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Thank you. at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number 387.

I'm your host Jay Jones, and today we have another outstanding and informative show

and stored for you.

Today's show topic is building a direct to consumer business modeled like QVC, building a direct

to consumer business modeled like QVC. Now the direct to consumer sales have been a staple of product sales since the day media began.

Just to give you some stats, in 2020, direct to consumer e-commerce sales in the United States

reached $11.5 billion. $111.5 billion. Now, in 2021, direct to consumer online sales were projected to surpass $129 billion.

That's $129 billion in direct to consumer sales just alone in the U.S. in 2021.

So today, guys, we're going to talk about expanding your mind and give you some food for thought

and some different ways to attack building your business that are a little bit outside the box.

So we're going to talk about building a direct to

consumer business modeled like QVC. Now I'm not saying that you're going to be QVC, but I'm going

to give you a couple of different models to be able to use the direct to consumer example. So the

impetus of today's topic actually came from conversations

with my investment group. So we're actually in the process of creating a QVC-like shopping network

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