TeeLaunch - Bringing Your Ideas to Life

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For the first two years of business, Christopher Hamze, Founder of TeeLaunch, lost money. People didn't understand the Print On Demand (POD) concept and after 2 years they were $750,000 in debt. At that point, they were discussing closing the business.

Then they got an idea to pivot from the local market and create an app that allowed people to print t-shirts on demand and sell them through Shopify. Each day after they launched, they grew exponentially and by the end of the year, they did nearly $2 million in revenue. $130 thousand app installs later, the rest, as they say, is history.

In part 1 of this incredible episode, Christopher shares:

- His entrepreneurial journey and why he is unemployable

- Why everyone thought he was nuts for building an app when he did

- Why if he had waited to build the app, everything would have been different

- How he tried to become a lawyer to earn a steady paycheck but was drawn back into entrepreneurship

- What's so important about the Customer Experience

- Why transparency, small size, and accessibility is the TeeLauch advantage

- Why it's so rewarding building a business that helps others become entrepreneurs

Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Christopher in Part 1 of this episode and hear them share the inside story of a brand.

For more on TeeLaunch visit: teelaunch.com/story

Visit the partners who make this show possible:

Gorgias - Gorgias.link/story
Retention Science - RetentionScience.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Recorded at the Retention Science Studios.
0:08.4	This isn't your average entrepreneur or e-commerce podcast, and I'm not your average host.
0:14.9	My name is Ramon Vela, and this is the story of a brand.
0:27.4	Hey, you.
0:29.0	Yeah, you.
0:32.3	You work so hard to acquire customers,
0:35.4	but what are you doing to keep them happy?
0:43.0	Now, I'm shocked by how many e-commerce stores don't have a help desk, let alone one built specifically for e-commerce.
0:53.6	So let me introduce you to Gorgeous, which is the number one rated help desk for e-commerce and sets up with Shopify and dozens of other apps right out of the box.
0:58.7	So not only can they help you give better, faster, and more accurate resolutions,
1:01.1	they can even help you increase revenues.
1:06.0	So visit gorgias.link forward slash story.
1:15.1	Again, that's gorgias spelled gor-g-g-I-S dot link forward slash story.
1:19.4	And keep in mind, if you sign up, you get your second month for free.
1:22.8	When we were kids, we were promised all sorts of stuff.
1:26.6	Jetpacks in the future, flying cars, unfortunately, we didn't get them.
1:28.0	But we got something much better, print on demand. With T-launch and print-on-demand, you can start your own online business
1:34.4	with no upfront cost, unlimited variety of products, and no dead stock you can't move. What makes
1:40.3	T-launch different? Well, their production facilities all over the world, their unmatched variety of products, hundreds to choose from, and their personalization tech, which no one else has.
1:51.0	T-launched helped over 120,000 Shopify stores start and run their business.
1:56.8	Let them help you.
1:58.4	Install their app for free at t-launch.com slash story. Again, for free at tlaunch.com slash story.
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