Lane Gerson and Ariel Nelson started their shoe company, Jack Erwin, when they saw how difficult it was to find a quality men’s dress shoe at a reasonable price point.
“It’s only in the thousand-plus range that brands feel confident enough to go with a classic style,” Nelson told Business Insider. “Everything else tends to be overstylized.”
To solve the problem, Gerson and Nelson found a way to make a high-quality, classic shoe that won’t go out of style or break the bank.

Getting a Foot in the Shoe Business | Lane Gerson and Ariel Nelson | Episode 294

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Beth Buelow (BEE-low), ACC, works with introvert entrepreneurs who want to build sustainable, energetically aligned businesses. She is a professional coach, podcaster, and speaker. Beth is the author the forthcoming The Introvert Entrepreneur: Amplify Your Strengths and Create Success on Your Own Terms, published by Perigee (PEAR-a-gee) Books in November 2015.

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Ryan Levesque, author of the new book Ask is a marketing expert who helped build multi-million dollar businesses in 17 different industries, generating over $100 million dollars in sales in the process.  Today, he and his team offer training, consulting, and implementation services for entrepreneurs and businesses at all levels.

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Nathan is the Publisher & Editor of Foundr Magazine, a digital magazine for young entrepreneurs on the App Store & Google Play store. Nathan launched Foundr in March 2013 from his bedroom and in a small period of time it has become a top 10 ranked 'Business & Investing Magazine' on the app store.

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Rohan Gilkes bought a site on reddit for 4K, partnered with another redditor, and together they spent 2 months completely retooling the business. Rohan followed this up with 3 months of marketing, and they are now less than 30 days away from $100K in revenue.

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Kavit Haria started his first online business in 2005 selling marketing education to musicians. After mistake after mistake, failure after failure, he finally learned to build a thriving online business using intricate and automated sales and marketing funnels that built an email list of over 100,000 musicians and generated over a million dollars in sales per year.
In 2008, he founded Insider Internet Success; his company through which he helps people discover winning, profitable business ideas and sets up automated marketing and sales funnels.  
His flagship program, Automated Business System, helps new online business owners take their idea from inception to launch with his entire team building your entire business for you, and then guiding and marketing you to six figures in your first year, helping you to create the perfect freedom business.
He blogs weekly at InsiderInternetSuccess.com, writes an inspiring daily e-mail to 15,000 business owners daily, and has taught at seminars and conferences in the UK, America and Australia over the last 6 years.
Kavit has a very simple philosophy: Have fun, do exceptional, meaningful work, pay attention to the details, treat people right, tell the truth, have a positive impact on the world around us, give back, and keep learning.

Getting a Foot in the Shoe Business | Lane Gerson and Ariel Nelson | Episode 294

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