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The Spanx Story: What's Underneath the Incredible success of Sara Blakely's Billion Dollar Empire
Written by Charlie Wetzel and Stephanie Wetzel
Narrated by Hayley Cresswell
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About this audiobook
What can you learn from one of the most successful companies in the world? The Spanx Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled entrepreneur Sara Blakely to dominate the shapewear industry and become a billionaire.
Sara Blakely had a problem. She had a beautiful pair of white designer pants hanging in her closet just calling out to her to wear them, even though they accented her least favorite feature: cellulite. After searching high and low for a solution and coming up empty, an idea was born: Spanx.
The Spanx Story chronicles Sara’s journey from long nights researching patent and trademark law, to years of cold shoulders she received from the titans of the pantyhose industry, to the cold call that led to the shelves of Nieman Marcus. It was a long road of incredible hard work and determination that led Spanx to become the iconic brand it is today.
Through Sara’s story, you will learn:
- How to develop an idea and turn it into a business.
- How to start a company with very little capital by thinking outside of the box and dedicating every spare moment to your goal.
- How to recognize when it’s better to hire a CEO than to be the CEO.
- How to stay the course and continue to believe in your idea, despite naysayers and going against an industry resistant to innovation.
The Spanx Story educates and inspires entrepreneurs and innovators to find the problem for their solutions and persevere through the hard work that goes into building a billion-dollar company.
Author
Charlie Wetzel
Charlie Wetzel is a writer, teacher, and cook. He wrote The Marvel Studios Story, the screenplay for the award-winning short film “The Candy Shop,” and more than a hundred books with New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell. When Charlie isn’t writing, he’s creating cooking videos for his YouTube channel “Becoming a Cook” with Stephanie, his wife of twenty-eight years, or they’re spending time with their three adult children.
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Reviews for The Spanx Story
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a must read for up and coming entrepreneurs! Many valuable lessons are within!