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In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Tim Swindle, co-founder of PaddleSmash. Tim shares his journey from growing up in Chicago and being inspired by his entrepreneur father to his early ventures, including a golf teaching business at age 12 and a successful software company called PointDrive, which was later acquired by LinkedIn. He also discusses his passion project, a board game called Utter Nonsense, which eventually led to the creation and success of PaddleSmash, a hybrid game combining elements of pickleball and spikeball. Tim emphasizes the importance of learning from early business experiences, finding the right partners, and the iterative process of product development.Tim highlights his entrepreneurial spirit and resilience, detailing how PaddleSmash was born from a collaboration with his business partner, Scott Brown, and the ingenuity of a father of six, Joe Bingham, who created the initial prototype. Tim explains the challenges of transforming a heavy prototype into a market-ready product, the strategic steps taken to manufacture it, and their successful marketing efforts, including a viral presence on social media and an appearance on Shark Tank. Despite not finalizing a deal on Shark Tank, Tim remains optimistic about PaddleSmash's future, aiming for continued growth and international expansion.Step into the realm of game-making genius with Tim Swindle's inspiring tale of creating PaddleSmash, only on this episode of The First Customer!Guest Info:PaddleSmashhttps://paddlesmash.comTim Swindle's LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/timswindle/Connect with Jay on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jayaigner/The First Customer Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@thefirstcustomerpodcastThe First Customer podcast websitehttps://www.firstcustomerpodcast.comFollow The First Customer on LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/company/the-first-customer-podcast/

Tim Swindle is an entrepreneur and investor, helping build and exit multiple companies. As an early investor and employee at PointDrive, a Chicago-based sales software company, he had roles leading sales, marketing, and operations before the company was acquired in 2016 by LinkedIn. During this time, Tim created Utter Nonsense, an entertaining card game that was quickly carried by several retailers and ultimately within all 1,800 Target stores. Utter Nonsense was acquired in 2017 by private equity backed PlayMonster. In 2018 Tim co- founded Playtacular, a boutique publishing company that designs and creates innovative toys and games. In addition to this, Tim is a Managing Member of Hubbard Street Capital, an early stage venture investing firm. Tim lives in Nashville, with his wife, daughter and very good boy, Tucker. Scott Brown is the co-founder of Marbles: The Brain Store, a retail concept focused on building better brains through play, which eventually grew to 40 stores, a website, a catalog business and a proprietary product division. While there, he headed the curation of all store products and formed Marbles: Brain Workshop, overseeing the creation of more than 150 proprietary products. In early 2017 the Marbles brand was acquired by Spin Master. For the past three years, Scott has served as VP of Creative over Games at Spin Master, helping bring dozens more games to market. Beginning in January 2020, Scott will be leaving Spin Master to form an independent game publishing studio. Scott lives in Utah along with his wife and four daughters.In This Conversation We Discuss:[00:00] Intro[01:03] What is PaddleSmash?[02:23] How Tim got started in the game space[04:05] How Scott and Tim met and formed PaddleSmash[06:50] Where the idea of PaddleSmash came from[08:08] How to come up with ideas or be inspired[10:29] Look for opportunities, make it unique[11:53] Sponsor: Electric Eye https://electriceye.io/connect[12:49] Sponsor: JSON-LD for SEO https://jsonld.app[14:14] Joe Bingham's backstory[15:47] 2 routes you can go in the toys and games space[17:13] What royalty contracts look like?[18:47] The upsides and downsides to licensing your idea[21:33] What happened after licensing PaddleSmash?[24:47] PaddleSmash is on the testing and learning phase[25:56] The inherent virality to outdoor games[28:29] Increasing the surface area of luck[29:11] Picking an audience from a hybrid[30:13] Where to find PaddleSmash products?[30:54] Sell the products that you love[32:05] Get feedback and just jump in with your productResources:Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on YoutubeA new outdoor game that combines the best elements of Pickleball and Spikeball into a fun, and easy-to-learn game paddlesmash.comConnect with Tim linkedin.com/in/timswindleConnect with linkedin.com/in/thescottbrownTake the first step towards Shopify success electriceye.io/connectGet your free structured data audit for your store jsonld.appIf you're enjoying the show, we'd love it if you left Honest Ecommerce a review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge impact on the success of the podcast, and we love reading every one of your reviews!

Welcome To Paddlesmash Paddlesmash creators Tim Swindle And Scott Brown have been entrepreneurs for over 10 years, having launched multiple companies. His first Kickstarter in 2013 was successfully funded for a game he co-created called, Utter Nonsense. It achieved rapid commercial interest and ultimately went on to be sold in Target, Walmart and other major retailers around the country. He has since brought numerous products to market in the toy, game, and novelty space.   How The Dots Joined Up For Tim As an early investor and employee at PointDrive, a Chicago-based sales software company, he had roles leading sales, marketing, and operations before the company was acquired in 2016 by LinkedIn. During this time, he worked on his own future making the most of all the time he had available. In 2018 Tim co- founded Playtacular, a boutique publishing company that designs and creates innovative toys and games. In addition to this he also is heaviliy involved in Paddlesmash a great new family game brought to him by its inventor Joe Bingham. Tim lives in Nashville, with his wife, daughter and his dog Tucker. So what is it about the uber competitive toy market that excites him and keeps him moving forward daily? And how can someone listening today with an idea for a toy move it to the shops quickly? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show, to join up more dots with the one and only Mr Tim Swindle

Scott Brown & Tim Swindle are the creators of PaddleSmash, a new outdoor active game that combines elements of Pickleball and Spikeball. Scott Brown is the co-founder of Marbles: The Brain Store, a retail concept focused on building better brains through play, which eventually grew to 40 stores, a website, a catalog business and a proprietary product division. While there, he headed the curation of all store products and formed Marbles: Brain Workshop, overseeing the creation of more than 150 proprietary products. Tim Swindle is an entrepreneur and investor, helping build and exit multiple companies. As an early investor and employee at PointDrive, a Chicago-based sales software company, he had roles leading sales, marketing, and operations before the company was acquired in 2016 by LinkedIn. During this time, Tim created Utter Nonsense, an entertaining card game that was quickly carried by several retailers and ultimately within all 1,800 Target stores. Utter Nonsense was acquired in 2017 by private equity backed, PlayMonster. Guest Links Website: www.paddlesmash.com SJS Website: Thesuccessjourneyshow.com Facebook: @successjourneyshow Instagram: @successjourneyshow Twitter: @success_show TikTok: @thesuccessjourneyshow

Este episodio habla de 5 situaciones de venta con la herramienta Pointdrive disponible mediante Linkedin Sales Navigator Team y Enterprise. Soy Manolo Vidal, Consultor de Marketing y ventas enfocado en estrategia digital. Estoy certificado por Linkedin sales Solutions en colaboración con Execus social selling y soy profesor del postgrado del programa avanzado de ventas del Instituto de Empresa (IE) dando la materia el vendedor del siglo XXI. Mas info: www.manolovidal.com

Este episodio habla de 5 situaciones de venta con la herramienta Pointdrive disponible mediante Linkedin Sales Navigator Team y Enterprise.Soy Manolo Vidal, Consultor de Marketing y ventas enfocado en estrategia digital. Estoy certificado por Linkedin sales Solutions en colaboración con Execus social selling y soy profesor del postgrado del programa avanzado de ventas del Instituto de Empresa (IE) dando la materia el vendedor del siglo XXI.Mas info: www.manolovidal.com

Episode 54: Markus Erlandsson talks to Brian Galicia from Microsoft about Relationship sales and how that fit together with Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn, the discussion starts by Brian explaining what it is and how it works, and exemplifies how privacy works. Then goes on to discuss PointDrive as part of LinkedIn Sales Navigator and some … Continue reading Relationship sales with Brian Galicia

Welcome to episode 142, on the week that the roll-out of the new desktop interface has really begun……Have you got it yet? Please get in touch and let me know your thoughts if you have. I found out from a very good source this week that LinkedIns internal name for the new user interface is ‘Neptune’ which got me thinking “How do they come up with these names?” You might associate Neptune with the Roman God of the seas but Neptune is also a planet - Interestingly I read that Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Could these be a reference to the removal of Advanced Search I wonder?! Want the Old UI back? There is a short-term workaround The guys at Autopilot for LinkedIn have devised a short term way of accessing the old UI if you wish to (I’m not recommending you do). Here is what they had to say; We found a temporary solution for those of you who have already been rolled over to LinkedIn's "New UI" and who still want to be able to use Autopilot. For now, you can use a VPN software that allows you to change our IP address location to a country like Spain, Romania, Finland, Italy, etc (not the USA or Canada). When you are logged in to LinkedIn from an IP address that originates in an obscure country, you will be shown the OLD UI. This will buy you time for a little bit while we work on fixing the issue with how our tool works inside of LinkedIn's new UI. Go here and click the Link that says "Hide My Ass", and try out their 1 month subscription for €9.99/month, which I believe is around $10.63 USD/month. I’m not sure this will work so be careful, I personally found that once I had the new UI, my view limits were drastically reduced in LinkedIn.com and I found my account suspended in no time! Tags/notes and Sales Navigator Following on from LinkedIn’s announcement that Takes and notes were no longer supported in the free version of LinkedIn and to continue using them you need to upgrade to Sales Navigator I thought I would take a closer look at how this transition works. It doesn’t - it’s a disaster! Yes you can upload your tags to Sales Navigator but all that does is add them to the list of tags, they are not officially assigned to a profile until you save that profile as a Lead, they are greyed out until you save. This shows a complete lack of understanding of how we use tags. The whole point of tags is that they are an easy way to find people you have categorised in some way - the reason you do this is because you won’t be able to remember everyone by name. In Sales Navigator, Tags can only be used as a filter in a search result but the imported tags are not assigned to profiles until they are saved as leads….so how do you find those profiles you tagged in LinkedIn.com? You can’t! Slideshare Update. An update on this subject from last week about the potential demise of Slideshare. Someone pointed out that a plausible explanation would be that LinkedIn are looking to merge Slidehare and Pointdrive. Pointdrive are a business acquired by LinkedIn earlier this year who produce a product that is used to communicate and share content with customers and prospects. Boolean Search in the New User Interface I have seen several people state that you can still use Boolean search queries in the new UI. I really don’t believe this is true. LinkedIn have clearly stated it is no longer supported in Recruiter Lite, so why would it be possible in the free version? I think it is easy to believe that boolean is working but this may well be the algorithm doing the work for you. I recently demonstrated the best way to search LinkedIn in this video; Are Recruiters Walking Away From LinkedIn…..And Is This Such a Bad Thing? I read this excellent article this week from Katrina Collier; Recruiters, would you accept this from any other service provider? This brings us back to the Facebook argument again! I know a little about Katrina and I have always considered her a highly credible expert in social recruiting. She doesn’t elaborate on what she means by ‘being creative’ to be able to recruit successfully via Facebook - unless you buy her training but my guess is that it involves some form of search (although career data is weak on Facebook) combined with building communities and groups. These are all viable methods and I can’t argue with the logic of sourcing candidates from a variety of sources and the data she backs her argument with in favour of Facebook is pretty compelling. Judging by the comments on her piece and the feedback I am getting from Recruiters, I think it’s probably true that many Recruiters will soon be spending a lot less time on LinkedIn. Whilst LinkedIn don’t want this, I suspect they have factored it into their plan - sales of LinkedIn Recruiter are less likely to be affected, I suspect its the lower level premium accounts and free users that will walk away and LinkedIn, now backed by the financial powerhouse that is Microsoft can afford to lose some revenue in the interim period before Sales Navigator really takes off. Are LinkedIn users going to miss Recruiters? I doubt it! Good Recruiters who build relationships will continue to stay active on LinkedIn (as well as other places). Facebook could be a place to talk about jobs and careers but it is not a place to talk about business, LinkedIn allows us to keep our personal lives personal and not have our Facebook time interrupted by work related subject matter. I believe the vast majority of people feel this way. Recruiters who are only interested in posting endless jobs and sending inappropriate messages to potential candidates will probably go to Facebook….good riddance. This could actually help make LinkedIn a better place! 1. A voicemail question fro Jaz about the annoying habit that some users have developed of putting keywords in their name field. 2. I recently purchased the Sales Navigator. Thank you for all the information that you have put out about it. It really helped me decide if I was willing to pay for it. Now that I have it, I have a question about segmenting prospects and the recommendations that LinkedIn provides. I am a financial advisor, but I also volunteer with a couple industry organizations. So here is the issue I am having. I have many connections that are other financial professionals. They are not prospects to become my clients, however, they are prospects for joining industry, or professional organizations that I participate in. I think that because I have all these connections, LinkedIn thinks that I want to prospect other financial professionals. However, these are not the sales leads that I need. Is there a way to segment leads into potential clients and potential colleagues? How do I tell LinkedIn Sales Navigator that I want client leads that fit my target demographic (professional women, 25-40)? I answer both questions in detail in the podcast. Go to the top of this page to listen to the show.

  Learn how segmentation can help you gain success and why spray and pray tactics are a thing of the past. What are the results of well-structured segments? 39 percent of marketers who segment see higher open rates, while 34 percent experience lower unsubscribe rates, eMarketer reported several years ago — and the impact is likely to be even higher in today’s cluttered environment. Tim Swindle of Pointdrive shares that companies generate higher conversion rates and deeper sales conversations when they segment their audiences appropriately. Andiamo! About Vincenzo Landino: Vincenzo is an entrepreneur, speaker and host of the Brand Boost Podcast. He is the the founder and Creative Director of Fifty 2 Creative, a digital ad agency specializing in brand amplification and digital storytelling. With experience as a brand correspondent, Vincenzo’s portfolio includes a 1 billion impression campaign launch for Applebee’s as well as work for Mazda, Kia Motors, Paul Mitchell Schools, Barilla Pasta, DC United, Tinder, and Zoomph. Outside of his professional life, Vincenzo is a die-hard Steelers fan, avid golfer and wine maker. About Fifty 2 Creative Fifty 2 Creative is a Digital Media Agency that focuses on brand amplification, customer experience and storytelling through various digital platforms. We strive to master the ins and outs of your business, who your ideal customer is and how to deliver the best experience to them every time. We take a unique approach to each client knowing full well that every business has different needs in the digital marketplace. Above all else, Fifty 2 Creative’s mission is to build long-lasting, meaningful relationships. Our clients are part of our family, not just another checkmark in our portfolio.   Voice Over Artist, Rachel Creveling Rachel owns Belle Strategies, a social media marketing company specializing in turning followers into customers. She has been providing voice over talent for 6 years and has recorded for TV, Radio, and Podcasts. Find her at www.bellestrategies.com.   Enjoy the podcast? Give us a rating or a review on iTunes!