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Ep 555: How Outway Got Back to Profitable 8-Figure Growth: Channels, Margins, & the Brand Moat Ahead
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Usar herramientas de IA generativa como Sora para idear creativos de ads sin depender de equipos de producción
Estrategia de contenidosSora permite a un founder sin habilidades de diseño o edición generar conceptos de anuncios con un prompt. Outway lo usa para pedir un anuncio 'al estilo del viejo Nike' y obtiene ángulos únicos que luego su equipo de contenido desarrolla. Es una herramienta de ideación que baja la barrera de entrada a la creatividad en video.
>> Having fun right now, but we're getting ideas from them. So, like it I asked it to create an ad kind of in the uh in the vibe of Nike old school and it came out with like a a really unique angle and take and we're taking that as inspiration and developing and iterating on it like with our own content team. but it's going to get crazy. We're definitely going to use it. It's It's definitely cool. I think right now it it allows someone like me who doesn't have like editing and like design skills to just go prompt and create an ad that I can then just send to the marketing team be like, "Let's…
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Canales de adquisiciónAproximadamente el 30% de las ventas de ropa online pasan por Amazon. Los calcetines son compra impulsiva o de necesidad: la gente los compra en tienda mientras compra otras cosas. Sin presencia en esos puntos de contacto, se pierde ese descubrimiento. Outway abriu Amazon Canada, Amazon EE.UU. y cuentas de wholesale en tiendas de running y ciclismo con un enfoque metodológico.
if you think about just our category as a whole, you know, we sell performance athletic socks or apparel in general, this is like a rough quote. I forget the exact percentage, but I think somewhere around 30% of all apparel sales were happening on Amazon in terms of online. So by not listing online, we were basically not presenting ourselves to a third of the market. And then socks in particular are somewhat of an impulse buy or like a a needs basis buy or what people buy in store when they're buying other things. So we need to be positioned where people could just stumble upon us and that…
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Canales de adquisiciónOutway abrió un almacén de terceros en EE.UU. impulsado por los aranceles, pero el beneficio secundario fue económico: el envío doméstico es mucho más barato que cruzar la frontera, y la velocidad de entrega satisface al consumidor estadounidense impaciente (esperar 5+ días es inaceptable dados Amazon y las entregas same-day). Esto mejora los márgenes brutos y permite gastar más en publicidad.
actually uh opened a 3PL warehouse in the states. So we're now shipping out of the US which is sort of a hedge against tariffs and sort of forced through that whole business out in terms of like our P&L and how we think about it for marketing and we truly look at the US now as a separate business and a lessons, one being that the American consumer is quite impatient. So shipping across border and having even a 5day from our level, it's actually way more, it's way cheaper for us as well. So, it's better economics. So, it's going to we've got just significant improvements in gross margins. So…
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Estrategia y decisiones de negocioEl equity es permanente; rara vez quien lo recibe genera valor permanente. Outway aprendió esto dándole equity a su abogado corporativo en vez de pagar la incorporación, y tuvo que recomprarlo. La lección: pensar si el problema que resuelve es de largo plazo. Si es corto, pagarlo con dinero. Si es largo, exigir que el equity también lo sea.
one thing I've learned there is just think long term with it. You know, ask yourself, am I trying to solve a short-term problem with issuing equity? Like, because the thing with equity is it's permanent unless you find a way to buy it back. And very very rarely is the person you're issuing equity to providing value that's permanent and over time a long enough time. So in certain cases there's a trade-off where that is true and and you should do it but not as willy-nilly as I see a lot of people give out equity. It it's it's a it's an impossible sort of situation because every situation is…
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Marca y posicionamientoEl producto será commoditizado, la publicidad digital será commoditizada — pronto cualquiera puede crear una tienda Shopify con un prompt. Pero una relación real con el consumidor, construida a través de comunidad y afinidad, no se puede generar con IA. Las marcas que construyan esa conexión ahora serán las que sobrevivan; las que no, se diluirán.
moes [music] that are going to exist. Your brand product is going to be commoditized. Our digital advertising is going to be [music] commoditized. It's all going to get so easy where I can just go prompt and it's going to build me a Shopify store. You can see how that's not far out. You're not going to be able to prompt a relationship with the consumer. [music] If you're able to do that and establish that now, I think you're going to see a real emergence of some of the challenger brands really probably one of the only moes that are going to exist in the the kind of future which is going to be…
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Marca y posicionamientoEl producto será commoditizado, la publicidad digital será commoditizada — pronto cualquiera puede crear una tienda Shopify con un prompt. Pero una relación real con el consumidor, construida a través de comunidad y afinidad, no se puede generar con IA. Las marcas que construyan esa conexión ahora serán las que sobrevivan; las que no, se diluirán.
moes [music] that are going to exist. Your brand product is going to be commoditized. Our digital advertising is going to be [music] commoditized. It's all going to get so easy where I can just go prompt and it's going to build me a Shopify store. You can see how that's not far out. You're not going to be able to prompt a relationship with the consumer. [music] If you're able to do that and establish that now, I think you're going to see a real emergence of some of the challenger brands really probably one of the only moes that are going to exist in the the kind of future which is going to be…
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Canales de adquisiciónLo que funcionó en Canada para construir marca no funciona directamente en EE.UU. El consumidor americano tiene menor paciencia, más competencia, diferente comportamiento de compra y mayores expectativas de precio y velocidad. Hay que reimaginar la estrategia de contenido y creativa, y usar los canales de marca (comunidades, influencers, eventos) para comprimir el tiempo de construir relevancia.
market. The attention span, the competition level, um the way consumers are shopping, the what they're expecting in terms of offers and deals and speed and everything is completely different. And I I'm I'm not sure you can truly be successful with what's just worked well here in Canada and applying that in the States. And we're learning that and we're we've been making changes and they've been successful. But that's why I think we're making this big p uh this big push because you're right, we did spend a lot of time and a lot of uh more more than resources, just time building our brand and…
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Oferta y precioCuando alguien usa calcetines Outway con diseños llamativos, recibe comentarios. Eso refuerza la decisión de compra y genera orgullo de marca. La primera venta convince al cliente de la calidad; la segunda es el diseño. Rob Fraser lo llama 'socks on feet' como su mejor marketing: una vez puestos, el cliente entiende el producto y típicamente vuelve a comprar básicos para llenar el cajón.
>> And then when they wear the socks, they invariably get comments on them, which I which I do literally every time I wear one of the brighter designs that that you know we've collaborated on or that or that I've uh I've got and it's like reinforces that decision. Also, every single time I put them on, I am reminded that they are not like normal socks because of how they're made and the materials used. And so I think once you get them on foot, you've got a good uh retention program just with the product itself. That is the main thing I say like our our strongest marketing is socks on feet…
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Canales de adquisiciónOutway filtra qué productos entran a Amazon: solo los diseños diferenciados que no existen en otros vendedores. Los básicos (negro, blanco, merino liso) dominan en Shopify pero no en Amazon, donde el consumidor busca precios bajos en volumen. Esto protege el DTC y evita que Amazon canibalice el margen.
bestselling stuff on Amazon and in stores but all the new limited and kind of expansive catalog is still going to live on our Shopify store. Surprisingly, more of our basics and marino stuff that do really well on Shopify aren't doing as well on Amazon. And that probably comes down to just the athletic socks that have the very unique designs on them are quite novel and differentiated by anything else on there, so they do well. So that has typically been what we've merchandised in stores and on Amazon is kind of that product that's very differentiated where if you went into a wholesale in a…
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Canales de adquisiciónOutway asigna el 5% de su presupuesto publicitario — una cifra significativa para ellos — a una estrategia de tres vías: creadores e influencers de running (YouTube, redes), colaboraciones con los principales clubs de running de Norteamérica (físicamente, asistiendo a los eventos), y patrocinio de grandes maratones. El objetivo es saturación: que donde haya un runner, haya Outway. El retorno no es inmediato, pero la…
one of our main things is it's going to be kind of a three-prong approach. We are going to do a large kind of influencer and creator marketing strategy and kind of outreach and uh and plan with runners and that's going to be kind of like mainly social media and YouTube. So partnerships with with influential people in running. And then we're going to work on collaborating with all of the largest run clubs in North America. So do collaborative projects and get involved with all of those run clubs. I'm going to actually fly to a bunch of them and like actually show up. Um, so that's two. Uh, and…
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Estrategia y decisiones de negocioRob Fraser es fundador y corredor de élite. Descubrió que los momentos de mayor éxito en su negocio coinciden con períodos de mayor bienestar físico. El running es lo único que hace para sí mismo, sin presión de ROI. Esa energía y claridad mental se traduce en mejores decisiones de negocio. Su equipo también integra deporte y fitness como valor de empresa.
personally, I feel the most like me, the most inspired about even business when I feel very aligned with my personal fitness journey and the our brand because ultimately like I started the business to stay active in sport just running the company in the athletic space. I know I couldn't be the pro alete anymore. Um, but I was like, could I still be involved but run a brand and like what's the sport of business look like? That was kind of the original idea. And along the way, I've lost that. And I would say like where I found the most success even in business is when I'm in harmony with my own…
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La zona de 5 a 10 millones es la más difícil: la complejidad crece exponencialmente con los ingresos
Estrategia y decisiones de negocioDe 1 a 5 millones se puede hacer con un equipo de 1-3 personas y sin sistemas. De 5 a 10 millones, cada contratación divide las responsabilidades de una persona en 2-3 roles nuevos: el equipo crece más rápido que los ingresos, que suben solo 20-30%. A eso se suma la profesionalización legal, contable, de inventario (múltiples almacenes, canales, ciclos de pedido) y flujo de caja. Estabiliza arriba de 10 millones.
jump you get to 5 million my my belief is that you can really scrap your way to 5 million in sales like you could be a one to three person team you can fulfill yourself you can kind of run everything internally you can have no systems no just you can just scrap it together that kind of like five to seven things start to break um you need to start to build a team and it's not just building a team I found like you need to hire two or three more people, the thing that one or three people were handling splits into like two or three jobs per. So like your team grows somewhat exponentially while…
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Medición y experimentosEn 2023 la facturación repuntó un 40% YoY tras dos años de estancamiento y pérdidas. En Q3 2025 llevan un crecimiento del 50% YoY sobre un año ya de 8 cifras, y el profit es 5x respecto al mismo periodo del año anterior. El motor fue la apertura de canales (Amazon + wholesale) y el envío desde un almacén en EE.UU.
great growth year. I think we grew up like 40% or so year-over-year last year compared to 2023. Back to profitability, 8 figure sales. So like a lot of great of Q3 we're up 50% year-over-year compared to last year which was already very profitably. I just pulled actually our Q3 report today and our profit has gone up I think four or 5x. I think it's 5x since this period last year. So in terms of just yeah it's it's meaningful
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