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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Most Important Part Every Business Needs to Focus on Before Scaling | Steve Schulze, CEO & Cofounder of Nékter Juice Bar

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Steve Schulze, CEO, President, & Co-Founder of Nékter Juice Bar, shares his thoughts on: [1:03] - How Nékter grew from one store into one of the top franchises in the space [4:36] - The need for businesses to focus on “one customer at a time” before thinking about scaling [9:01] - Why keeping things simple, healthy, and accessible are at the core of Nékter Juice Bar [17:04] - The three traits that will bring you success in any industry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Playbook.

0:03.0

Man, I have one of my favorite companies here, and even I just heard one of my wife's

0:07.4

favorite company, executives here, Steve Sholes, CEO, president, co-founder of Nectar.

0:12.9

If I'm not mistaken, is that right?

0:14.9

You're not mistaken.

0:15.9

Sometimes I give too many titles to too many people, and I try to do it off the top of

0:20.0

my head.

0:21.0

Welcome to SoFi Stadium, and welcome to the Playbook.

0:23.5

I appreciate it.

0:24.5

It's a really unbelievable spot you have here.

0:26.1

Very impressive.

0:27.1

Well, we bring impressive, unbelievable people to this spot for various reasons.

0:32.4

And one of them is to learn how you got where you are today.

0:36.3

And your brand is not only big, but it's a positive brand.

0:40.3

It's one that has a great impact on communities, not just providing great service and great

0:46.2

products, but to the franchise owners.

0:50.0

And I'm a big fan of small business and of building communities through economic development.

0:56.5

For you, you didn't always start in this space.

0:59.3

What gave you a vision just to be into the franchise model?

1:03.6

It took us a while to get into the franchise model.

1:06.3

Nectar was started out really as a one-off side.

1:09.6

There weren't any great grand plans, like a lot of things.

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