Belly Band creator Carol Brunswick spent over $300,000 of her family’s savings, with little or no return, before landing on a more effective way to grow her business. The new improved way involved bootstrapping everything, and adopting a people first, profit second philosophy. It worked! Now she’s sold 70,000 Belly Bands and absolutely loves building a business that’s making such a difference to her precious customers’ lives. Although it does raise the question … What on Earth is a Belly Band?! It’s a curious, yet warm and fuzzy episode 595 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast.
A little more about Belly Band’s creator Carol Brunswick …
Carol Brunswick is the creator of the original Belly Band.
She’s already sold 70,000 of them and given away 5,000, she’ll turn over $2M this year, thanks to her eight staff, wholesalers and customers all over the world that she treats with the utmost of respect.
And that, my friends, is the big, big learning in this episode … Carol has built the Belly Bands business with an unwavering people first, profit second attitude … despite losing the majority of her family’s savings (some $300,000) before things turned around.
So, what’s a Belly Band, I hear you ask?
Excellent question …. I’ll leave that to Carol!
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