Digital Chatter Episode #005: Camron Bodily

Eric: Hello everyone and welcome to Digital Chatter. My name is Eric Sharpe and today I'm here with Camron Bodily. Camron say hi to everyone.

Camron: Hey everyone. My name is Camron from The Bodily Works. Good to be here.

Eric: Well, I'm glad to have you on Camron. Especially because you and I are actually very similar people, and we'll get into that here. So Camron is a tech entrepreneur. In fact he is working from his home office today. And Camron is a father, and a proud father, that he was just holding his baby while we were preparing for all of this. Camron you have been in the tech industry for many years and you help individuals in their home offices. You also work in brick and mortar businesses. I want you to tell everyone a little bit about what you do and how you got started.

Camron: That's a great question. I will try to keep that short and sweet. So I actually have a pretty diverse background. Where I actually started was, I started getting into sales. And the whole reason I actually got into sales originally was I have what's called Asperger's. That's that just means it's kind of like Autism and ADHD, and a lot of people can't tell that, but I get distracted very easily and I multitask out the yingyang. And so to try to overcome that, medication use made things a lot worse for me. And so I forced myself into outside my comfort zone into sales, and a lot of the sales I did is because I was so good with technology, computers, and so forth that I focused on selling those types of products. Whether software as a solution, managed tech support, all these different companies.

Camron: I eventually migrated to a role where I was a sales engineer, which meant that I was responsible for making sure that the sales and the techs communicated together. The sales didn't always know what the techs needed to sell or could sell or fix. And then the techs didn't know exactly what the sales guys had sold. And so there was a very very clash there from communication that would lead to very upsets clients. Eventually I just got to the point where it's like why am I not doing this myself because I was losing commissions because techs weren't repairing things properly too because either they didn't have the proper training, they were just basically standard. The company that I was working for that time had the mentality that every 15 year old knows how to run a computer and yes they do to a point.

Eric: Yeah exactly right, to a point.

Camron: But it just wasn't proper. It wasn't from my service level standard. And so I quickly migrated into white label services which meant that companies like Best Buy or Geek Squad, Samsung, IBM, HP, Dell, all of those companies started calling me and saying hey we had a client in this area that either we have broken stuff or we have a shortage. We don't have the ability to take care of it. Can you go out there and take care of it. And so we throw on their shirts representing them and say... Hi my name's Cameron I'm with whatever and took care of it. The problem with that is we established no name for ourselves.

Eric: It's a great job and when you wear shirts for other people you know you're building their business.

Camron: Yeah exactly. In that part of that is still our business and that's where we're known for doing good work and helping other people. We know that like our clients know if they contract us we're not going to step on their toes or their contracts. We're going to make them look good. And that provides stability for our techs for when we're short and don't have our direct clients to work with. So that's kind of our model right now is where we will handle everything from the ground up. So we go into a store, we just finished PetCo,