American Pickers Store Sales
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Sam Parr shares a story about the successful retail store he worked at for the TV show American Pickers.
"We had this store in Nashville - it was really small, maybe 4,000 square feet or less. People would complain all the time saying 'Oh I thought this was gonna be huge.' It was tiny, but people would come from all over the world - Australia, Europe, all over the South. People from the South loved this stuff.
They would come to look at all the items they'd seen on TV. It was free to come in. This was around 2010, and on a good day we would sell $30,000 in t-shirts and mugs just at that store. We would crush it just off merchandise sales from that small location."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.