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E117: How an MMA Fighter Built a Multi-Million Dollar Company Selling Digital Products

The EcomCrew Ecommerce Podcast · February 1, 2018 · 45 min

Summary

"Even when you find business models that are pretty well fleshed-out, there's gonna be a million ways to connect the dots that you just kind of have to take your best swings and learn as hard as you can and work as hard as you can. That's going to be everybody's experience in entrepreneurship. There's really no way around that." - Dan Faggella Our guest for today's episode is a Class A badass guy. Those who have been listening to the podcast for a while now know that I vet every single guest to make sure that they don't pitch a product or service that's not useful to our listeners. Hence I have a rule to never interview anyone I haven't met personally. This guy just broke that rule. Our guest, Dan Faggella, is an awesome, I-wish-I-had-more-time-to-talk-to-him impressive guy. I've been in ecommerce for over 15 years and it's hard to impress me with anything these days. But Dan just blew me away. I talked to him for about 40 minutes and had me thinking about implementing his ideas on my business after the interview. Dan Faggella is the founder of Tech Emergence, a company focusing on artificial intelligence. But before he founded Tech Emergence, he built and ran Science of Skill, an eLearning ecommerce company geared towards self-defense. What started as a way to fund his dream of building an AI company became a multi-million dollar venture, achieved by selling digital products. In this episode Dan and I talk about his early days in ecommerce, how he came about the idea of creating Science of Skill, tips on selling digital products, and tons more tips on ecommerce and entrepreneurship in general. As a sneak peek, here are some conversation points: How Dan and I virtually met Why and how he started Science of Skill How he found ecommerce as a way to fund his lifelong dr

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