeah. I mean, as you know, the DM family is very heavy, right? A lot of one on one communicating. I talked to three, four, five, six guys a day. These are not two minute conversations. They're usually pretty long conversations, which I love. But the thing is, man, you know, we all, we. We're only here for a short amount of time. So I love connecting with people that invest in themselves. I love people that want to grow. Like, to me, that's what I'm put on here for. You know, we're getting all these amazing responses. We get all these texts. You know, we work really hard to get what we want, and then we get annoyed when we get what we want. It's kind of fun, dude. We should be grateful and thankful that we're actually getting responses, having people connect with us. And, you know, the truth is, we built the life that we have. Good or bad, we built this. Your followers are one person away, one deal away, one connection away from drastically changing their life. And it could happen on a pod, it could happen here, podcast, show, but we need to be everywhere, right? So it could be in a simple chat. Maybe they're having a bad day, they message you, you heart it up and give them a quick pop of, you know, conversation. It could change their life, man, Just letting them know people are there for them. It's the best feeling in the world, man, knowing that you're changing people's lives for sure.
