“Every morning at 730 in the morning I get a text from my open claw that tells me the top 15 selling items on TikTok live shopping from the day before”
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Tony Robbins Podcast Daily · Sara Blakely: How She Built SPANX from the Ground Up
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Held a morning rally for all sales associates at 8:30 am before the store opened to introduce Spanx and motivate staff
“Every morning at 730 in the morning I get a text from my open claw that tells me the top 15 selling items on TikTok live shopping from the day before”
“When I was first starting Spanx, I had cold-called all the department stores... I was on the BBC and said 'smooth their fannies'... I had to call back my team of two”
“We ended up patterning it after the Ritz-Carlton, because they were like 30 of the top 100 stores in the world, and they actually let us send our first 10 store leaders to open Ritz-Carlton hotels.”
“I paid people basically friends to go buy a product and create a buzz about it… ‘Do you mind going to the store and buying Spanx and I'll send you a check?’”
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