Sam G. Winsbury

We Create Thought Leaders Through Personal Branding | 150+ Personal Brands Built | Founder & CEO Kurogo

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We turn entrepreneurs into credible thought leaders through personal branding so they can scale their businesses, unlock untapped opportunities and outlast their competition.

If you’re anything like our clients, you’re an expert in your field. One of the best.

But you just don’t seem to have the reputation you deserve.

You want to be the go-to authority in your industry and become an opportunity magnet.

That way you could…

- Generate inbound leads consistently
- Win clients and customers with ease
- Attract media features
- Attract top talent
- Speak on stage

The list is endless.

We help our clients do just that through the power of personal branding, by:

1. Giving them clarity on their brand and positioning them as industry leaders.
2. Blowing up their social profiles and landing them high-profile media features.
3. Helping them convert their new-found reputation into meaningful opportunities and ROI

And having built 300+ personal brands, we’ve got quite good at it, achieving results like these in the process:

🚀 Jack generated 2.5M views and 6 figures in revenue in 90 days with us 
🚀 Joe and Olly generated millions of views and saw a record month
🚀 Guy added 5 figures of pipeline value in a matter of months
🚀 Shan Grew 24,000 followers and landed $200,000 in sales
🚀 Olie added £50K of inbound revenue to his pipeline
🚀 Sue generated over 8.3 million views in 4 months
🚀 Jemma increased her views by 51,347%
🚀 James became an Amazon Best Seller 
🚀 Tom generated 5M views in 3 months 
🚀 Anna doubled her followers in 1 year
🚀 Debbie generated 11M Views

Your reputation is your biggest asset. Take control of it! 

If you want to see how we could help you build your personal brand, shoot me a dm saying ‘Personal Brand’

If you're not quite ready yet, I post daily content on here showing you how to do it yourself.

Founder

Pret A Manger CEO Pano Christou's journey is incredible.

2000: Assistant Manager
2019: Became CEO

In a world that pushes you to start a new job every 6 months or build a 6 figure business in 3, it’s nice to see there's still a case for working your way up in one place.

Personal Brand Advisor To Leading Entrepreneurs & Execs | 350+ Brands Built | Speaker | Sky, Entrepreneur, Insider | Founder & CEO Kurogo

2020

- Struggling freelancer
- Constantly ignored
- Insecure

2021

- Started taking LinkedIn seriously
- Began building my personal brand
- Started signing more clients

2022

- Hired team members
- Signed loads of clients
- Was the ‘kid with potential’

2024

- Grew rather fast
- Got rather stressed
- Increased my prices

2026

- Run quite a good personal brand agency
- Helped 350+ people build their brands
- Happiest I’ve ever been

What changed? 

1. 6 years of trial and error 
2. Huge focus on authority over everything
3. Realising everything you want is the other side of reach and reputation

More people trusting you as an expert will never not be useful.

So start sharing your ideas/opinions/expertise online.

For 15 years, the growth playbook was “send & spend”.

Run ads → generate leads → sales grinds → numbers game → maths works.

And to be fair… it did work when buying was simple and linear.

2005 buying: see ad → click → buy.

But 2026 buying is not linear.

2026 buying: see you → ignore you → see you again → ask a friend → google you → check your LinkedIn → read comments → watch a video → forget → come back 3 weeks later → then enquire.

It’s not a funnel anymore. It’s a squiggly line.

Inside the chaos, only one thing matters:

Trust.

Because when buyers have unlimited choice and unlimited information, they don’t pick the “best” option on paper.

They pick the option that feels safest.
The one they trust most.

Here’s the truth:

If you still rely on “cheap leads + pushy sales” to do the heavy lifting,
you’re betting against how modern buyers behave.

They do the work before they ever speak to you:

- searching your name
- checking your LinkedIn
- looking for social proof
- scanning for authority
- testing if you’re credible

So if your marketing is only designed for volume

but not designed to create trust…
you’re just paying to enter the messy middle 
(where you’re judged, compared, and forgotten)

That’s why trust-based marketing is winning.

And the best way to collapse the timeline for trust? 

Personal brand.

- 89.4% are more likely to trust a company if a senior leader is seen as an expert
- 98.2% say leadership expertise affects purchasing decisions
- 85.9% would pay at least 2x more to work with a leader in their space

The top 1% in every industry are exploiting this.

Over the last few years, I’ve even used it to:

- help 350+ execs build their brands
- generate 100M+ views
- drive £10M+ in pipeline

And I’ve seen the same patterns again and again.

There are 5 trends the top 1% of industry leaders are using to dominate 2026.

I’m breaking all of them down in a new live training:

“The 2026 Personal Brand Playbook: How To Build A $1M Personal Brand.”

If you want your reputation to do more of the heavy lifting…

Join the live training here: https://lnkd.in/e6ZKYnmB

Ps. Everyone who attends will get our FULL LinkedIn Profile Optimisation Blueprint for free (usually £79)

For years, 'having a great product' was enough.

Your work would do the talking... That world is closing. Fast.

Here is what the data says:

→ 90% of executives think people trust them
→ 30% of customers actually do

Pwc call it 'The Trust Gap'.

That gap is where deals are won and lost.

Best way to close it? Personal branding.

When I look at the 350+ brands we have built, the ones who win treat personal branding as a tool, not an ego trip.

They follow a simple flow:

1️⃣ Position

You become “THE person for X”, not “Another option”.

→ Clear proof
→ Clear promise
→ Clear point of view

2️⃣ Amplify

You show up where your buyers already spend time.

→ Content that speaks to their pain
→ Opinion, frameworks, predictions
→ It acts like a 24/7 salesperson

3️⃣ Convert

You turn attention into pipeline.

→ Clear, low friction next steps
→ Nurturing focus, not chasing
→ Ecosystems, not funnels

We are in the reputation economy.

So today I'm breaking down the 5 trends that will separate the top 1% of leaders from everyone else in 2026:

→ The rise of the executive personal brand
→ The shift from posting to positioning
→ Fame vs authority
→ Ecosystem-driven growth
→ How AI will make or break your reputation

If you want your face to be the one people trust in 2026, now is the time to build it.

Join us for our workshop later where I have nothing to pitch to you:

https://lnkd.in/e6ZKYnmB

View company: Kurogo - Personal Branding Agency

In this session, Sam Winsbury (Founder of Kurogo) will walk through the 5 Trends That Will Separate the Top 1% of Thought Leaders From Everyone Else in 2026:

✅ The rise of the executive personal brand (and why people trust individuals far more than companies

✅ Why positioning beats posting (and how authority compounds)

✅ Why fame ≠ authority (and how ‘smaller’ brands are winning higher-value deals)

✅ The “ecosystem” strategy replacing funnels (how modern consumers really ‘buy before they pay’)

✅ How to use AI without damaging your reputation

Plus everyone who attends will get 3 exclusive bonuses:

🎁 Bonus 1: Our Complete Guide To Building A Personal Brand in 2026
🎁 Bonus 2: Our Profile Optimisation Checklist For Free (Worth £79)
🎁 Bonus 3: A Free 30 Day Trial To The Thought Leader’s Academy (Worth £97)

This session is designed for:

- Founders, CEOs, and marketing teams
- Consultants, coaches, and professional services
- Anyone whose business depends on trust, credibility, and reputation

If you feel like:

- opportunities are harder to come by
- sales cycles are getting longer
- competition feels louder but not better
- or you’re being overlooked despite having a great offer

This session will give you the roadmap to dominating your industry in 2026. 

🗓️ 5th February 2026
⏰ 18.00 GMT / 12.00 CST

View event: How To Build A $1M Personal Brand In 2026: 5 Trends You Must Know

How To Build A $1M Personal Brand In 2026: 5 Trends You Must Know

Founder - Customers Who Click | CRO for eCom brands - turning traffic into customers using "The U.A.M Method"

Most DTC brands want to scale their paid media. But few focus enough on converting that traffic.  

Customer acquisition costs are rising, and while brands invest heavily in driving traffic, too many are wasting thousands of dollars sending traffic to friction-heavy, confusing websites with poor user experiences.  

The brands that win are not just the ones with the best ads. 

They are the ones that ensure every click leads to a seamless, high-converting customer journey from the first visit through to repeat purchases.  

Yet, many brands still rely on best practices, gut instinct, or copying competitors instead of using real customer insights to optimise their websites and landing pages.  

This is where CRO comes in.  

Through data-driven research, behavioural psychology, and rigorous testing, we help brands remove friction, increase conversion rates, and maximise revenue from their paid traffic.  

Giving them room to scale comfortably, and profitably.

At Customers Who Click, we specialise in turning more visitors into buyers, helping ambitious e-commerce brands scale profitably and sustainably.  

We’ve helped businesses see real improvements, like:

🚀 MOD Lighting added $3,300,000 in additional annual revenue.
🚀 Ozarke saw an increase in Revenue Per User of 37.8%.
🚀 Groove increased conversion by 53% and AOV by 23% in 6 months.
🚀 D.Louise added $372,000 in revenue from their existing traffic.
🚀 neat. Doubled AOV and increased revenue by 102.3% with bespoke landing pages.

If you want to get the most from your paid media and scale efficiently, let’s talk.  

👉 Book a free conversion discovery session at www.customerswhoclick.com/apply

Or, if you’re not quite ready, follow along as I share practical tips and insights on optimising your website’s performance.

Will Laurenson

Customers Who Click is growing.

So I’m hiring a CRO Strategist.

Contract / freelance. Fully remote.

Open to different levels of but you must have real DTC / ecommerce experience.

I’m looking for someone who can:

- Lead client CRO strategy
- Run meaningful A/B tests
- Conduct real customer research
- Use behavioural analytics properly
- Turn insights into structured roadmaps

This isn’t a button-colour role.

You’ll take ownership.

You’ll challenge assumptions.

You’ll think commercially, revenue over vanity metrics.

If you understand ecommerce deeply and enjoy figuring out why customers buy (or don’t), we should talk.

Connect & DM me.

CV, portfolio, case studies, Loom - send whatever shows how you think.

I didn’t start an agency to manage millions in ad spend.

Earlier in my career, I worked in startups with large marketing budgets.

Ads worked. Clicks came in. Sign-ups looked good on paper.

But underneath that?

People didn’t convert.
And they didn’t come back.

The default response was always the same:

- Spend more
- Acquire faster
- Push harder

That never sat right with me.

So instead of throwing more money at the problem, I started asking different questions.

Why did people sign up but never pay?

What were they actually hoping would happen next?

Where did things feel unclear, risky, or unfinished?

That curiosity pulled me into customer feedback, testing, email, and product decisions, not because it was trendy, but because it was the only way the numbers actually started to make sense.

That’s why I started Customers Who Click.

Not to run bigger budgets.

But to help businesses grow more efficiently, by understanding customers instead of guessing.

Looking back, the pattern is obvious.

In every phase, the problem wasn’t effort or skill, it was operating without enough challenge.

I saw it again once I was running things myself.

Working from home.
Running a remote team.
No office. No noise. No one pushing back.

From the outside, that looks like freedom.

And it is, eventually.

But early on, it’s easy to stay busy without being challenged.

Easy to make progress without pressure-testing decisions.

For a long time, that showed up in how I communicated too.

I was helpful.
Generous.
Careful not to overstep.

Especially in sales conversations.

If someone didn’t explicitly ask about our services, I’d hold back, worried about sounding salesy or pulling a bait-and-switch.

What’s changed recently isn’t my skillset.

It’s my standard.

Being part of Undeniable, and working alongside people like Nigel Thomas, Micah Dixon and Mark Tweed gave me something I'd been missing for years.

External challenge.
Honest feedback.
And people who expect you to be clear, not just kind.

The irony is that more accountability has led to more freedom.

I’m writing this from an airport lounge, still involved, still thinking, but no longer feeling like everything depends on me being “on” 24/7.

The team runs.
The work continues.
Decisions feel lighter because they’re better tested.

I’ve realised that being direct isn’t ego.

It’s responsibility.

If I genuinely believe something will help someone, staying quiet doesn’t serve them. It just keeps me comfortable.

Sometimes growth isn’t about learning more.

It’s about putting enough challenge around you to finally grow into what you already know.

If your brand can’t clearly answer what it stands for, you don’t have a growth problem.

You have a trust problem.

This week on the podcast, I sat down with James Connell, CEO of LOULOU LOLLIPOP - a Vancouver-based baby lifestyle brand and certified B Corp - and we unpacked what “brand” actually means when the stakes are high.

And in baby, the stakes are very high.

One line from James stuck with me: “Good product is table stakes.”

That’s it. That’s the shift.

We talked about how brand isn’t colours and fonts. It’s storytelling. It’s trust.

It’s what you stand for when a parent is choosing something for their child.

Some of the parts I found most interesting:

– Why service, packaging, and fulfilment should be treated as part of the product

 – The idea that every touchpoint (including customer service) is something the customer has already paid for

 – Winning the “baby shower moment” and entering a family’s life from day one

 – Why creativity thrives when profitability is the constraint

 – And why execution beats perfection every time

We also got into B Corp values, hiring for lived culture (not brand docs that sit in a drive), distributor governance, and how AI could actually make online shopping feel more human again.

If you’re building a consumer brand and thinking beyond short-term conversion tactics, this conversation is worth your time.

Give it a listen and let me know what you think - link in the comments

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$50m+ Generated for DTC Brands With CRO | Host of Customers Who Click 🎙️ (500,000+ downloads)

Most brands are overcomplicating their conversion rate right now.

The best thing you can do for your ecommerce site?

Walk through it like a customer.

Not like a marketer.
Not like someone staring at heatmaps.
Not like someone looking for the next “uplift tactic”.

Like someone who wants to buy.

Stop asking: “What gimmick would push people along this page?”

Start asking: “If I was buying this for myself (or someone else), what would I actually need right now?”

Then go step by step.

1. Can I actually find what I’m looking for?

Is navigation clear? Does search work properly? Or am I filtering through chaos?

2. Are my real questions answered on the PDP?

Shipping. Sizing. Returns. Materials. Comparisons.
Or am I expected to just trust you?

3. Does this page make me want the product?

Not just “does it tick the boxes?”
Does it create desire?

 Good CRO isn’t just reassurance. It’s motivation.

4, Is anything getting in the way between Add to Cart and Checkout?

Aggressive upsells.
Random cross-sells.
Order protection.
Tips (this is a joke, right?).

Every extra choice = friction. Take it back to basics.

Convert people on the reason they came to your site in the first place.

Then, once the fundamentals are solid, worry about squeezing an extra 1–2% from clever tactics.

Most brands don’t have a conversion problem.
They have a clarity and friction problem.

P.S. If you want, comment “CHECKLIST” and I’ll send over the CRO fundamentals audit we use with 7–9 figure brands.

Here are 9 CRO tests you can run right now to improve purchase completion.

Most brands try to increase conversion by redesigning pages.

But the easiest revenue wins happen after the shopper already wants to buy.

1. Remind users what’s included at checkout
Why: Shoppers second-guess value right before paying.
How: Surface free shipping, guarantees, or bonuses near the order summary.

2. Add reassurance next to the “Place order” button
Why: Last-second fear stops more purchases than price.
How: Add one short line about security, returns, or cancellation near the CTA.

3. Turn empty carts into discovery moments
Why: An empty cart feels like a dead end, so users leave.
How: Show recently viewed or popular products inside the cart drawer.

4. Switch cart upsells to vertical scrolling
Why: Horizontal carousels get ignored, especially on mobile.
How: Stack relevant add-ons vertically so they’re naturally scrolled.

5. Add reviews and trust signals inside the cart
Why: The cart is the final confidence check, especially for first-time buyers.
How: Show star ratings, short reviews, or trust badges near items.

6. Show returns info before checkout
Why: Unclear returns create silent hesitation.
How: Add a clear, simple returns or guarantee message near checkout.

7. Auto-apply discounts and confirm they’re active
Why: Coupon hunting breaks purchase momentum.
How: Automatically apply eligible offers and clearly confirm them.

8. Resurface carts for returning visitors
Why: High-intent users shouldn’t have to start over.
How: Show their saved cart with a clear “Resume checkout” path.

9. Auto-open the cart drawer for returners with items
Why: Reduces time to purchase by removing browsing friction.
How: Trigger the cart drawer on entry only for returning users with items.

None of these require a redesign.

None rely on clever copy.

All focus on reducing fear, friction, and thinking.

At this stage, users don’t need convincing.

They need help finishing.

P.S. If your CRO roadmap is still homepage-first, you’re probably leaving money on the table.

Your CRO team might be making your numbers look better…

While quietly making your business worse.

I see this constantly with 7–9 figure DTC brands.

Conversion rate goes up.
Everyone celebrates.
Board decks look healthy.

Three months later?

Revenue is flat.
Margin is tighter.
Paid media feels “harder” to scale.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

You can increase conversion rate while reducing revenue quality.

Example:

CVR: 2% → 2.4%
AOV: $120 → $95

That looks like progress.

It isn’t.

Because revenue per session just dropped.

And revenue per session is what actually compounds.

RPS = CVR × AOV

It forces commercial honesty.

If your team pushes heavy discounts to lift conversion, RPS exposes it.

If merchandising shifts focus to lower-priced SKUs, RPS shows it.

If cheaper traffic converts but spends less, RPS makes that trade-off visible.

Conversion rate answers: “Did they buy?”

Revenue per session answers: “Did this meaningfully grow the business?”

At scale, that distinction matters more than almost anything else in CRO.

I’m not anti-CVR.

It’s a useful diagnostic.

But if it’s your north star, your team will optimise for the easiest lever, not the most valuable one.

And what gets measured gets manipulated.

If you’re a founder or CMO, check your dashboards.

What’s headline metric #1?

If it’s conversion rate, you might be celebrating the wrong wins.

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If you’re obsessing over quizzes, AI tools and shiny CRO tactics…but your FAQ has three questions on it…

This one’s for you.

I sat down with Peter Bollons, Head of E-commerce and Digital Growth at Slick Gorilla, and this was such a refreshingly honest conversation about what actually drives growth in DTC right now.

Peter’s worked across startups and scale-ups, and you can tell. There’s no hype. Just practical, execution-led thinking.

We talked about:

– Why fundamentals still beat fancy features

– How AI shopping tools are forcing brands to write for clarity, not persuasion

– The “80–90% perfect” philosophy – and why shipping slightly imperfect beats months of internal debate

– A 20–30 minute multi-buy setup that drove a 10–15% AOV uplift

– Why their first advent calendar sold out 1,000 units on pre-order before it even hit the warehouse

– The reality of rising ad costs, Amazon margin pressure, TikTok Shop chaos, and running lean teams where “now you’re everything”

One line from Peter really stuck with me:

“It’s better to get something up and running and implemented, just shy of perfect than it is to just keep handing backwards and forwards.”

If you’re leading e-commerce right now, juggling DTC, Amazon, retail, paid media, and trying not to burn your team out…this episode will feel very relatable.

It’s grounded. It’s practical. And it’s full of small, implementable ideas that can move the needle quickly.

If that sounds like your world, I’d genuinely recommend giving this one a listen.

Let me know what you think once you’ve heard it - link in the comments👇

Want to unlock an extra 10% from your website?

Most 7–9 figure brands don’t have a traffic problem.

They have a funnel problem.

Before you brief another test, redesign a PDP, or blame your paid media team…

Look at this:

Sessions → Product Views (~65%)

Product Views → Add to Cart (~12%)

Add to Cart → Start Checkout (~45%)

Start Checkout → Complete Purchase (~55%)

These aren’t perfect benchmarks.

They’re directional sanity checks from working with high-revenue DTC brands.

Now here’s the strategic bit most teams skip:

Don’t optimise everything.

Find your biggest gap vs benchmark.

Start there.

If you’re converting 8% add-to-cart instead of 12%

→ That’s not a checkout issue.
→ That’s positioning, PDP clarity, offer strength, or intent mismatch.

If you’re only getting 30% checkout completion instead of 55%

→ That’s friction.
→ Trust gaps.
→ Payment UX.
→ Delivery anxiety.

Your funnel usually isn’t broken.

One step is.

And that step is where your next 10–20% revenue lift is hiding.

Senior teams scale faster because they prioritise bottlenecks, not ideas.

Go check your numbers before you plan your next test.

Want access to our Looker Studio Funnel Report? 

Comment FUNNEL below and I'll send it over 

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The agency matured.

The website hadn’t.

So we rebuilt it.

Over the last few years, our thinking has evolved a lot.

The strategy is deeper.
The testing is sharper.
he conversations with brands are more commercial.

But the old site didn’t reflect that.

It didn’t properly show:

- How we approach Customer Revenue Optimisation
- The strategic depth behind our experiments
- The standard of brands we work with
- Where we’re taking Customers Who Click next

Now it does.

The case studies are clearer.
The positioning is tighter.
The thinking is better represented.

And this is just the foundation.

We’ll be rolling out:

- A proper home for the podcast
- Detailed blog breakdowns
- More long-form insight into how we think about profitable growth

If you’re running a 7–9 figure DTC brand and scaling paid media feels harder than it should…

Start with the website.

It’ll give you a clear sense of how we approach growth.

Link in the comments...

Conversion Rate ↑ 20%.
Revenue ↓ 8.8%.

Look at the table below.

Nothing is broken.

Sessions are flat.
Orders are up.
Conversion rate improved.

On paper, this looks like a win.

It isn’t.

and this exact pattern shows up more often than most teams realise.

Here’s what happened:

- Conversion rate increased from 2.0% to 2.4%
- Orders increased by 20%
- AOV dropped from £50 to £38

Revenue fell.

Revenue per session fell.

And that’s the number that actually matters.

This is why we don’t optimise just for conversion rate.

Conversion rate moves because of:

- Traffic mix
- Discounting
- Campaign strategy

You can “improve” it by:

- Pushing heavier discounts
- Reducing prices
- Shifting acquisition channels

None of which guarantee better commercial performance.

Revenue per session forces a better question:

Are we extracting more value from the traffic we already have?

It captures:

- Conversion rate
- Average order value
- Traffic quality

In one number.

If you’re a Head of Ecommerce, ask yourself:

Are you reporting a metric that’s easy to celebrate...

Or one that reflects the P&L?

If you’re a founder:

Would you rather see conversion up...

Or profit up?

They are not the same thing.

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Most Shopify advice is recycled.

Same playbooks. Same screenshots. Same “10x” nonsense.

This won’t be.

On Feb 25th (7pm CET / 1pm EST), 15 DTC experts get 5 minutes each to share one proven DTC hack.

No decks full of theory.
No 45-minute ramble.
Just what’s actually working.

I’ll be breaking down:

- The navigation change that lifted mobile revenue by 41.5%.

Simple fix.
Measurable impact.
No gimmicks.

Joining me:

🎯Phil Rees
Lada Khazanov
Phil Byrne
Jochen Hildebrandt 
Burak Yolga
Ernesto Barrientos 
Erin Watt
Anthony Morgan
Arni Gali "Arnius Galinskas"
AJ Saunders
Dušan Popović
Pasha Knish
Chase Coleman
Geoffrey Hurth

Hosted by Nick Penev.

If you run a DTC brand, manage growth, or care about improving unit economics - this is worth the 75 minutes.

👉 Grab your spot here: https://lnkd.in/eqCr7Kg2

“Most brands don’t hit a TAM ceiling. They hit a creative ceiling.”

That line properly stuck with me after recording this episode.

I sat down with Daniel Temm, CEO of Puresport, and the conversation turned into a really honest unpacking of why DTC growth feels so hard once the early traction is gone.

Daniel’s perspective comes from an unusual place. 

Pure Sport started as a CBD brand, no Shopify, no Meta ads, no mainstream payment providers. 

So they were forced to build brand and awareness first…then learn performance later. That experience clearly shaped how he thinks about growth today.

A few things we got into that I think a lot of founders will recognise:

- Why slowing acquisition is often blamed on “market size” when it’s actually the offer or creative

- How small pricing tweaks (£1–£2) can massively change CAC payback

- Why multi-product brands still need a clear hero SKU for acquisition

- The tension between discount-led subscriptions and higher perceived-value bundles

- And why simplicity becomes an obsession as teams, products, and pressure all grow

We also went beyond tactics, into leadership, hiring, and the slightly uncomfortable question of whether founders need to evolve as the business moves into its next phase.

If you’re scaling a DTC brand and feel like you’ve hit a ceiling, or you’re worried you’re overcomplicating things, this episode is well worth your time.

🎧 Give it a listen and tell me: do you think most brands actually hit TAM… or just stop telling a compelling story?

Episode link in the comments

CEO at Puresport - I’m at War with the Culture of Shortcuts. For the Long Run.

Puresport

2,400 people have spent over $1,000 each on a product that costs about $20.

That stat alone stopped me in my tracks.

It’s also why I loved this conversation with Jeff Abraham, CEO of Absorption Pharmaceuticals - Promescent®.

Jeff didn’t build this through clever funnels or aggressive ads.

He built it by obsessing over something most brands ignore: how emotionally heavy the buying decision actually is.

We talked about:

– Why fear and shame matter more than price
– How one product becomes “part of someone’s life forever”
– Why Jeff still emails customers personally when they place big first-time orders
– What happens when ad platforms block medically accurate language
– And his hard rule: never launch anything unless it’s genuinely best-in-class

This wasn’t a hypey growth story.

It was a real look at:

- trust
- repeat behaviour
- emotional buying decisions
- and what customer obsession looks like over 15 years

If you care about retention, loyalty, or building something people come back to again and again, this episode is worth your time.

🎧 Give it a listen and tell me what stood out most - Link in the comments

P.S. That $1,000 stat makes a lot more sense once you hear why people keep coming back.

CEO, Entreprenuer, and Investor

Absorption Pharmaceuticals - Promescent®

They removed 70–80% of their team’s workload.

By answering seven questions.

This week I sat down with Simon Jablon, Creative Director and owner of Linda Farrow - the luxury eyewear brand he rebuilt from zero into a globally distributed business operating in around 100 countries.

What we unpacked wasn’t theory.

It was this:

Most teams are drowning in work that shouldn’t exist.

We talked about:

 – Why being busy isn’t the same as moving the needle
 – How comfortable tasks quietly replace meaningful ones
 – Why B2B customers often get treated like admin
 – And how simplifying just seven recurring questions removed up to 80% of internal workload

One line that stuck with me:

“I employ people to talk to other people, not service the master that is admin.”

If you run a brand, lead a team, or feel like you’re constantly firefighting… this one will probably hit.

🎧 Link’s in the comments.

P.S. What’s one recurring task in your business that probably shouldn’t exist anymore?

“Everybody in ecommerce is doing the easy lift.”

Buy Meta ads.
Buy Google ads.
Scale until it gets expensive.

But what happens when that stops working?

That’s what I unpacked this week with Barclay Saul, CEO and co-founder of Kyrgies.

Kyrgies is built around a single product - felt slippers made in Kyrgyzstan - and a very deliberate decision not to chase trends or commoditised categories.


Barclay didn’t even start in ecommerce. He was a music teacher before building the brand. But his background around factories and garment production gave him a deep respect for quality control and long-term thinking .

In this episode we got into:

- Why they’ve significantly dialled back Meta spend
- Why word of mouth has always been their strongest channel
- The decision to pull the plug on Amazon entirely
- How ranked-choice customer surveys shape product decisions
- When customer research works…and when gut instinct matters more

And a fascinating scientific study showing their vegetable-tanned leather soles actively kill bacteria in the home

What I liked most about this conversation is that it wasn’t theory.

It was about making uncomfortable decisions:

- Reducing dependency on paid.
- Building wholesale relationships.
- Running trunk shows.
- Expanding internationally.

Growing in ways that require more effort, but build more resilience.

If you’re feeling the pressure from rising ad costs, or you’re too reliant on one acquisition channel, this one’s worth your time.

Have a listen and let me know your biggest takeaway.

Link in the comments

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