Disrupting Tradition: How Jesse Cole & the Savannah Bananas Changed Baseball- A Blueprint for Escapees

The Corporate Escapee: On a Mission to Help 100,000 GenXers Escape the 9-5!

Today, we have a very unique guest, Jesse Cole is the owner of the baseball team, Savannah Bananas. And I believe he has the blueprint for Escapees (& businesses) to stand out and separate themselves from the crowd.

When different is better than better, you want to make sure you are highlighting what makes you YOU.

Get to know this passionate entrepreneur and learn what it takes for your startup to stand out.

We’ll talk about:

1. How Jesse is changing baseball through differentiation [01:12]
2. Constraints force creativity, but you learn by doing [05:19]
3. The blueprint for becoming the ONLY [08:10]
   • Own the problems [08:37]
   • Create Noise [09:26]
   • The 3 Loves [09:55]
   • Why do you do what you do [10:53]
   
   
4. Different is better than better [14:01]
5. Make sure you develop raving fans [17:01]
   • Why you should create the ‘Wow’ factor [19:41]
   
   
6. Focus on what you can control [24:43]
7. What else Jesse is thinking about next [26:58]
8. You have to keep pushing forward & do new things [29:40]
9. Set aside time to think about the future [30:45]
10. The one thing Jesse recommends [33:24]

Resource Links:
The Savannah Bananas Website (https://thesavannahbananas.com/)

About Our Guest:

Jesse Cole owns the baseball team, Savannah Bananas, which has currently sold out 32 straight games and has a waitlist in the thousands for tickets.

Jesse is also the author of "Find Your Yellow Tux - How to Be Successful by Standing Out,” and the host of the Business Done Differently Podcast.

Jesse believes to be successful you need to Stand Out and Be Different. He is passionate about creating attention, loving your customers more than your product, and loving your employees more than your customers.

Get in touch with Jesse through his LinkedIn.

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