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In today's podcast Matt & Brad chats with Jordan Rolband and Matthew Kresge of DFO Global Performance Commerce. DFO Global are one of the world’s leading technology and performance marketing companies, delivering unparalleled results for advertisers, clients and affiliates in the eCommerce space. Our enterprise technology and full-service media and marketing capabilities provide online businesses the power to maximize ROI on multiple platforms and channels with geographic precision.
SHOW NOTES:
- DFO Global is known to be one of the best in buying traffic across all the major platforms online.
- In the very early days, Jordan was one of the first people that sells products on eBay. Before that he was helping his Dad with his antique business, but later on realized that he had no interest with it.
- He became an apprentice for a watch dealer and spent years selling watches on the sidewalk of New York.
- "I learned about business, but more importantly, I learned a lot about people" - Jordan
- Jordan decided to put the watches on eBay and helped his Father to setup an account for his products too.
- He got the watches for about $175 and sells it at $750. The watch business on eBay took off. Unfortunately, his partner suddenly passed away and forgot to tell him who his resources were.
- "Make sure that whenever you are working with someone you understand all aspects of that particular business"
- After his eBay venture, he moved to Miami and started running a Financial Services company.
- Jordan built a small business focused on lead generations. It became pretty successful that a bigger company offered to buy it from him. He didn't realise until it was too late that they were buying the business for the technology.
- "If I had brought in some people who can really give me a proper guidance I probably could have sold the company for 30 or 40 times more than what I have sold before"
- In building DFO they made a decision very early on that they are going to be a global business.
- In the very early days, they started selling mostly in English speaking countries like the US and Canada. Then started branching out in Europe and eventually to Latin America like Brazil.
- They fail to set up local banking and put their money in a local bank in Brazil. Then the market crash happened and their money was cut in half overnight.
- An opportunity opened in Argentina and they decided to sell their products there. They had a major problem when a lot of customers had some issues with the products not being delivered. Turned out there were people inside the Customs that took all of it and sold it elsewhere.
- "It's all about assessing the opportunity. There are roadbumps along the way in any business you are setting up and you have to make the decision as an entrepreneur like "do I continue to go forward base on what I believe the business can do or do I just shut it down or sort of take a step back..."
- And the last thing Jordan wants to emphasize is to find the right partners and to ask the right questions out of your partners. "If you are not getting the right answers from them, then maybe they are not the right partners for your business."
RESOURCES:
DFO GLOBAL
Matthew Kresge - LinkedIn
Jordan Rolband - LinkdedIn
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On this episode we talk all-things startup, VC, private equity!
Bryan helps start, scale, and finance high growth technology companies in Texas.
He serves as the Vice President of accelerator and investment fund at Capital Factory, the most active VC fund in Texas where he manages a team responsible for sourcing and evaluating technology startups for Capital Factory’s programs and investment.
He was a founding team member of Fixd Repair, a home warranty and home services technology business that was acquired in 2019 by ANGI Home Services. He established the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas and is a professor at the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He also helped organize and start Venture Dallas aimed at advancing the startup and venture ecosystems in North Texas. -
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Listen to master growth coach Evan Stewart share the lessons he learned from his uber successful real estate career and transition into full time coach to entrepreneurs. This episode was DEEP.
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Bill Wallace has the longest-running networking group in Dallas and has been an entrepreneur for decades. Learn how to go from networking to "net-weaving" and why that's a significant shift!
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EPISODE SUMMARY
Leah shares her true-to-life and inspiring journey from working full time as a triple-licensed attorney to an award-winning fashion journalist & Editor in Chief, as well as an Emmy Award-Winning Stylist & Influencer.
Brad and I had a heck of a time recording this episode with Leah. If there's one thing I know, if anybody has the inside scoop on trends in business and marketing -- it's Leah. She is someone you want to pay attention to closely - not only to see ahead of the curve, but to follow, learn, and find ways to do some of the things she is doing. She is extremely savvy and always has a heart to give back.
This episode will be helpful for you as you build your brand. Leah gives us some marketing and PR tips, as well as shares her entertaining and inspiring journey through entrepreneurship. You're going to laugh when she shares how she came up with the name for her business - Think Three Media. And her transparency about the difficulties she faced in building her business is sobering and very relatable to every entrepreneur (aka - a person who takes risks!).
Enjoy the episode! This one was a ton of fun. You guys are gonna like it.
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Throughout his life, Alden Mills has found a way to turn setbacks into setups, always rising to the occasion to innovate and outperform. This is a gripping, highly motivational, gritty episode that will both light you on fire and inspire you to take real action towards building your battle ready brand.
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Season #1 of Battle Ready Brands is entitled "Startup Horror Stories" where we seek to find as many stories as possible of "things gone wrong in entrepreneurship."
Rather than glorify all the success that can come with building a successful brand, we want to hear all the events that led up to the success -- both the good and the bad. If you're looking for an episode to supercharge your drive, will, and resolve to build your battle ready brand, then look no further. Simply put, Alden Mills is a BEAST!
Alden was:
- Told by a doctor to never play sports again for health reasons... AND YET -- he went on to become a national rowing champion
- Was on the brink of failing and being expelled from the Naval Academy... AND YET -- he graduated and went on to lead THREE teams into combat as a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander
- Was told by some of his friends and investors to "stop trying to sell his invention because he was just an embarrassment"... AND YET -- his invention (and subsequent inventions) took his company "Perfect Fitness" to the top of the Inc Fastest Growing Company in America list.
He has since written two books and is tearing up the speaking circuit. Battle Ready Brands Tribe.... THIS EPISODE IS A MUST-LISTEN.
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Brian DeMarco is the cofounder of Primal 7, Draftr, and Draftr Media, and is also a retired pro NFL player.
In a nutshell, Brian says he played in the NFL way too long. He played "four years for Jacksonville and two and a half with Cincinnati before they broke me—literally. I was actually broken going into my last hit, which caused me to have 17 spinal fractures and an avulsion fracture of my hip. My lower lumbar crushed like a cookie. You could imagine doing a reverse toe touch… the back of my head hit my heels, hit from behind, hit in the front. It was over.
"I lost 90% of the function of my right leg, so I was completely disabled. In fact, my hips rotted through the flesh on both sides. I had these gaping holes on my sides. I was wearing wound vacuums, trying to keep my legs from going gangrenous. My wife was caring for me 24 hours a day even with our kids. It was truly a mess. I was dying in every way a man can be dying-- physically, financially, and spiritually. I was just gone."
Watch this episode to hear the full story of Brian's comeback for the ages. You will be blown away by how he leaned on God and his amazing wife to re-write the second half of his story!
