For Tower Paddle Boards, Shark Tank Was Just A Pit Stop On The Road To A Big Brand
There are three types of innovation.
- The first is product innovation, which Aartsol describes as the riskiest and toughest.
- distribution
- marketing innovation: Your customer experience becomes much more important. It’s got to be so over the top that customers will tell their friends
Aarstol’s intuition about his brand also extends well beyond what his Shark Tank success proved. He describes his company as “an online marketing agency that owns a surf brand” and a player in a constantly evolving field. So he says he is always trying to reinvent what they’re doing and ultimately he wants to build a brand that accommodates that flexibility. He holds Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies as a model and is building his brand to embody the beach lifestyle in many different categories. Flip flops, sunglasses, bikes, surf boards, and other adventure sports are among the 25 companies he has planned for Tower. His goal, to roll out 2-3 companies each year, seems do-able given that they’re all based on the same business model and leverage Tower’s existing strong partnerships with Amazon and daily deals site Woot.
