Instead of burning budgets on Facebook ads, Talya Elitzer, CEO, Overmind Merchandise [https://www.overmind.co/], grows global merch sales with just seven employees by building worlds, not products.
In this episode, she reveals the underground community-building strategies that transformed grassroots buzz into international demand.
Hear her playbook using this embedded player or by clicking through to your preferred audio streaming service using the links below it.
Lessons from the things she made
- Culture moves in different ways
- Build a world, not just a product
- Scale is a strategy, not a starting point
- Confidence clears confusion
- Vulnerability builds loyalty
- Let instincts override the brief
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