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#700 - Dog Lover Fetches $250,000 in Canine Clothing

2018-12-01

A Minnesota woman turns her design hobby into trendy duds for the whole family, including furry companions. 

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Where were you seven hundred days ago, seven hundred days ago was January, one twenty contain- and I know where I was- I was debuting beside Us- will school podcast some of our laws? there is actually joined us then, on day wine or shortly thereafter, and have been listening ever You guys are amazing and everybody else who has joined along the way. You're amazing to four seven hundred I've been telling you stories of different people who are not entrepreneurs. We have a ton of money who are taking big risks there, just following a dream: their creating more freedom for themselves, their critics security for themselves. Through the form of an income generating project which may go on to be. Business or maybe it's just gonna- keep bringing them some extra money, which is also really good. That is what it's all about your inside a school, a very different kind of broadcast for anyone who is new and if your new welcome, we have been doing this now for seven under.
Aids right today. Story, I'm excited about it. It features a dog lover who fetches tuna. Fifty thousand dollars in canine clothing for everybody out there with a dog, because of your dog. You do that I am more of a cat person, no notice respect no offense any dog lovers, and I will There was a dog that could fetch money. Maybe I would change my ways I mean I was just figure it out. You know if I had a dog that you just like. Don't get that money till then I'll just keep telling stories of people creating freedom for themselves through a money making project. This Minnesota woman turned her design hobby into trendy duds for the whole family, including furry companions. Tat story is coming right up now. Likes to feel stack, box them or held back, especially by your cloud. It's a problem, but the IBM cloud is different. It's the most open and secure public cloud for business. It can manage all your apps and data anywhere across all your clouds, so it can help
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And shall for coordinated, attire and accessories per puffs and humans. This, and also had a valuable connection. She introduced Gina to the curators of popular dogs of instrument account, which has something like four point: three million followers who also retail pooch apparel and their online store, Their quick requests for inventoried was the final nights, the gene and eat it with one thousand dollars to invest in their side. Venture Gina and her husband, Scott quickly hired a few local seamstresses may stock. The first few hundred dog threads shirts, ranging from extra smallest for your keys, all the way up to a just right, extra large for bigger how catching up. A sales took off Gina quickly, put up a rough website and made her own instagram Account shop, dog threats. Show off new designs embark up demand more than a year internet sales were enough that Gina took the risk and quit her day. Job too, focused entirely on the new business when she turned in her notice China's boss put her nerves into words. Do you have it?
idea how many dog shirts you'd have to sell every day to pay your salary? Will that comment sparked a stubborn determination to put in a hard work. Dog threads New has doubled year after year in China and Scott are projecting total sales of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in twenty eighteen while Gina, is grateful for the warm reception from dog owners. Oliver, the? U S, she credits your success to starting slow in getting the product just right, she's for production would be inexpensive mistake without first regional partnership Tina committed to just dipping her toes in the water. After initial confirmation from those for sales, then she went on to test a number of designs and patterns. She wanted to ass to what our future customers would actually by lot and share a recently Gina Scott brought home a new, less furry family member, their first child zig. They not distant maternity leave of a new business has presented a new challenge. Fortunately, Scott has kept his day job and was able to take advantage of three mindset paternity leave to tighten the demands of their business
maybe has true animal lovers: Gina Scott decided earlier on to donate a portion of profits to second Hand House a Minnesota. Animal rescue thanks to Scots I'm income. They were able to put the remaining profits back into the business, continuing to design, hip sweaters nets and but not for classy dogs and their humans. Of course, This is doing much more than just sustaining itself. These days, it is a prime, a puppy profit centre. Go fetch that money. Well, as I said, seven hundred episodes for seven days when bringing you these stories, do we have any plans to stop, of course, not right to keep rolling along We have an announcement for you very soon about the future of social school. But for now I just want to say Thank you so much for listening so excited so able to bring you? These awesome stories of late provides some inspiration, perhaps also some action. Hopefully it gets you thinking about what you can
you for yourself, my friends, we are living in a new age, a new frontier there's somebody possibilities and opportunities that never existed before only questions are number one. What are you gonna do about it and number two? What are you waiting for and I let the story to internet, thousand dollars this year in dog, threads was taking a look at their instagram account, which has more than Fifty thousand followers- that's actually more followers than I have, but I should know since I have used the internet for a while that I should never be jealous of a dog Instagram rock TAT, Instagram or anything similar, because One of my favorite chat accounts has more than half a million followers, and this is not even a curative account. This is just one cap. It is amazed what that guy can get up to going to show you this video, where he gets in a box and it's like he just kind of structures down in the box. And how did you do that to watch it over and over? Ok, I can tell it it's time for me to wrap it up, because I don't want you to come back room so at seven hundred and one today show notes- are satisfied. School dot com- slash seven hundred about
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