Connor Renton Sold Into Loblaws (and ended up with 20,000 extra units)

My Biggest Lessons with Chris Meade

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Connor Renton is a 3x founder and has been featured across Canadian Media platforms including BlogTO, Global News, and Sixbuzz. He runs one of Canada’s Largest Men’s basketball leagues - Brodie Rec League - with over 10,000 annual players and is cofounder at Boostbear. The worlds first better for you protein candy which has amassed over 75,000 followers in under a month all from organic content. Visit boostbear.com to join the waitlist.

Key moments in this episode.

1:00 How Chris and Connor go connected via cold email

2:45 The history of Booster Bear

4:00 The struggles of going through various food manufacturers

8:00 Power of learning from the mistakes they’ve made.

9:00 Learning Tik Tok and growing through documenting what they’re doing. Even if it’s content that was filmed 3 years ago.

12:00 Dealing with supply chain issues when sourcing protein.

13:00 building an audience os 20,000 emails, and over 75,000 followers on Tik Tok

15:45 Wholesale strategy early on, but not before owning an audience.

18:00 Ability to get your products to your customers early on.

19:36 The Biggest Lesson screwing up forecasting when working with Loblaws

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