Tommy Griffith used to run SEO for big businesses – 4 years at Airbnb, and before that 2 years at PayPal. Then in 2017 he decided to turn his training side business, ClickMinded, into his main occupation. With projected 2019 revenue of $490k for 10 hours work per week, spending 2018 working on automating the business has clearly paid off!
[Read more…]203: Launching a watch store by focusing on brand and customers with James Reeves of Diefendorff
In today’s episode…we’re exploring what it takes to launch a fashion brand, run a one-person eCommerce business, and play to your strengths.
James Reeves is the CEO at Diefendorff, a watch company inspired by the American Revolution. James launched the brand in January 2018, and are experiencing 20-30% monthly traffic growth.
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180: To 6-figures in year 1 Stephen Wright of Micro Bikes UK GSC, Google Ads, Remarketing, Dropship
Stephen Wright is the founder of Micro Bikes UK – the ultimate one stop shop for performance kids toys. He launched the business in mid-2017 and he is already on track for 6-figures this financial year, currently doing around £10k per month.
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158: Running a physical boutique store alongside Squarespace eCommerce and the Trouva marketplace
I know a lot of you out there are running your own boutique bricks and clicks business – selling out of your own physical store, and also online via your own site and also marketplaces. Taking on the roles of buyer, visual merchandiser, shop assistant, marketer and everything else.
Today we have a guest just like you on to share her wisdom…
Kirsty Patrick is the owner of Home byKirsty, a boutique bricks and clicks business in Cardiff, focused on homeware by leading British and Welsh design makers with a clean contemporary aesthetic. Kirsty launched with the physical store in 2014, and added the website in early 2015.
154: Christine Nicholson explains why and how she closed eCommerce subscription business Divine Legs
Occasionally I have a guest back on the show to update us on how things are going – today we have a repeat guest.
Christine Nicholson of Divine Legs (Tights subscription business) was my guest back in episode 103. Back then the business was 9 months old, and Christine took us through how she’d launched and achieved 100 orders in the first 100 days.
In November 2017 Divine Legs reached 15 months old, and despite continuing to grow Christine made the decision to shut it down.
Never an easy choice to make.
Not least because despite 100s of eCommerce business owners making the same decision every day – we don’t hear as much about it, as we do about the starting or the growing. So I’m super-pleased to have Christine on today to take us through why, and how she made the decision to exit, and her choice of exit, and how she went about closing it down.
147: To 1,000 orders per month in year 1; events, networking, and Instagram. Paws with Opulence
Simone Taylor is founder and CEO of Paws with Opulence, selling handmade luxury dog collars and leads – perfect for the ultra-pampered pooch. They launched in December 2016 with 200 orders in the month, and after just one year of trading have hit the 1,000 order mark!
140: The $1m 1-person company – journalist and author Elaine Pofeldt joins us to explain how to build a huge one-person business
Elaine Pofeldt is a journalist who has contributed to Forbes.com, CNBC, INC, and Money Magazine among others and is the author of the brilliant “[easyazon_link identifier=”039957896X” locale=”UK” tag=”ecommmaste-21″]The Million-Dollar, One-person Business[/easyazon_link]: Make Great Money, Work the way you like, have the life you want”. It’s brand new (published at the start of this month), and all about scaling revenue without scaling staff.
I was introduced to Elaine last year by past podcast guest, funnel genius, and example in the book – Dan Faggella (episode 108), who described Elaine as “one of the coolest “small biz” people I know”.
I know a lot of you are looking to grow your business in a very lean way, not least to avoid the headaches and financial commitment of hiring a team. So when I heard about Elaine’s upcoming book she was an obvious addition to our January Growth Series.
129: Wines with Attitude’s Linsay Cornelissen – mobile apps, customer focus, and increasing customers 20% yoy
Lindsay Cornelissen founded Wines with Attitude in October 2014, a passion project that helped her escape the City London. It’s been a steep learning curve over the last 3 years – and there’s still a lot to learn, but the customer base is growing at a steady 20% year on year.
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127: Licensing, managing B2B resellers, product creation, and the power of outsourcing with Craig Wolfe of Celebriducks
Craig Wolfe is the President at Celebriducks – the world’s number 1 rubber duck manufacturer!
They launched in 1997 and have now sold millions and millions of ducks!. Selling via wholesale and direct to consumer on their website.
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108: Dan Faggella how he grew his business to $2m in 4 years – team management and dashboards!
Over the last four years Dan Faggella built his business Science of Skill to over $2m in annual sales, and sold it for over $1million. Science of Skill is an American online only retailer of self protection products and educational programmes. Today we’ll be discussing (for you!) both balancing physical and virtual products, and how Daniel achieved the huge growth in his business. Spoiler – we’re going to be talking dashboards and discipline!