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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

521: They Made $20M selling Perfume | Raquel & Adam Bouris [VIDEO]

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Raquel and Adam Bouris are the co-founders of Who Is Elijah, an independently owned fragrance house known for its unique scents and innovative marketing strategies. Starting from humble beginnings, they have built a successful business that has made a significant impact in the fragrance industry. In this interview, you’ll learn: How a chance encounter at Coachella inspired a $20M Perfume Brand Breaking into the fragrance industry - from their garage Overcoming significant challenges and setbacks Innovative marketing and influencer partnerships Importance of customer feedback and product development Their marketing strategies and the role of social media Advice and motivational insights for aspiring entrepreneurs And many more valuable entrepreneurial insights... Click here to start your business for $1. You’ll get all-access foundr+, where you’ll find more in-depth, proven strategies from founders like our guest today and support and advice from our global community of 30,000 founders. If you loved this conversation and learned something new, rate and review this episode. Stay in touch with us, follow foundr on your favorite platform: Foundr.com Instagram YouTube Facebook X LinkedIn Magazine

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0:00.0

Day one of Who's Elijah was me taking photos of my one product, uploading it to Shopify,

0:05.5

pressing, go live, and then crickets.

0:08.6

Literally crickets.

0:10.4

Of course, no one's going to bite online.

0:11.9

No one knows it yet.

0:12.9

Like, how do you sell a smell?

0:15.4

One day just started walking into like boutique stores in Sydney and like nine out of ten of them like said yes two years in

0:23.9

we're probably doing like 40,000 dollars a month but no just because you're growing revenue

0:28.5

doesn't mean you're growing profit our revenue was growing but our profit was going the other way

0:34.1

you have to be so like disciplined with like with, like, what is actually happening?

0:39.3

I don't know how we got to where we are today, everyone, but we somehow managed it.

0:43.6

I guess that's kind of, like, leads into where the name came from. It was called Raquel and

0:47.9

Elijah. No one's name was Elijah. So one day, I just said, who the fuck is Elijah?

0:55.7

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1:05.3

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1:11.9

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1:14.1

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1:17.1

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