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What Nobody Tells You About Scaling an Ecom Brand…
It took us almost 3 years at BottleKeeper to find the thing that actually made the business take off.
For the first 6 months, we did $2,000 to $3,000 a month, and that’s exactly where most founders quit.
They believed the timeline social media kept selling them.
Now, I scaled my company BottleKeeper to over $60M in sales with 4 employees over 9 years, ending in an 8-figure private equity exit.
And what I can tell you from doing all of it is that the actual experience looks nothing like what you see founders posting about on LinkedIn.
So I just recorded a video on the unfiltered truth about scaling an ecommerce brand that nobody else on YouTube is talking about.
In it, I cover:
- Why scaling an ecommerce brand takes about 5x longer than you expect, and how to plan for a 10-year journey from the start
- The emotional toll of running a seasonal ecom business that nobody talks about
- Why most of the daily difficulty has nothing to do with your product, marketing, or team
- What separates the founders who make it from the ones who don’t, and why training your body for physically hard things directly trains your brain for harder business challenges