Chapter 1: How did Josh Snow bootstrap his way to $100 million in sales?
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However, right now we're going through the 100 million mastermind experience and this gentleman has been one of the instructors for all seven years. What does that mean?
We bring in people that are between $5 and $50 million in revenue as members, and then we bring in instructors, like our guest, who have done over $100 million in sales, spent over $100 million on ads, or been seen by over 100 million people. This gentleman has done all three. He's got the trifecta.
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Yeah, and you know, I love you. And that was awesome, man. And it's a huge pleasure to be on the show again. And so my name is Josh. I'm most famous for my last name, Snow, which is Snow Oral Care. So I came up with this crazy idea that I could go against Colgate and Crest and build a market share and mind share in the thing you do twice a day other than poop and eat. which is brush your teeth.
And so I've worked with the Kardashians. I've worked with so many top-level celebrities. And we've been able to build a brand that helps people feel better about their smile, more confident. Not just in their aesthetic appearance, but the ingredients we use in the product. So we've made a better-for-you whitening brand that you might have heard of, and it's called Snow.
So I'm Josh Snow, and it's a pleasure, bro.
I mean, you're up against household name, 800-pound gorillas, whole aisles and shelves dedicated to these brands. Literally everyone can name them. It's very rare in any product category where literally everyone from 6 years old to 90 years old says this brand, that brand, that brand. They know Colgate. They know this brand. They know Crest. These are household name brands.
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Chapter 2: What strategies did Josh use to compete against Colgate and Crest?
But if you have something stuck in your mind that you can't get rid of, and you're just thinking of it over and over again, because keep in mind, I bootstrapped the first $100 million in total sales, right? So I did it by myself. I didn't need... No investors? I did try. A little. A little. But nobody wanted to join me in selling toothpaste, oral care, against the big, big giants.
And I just couldn't get out of my head. I'm going to be honest with you. I couldn't. And I wanted to a little bit. I'm stupid. What am I doing? This is Procter & Gamble. They're big, right?
They've been around for a little bit. I think I understand.
Hold on a second. It's the whole aisle. It's the whole walkway. I don't think people understand. There is not a retail store in the country. Liquor store, convenience store, random store in the middle of Alabama that doesn't sell these Colgate, Crest, Procter & Gamble type brands. You were fighting with them. How? How were you taking this market share?
I will tell you that adversity is your superpower. It doesn't matter if you're born as a billionaire's son, daughter, whatever. It doesn't matter. Adversity shows its face in many different ways. How you deal with that adversity could be your superpower. I really believe it. And it doesn't matter if you're broke. It doesn't matter if nobody believed in you.
That adversity creates an energy inside of you that you control how you output that energy. And I think there's a lot of power. Look, I mean, I could have sold whatever, right? Sweaters. Sweaters, whatever. But I wanted something that meant something. To me and my community, right? I'm Latino, I'm first generation, all this stuff.
I wanted to choose something that meant something, but it meant something to me. And when it means something to you, you have to do something about it. You almost feel compelled to do it. And I don't know how to put that in words, but I think that when I was undergoing jaw surgery and I just...
I did not feel okay with the manner of kind of the manure of the manner in the manner that it was presented to me. But I think that I didn't like what was there. And what do we always think as entrepreneurs? There's got to be a better way. We got to make it. And I did, I will say. Selfishly, I wanted something so difficult that I would never succeed in. Because that's the life I grew up in.
That's deep. When you walk into a retail chain and you look them in the face and say, buy Snow Teeth Lighting, buy Snow Oral Care, we are going to take market share from the brands you've been buying for decades, if not 10, 30, 40, 50 years. Hey, I'm Josh Snow. Here's my oral care household name chain store. Buy my products and take away some of their space and give it to me.
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Chapter 3: How can adversity become a superpower for entrepreneurs?
The aura?
Yeah. It's definitely the aura. I think ultimately it's the aura, yeah. I think you nailed it. It's the aura. You walk down and you feel something, you want to try something different. Because, I mean, I've talked to, we have millions and millions of customers. But that's like, we're like a baby company. Even though... Yeah, 100 million, 200 million, that sounds like a lot to us.
That's a day for some of these brands. Correct. Like an actual day.
Yeah. Like, literally a day. And you're sitting there and you're like, damn.
What if they wanted to buy you right now? What would you do?
I'm not ready to, man. Like, we got some great partnership.
Like, we just... You keep fighting the good fight?
I think you got to stay in the business long enough to make your own luck. You can't die. You cannot die. If it's a big industry, you cannot die. Because if you die, you give it up to whoever fucking wants it. Freaking wants it, you know? And I think that in that moment, you have admitted a certain level of defeat that is so soul-crushing to a type of entrepreneur that I am that I couldn't do it.
And a lot of people think, you know, oh, he's got a Rolls Royce, he's got this, all this stuff. I paid myself a penny from Snowe. Nothing.
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Chapter 4: What should founders know before pursuing celebrity partnerships?
I bootstrapped it with my partner. Actually, less than 20 people. We sold that thing to a public company. I would be willing to sell if snow is the growth factor. That's it. I said, what? I'm good. Like, I'm good. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know me. Like, I'm good. Why would I, for what? Extra 100 million in my pocket? What am I going to do with that? We can figure it out.
We'll spend that. We'll figure that out. So as you're building this brand, you win the deals with Floyd Mayweather and Chuck Liddell and the Kardashians and all these different interesting characters. What do you think about the celebrity partnership category if someone out there is thinking that they want to go do it? What should they know about trying to do a deal with a big-name celebrity?
Dude, you're the only guy that has done more celebrity deals in my circle than me. It's like, and you're my multiple. Nobody else.
I'm just old. No, no, no, it's not that.
But, like, no, but really, like, you're, like, deep-seated, right? And I'm deep-seated, too, because I had to figure it out. I didn't know Hollywood. I didn't know anything, right? You just got to kind of go in there and figure it out while you figure it out, you know? Like, boom. But I would say... So I bought a domain years ago called affiliate marketing.com. It's a good domain.
It's a good one. Yeah. But I didn't know what it would become. And it has changed my entire outlook on the entire industry, man. I've been in e-commerce since I was 13. So about 20 years, I'm 33. So 20 years, right? I don't like to say it that much because I'm like, damn, I've been in there a long time.
And there's the old reminiscent version of me that's like, you should have $7 billion right now and 300 yachts. There's a part of me that feels that. But I was being real with you. Would you retire?
If someone gave you $7 billion, would you never work again?
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What is Josh's blunt investing filter for entrepreneurs?
You are willing to spend money on ads. You are willing to beat your chest and build your brand, talk about your brand. Why do you think most people are like, I'm going to post once a week or once a month about my brand and it's going to work out great. They're scared to post about it.
It's normal. It's normal and I hate to say that. And you do too. We know this. We know this. But I've started brands with the biggest celebrities in the world. Do you have as well? We know. But that's a perfect question because I would say, who cares? Who cares, really? Oh my gosh, so-and-so is going to see me promoting some product where I'm making money for my family. God forbid. God forbid.
Oh my gosh. You become an influencer and you're getting all these views and you're making money for your family. God forbid that, huh? We care too much about what other people think. Nobody cares more about what people think than themselves. They do not care about you. And not to say, nobody cares about you. It's just like... They don't actually. They don't.
I'm not trying to be all dark and stuff. It's just people don't care as much as you think. They care about themselves and their own survival. It is primal. I don't care if you're Jewish, Muslim. You can be anything you want. I love you. Perfect. We all believe the same.
people or self-preservation experts we must be so we self-preserve at the layer at which we have found the most comfort in exchange for our goals so then what are the variables in that and i think i've gone old enough now that i can see a little bit of that i go wow uh maybe i shouldn't have blown tens of millions of dollars maybe But also, I did it. I learned from it. I'll tell you, Dan.
I went to my number one mentor in my life and in my business. And I went to breakfast with him at First Watch. You know First Watch? It's cute. So we went to breakfast. Boom. Actually, we were probably at somewhere else. But whatever. We go to First Watch a lot together. And he goes, how's business, Josh? And he's 89 now. And I said, it's not as good as I'd like it to be.
It was like the first time it was like a negative response. In 15 years of him mentoring me. You know his response, man? He laughed. He laughed at me. Because he said, for you to learn that at 30 instead of 60, you are blessed. Shut up. It was like, I'm going to share everything with you here, but he was like, shut up. Stop complaining. It's not like a little crab baby boy.
I was like, I'm hurting. This is tough for me, you know? We've been used, like every business I've started is double, double, double, double dutch, like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I've never encountered a problem, and you're my mentor, so I'm going to bring that to you, and you're going to laugh at me. I think that whether you believe in God or not, whatever, it doesn't matter.
You are built for what you are in front of. Whether you choose to own it in the devices that you should own it in is up to your wisdom, which comes from experience and other people's experience.
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Chapter 6: How can entrepreneurs choose meaningful philanthropy?
I'm over here like, don't do it. But... If you can't obsess over it, control it, or it doesn't fit your dynamic of world that you've created, that you control, do not do it. If you're willing to lose it times five, how about that? Fine. Make it easy. You put $100,000 in, you're willing to lose $500,000. Negative. Negative $500,000 on your bankroll. Do it.
If you're not, then don't cry about it when you lose your money. Because that's called investing, brother. You lose money, you make money. You lose money, you make money. It's up to you. The highest paid skill in the world is judgment. Warren Buffett. It's the highest paid skill. If you don't have it, you don't have it.
So don't ask if I can do it because you're going to lose a little bit of money. We're going to put it on the chin.
Let's talk about the charity side of things. Do you think that brands or products or services should have a certain percentage go to charity or philanthropy?
The easy answer is yes. But I'm going to, of course... Elaborate. Elaborate on the answer. That's why you're here. I know. But I think you've got to... This is not a yes or no podcast.
I know. Definitely not.
Definitely not. Well, I think... Choose it. Like, choose it, you know? Like, feel good about it, you know?
Like, can you tell... Like a charity that you care about, you mean.
Correct. Like, just make it worthwhile, you know? Don't just check a box. Correct. Tax write-off, boom. Unfortunately and fortunately, the tax code is written that way that you can just write off a bunch of money, writing it to make a wish. But if it's, you know, for me, growing up, I didn't have a lot of money. So having lunch, breakfast, these things... They sound like necessities, right?
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Chapter 7: What challenges do entrepreneurs face when starting a brand?
So I would just say that, not that I'm better than anyone. It's just if you're going to give to an organization, choose it. Go on Charity Navigator and see, does 99% of the money go to the kids? Or do a little bit of research. Because as a donor, you have just as much responsibility of where that money goes. And I think that is overseen in the majority of population.
But yeah, just choose something. I don't care. You can tell me. I donate to Kidney Foundation. Love that. I took their chair navigator. All right. I love that. It's better than doing nothing.
There's only one question that I ask on every episode, and I've never gotten the same answer before. I'm not going to get the same answer right now. Josh, no.
No.
You end up selling Snow Oral Care for billions of dollars. AffiliateMarketing.com for another billion dollars. And all these different brands and products, you end up becoming a multi-billionaire, which is a foregone conclusion for the Josh Snow future. But along the way, you end up having two beautiful children. What percentage of your net worth do you leave to those children?
80%. Fuck them up.
Definitely fuck them up.
80%.
No, I know for sure. Yeah, I will.
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Chapter 8: How does Josh envision his legacy and the future of his brand?
Yeah. What does she do? She's dope. She built a massive, one of the, I think the biggest, private collection of private art and made it a public exhibition. Fuck yeah. I don't know. If I'm that rich, she wants ponies. She's got pony outlet. Everybody gets to ride a pony. But I'm going to teach my kids well enough. And if I don't, I'm going to spend it all.
Where can people find you online? Where can they find the brand's product services?
I'm at Josh Snow on Instagram and at Snow everywhere for my brand that I've given my life to and I'm very proud of. And then I'm on a TV show that you were on and crushed it. GoInPublic.com. So GoInPublic.com, you can see my TV show as well. But I'm at Josh Snow, at Snow for my brand. And you'll kind of figure it out from there for sure.
So as you guys know, I've been running these commercial free for almost three years now. I have done some endorsement deals with a company called go high level because it's part of my entire ecosystem. They're my whole backend. They were just with us at dinner a few minutes ago. Like go high level is not something I'm giving you like an affiliate code to, it's just a brand that I'm part of.
And then fan bases, fan bases, obviously some company you've heard me talk about over and over and over cause all my immersion processing, everything goes through fan bases. Again, it's not an affiliate code thing. It's just these are brands that go high level and fan bases that are part of my ecosystem.
When you look at Josh Snow, it is a foregone conclusion that he's building multi-billion dollar companies. You're going to see them on social. You're going to see them in the press. You're going to see them do celebrity partnerships. These podcasts that you listen to are not just for you. It's for your friends, family, and followers. It's also for people from your past, present, and future.
You might only be focused on real estate. You're like, ah, what do I care about snow teeth whitening? Maybe one of your friends in the future might be someone creating a consumer product. You're like, oh, you should follow Josh Snow. Listen to this Monday Mondays podcast. You might be at a lunch two years from now and remember, oh, there's this episode with Josh Snow. You should listen to it.
That's why these podcasts are so important. They're not just for you. They're people for your past, present, and future. I appreciate you guys. Check us out on TheMoneyMondays.com. Check out Josh Snow. We'll see you guys next week.
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