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Never Stop Running!

This week, we’re going to step back to last Fall, when Marc Siden, Co-founder and CEO of Cloud Water Brands shared his advice with us. He put it rather simply.

Welcome to Words 2 Grow By – where we take a look back at advice and counsel from interviews of leading CPG Founders and industry professionals who’ve appeared on the NexxtLevel Brands Podcast.

And he wasn’t talking Peleoton (SP?) here either – he meant that you start out – you launch and you are ‘hustling’ 24/7 – and frankly, that’s what you should keep doing – until someday when you cash that check from General Mills and hit the beach.

Marc also spoke about the challenges of scaling and how one way to overcome them is to bring ‘strategic’ partners to your team – in his case, his co-manufacturer!!

You can catch the original episode right here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oq6iAazW3NldKcTbM94LHJhcJIoZ3Po0/view and thanks to our sponsor, NexxtLevel Brands for production assistance. Join us every Thursday for the NexxtLevel Brands Podcast and look for your ‘Words 2 Grow By’ every Wednesday!

“Raise Money”

No sitting around, singing ‘Kumbaya’ here!!! One of our best early shows –is in fact, an episode I still refer people to today – for advice on how to build a CPG Brand today. The financial counsel came from Jim Simon, Founder and CEO of JiMMYBAR! still one of the hottest growing energy and snack bars in the category!

Welcome to Words 2 Grow By – where we take a look back at advice and counsel from interviews of leading CPG Founders and industry professionals who’ve appeared on the NexxtLevel Brands Podcast.

One of the great tactics that Jim used to build his business was to go after an alternate channel strategy – and it worked. But he also was very direct about that fact that if you are going to grow a CPG, you will need access to capital and lots of it – be sure to take a listen!

You can catch the original episode right here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1duwP6cZH0tp7X9T_NYVN6IOxaQDaI7Qz/view and thanks to our sponsor, NexxtLevel Brands for production assistance. Join us every Thursday for the NexxtLevel Brands Podcast and look for your ‘Words 2 Grow By’ every Wednesday!