TPM Episode 190: Marty Carrigan, Hart, Morrow, Palmer, Boa, Global Sales Guys
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Marty Carrigan is a name you may not know but he's a guy who has so much history in the ski and snowboard world. While he's a sales rep extraordinaire these days, he cut his teeth with some of the most important brands in snow. He started in the 80's with Hart Skis when they were running the freestyle scene and then moved on to snowboarding and working with Morrow and Palmer. He's a talker with a ton of insight and stories.
Marty Carrigan Show Notes:
3:00: Palmer, Douchebags and Global Sales Guys
14:00: Childhood, being old school, and not being able to finish at catholic school
19:45 : Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
21:45: Who was he, skiing, Vermont and his first sales meeting
26:00: Meeting Billy Kidd, Colorado Mountain College, and looking like Jesus
30:00: Hart Skis, building relationships, German immersion, and Rad Air Snowboards
36:00: Morrow Snowboards
39:30: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
40:30: Morrow cont., starting Sales Guys, and Palmer Snowboards
55:00: Boa Technologies, the lowest point in his life, and re-inventing Sales Guys with Grenade+ more
72:00: Inappropriate Questions with Mike Rosen
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Strap yourselves in and hold on tight. This is the Power Movement. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and it's September, which means it's back to school or back to teaching depending on where you live. |
| 0:23.1 | And it's the official kickoff of ski season, or at least it's when ski shops wants you to start thinking about ski and snowboard season. |
| 0:30.4 | The Labor Day sale has always been a big deal and it's the unofficial end of summer. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm sure there were a shit ton of deals to be had, but the big |
| 0:38.4 | question out there is what is going to actually happen to ski season. Science has been right |
| 0:44.0 | time and time again with this virus, and those science guys, well, they have been saying |
| 0:48.6 | that it could get bad again. But we're more prepared now than we ever have been before. |
| 0:53.8 | I mean, we really didn't know anything when ski season was canceled last year. |
| 0:58.0 | When this whole thing started, I didn't want to leave the house. |
| 1:02.0 | I was washing groceries and doing crazy shit now that I think about it, |
| 1:06.0 | but it was all about minimizing risk for the greater good. |
| 1:09.0 | Over the past six months, things have changed so much in the world. It's like no one even mentions the greater good. Over the past six months, things have changed so much in the |
| 1:12.2 | world. It's like no one even mentions the greater good when they talk about masks anymore. It's all |
| 1:17.4 | about politics. And while I've loosened up for sure, I still play things on the safe side |
| 1:22.7 | compared to most people I know. But science says this shit will be back, and I'm sure everyone who skis or snowboards |
| 1:28.9 | has had the conversation with a buddy about what's going to happen to the season. I've been saying |
| 1:34.3 | since spring that there will be a ski season, but it'll be totally different than anything we know. |
| 1:39.4 | My thought has been that the places that have already planned their lift lines, the ones that started in July and |
| 1:45.0 | August laying markers and figuring out where people are going to need to know when they line up |
| 1:49.7 | in the lift corral, well, those are the ones that are going to be successful, because that's what's |
| 1:53.9 | going to matter most when it comes to in-person people managing. The online people managing aspect, |
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