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#203 - Brendan Brosnan & Chris Heckman: Yogaste - Building & Selling to OpenStore in 24 Months

Brendan Brosnan and Chris Heckman are co-founders of Yogaste, which they built and sold to OpenStore after just 2 years. They are serial entrepreneurs who are experts at quickly creating, scaling, and selling online brands.

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#195 - Chaz Zayed & Emmit Flynn, Awful Cloth: Getting Celebs to Authentically Promote Your Brand

Awful Cloth was founded by Chaz Zayed and Emmit Flynn while they were in college at Indiana University and Fordham. Awful Cloth blew up on TikTok after Charli D’Amelio was seen wearing it in several of her videos. Since then Awful Cloth has become an influencer and celebrity favorite and has been worn by Dave Portnoy (Barstool founder), DJ Dillon Francis, Avani Gregg, and Bryce Hall.

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#192 - Keta Burke Williams, Aspen Apothecary: Producing and selling your first 500 units

While Aspen is still in its early days, we’re excited to have Keta Burke-Williams on the pod to discuss the logistics of building a fragrance company. In this episode of DTC pod, you’ll hear Blaine&Ramon talk with Keta about creating a scent, finding a manufacturer, finding her voice when pitching to VCs, optimizing for online and offline sales, being smart with your resources, and tapping into your network.

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#191 - Kristin Toth, Fernish: Amazon OG Takes on Furniture As A Service

We’re thrilled to have Kristin Toth join Blaine & Ramon on DTC Pod where she walks us through her career trajectory and how she narrowed in on supply chain & ops, being an advisor to multiple startups, why building a circular furniture company is challenging, how Fernish strategically launched in two cities to test product-market, and how Fernish has evolved over time.

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[DTC POD Ep. 188] - Emily Miller, OffLimits: Using Web3 to Build A Counter Culture Cereal Brand

Emily Elyse Miller talks to Blaine & Ramon about building OffLimits and how her creative background has informed the brand. OffLimits is also one of the early adopters of Web3, and Emily dives into how they’re currently using NFTs, what excites her about Web3, challenges with Web3, and what other brands need to consider before jumping into this.

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[DTC POD Ep. 172] - Sean Frank: Scaling DTC. How Ridge went from $1M to $100M+

In this episode, CEO Sean Frank explains how Ridge purchased his boutique agency in order to jumpstart its growth. By diversifying in ad strategies and prioritizing content creation, their team is now poised to exceed 80 employees by the end of 2022.

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[DTC POD Ep. 170] - Brandon Blahnik: How DTC Cookware Titan Made In Builds IronClad CX

DTC cookware brand Made In was launched in 2017 as a resource for premium kitchen tools at a fraction of the price. In 2020, while most of the world shut down, their business grew by an astonishing 7x.

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[DTC POD Ep. 169] - Ash Melwani: CMO, Obvi - Secrets To Explosive Customer Growth

Brands are undervaluing one of the best organic channels out there: community. A community can act as the nucleus of your brand because it holds the instructions for your growth.