515 – Scaling Tiege Hanley with Kelley Thornton
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Scaling Tiege Hanley, a direct-to-consumer men's skin care product company, with co-founder Kelley Thornton.
Show Notes page: https://www.thehowofbusiness.com/515-kelley-thornton-scaling-tiege-hanley/
Kelley shares his entrepreneur journey, and how he launched and scaled Tiege Hanley (starting at 15:11) - providing "Uncomplicated Skin Care for Men" through their online site.
Tiege is an e-commerce company with the mission of Helping Men Look and Feel Amazing. With the help of Aaron Marino, a YouTuber with over 6,000,000 followers, and Rob Hoxie, the business has evolved organically, with over 500,000 customers globally and over $100MM in lifetime sales.
Henry Lopez is the host of The How of Business podcast – helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business and entrepreneurs. Find the best podcast, small business coaching, resources and trusted service partners for small business owners and entrepreneurs at our website https://TheHowOfBusiness.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now, here is your host. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. This is Henry Lopez Lopez and my guest today is Kelly Thornton. |
| 0:21.7 | Kelly, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Henry. Looking forward to talking to you today. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, this is going to be an interesting conversation. Kelly's going to share a little bit about his |
| 0:29.6 | journey, his entrepreneurial journey, how he got to where he is today. But then we're going to focus |
| 0:34.1 | on his learnings, his experiences that he's going to share on scaling |
| 0:40.0 | his most recent business, Teige Handley. We'll explain what they do, but they are a direct-to-consumer |
| 0:46.5 | men's skincare product company. If you want to get more information about the Howell Business, |
| 0:52.5 | including the Show Notes page for this episode, and you'll want to make a note of that because we have a special offer from Teage Hanley, |
| 0:59.1 | a special promo code. So you'll go to the show notes page, as well as on my website, |
| 1:04.1 | you can find information about my one-on-one and group coaching programs. And that's all at |
| 1:09.3 | the howab business.com. I also encourage you to please subscribe to my show wherever you might be listening so you don't miss any new episodes. So let me tell you more about Kelly. Kelly Thornton was born rather in Towson. Is that how you pronounce it in Towson, Maryland? Towson, Maryland. Towson, Maryland. And then moved to Connecticut for high school and |
| 1:27.7 | started a painting business. Was that during high school or during college? It was actually in |
| 1:33.3 | high school and then all the way through college. Got it. And so started the painting business and |
| 1:38.5 | graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Connecticut in 1990, debt-free. |
| 1:44.4 | Very important point there. |
| 1:46.0 | He began his career in sales then in New York City and then transferred to Chicago, |
| 1:50.7 | where he still lives today a few years later after that first started in New York City. |
| 1:55.9 | And then after a successful 19-year career in corporate America, |
| 1:59.6 | he left the industry to begin his |
| 2:01.6 | second company, Purchase Point LLC, which was an in-store design and strategy company |
| 2:08.4 | with offices in U.S., London, and in Taiwan. |
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