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Join Up Dots -  Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

Paddlesmash

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome To Paddlesmash Paddlesmash creators Tim Swindle And Scott Brown have been entrepreneurs for over 10 years, having launched multiple companies. His first Kickstarter in 2013 was successfully funded for a game he co-created called, Utter Nonsense. It achieved rapid commercial interest and ultimately went on to be sold in Target, Walmart and other major retailers around the country. He has since brought numerous products to market in the toy, game, and novelty space. How The Dots Joined Up For Tim As an early investor and employee at PointDrive, a Chicago-based sales software company, he had roles leading sales, marketing, and operations before the company was acquired in 2016 by LinkedIn. During this time, he worked on his own future making the most of all the time he had available. In 2018 Tim co- founded Playtacular, a boutique publishing company that designs and creates innovative toys and games. In addition to this he also is heaviliy involved in Paddlesmash a great new family game brought to him by its inventor Joe Bingham. Tim lives in Nashville, with his wife, daughter and his dog Tucker. So what is it about the uber competitive toy market that excites him and keeps him moving forward daily? And how can someone listening today with an idea for a toy move it to the shops quickly? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show, to join up more dots with the one and only Mr Tim Swindle

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0:00.0

Life shouldn't be hard. Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day.

0:05.0

So now start joining up dots, tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts,

0:11.0

and tell your boss, you don't deserve me. I'm out of here.

0:16.0

It's time for you to smash that alarm clock.

0:20.0

And start getting the dream business and life you will, of course, are dreaming of.

0:26.0

Let's join your host, David Ralph, from the back of his garden in the UK.

0:31.0

Or wherever he might be today.

0:33.0

With another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join Up Dots.

0:40.0

Yeah, good morning to you and welcome to Join Up Dots.

0:43.0

Thank you so much for being here with your daily inspirational motivational and entrepreneurial conversation.

0:50.0

Now, today's episode, we've got two guys from the US.

0:53.0

And they've been entrepreneurs for over 10 years or so, having launched multiple companies

1:00.0

in the outdoor sports and the game environment.

1:04.0

Now, one of them first started kickstarter in 2013 and was successfully funded for a game he co-created

1:11.0

called utter nonsense, and it achieved rapid commercial interest.

1:15.0

And ultimately went on to be sold in Target and Walmart and other major retailers around the country.

1:21.0

He has since brought numerous products to market in the toy game and novelty space.

1:26.0

And now with his partner Scott, he's co-founded or he's joined in with a co-founder of a new game called Paddle Smash,

1:34.0

which looks fun, looks inventive, and it looks like something that's going to take the family beach holidays by storm.

1:41.0

So what is it about you, the competitive toy market that excites them and keeps them moving forward daily?

1:48.0

And how can someone, listening today with an idea for a toy, move it to the shops quickly?

1:53.0

Well, let's find out as we bring on to the show to start joining up dots with the one and only,

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