The Cheese #41 🧀 - St. Simons, Whatnot, and a Roman Warrior

St. Simons, Roman Warriors, and Meat Sticks

Got a little pep in my step. Earlier this week, we had our annual in-person board meeting. Two days in St. Simons, digging deep into the business and planning. Lots of hard conversations, great questions, and major strategy sessions. Super excited at the roadmap we all agreed on and equally excited to see us execute it.

Everything is still firing on all cylinders on the BattlBox front. Membership is looking great, Amazon is having an amazing month, and Whatnot continues to Whatnot.

Regarding Whatnot, another record-breaking month. As of the time of writing this, we have 2 shows left in the month. 55 Shows in the month of October. We took our previously monthly record of $212k (last month) and really took it up a notch. Not counting the last 2 shows, We have already added $50k to the previous record. $263k so far, assuming we will end at around $270k. Every month so far has been a new record but we are approaching full scale with a single channel short of some efficiency changes. Will be fun to watch the team come together and strive to set another record.

Diet front, I am still off the wagon and living La Vida Carba. St Simons included all the carbs including breakfast sandwiches, shrimp and grits, and bloody mary's with meat sticks (i guess the meat sticks were low carb). Will hopefully chill out for a few days and get back to healthy living. The weight is coming back on…must resist carbs…

Halloween tonight, Johnny is going as a Roman Warrior lol.

Whatnot raises $225M at $11.5B valuation

They raised money earlier this year at a valuation of right under $5B. All roads lead to further validation that this is the year of live selling momentum.

Email is NOT dead

Rytis Lauris, Co-Founder and CEO of Omnisend, stops by this week’s episode of ASOM to talk all things email. Worth the listen for sure.

“But in Reality” Keynote

While I supposedly said “but in reality” nine times in this keynote (I think I exaggerated, only said it seven times), regardless, this is one you want to watch as I attempt to break down the ease of launching a live selling sales channel.

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