{"id":7422,"date":"2018-03-06T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boutiquehub.wpengine.com\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2019-12-30T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:00:58","slug":"boutiquechat5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theboutiquehub.com\/blog\/boutiquechat5\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #5: How to Harness the Power of Social Selling, Amanda and Brandon Kruse, Discount Divas & Comment Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you build a multi-million dollar business on social media alone?  This week\u2019s guests prove that when you build a tribe of loyal women, anything is possible.  Amanda Kruse is the Founder of Discount Divas, a booming e-commerce business who figured out how to harness the power of social selling through Facebook groups, but she had a secret to help her scale.  Her husband Brandon happened to be a talented startup founder who built a solution to a key problem Amanda, and numerous retailers have selling on social media. Enter Comment Sold. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>These two live and demonstrate the spirit of Community Over Competition, and have a pretty unique story to share about how Amanda\u2019s business took off, on it\u2019s own, and Brandon helped solve a roadblock to scale.  Then, began to share this method with others in the same space, selflessly. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"ABOUT BRANDON & AMANDA<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amanda is a former ER Nurse, turned fashion entrepreneur, who launched Discount Divas to find an affordable and convenient option to shopping for things she loved. Together, with a group of girlfriends who loved to shop, she launched the business from a Facebook group which quickly went viral. Amanda\u2019s keen ability to buy smart and run an efficient business, has helped scale Discount Divas into a business model that few had seen before. <\/span><\/p>\n

Brandon is a serial entrepreneur with a history of founding, operating and exiting successful businesses. Brandon started as a programmer at the age of 15 at a telecom company called Digium. He subsequently founded DialMaxx, which was acquired by magicJack (NASDAQ: CALL) a month before his 21st birthday. Brandon has since founded several other companies, including HuntsvilleWest – a startup incubator with 24 companies, Ploid.io – a human genome data storage platform, and more recently, CommentSold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Together, this dynamic duo is changing the retail game.<\/span><\/p>\n

KEY TAKEAWAYS<\/b><\/p>\n