This week's Year One episode is a continuation of my interview from Episode 070 with Isaac Parkinson of SkinGrip. He has worked hard to build a business around a tight-knit community, and it continues to grow and get stronger every day. With years of experience now, Isaac pulls back the curtain and offers you his playback of everything you should do when you are launching a product to ensure its lasting success.

Some of the key takeaways from this episode are:

• How to position yourself in a way that focuses on solving your customers' problems, NOT hard selling them.
• How to work with influencers in a way that's beneficial to them, and in a way that shows measurable results for your company.

Check this episode out to learn these tips AND MORE!

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This week's Year One episode is a continuation of my interview from Episode 071 with Scott Brown of PaddleSmash. He built and sold one business in the toy & game industry, and has created another successful product with PaddleSmash. If you've ever had an idea for a toy or a game to create, then you especially need to listen to this episode.

Some of the key takeaways from this episode are:

• How to get honest product feedback from family and friends, instead of them telling you what you want to hear.
• When it's best to build and launch a game yourself, and when it's better to license it.

Check this episode out to learn these tips AND MORE!

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Have you ever looked at the games on the shelves at the store and asked yourself, "Who in the world came up with that?" You wouldn't be the only one. The toy and game industry is extremely large and lucrative, and today's episode is with a man who has succeeded in it multiple times, without actually inventing a toy or game (that I know of).

Scott Brown is an experienced and successful entrepreneur who got his start being paid to sit around and think of potential business ideas (sounds like a dream to me). But it also meant a lot of hard work, because once he found one that had potential they worked hard to grow it. They failed immediately and had to shut down and regroup, but once they did they grew their concept to over 40 stores.

This time around, Scott was presented a game that was extremely fun, and leveraged the fastest growing sport in North America - pickleball. He decided to take the opportunity and run with it, and they were on this most recent season of Shark Tank and have done extremely well.

This episode is unique in that he wasn't the one who came up with the idea, but I wanted to showcase it because it shows how you can find business ideas anywhere, and Scott tells his story with both.

Stay tuned for our next Year One episode with Scott, where he breaks down everything he'd do to start a toy or game business and set it up for success in that first year.

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