AS 48: Chad Rubin built an 8 Million Dollar/Year Revenue Empire from Crucial Vacuum, Crucial Air and Crucial Coffee

Chad Rubin comes on the show today! He started Crucial Vacuum in 2008. Crucial Vacuum along with his new brands, Crucial Air and Crucial Coffee reached a revenue growth of over $8M in 2015. In 2013, he co-founded Skubana, an all-in-one intelligent e-commerce platform.

What you'll learn:

* Chad Rubin's empire growth from start

* Brand strategies Chad uses

* E-eCommerce channels Brad leverages

* Website deployment strategies

* Customizing your e-Commerce store  for success

* How Walmart & Jet affect the eco-system

* How to always be one step ahead

* How Chad switched from

* Work life balances

* How to build products that solve problems

* Lessons Chad has learned throughout the way

* Warehouse vs. Office strategy

* Product validation testing

* Automation and scaling of his business

* To-do lists

* Morning routines that Chad uses

* Foundation businesses

* -Product Research

* Fulfillment

* Sourcing & Manufacturing

* Managing Sales Channels

* Social Media & Marketing

Contact Chad:

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David Aladdin:            Great to have you on the show Chad. Let’s go to the beginning of Chad Rubin before the empire became what it is today. What year did it begin and how?

Chad Rubin:     Sure and thanks for having me on the show. Hi everybody on Periscope and everyone that’s listening in. My journey really began my parents were entrepreneurs in their own right with a vacuum cleaner store as I was growing up. They were really doing not so great, Walmart showed up not so far from where they were and the dynamics of purchasing changed. I never wanted to actually own my own business, so I decided to go onto Wall Street because I saw them struggle and making ends meet or not making ends meet. I decided to go onto Wall Street and I started covering internet stocks, giving advice to hedge funds, investors to buy, sell or short various stocks like bank rate, or Amazon or eBay. I said to my parents; “you guys need to be really getting on the internet.” They never did. I decided to start a direct consumer business.

David Aladdin:            I feel like I’d have done the same. My parents are old school.

Chad Rubin:     For sure. I started directing consumer business and then I subsequently have started Skubana which is a software business.  I’ve been really moving focusing really solely my life on eCommerce.

David Aladdin:            What year did you jump into Wall Street?

Chad Rubin:     Wall Street, I graduated college. I’m dating myself right now.

David Aladdin:            That’s good we like to build a time-line see how things progressed.

Chad Rubin:     Sure, 2006 which the market was booming. I started on Wall Street, I graduated college earlier and went to university in Massachusetts in Amerhest and worked on Wall Street up until getting laid off in 2009, Friday the 13th.

David Aladdin:            That dip in the economy actually affected your decisions?

Chad Rubin:     The dip in the economy actually didn’t quite impact my decisions. The dip in the economy changed the way I viewed my work, life balance and also about me I was never about picking my job. I always pick my boss. My boss was let go who really was out to help me and see me thrive and I got a new boss who had no intention of seeing me thrive and grow. He wanted to keep me down with a glass ceiling.