Season Three - A Brand Built on Curiosity
The Story of a Brand
Ramon Vela
5 • 145 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
“Boots have always been rooted in heritage,” as Jared mentions. There are hiking boots, construction boots, steel toe, etc.
Although Jared and Adam noticed, there isn’t a modern boot for those merely walking around the city.
In today’s episode, we’re sitting down with Co-Founders Jared Ray Johnson and Adam Klein to talk about what it takes to create a modern boot with their brand Season Three.
The two MIT students took everything they hated about the average boot to create everything they love about their boot, The Ansel. The Ansel, any person, could have effective, durable footwear that is sleek enough to be worn from the streets to “the museum.”
Listen in as we talk about renovating the purpose of our boots.
In part 2, Jared and Adam discuss Their mentor experience; The hundred-foot overview of Season Three; Building an “outdoor lifestyle brand”; Jared and Ray’s journey at MIT; Choosing “the boot” category as a jump into the shoe market; Creating the modern boot for the everyday wear; and much more.
Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Jared and Adam for The Story of a Brand, and listen to them share the inside story.
For more on Season Three, visit: https://seasonthree.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Recorded at Attention Agency Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | This is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | And he's not your average host. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the story of a brand with your host Ramon Vela. |
| 0:19.0 | We call ourselves an outdoor lifestyle brand. with your host, Ramon Vela. |
| 0:24.3 | We call ourselves an outdoor lifestyle brand. |
| 0:29.8 | And, you know, the product that we launch and the flagship product that we're kind of staking the brand on is a hiking boot. |
| 0:32.2 | The reason for a hiking booth, the reason for an outdoors brand is that we felt like there was a product |
| 0:40.9 | opportunity, but also a market opportunity in the space. So we really sought to create something |
| 0:48.3 | that could expand the market and reach new consumers that weren't previously being reached by |
| 0:53.8 | outdoor brands. |
| 0:55.0 | Because we think that things like hiking boots are, you know, utility fashion pieces that can be used in a number of different settings. |
| 1:04.0 | And they really have a place in everyone's life, you know, whether you over-identify with the outdoor activities, you know, that we tend to think of, |
| 1:13.1 | like hiking, climbing, and skiing, or you're just somebody who walks around in the city, but |
| 1:18.4 | find yourself, you know, in need of something a little bit more equipped than a sneaker from |
| 1:23.1 | time to time. |
| 1:30.3 | Do your shoppers love your products once they've had a chance to try them? |
| 1:34.3 | Is it hard for you to convey the quality of your products digitally? |
| 1:38.3 | Well, there's a secret strategy that many of the fastest growing Shopify brands use to get their products |
| 1:45.3 | in more shoppers homes. They use Try Now to automate a Try at Home program. With Try Now, |
| 1:54.0 | shoppers can check out with a zero dollar cart, get items shipped right to their home, and only |
| 2:00.2 | pay for what they keep. |
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