First Customers

Sean Brandenburg is the CEO of Central Cargo North America, a freight forwarding company that made $1 million in its first 4 months and continues to grow. Sean has spent 30 years in the freight forwarding and logistics industry. He's a sales pro with tons of experience in generating millions in sales at every company he's been involved with. Customer service is a high priority for Sean and it shows up in the way he treats people and how long his clients stay with him. As always I learned a lot on this episode. This was another key on the quest to understand more deeply how the best businesses in the world landed their first customers. Listen and learn folks! Show notes & links: https://parisvega.com/sean-brandenburg-ceo-central-cargo-north-america-freight-forwarding-company/(opens in a new tab)

Kent Wilson is the COO of RV SnapPads, a fast growing company that started in their family garage and grew to over 500,000 units sold across North America. I was blown away by their story. They've built a great business with a bright future. I was inspired by how they prioritize customer service and listen to their customers' feedback. As always, I learned a lot during this episode. I've already started rethinking my own ecommerce work based on this episode. Come get this free wisdom. Show notes & links: https://parisvega.com/kent-wilson-rv-snappads/

Scott Stouffer is the Co-Founder & CTO of Market Brew, an SEO Testing Platform helping Fortune 100 companies & SEO agencies predict search rankings & outrank their competition with machine learning. Him and his company have several patents that are cited by Google and other search engine companies. They raised millions in VC funding and scaled up to 64,000 paying customers... but then they decided to risk it all and change their entire business model. This episode is a gold mine of SEO knowledge and insights into the history of SEO. Listen and learn folks! Show notes & links: https://parisvega.com/scott-stouffer-market-brew-seo-testing-platform/

Christina Aldan is an international TEDx speaker, award-winning corporate trainer, and brand strategy consultant at Arana Software. She's helped a lot of startups get their first customers. This was like entrepreneur therapy. I highly recommend listening and learning from Christina's vast experience and wisdom gained from her work with startups and executives. Show notes & links: https://parisvega.com/christina-aldan-lucky-girlie-girl/(opens in a new tab)

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JK Molina grew Tweet Hunter to over $1 Million in ARR & recently sold the business. With 175,000+ Followers on Twitter, JK is now showing you how to monetize (not grow) your audience at Tweets and Clients. Lot's of sales and startups lessons told through several great stories packed into this episode.

Show links, notes, & transcript:

https://parisvega.com/jk-molina-tweet-hunter-tweets-clients/

Topics Covered:

- Growing up in Guatemala

- Entrepreneurship as a kid

-  Door-to-Door sales

- Cold Calling

- Cold DMs

- Digital Marketing

- Monetizing your Twitter audience

- and a lot more!

Nick Bouwhuis started Bouwhuis IT as a teenager in the Netherlands. Bouwhuis IT is an information technology company specializing in cyber security for local businesses. He shares his story about growing up in the Netherlands, and how he found his first customers. Show notes & links: https://parisvega.com/nick-bouwhuis-it-netherlands-cyber-security/

Topics Covered:

- Netherlands school system vs US school system

- Starting a business as a teenager

- Running a business part time

- Cyber Security Best Practices

- Life in the Netherlands

Daniel Johnson shares his story about starting in South Africa and immigrating to the UK, selling his first business at 17, and starting a successful marketing agency that works with clients around the world. We go deep into his marketing philosophy, marketing strategy, and the marketing tactics he uses to work with clients like Google, Neil Patel, and ConsenSys. Show notes & links: https://parisvega.com/daniel-johnson-we-scale-startups/

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Angie Correa, an Ex- Corp Exec with 25 Yrs of experience at companies like NBC, Yahoo, and Maxim magazine, left corporate sales to start her own business helping others do the same.

Show links, notes, & transcript:https://parisvega.com/angie-correa-executive-coach-speaker/

Talking with Angie was like taking a masterclass in sales. The principles she explained are worth billions. We had a great time discussing how she was able to successfully get the first customers for her business. We also went through her past experiences at large companies reviewing her sales process for getting $10,000,000 sales deals. 

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Nick Maciel, Engineer & Founder of Cadversity, an innovative product design agency that became profitable within the first month. Product design is expensive & risky. Cadversity is here to change that. Nick Maciel started Cadversity to help people with ideas bring their physical products to life. Nick tells the story of his life as an entrepreneur from childhood through his college years. He's exited two businesses and is successfully building his third, all while getting his graduate degree. He shares valuable hard-won lessons about customer acquisition. How'd he get those valuable first customers? Listen to find out. Show Links, Notes, & Transcript: https://parisvega.com/nick-maciel-cadversity/

Caren Schwannauer, co-founder of Staq, offers valuable advice on sales and content marketing. She also shares the story of how their first client grew into a successful billion dollar company. She convinced me to change my own tactics based on this conversation. I highly recommended taking notes & learning from this high performer. How did she find Staq's first customers? Listen and find out. Show Links, Notes, & Transcript: https://parisvega.com/caren-schwannauer-staq/