What other brand owners have you been able to connect with, is confidence and conviction needed for this industry? Do negative comments and bad press discourage you from keeping the brand going?

“I get a lot of up-n-coming brand owners emailing me for advice, but as far as established brands I haven’t really connected a whole lot with other brand owners. I mean I will BS with other owners on twitter and occasional emails, but nothing real serious. Confidence is definitely something you have to have to get a brand of the ground, if you don’t believe in what you’re doing why would anybody else? Negative comments don’t really bother me too much, I actually appreciate them sometimes because it’s honest feedback I need to hear in order to improve. But I am definitely not one of those people that will thank my “haters” and all that stupid crap. Man, even typing that word annoys me. Ha.”