02:35 It says on your LinkedIn profile that you and your brother run the UK's number one LinkedIn agency, which you can tell us a bit about in a minute. And it also says – and I love this – that I'm a pretty normal guy with a very fast-growing business mainly because of two reasons. One, I realised the opportunity on Linkedin So, I'm excited to talk to you about LinkedIn because I think a lot of business owners know there is a great opportunity on LinkedIn whether they are B2C or B2B which we can talk about as well but they don't know how to capitalise on it.
03:16 So I'm looking forward to getting your insights on that and there's lots that i want to talk about but first do you want to introduce yourself and share a little bit about that journey that has led you, and your agency Noticed, to becoming the UK's number one LinkedIn agency? Yeah, 100%. I'm the CEO of Noticed for the UK's number one LinkedIn agency. Obviously that wasn't always the case. A really quick kind of life story of myself is when i was 19, I got this really unusual opportunity to work at a marketing startup in London and it was unusual because it was a start-up that didn't actually market companies but they marketed people and it was personal branding agency before personal branding was like...I feel like nowadays it's almost Big
04:21 There's two particular clients that I worked with. One had a music startup that was raising money and i watched him raise over 10 million pound in his LinkedIn DMs and I just saw him send these messages back and forth of like VC companies, and he was just like Very free roaming his LinkedIn DMs and raising millions of pounds. And there's another person who was actually an MBE, I saw them make seven figures in their LinkedIn DMs and I was a 19 year old kid probably didn't even have £1,000 in my bank account at the time! And I was watching these kind of transactions take place on the LinkedIn DMS At that time the talk online was all around TikTok Instagram and a little bit of YouTube that had died off. And I sat there watching all this money be made on this platform people saw as a job site
05:04 So very quickly I understand there was a massive opportunity on LinkedIn. And I started talking about what I was learning on LinkedIn as the platform and very soon after someone approached me and virtually offered me my full-time salary just to run their LinkedIn account, so as any good brother would, I called my older brother Morgan I think there's something here, a business here. And he went me too like let's try something and we had nothing to lose at the time you know we were still very young but we came together and said okay let's just say let's post on LinkedIn leave our jobs both had good jobs at the time let's just post on LinkedIn and kind of say this is what was thinking of doing anyone interested so i posted on Linkedin and totally forgot my story what I'd learned so far why wanted it do and from that post