Scott Martin

it really good she was uh very supportive of it we started brainstorming around ideas and then you kind of get with an what are you going to name it then you start looking at domains and social medias and that whole avenue so we kind of decided to build a brand around like me personally it's my nickname i'm scott martin so it's scooters always my nickname and then uh my last name's martin but if you look back in my family

last name was martini and they dropped the eye when they came over from italy so we kind of combined my nickname with family and heritage to my italian roots so combine the two into a brand try and make it like a larger than life persona right like you could be somebody that you're not normally it's kind of like a fictitious type guy well dude i'm the first one to say that that when you go out and it's men's day at the golf course

Really started looking into the manufacturing side, knowing nothing about apparel, started reaching out to just the apparel manufacturers.

So got burnt a couple of times, connected with the wrong people.

Talk about that.

Yeah.

So it's kind of, you know, you're just calling people, you put a lot of trust in them, start going through and it was, Hey, we're looking to start this up, start paying for samples.

And where were you finding people?

The first one was out of China.

It was kind of like a third party told me they were the direct manufacturer, but come to find out they're kind of like a middleman.

So I was dealing with the middleman that would have to go back to a factory and

and it was just very very slow it got very expensive where my samples started to creep up there didn't really have a say on the fabrics didn't really come to find out like you need a tech pack like i need to be in charge of my fit my fabrics all that aspect i really didn't have that there they made them but it wasn't based off stuff i liked and stuff that i really wanted in there

And I get my samples waiting four months.

I'm already probably 7,000 in with this company on samples.

And the polo sleeve comes to you.

And it's like, oh, that's standard on the first run.

And I'm like, something's not right.

Is it?

Is it though?

I don't have time.