In today’s episode, my guest on the show is an eCommerce entrepreneur by the name of Josh Kent, founder of sunfrog.com, the world’s leading online t-shirt platform. During our discussion, Josh and I talked at length about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur while owning more than one company.
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- How did you come up with the idea for Sunfrog?
- What were some of the first actions you took?
- How did you combat analysis paralysis?
- Did you experience immediate success or did you have to iterate your idea?
- How did you deal with the frustration effect that comes from not getting the results you expected?
- How many companies do you own? (18)
- How long did it take you to exceed $100M in sales?
- Why did you decide to open up your platform to one where others could upload their designs?
- How to you keep on top of 18 companies?
- How long did it take you to get to 100 shirt sales a day?
- How did you do it?
- How long were you able to leverage Facebook in the way that you did in the beginning?
- How does the advertising partnership work for your creative artists?
- How does your Sunfrog Facebook group fit into your marketing strategy?
- As a creative today, how would I leverage the Sunfrog platform?
- How do you deploy your corporate marketing dollars?
- Why did you pick the name Sunfrog?
- How do you come up with ideas for your new businesses?
- What types of criteria do you have for evaluating a business idea?
- How do business processes fit into your world?
Today’s Guest
Josh Kent is a serial entrepreneur, CEO and founder of SunFrog.com, the world’s leading online t-shirt platform.
He has been featured on Inc.com, CMO.com, and Influencive.com, as well as in Forbes & Crain’s. He’s also been listed as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs to Watch.
He founded SunFrog.com in 2014, growing the company from lean startup to global leader as an online t-shirt platform yielding 1000% financial increase in the past year. Josh also has several successful enterprises preceding SunFrog and several more have been launched since.