Successful Scales

Successful Scales

By Yoni KozminskiBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Successful Scales episodes

  • Ep 64: Entrepreneurial Thinking, Working with Family Members, Simplifying Data & KPIs with Andrew Morgans - Founder & CEO of Marknology

    Today's episode is with Andrew Morgans, Founder & CEO of Marknology. Andrew Morgans is a thought leader in the Amazon Branding space. He is a resident mentor at UMKC's Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and guest lectures at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management.

    Andrew found early success as an internal corporate e-commerce manager. In less than a year he launched and scaled corporate brands new to Amazon topping over $1 million in new sales, and repeated this more than once with several different businesses.

    With this success, he launched both the Landlocked Co Apparel brand, and Marknology™, an Amazon Brand Accelerator. Marknology™ has worked with over 200 global brands and sales of over $200 million - Adidas, Nylabone, Guardian Bikes, and Swiss are just some of their international clients. Kansas City clients include: Faultless Starch, Made in KC, Modigliani, Hyalogic, The Fishing Caddy, Helio, Contour MD, Mobility Designed, and Notes to Self.

    Andrew is featured on a weekly podcast, Startup Hustle and speaks on e-commerce, branding and Amazon at conferences and events all over the United States.

    Topics covered: 

    • Entrepreneurial Thinking
    • Problem Solving 
    • Working with Family Members
    • Learning & Innovating 
    • Data Gathering & Analysis
    • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/free-amazon-financial-template


      ✨ Connect with us on social media:

      Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

      Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

      Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

      Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


      ✨ More about us:

      MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

      Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

      Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


      ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

      Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


      Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

      Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/


      RESOURCES: 

      https://www.marknology.com/

      https://www.youtube.com/c/Marknology

      43 min
    • Ep 63: Pivoting from a Successful Business and Rebuilding Into A Service-Based Agency, Key Lessons Learned with Keith O'Brien - CEO of Page.One

      Today's episode is with Keith O'Brien - CEO of Page.One, a full-service agency serving Amazon and e-commerce businesses with Listing Optimization, Product Photography, Enhanced Brand Content, PPC Management, and Full Brand Management.

      Keith had the privilege of working with thousands of businesses since 2014 in a variety of different services to help them intelligently and profitably scale their Amazon revenues.

      He was previously the CEO of iLoveToReview.com - a unique direct to consumer marketing company that helps Amazon sellers increase their sales by facilitating real reviews from members. 

      It was a hugely successful business but they had to pivot and rebuild it into a service-based agency which is Page.One - find out in this episode why and how. 

      Topics covered: 

      • Pivoting from a successful business
      • Building a service-based agency
      • Key lessons learned from being a service provider
      • Attracting key talents
      • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/free-amazon-financial-template


        ✨ Connect with us on social media:

        Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

        Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

        Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

        Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


        ✨ More about us:

        MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

        Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

        Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


        ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

        Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


        Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

        Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/


        43 min
      • Ep 62: What It's Like to Build & Scale an E-Commerce Marketplace with Florin Filote - VP of Sales at eMAG Romania, Bulgaria, & Hungary

        In today's episode, our guest is Florin Filote  - Vice President of Sales, Marketplace & Corporate for Romania, Bulgaria, & Hungary at eMAG. Florin led the strategy and execution for 3rd party sellers on eMAG marketplace, helped define and implement a sales-focused vision for their marketplace program, and is the subject matter expert regarding best practices, industry standards, and legal requirements.

        eMAG has become the market leader in e-commerce by going through a fast-paced growth. Now operating in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary with plans of expansion in the coming years, eMAG helps improve clients' lives by saving them time and money.

        Topics covered: 

        • The marketplace model 
        • How eMAG helps sellers 
        • Future growth trajectory of marketplaces 
        • Biggest challenges in growing a team

        • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


          ✨ Connect with us on social media:

          Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

          Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

          Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

          Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


          ✨ More about us:

          MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

          Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

          Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


          ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

          Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


          Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

          Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/


          RESOURCES: 

          Podcast episode with Stefan Haney - https://youtu.be/NIq8vyk0QPE

          eMAG Marketplace - https://www.emag.ro/

          39 min
        • Ep 61: M&A Execution, Operations and Integrations, Mistakes in Growing Your Business with Mark Goldfinger, MBA - Head of Growth, and Brendan Feinberg - Head of Investments at unybrands

          Today's episode is with Mark Goldfinger and Brendan Feinberg of unybrands. Unybrands acquire, build, and boost e-commerce businesses. Their key differentiators from other strategic buyers are their technology, truly global team, focus on category, and standing behind every LOI they submit. 

          About our guests:   

          Mark spent the past 6 years at WeWork focusing on Growth and International Expansion. During his tenure there, Mark held a variety of senior roles concentrating on opening new markets, growing and hiring sales teams, building out processes in existing markets, and helping troubleshoot priority markets.

          Brendan is currently the Head of Investments & Integration at unybrands, where he leads the global I&I team focused on identifying and acquiring the world's best online consumer product brands. Prior to unybrands, Brendan held various roles in operations, finance and strategy at WeWork after an early career in investment banking and venture capital.

          Topics covered:

          • Early stages experience in unybrands
          • Operations and integrations
            • Common mistake when growing your business
            • Acquisition and execution
            • Listeners who want to speak with unybrands about their process or potential exit can reach out directly to [email protected] or [email protected]


              ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


              ✨ Connect with us on social media:

              Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

              Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

              Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

              Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


              ✨ More about us:

              MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

              Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

              Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


              ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

              Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


              Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

              Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/

              49 min
            • Ep 60: Leadership vs Management, Vivid Vision, Second In Command with Cameron Herold - Founder of COO Alliance

              In today's episode, we're honored to have our guest Cameron Herold - Founder of COO Alliance. Cameron is known around the world as The CEO Whisperer and as a top rated international speaker and book author.

              He is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth. Being an entrepreneur since day one, he'd help build his first two $100 Million dollar companies, engineered 1-800-GOT-JUNK?’s spectacular growth from $2 Million to $106 Million in revenue and 3100 employees - then started COO Alliance a few years ago. 

              COO Alliance is the world's leading community for the second in command and where COOs go to grow. 

              Topics covered: 

              • Growing up with entrepreneur mindset
              • Leadership vs Management
              • Vivid Vision
              • World class recruiting and hiring 
              • COO role as second in command

              • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


                ✨ Connect with us on social media:

                Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

                Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

                Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

                Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


                ✨ More about us:

                MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

                Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

                Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


                ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

                Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


                RESOURCES:

                Invest In Your Leaders Course - https://investinyourleaders.com/

                Vivid Vision - https://www.amazon.com/Vivid-Vision-Remarkable-Aligning-Business/dp/161961877X

                Meetings Suck - https://www.amazon.com/Meetings-Suck-Elements-Business-Valuable/dp/1619614154

                Double Double - https://www.amazon.com/Double-Your-Revenue-Profit-Years/dp/1608320995

                Free PR - https://www.amazon.com/Free-PR-Chased-Without-Hiring/dp/1619615282

                The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs - https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Morning-Entrepreneurs-Yourself-Business/dp/B01N7581L7

                Second in Command Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/second-in-command-the-chief-behind-the-chief/id1368800817


                Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

                Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/

                46 min
              • Ep 59: Product Manufacturing in the USA, Acquiring Made in USA Amazon Brands with Sam Haddad - CEO & Co-Founder of Greenhaus

                In today's episode, host Yoni Kozminski sat down with Sam Haddad - CEO & Co-Founder of Greenhaus. Greenhaus is a forward-thinking consumer products company seeking to acquire, fund, and support the long-term growth of Made in USA Amazon brands.

                Sam has an extensive background in handling product-based businesses spending the past 8 years working for a company that manufactured soft goods and hard goods, and managing both brick & mortar and online marketplaces like Amazon.

                Topics covered: 

                • Product manufacturing in the USA
                • Made in USA Amazon brands acquisition
                • Relationship-based business
                • Future of aggregators
                • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


                  ✨ Connect with us on social media:

                  Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

                  Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

                  Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

                  Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


                  ✨ More about us:

                  MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

                  Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

                  Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


                  ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

                  Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


                  RESOURCES:

                  Adam Heist Podcast Episode - https://youtu.be/bvbm-GqmJDw

                  Adam Heist YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamHeist

                  Contact Sam Haddad: [email protected]


                  Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

                  Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/


                  41 min
                • Ep 58: Building The Foundation of your Business & Impact of Niching Down Your Offer with Guillaume Le Tual - CEO and Founder of MageMontreal

                  Today's episode is with Guillaume Le Tual - CEO & Founder of MageMontreal, an e-commerce website design and development company working exclusively on the Magento platform. 

                  Guillaume is an entrepreneur and multimedia technologist with a career spanning fifteen years. He previously worked briefly as a professional visual artist for clients such as Volkswagen, Discovery Channel, The National Bank of Canada, and Warner Bros.

                  When he gained experience in web design specifically Magento and digital marketing, he founded MageMontreal to help businesses build their e-commerce websites. 

                  Topics covered: 

                  • Starting point of Entrepreneurship 
                  • Focus and niching down your service
                  • Startup phase experience
                  • Sustainability, life balance, time management

                  • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


                    ✨ Connect with us on social media:

                    Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

                    Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

                    Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

                    Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


                    ✨ More about us:

                    MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

                    Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

                    Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


                    ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

                    Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


                    RESOURCES: 

                    MageMontreal - https://www.linkedin.com/company/magemontreal/

                    Guillaume Le Tual - https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaumeletual/


                    Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

                    Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/

                    48 min
                  • Ep 57: Building Product- and Service-Based Businesses with Dan Brownsher - CEO & Co Founder of Channel Key

                    In today's episode, host Yoni Kozminski sat down with Dan Brownsher, CEO and Co-Founder of Channel Key. Channel Key is a full-service channel management marketplace agency with a proven track record of increasing sales for retail brands on Amazon and other digital marketplaces. 

                    As President and CEO, Dan is responsible for creating, planning​, and integrating Channel Key's vision and strategy for helping brands succeed on Amazon and Walmart.com. 

                    His unique experience as co-founder of a Top 200 Amazon seller combined with an established portfolio of 150+ brand partners translates to best-in-class leadership and a passion that can only be fulfilled by exceeding client goals.

                    Topics covered: 

                    • E-commerce product distribution model 
                    • Shifting to both product- and service-based model
                    • Working with business partners with different skillsets
                    • Selling/exiting Trend Nation (product business)

                    • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


                      ✨ Connect with us on social media:

                      Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

                      Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

                      Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

                      Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


                      ✨ More about us:

                      MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

                      Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

                      Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


                      ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

                      Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


                      Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

                      Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/

                      44 min
                    • Ep 56: The Million Dollar, One-Person Business: How Entrepreneurs Are Scaling to $1M Revenue Before Hiring Employees with Elaine Pofeldt - Book Author

                      Today's episode is with Elaine Pofeldt, author of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business where she looks at how entrepreneurs are scaling to $1 million in revenue prior to hiring employees. 

                      Elaine writes about million-dollar, one-person businesses for Forbes online. Formerly, she was a senior editor at Fortune Small Business magazine where she was twice nominated for a National Magazine Award and ran the magazine's annual business plan competition. 

                      Her work has been published in Money, Inc., Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire, on Medium and CNBC online, and by the Economist Intelligence Unit. She earned her BA in English at Yale and is a mother of four.

                      Topics covered: 

                      • Reality of one-person businesses
                      • Lessons from earliest stage entrepreneurs
                      • Stages of entrepreneurship 
                      • Solopreneurs scaling to $1M before hiring employees
                      • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


                        ✨ Connect with us on social media:

                        Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

                        Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

                        Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

                        Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


                        ✨ More about us:

                        MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

                        Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

                        Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


                        ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

                        Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


                        RESOURCES: 

                        Get The Million Dollar, One-Person Business book - https://www.amazon.com/Million-Dollar-One-Person-Business-Great-Money/dp/039957896X

                        Tiny Business, Big Money (for pre order, available on Feb 2022) - https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Business-Big-Money-Microbusiness/dp/1682686434


                        Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

                        Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/

                        1 hr
                      • Ep 55: Building Big Brands From Scratch - Australia's Most Successful Digital Businesses with Gabby Leibovich, Co-Founder of Catch and Scoopon

                        In today's episode, we're honored to have Gabby Leibovich, Co-Founder of Australia's number 1 e-commerce group - The Catchgroup. Gabby, along with his brother Hezi, founded some of the most successful digital businesses in Australia like catch.com.au (Catch of the Day) and Scoopon.

                        Now they are the authors of the book Catch of the Decade where they tell the story of how they started, scaled, and sold their businesses with no money and limited industry experience. 

                        Topics covered:

                        • Early days of catch.com.au
                        • What made Catch successful
                        • FOMO and execution
                        • Hiring a team of intrapreneurs
                        • Tips for startup entrepreneurs

                        • ✨ Download our FREE Financial Planning Template for Amazon Sellers: https://bit.ly/multiplymii-free-financial-planning-template


                          ✨ Connect with us on social media:

                          Yoni on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/yonkoz/

                          Successful Scales on LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/successful-scales/

                          Instagram - https://instagram.com/successfulscales

                          Facebook - https://facebook.com/successfulscales


                          ✨ More about us:

                          MultiplyMii Staffing - https://multiplymii.com

                          Escala Consulting - https://weareescala.com

                          Successful Scales Podcast - https://successfulscales.com


                          ✨ Full video episodes are also uploaded on YouTube:

                          Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gAuEXjS


                          RESOURCES: 

                          Catch Of The Decade Book by Gabby and Hezi Leibovich

                          Start-up Nation by Dan Senor & Saul Singer 


                          Successful Scales is sponsored by Global Wired Advisors - a leading digital investment bank with decades of merger and acquisition experience on online and e-commerce businesses and focused on optimizing the business sale process to increase the transactional value of your greatest asset

                          Connect with Global Wired Advisors here - https://globalwiredadvisors.com/

                          41 min

                        About Successful Scales

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                        Hear candid discussion with now ‘successful’ business owners and early Start-Up employees about the challenges they experienced on their road to success and what you can learn from their wisdom