
About this episode
Chris Farkas endured a 7-week fetal position moment when he finally found a website bug that had cost him $500k in sales.
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Topics in Chris’s interview:
- Going through Acquisition Lab
- First deal fell through on Christmas Eve
- Acquiring an ecommerce business with a warehouse
- Buying inventory he didn’t want
- The marketing agencies that hurt his business
- Business almost tanked due to website glitch
- Doing $10k in sales per day
- Hardship of traveling every other week
- Why he stays off Amazon
- Make only one change at a time
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- EmergencyKits.com
- Russ Hadlock on Acquiring Minds: The Front Lines of a Crisis
- Dave Richards of Keystone Business Advisors
- Kalen Foster of Live Oak Bank
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Edited by Anton Rohozov and produced by Pam Cameron
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