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Here is another entry in my week long series as I continue to countdown to my birthday on January 13th. Make sure to listing to the entire birthday series of interviews this week. It is GURANTEED to make your business better or your money back! LMAO

— John

My man Brandon! Dude is a major force for the further advancement of small, medium and large businesses in  e-commerce. He is the Managing Director of the E-commerce Merchant Trade Association (ECMTA) and a very active member of PeSA (Professional eBay Sellers Association).

I met Brandon for the very first time last year at the PeSA summit in New Orleans and that was the first time I had ever attended the event. I did not know what to expect, especially since long before I ran my mouth here, I ran my mouth on the PeSA boards, LMAO.

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I was a little nervous meeting some of the “big boys” from PeSA and ECMTA, but man was I surprised. I mean, Brandon saw me in the hall and immediately extended a friendly handshake, smiled and said “Man, I like your stuff”, I was like WTF? Who? Me?

Sometimes we never get to tell the people that inspire us and ecourage us,  how the effect you. And that honest open gesture inspired me greatly. He was really one of the first people to encourage me to pursue communicating some of my thoughts to other folks.

So it was true to form that I got back and started blogging, first as a guest blogger and then finally doing the vlogging and blogging here on ColderICE.com. When I started up on ColderICE last year Brandon was the very FIRST person to grant me an interview and I believe from that endorsement, just a “big dawg’ saying yes, gave me the courage to approach all the others. Thanks Brandon, I appreciate the ‘love’ dude.

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They are able to stream live interviews with video on a call and they got your boy on one. I had so much fun doing this for sure. BUT also, they extracted some of the best commentary around the success of 3rd Power Outlet, that I really was not even prepared to share. It was simply a fantastic interview…so watch the replay and be sure to check out more stuff from the guys at Lucky Startups.