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The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

619: Why Most Apparel Brands Fail and How Robin Hall Built One That Didn’t

The My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast With Steve Chou

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Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with Robin Hall, who did the “impossible” by building a thriving sustainable kids clothing brand in the most brutal niche in e-commerce. You’ll hear the full 45-minute story behind her appearance on NPR’s “How I Built This” including the strategies, struggles, and surprising pivots that took her from my wife’s college friend to the founder of Town Hall Co. What You’ll Learn Why The Clothing Market Is Super Competitive And Tough To Enter How Robin Got Her First Sales How to Carve Out A Niche In Apparel Sponsors SellersSummit.com – The Sellers Summit is […]

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the podcast, the show where I cover all the latest strategies and current events

0:03.9

related to e-commerce and online business. Now, in this episode, I sit down with Robin Hall,

0:09.1

who did The Impossible by building a thriving, sustainable kids clothing brand and what I've

0:14.1

always called the most brutal niche in e-commerce. You'll hear the full 45-minute story behind

0:19.4

her appearance on NPR's How I Built This,

0:21.9

including the strategies, struggles, and surprising pivots that took her from my wife's college

0:26.2

friend to the founder of Town Hall, a company that's rewriting the rules on how to succeed

0:30.9

selling apparel online.

0:32.9

But before we begin, I want to let you know that tickets for Seller Summit 2026 are now

0:36.7

on sale over at seller

0:37.8

summit.com.

0:38.8

And if you sell physical products online, this is the event that you should be at.

0:42.7

Unlike most e-commerce conferences that are filled with high-level fluff and inspirational

0:46.5

stories, Cellar Summit is all about tactical step-by-step strategies you can actually use

0:51.5

in your business right away.

0:53.1

Every speaker I invite is deep in the

0:54.8

trenches, people who are running their own e-commerce stores, managing inventory, dealing with

0:59.1

suppliers, and scaling real businesses. No corporate execs and no consultants. Also, I hate large

1:05.1

events, so I intentionally keep it small and intimate. We cap attendance in around 200 people

1:09.6

so you can actually have real conversations

1:11.6

and connect with everyone in the room. We've sold out every single year for the past nine years,

1:16.5

and I expect this year to be no different. It's happening April 21st to the 23rd in Fort Lauderdale,

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