The Cheese #35 🧀 - BattlGames, BattlGretchen, and BattlCommerce

BattlGames was FUN

Well, we did it. We executed an amazing BattlGames. 10 amazing contestants. They were all genuinely great people that I really enjoyed meeting and getting to know. About 15 BattlBox team members, and the other 50 guests were a mix of other brands, sponsors, and friends. This was, with certainty, the best event we have ever put on. Better than last year’s BattlGames and better than our first event (Mission 100 Tank Shoot).

We are absolutely doing BattlGames Season 3, and we are going to step it up a notch! I will share more information as details get locked in. Our next task is to get the 8 TB Hard Drives of the footage from the event over to our video editors to start the process of creating the show. We are going with 5 episodes for the season (up from 3 last year). I am guessing the release date will be in early January.

On the Whatnot front, we ran some great shows at BattlGames. Given the event, we had some exclusive items and also sold some collectibles (stuff signed by Brandon and Doug Marcaida). Even though we ran some shows while we were there, we were down significantly on our amount of airtime. This means we are going to have to drop it down a gear to ensure we finish the month with a new record. In a couple of weeks we are going down to Miami to do a collab show. Our portion of the show will only be 2-2.5 hours, but we are going to build it in the hopes of beating our last warehouse 8-hour show that did over $30k.

On the Keto/Diet front, straight roller coasting! I weighed in at 128.5 the morning I drove to BattlGames, weighed 137.1 the day I got back, and weigh 129.1 as of today. Gotta love the water weight that carbs cause lol. Bryan MacDonald sent me some pizza dough and a tutorial on how to make high quality at-home pizza. Going to give it a whirl on tomorrow for the family before I head out to San Diego on Sunday.

Yep, headed to Commerce Roundtable on Sunday and will be in San Diego through Thursday. Really looking forward to the event. Equally excited to give my keynote on Live Shopping (imagine me talking about Live Shopping lol).

Miss Gretchen!!!

Let’s talk about Miss Gretchen. We destroyed our Happy Hour Budget (Shout out Happy Hour Sponsor Wunderkind), and the reason it was destroyed was simply because Miss Gretchen was the Queen of the Upsell. I am not mad at all, though, in fact, I am happy. Full story here:

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