Reciprocity is more powerful than money. When you do something wonderful for people, they find a way to do something wonderful for you.
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
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Russ Warner of Ghost Boards in Utah discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products. These quotes come from the conversation on The Business Spotlight with Peter Anthony. Watch Russ Warner's episode
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co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
Russ Warner is the co-founder and CEO of Ghost Boards, a Utah-based custom acrylic longboard company that builds clear, light-up, full-customization skateboards as functional art for personal riders, corporate gifting, and brand activations. Russ Warner partnered with co-founder Brent after a piece of scrap acrylic from a stage-fabrication shop was turned into the first prototype board, riding into Russ Warner's driveway and burning a permanent outline into the summer grass, the inflection point that became the Ghost Boards design thesis. Russ Warner is a lifelong skater who returned to the category as an adult looking for a longboard, and built Ghost Boards around products he personally would ride every day, hand-picking the trucks, bearings, and wheels, and engineering recessed LED lighting into the deck.
Russ Warner discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products.
Reciprocity is more powerful than money. When you do something wonderful for people, they find a way to do something wonderful for you.
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
Russ Warner discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products.
The difference between a brand and an idea is that a brand has clarity. Most people have an idea. We built a brand.
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
Russ Warner discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products.
Why didn't you build something you personally would use? That's why I hand-pick the wheels, the trucks, the bearings, I ride it every day.
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
Russ Warner discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products.
Marketing makes a full circle. People want the human touch again, to shake a hand and say hi.
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
Russ Warner discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products.
If you're selling a product, it's just a product. People always remember experiences.
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards
Russ Warner discusses Utah Lifestyle Product Marketing Why Custom Acrylic Longboards Become Brand Symbols Not One-Hit Products.
I didn't want to be the fidget spinner, something that went viral and then dies. How do you become a lifestyle product instead?
co-founder and CEO, Ghost Boards