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  • Selling Naked

  • A Revolutionary Approach to Launching Your Brand Online
  • By: Jesse Horwitz
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
  • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Selling Naked

By: Jesse Horwitz
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
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Publisher's summary

"A candid, behind-the-scenes look at how successful direct-to-consumer brands such as Hubble are launching their businesses on platforms like Facebook and Google." (Lisa Sherman, president and CEO, the Ad Council)

Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Award

"A must-read for anyone interested in starting a new business." (Moiz Ali, CEO, Native)

E-commerce start-ups have exploded in the marketplace, selling merchandise and services directly to consumers, often through mobile phones. They skip the middlemen, avoid the lower margins of retail channels of distribution, strike deals directly with manufacturers and suppliers, and, in doing so, save consumers money. Among the companies that are part of this e-commerce revolution are Dollar Shave Club, Casper, Quip, Peloton, and Hubble Contacts.

In Selling Naked, Hubble Contacts cofounder and co-CEO Jesse Horwitz shows entrepreneurs and enterprise companies alike precisely how to conceive, launch, and grow an e-commerce brand by using paid marketing social media channels. Horwitz shows entrepreneurs how to test consumer interest before spending a dime by placing mock ads on Facebook and other social media. Using this method, Hubble Contacts got an astonishing 2,000 signups in four days, and as a result, raised $3.5 million in seed money. Hubble ran a second experiment to see if consumers would actually sign up for the service, which led to a second multimillion-dollar investment. Horwitz shows how start-ups can cut through the metrics bullshit to focus on the one metric that really matters; how to use third-party tools rather than build everything from scratch; and how to tell a great story to investors and frame your digital offering. In addition to running Hubble, Jesse Horwitz now works with established Fortune 500 enterprises to help build their e-commerce brands within the landscape of a larger retail environment.

Selling Naked is the definitive playbook on how to start up a successful direct-to-consumer business.

©2020 Jesse Horwitz (P)2020 Random House Audio
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"Jesse Horwitz is a pioneer of the Direct Brand Economy, and Selling Naked is a vivid guide to how he, thousands of other entrepreneurs, and perhaps you can create powerful global brands out of great ideas." (Randall Rothenberg, CEO of IAB)

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For ideas worth selling

I developed a hammock that hangs inside the 2021 4-door Bronco. After listening to this book twice during a camping trip to the Davis Mountains of Texas, I decided to make my idea public on Facebook. I was contacted immediately by people who wanted to hang in their Broncos. I have starting making hammocks for paying clients. This is all still so fresh and exciting. If you have an idea, but are not a salesperson, give this book a listen.

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