From Couch Surfing to 30 Million in Annual Revenue Based Off One Focus: Progress with Tim Angel
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Tim Angel's Dad fired him and he was living on couches. When the iPad came out, he decided to be the best solution in the world for iPad cases. Two years in he almost went out of business, so he went direct to consumer, consistently improved, got 5 stars, scaled up advertising, and now they are 20x larger with 30 million in revenue per year.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. When you're trying to do something and it doesn't work, try something else. If that doesn't work, try something else.
2. A lot of companies now, they're doing business with manufacturers just online. So if you fly there and you build a relationship with the owner or people in the factory, you're gonna have priority over all those other customers that they never put a face to.
3. You'll run out of motivation when it's just for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation. |
| 0:04.0 | JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire brought to you by the |
| 0:08.0 | HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals |
| 0:12.4 | with great shows like |
| 0:13.6 | inclusion and marketing. Today we'll be breaking down from couch surfing to |
| 0:18.2 | 30 million in annual revenue based off of one focus, progress. |
| 0:23.0 | To drop these value bombs, I brought Tim Angel into Eofire Studios. |
| 0:27.0 | Tim's dad fired him, and he was living on couches. |
| 0:30.0 | When the iPad came out, he decided to be the best solution in the world for iPad cases in two years |
| 0:36.2 | He almost went on a business so he went direct to consumer |
| 0:39.6 | Consistently improved got five stars up advertising, and now has 30 million in revenue per year. |
| 0:46.2 | And today we'll be chatting about trying, failing, making the best product. |
| 0:50.8 | We'll talk about Amazon being crowded, we'll talk about |
| 0:54.0 | burnouts and motivation and so much more Fire Nation and a big thank you for |
| 0:59.9 | sponsoring today's episode goes to Tim and our sponsors. |
| 1:04.0 | Sales evangelist hosted by my friend Donald Kelly |
| 1:07.0 | is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, |
| 1:09.0 | the audio destination for business professionals |
| 1:12.0 | each week Donald interviews the |
| 1:13.6 | world's best sales experts, successful sellers, sales leaders and |
| 1:17.2 | entrepreneurs who share their strategies to succeed in sales right now. A recent |
| 1:21.2 | episode you should definitely check out is the five ways to do |
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