J.J. from Asus

[Syraz]

Surprised he can still talk after last week...

Though really wish he*or asus* change the color of that PCDIY shirt he wears, the color looks like a white tshirt after about 4 years of use

[Briggsy]

This topic and whom it is about the one and only JJ.....@Botasky......

the highest of fives.gif

 

[Real_PhillBert]

JJ or Josh from Fractal?!?

Fractal Josh is certainly good, but not in the same league as JJ. Your opinions may vary.

[ASUSTECHMKT]

That poor guy.

 

Every time a generation moves, a product is released, technology advances or a convention is held, ASUS is all over it. But I do NOT blame them! It is their business after all.

 

It is just that, when it does happen, who do they send?

 

J.J.

 

This guy works his butt off series after series (and in this case the x99 platform) becoming familiar with all the hardware, the main marketing points, crafts and memorizes both 'elevator speeches' and 20-minute in-depth scrutinizations of the product, and travels everywhere to do it.

 

The grueling part is that he does these overviews of ALL of the products in the new line with a WHOLE BUNCH of people, especially YouTubers. But just to be stating the same thing about the same products over and over and over and over

 

Now don't get me wrong I'm not here to bash anyone. It is ASUS's job to get the word out, and it is J.J.'s job to do that for them. You need to make a living, right? I understand that.

 

Serious kudos to J.J. though. I see this every time and I commend him on his efforts and wish I could thank him personally. I just want him to know that his efforts do not go unnoticed!

 

 

 

I would like to extend my sincere thanks both personally and professionally. I have recently celebrated my 6th year working for ASUS and what has continued to drive my passion, interest, excitement and engagement both internally and externally has been the PCDIY community as a whole and individuals like yourself. This industry can be very difficult to work in and has a high degree of burn out and turn over especially for those who are not passionate about it. At the same time it also has the tendency to have many individuals who far to often know too little or not enough about the products or the community or the individuals their products are targeted towards. This in turn for a long time ( rightfully so ) created a disconnect between marketing and users and the community. As enthusiasts we are looking to be respected and provide quality information and explanation along with products and designs that can at the end of the day "back it up" and work.

 

I do not come from a marketing background actually the opposite. I come from system integration, diagnostic and repair and private consultation. At heart I am an enthusiast and proud to be one. I am extremely to work for a company and management team who realized the value in allowing me to present and discuss our products in a factual, accurate way from the perspective of a user and the perspective of an enthusiast. More importantly it allowed me to provide important information to help understand the features, functionality and design of products while at the same time providing a deeper understanding to aspects of architecture, platform and more. Also I am happy to say a lot of the work and time and effort put into by our RD team was able to be put out in front a lot more than it used to. This has been a personal achievement i am very proud of as some of these guys like myself puts in 15 to 20 hours days at times for month to month and sometimes much much longer. I have been really blown away by the caliber and quality of people I have met and has pushed me to continue to have a sense of humility and curiosity and passion to engage in those and strive to learn. My life motto is I will never know as much as I do not know. I am thankful for this motto especially in this industry and I will always have more to learn and experience.

 

With that in mind this it helped me reach the mindset, that the best content I could produce or we could produce is content I would be interested and willing to read or watch. This comes not only from wanting to know more but also it comes from respecting our users and ourselves. While it can be a lot of work it is extremely rewarding to have such vocal feedback on the products we design and innovate especially when they integrate and improve upon the feedback we collect from the community. From day one to know and even when I was working with technical media as point of contact for reviews I always felt we should be implementing and design features, functionality based on the needs and wants of our users and the community rough 70 to 80% and then 30 to 20% should be our own innovation pushing the envelope on items people have not yet though of. It has been gratifying to see this come to light and be able to discuss this with reviewers and users alike.

 

It is humbling in more ways than one to have such positive commentary from the community and our users and I take it as a point of pride as well as sense of duty to use my position to continue to help push our product and our company to provide the best PCDIY experiences for users and the community as whole. While it may be difficult or not always clear our push forward and messaging has caused competitors to copy or imitate many of what we innovate on. While this can sting it also is clear it has benefited the community as a whole helping to have competitors produce better products with better features and forcing us to out innovate ourselves and those same competitors.

 

I am glad to say that still after all this time there is a lot left to be done and I am still excited to do it. Now more than ever users who are in the PCDIY space are here because they chose to be. This is an awesome time to be in this space and products have never been better and the communities have never been richer, more active, more vocal as well as extremely diverse. I look forward to continuing to try and provide you guys with what support and insight I can provide while helping our amazing internal team to keep doing what we have been doing.

 

In short THANK YOU.

 

As always please enjoy the rest of your day! Take care and take it easy and love live PCDIY!

 

Best Regards,

JJ

[ASUSTECHMKT]

Surprised he can still talk after last week...

Though really wish he*or asus* change the color of that PCDIY shirt he wears, the color looks like a white tshirt after about 4 years of use

 

I actually agree. No worries though soon I will be unveiling some very cool limited edition PCDIY shirts designed in house that are really awesome. I will not only sport them but they will exclusives to member of the PCDIY community who earn cred and recognition in interesting ways. If you check out the PCDIY website later this month I will be posting about it there.

[Syraz]

I actually agree. No worries though soon I will be unveiling some very cool limited edition PCDIY shirts designed in house that are really awesome. I will not only sport them but they will exclusives to member of the PCDIY community who earn cred and recognition in interesting ways. If you check out the PCDIY website later this month I will be posting about it there.

 

Awesome, Logo needs to stay the same because it fits well...Or go all geek out and have ASUS PCDIY in Gallifreyan like this 

[Jumper118]

for some reason i find him annoying. im not sure why but i just dont like much at all.

[mr moose]

for some reason i find him annoying. im not sure why but i just dont like much at all.

 

It's probably just because he's a PR/marketing man.  There are many well spoken and knowledgeable people who draw my suspicions solely because they are PR, e.g Josh, Richard Huddy, and Tom peterson.

[Sintezza]

JJ is realy a great guy.

 

He allways speaks with so much passion about theire new products.

And allways all the technical details that i wanne know.

 

Thats one of the reasons why im a bit on the Asus side wenn it comes to mobo´s. lol.

 

[Guest]

Maybe I'm a dick but I only know him from when he started interviews at Tek Syndicate and I know they were interviews but he sounded a little self-absorbed to me.

 

But I am  99% it's me being weird or not paying attention to the things said.

[Norman_the_Owl]

I still like Jacob from EVGA better

[Sintezza]

Maybe I'm a dick but I only know him from when he started interviews at Tek Syndicate and I know they were interviews but he sounded a little self-absorbed to me.

 

But I am  99% it's me being weird or not paying attention to the things said.

 

they did a live stream at the Tek with the Z97 launch that was great.

We could ask our own questions. that was kinda cool.

 

[MPX309]

That's his job, he probably loves what he does. I think anyone would be lucky to be in his position.

[razor767]

JJ seems to be appearing on just about every tech youtube channel to promote the new X99 boards, I don't know how he does it. 

[Earache]

JJ Is great and you can tell how passionate he is when he discusses their products. That's why he gets paid the big bucks.

[murratri]

JJ and Josh are pillars of the community and are known to be knighted by GabeN so I most love them like cousins

[zombiepixel]

i think he is annoying. srry if i offended anyone 

[Benbinbeen]

I like JJ because he not only is a good rep for Asus, he genuinely knows what he is talking about instead of being a talking head and spouting off from a press release.

[district_11]

he say's 'go ahead' too much

[xentric]

JJ is one of the many reason I buy Asus motherboards and recommend them.

[Recon97]

JJ for life man.For life!

[LinusTech]

JJ is a good guy. Always has time for my questions, but more importantly always has time for yours and he addresses them as honestly as I think any company representative could.

Wish I could type more about how awesome he is but on my phone and it's not the fastest experience...

[Razzy_85]

JJ is a good guy. Always has time for my questions, but more importantly always has time for yours and he addresses them as honestly as I think any company representative could.

Wish I could type more about how awesome he is but on my phone and it's not the fastest experience...

Is it an asus phone