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The Story of a Brand

CrankTank - Managing the DTC Shift

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5145 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Through CrankTank, Scott Montgomery, Founder & President at CrankTank, has created a way for traditional brick and mortar companies to make the “D to C” shift. Montgomery recounts his background as an instinctive entrepreneur selling dictionaries during the 1980’s Detroit recession to becoming a lifelong learner in his father's business, in order to build the digital marketing agency, CrankTank. CrankTank introduces the opportunity for digital growth through blending both the traditional retail strategies and complementing it with newer digital retail channels.
 
In part one, Scott discusses: The origins of CrankTank starting with Cannondale; The importance of being a lifelong learner; How international business has affected CrankTank; The “D to C” shift switching to Direct to Consumers; How to use Amazon to better your brand; And so much more. 
 
Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Scott in Part 1 of this episode and listen to him share the inside story of a brand.
 
For more on CrankTank visit: https://cranktank.net/
 
 
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Recorded at Retention Science Studios, this is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce

0:10.9

podcast, and he's not your average host. This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon

0:18.4

Vela.

0:21.2

You have a niche that you kind of focus on, right?

0:24.0

Is that sort of like your expertise?

0:26.7

Yeah, I was very fortunate to grow up in the bike industry.

0:31.6

My father started a company called Cannondale when I was very young.

0:34.9

And so I got a firsthand entrepreneurial view, almost from a

0:41.5

youngster on, working for my father, and we're talking like 10 and 11 type stuff. But because of that,

0:50.7

we and we live in Sun Valley, Idaho, which is a ski resort in the winter and a mecca for biking, camping, fishing, hunting, all sorts of outdoor activities.

1:04.0

It just naturally draws people who love to bike to be outdoors or part of the outdoor industry and also to ski.

1:13.6

And so we've gravitated towards those kind of companies because we can walk the talk.

1:18.6

So we all love it ourselves. We do it on our free time.

1:22.6

And that makes our messaging very authentic.

1:38.0

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1:41.2

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1:45.1

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2:06.7

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2:12.4

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2:18.8

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