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Hello, everyone, my guest today is Mark Smokler.

He's founded six companies, two of which have been acquired and three of which are market leaders in their respective spaces, the leading brick and mortar retail analytics company, IdealSpot.com, a leading online retailer, sakesocial.com, and a cutting edge marketing services platform, written.com. Mark's companies have generated over $300 million in lifetime revenues and sold over

150,000 products worldwide. Mark, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yep, I hope so.

All right, so you're doing so much. The challenge is I have to figure out one of these things to focus on.

So let's do it this way. Which one's making the most money top line? Ideal spot,

Sake social, or written? Well, it's sake social. Oh, good. Yeah, Japanese Saki online. So we're the largest

online retailer Japanese Saki. But no, I mean, ideal spot is the one that's rocking and rolling

right now. And that's where I spend most of my time.

Okay, let's focus on that.

But I'm curious, now that I know it's sake, how much do you sell annually in Japanese sake online?

Well, a lot.

I mean, on a daily basis.

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