The ChargeItSpot Story: A field guide for getting (and keeping) retailers as clients

Douglas Baldasare, ChargeItSpot, B2B, Customer Acquisition, Physical Product

If you’re thinking about a manufactured product or if you’re thinking about going after retail stores as customers you have got to listen to this interview.

Douglas Baldasare is the founder of ChargeItSpot, which provides secure cell phone charging stations for retail stores.

I want to find out how he validated the business early on in order to grow so fast and also the really brilliant way he removed risk from the manufacturing process.

Douglas Baldasare

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Douglas Baldasare is the founder of ChargeItSpot, which provides secure cell phone charging stations for retail stores.

Douglas Baldasare Interview

Andrew Warner: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And when I’m not interviewing entrepreneurs, I sometimes take my kids around the San Francisco Bay area just to kind of entertain ourselves.

I’ve never been, I don’t think target before having kids, but once I did, I took them in just for fun to take a look around and show them the toys, let them pick the things out. And I was surprised when I walked in that, one of the things that. It was right there at the door. Was this big red kiosk where if your phone is running low on battery, you can just take it out, put it in the kiosk,

and then when you leave the store, you’ve got to charge the phone. And I never thought of how that showed up, who built it or anything. I just assumed target Hattaway. And then I met today’s guest. Doug...

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