About this episode

Ryan Gardner discusses the journey of building Bucked Up into a leading pre-workout brand.

Ryan Gardner founded Bucked Up in 2016 and has been the managing partner and CEO ever since. Under his supervision, Bucked Up has gone from a local supplement brand to the #1 best-selling pre-workout, available in over 100,000 stores worldwide. Back in 2001, Ryan and his twin brother Jeff built a successful internet marketing company, promoting everything from supplements to biz opp to lead generation. By 2010, their affiliate network (with only 3 other employees) was earning over $25M+ annually in revenue. In 2015, they saw that social media was the future and decided to start their own social media agency. After over a decade of promoting other people's products, Ryan and Jeff realized it was finally time to put their talents to work promoting their own. Ryan purchased the domain name DeerAntlerSpray.com in 2013. Not long after, Ray Lewis made headline news when he was accused of taking the spray before the Super Bowl. Sales exploded overnight. Sure, he was in the "Right Time...Right Place," but without Ryan's smart, hard work, he would've missed out on all that success. Shortly after the Super Bowl, he managed to get Deer Antler Spray into GNC and sold thousands of bottles a…

People in this episode

Host: Kagiso Dikane

Guest: Ryan Gardner

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• supplement industry
• social media marketing
• business growth
• product development

Keywords

• Bucked Up
• pre-workout
• Ryan Gardner
• entrepreneurship
• supplements
• GNC
• social media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bucked Up, GNC, DeerAntlerSpray.com, social media agency

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