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Speaker 1: You're listening to taking stock with Katlee Hayes and Pimp

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Speaker 1: and so now we want to go from Shark Tank

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Speaker 1: to Shark Reach. Let me fill in the dots in between.

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Speaker 1: We have two very interesting guests on the show today.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Harrington has been a successful entrepreneur for over forty years.

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Speaker 1: He's actually the inventor of the infomercial has seen on

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Speaker 1: TV Pioneers launched over five hundred products, generating uh five

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Speaker 1: billion dollars in sales worldwide. Uh. He was one of

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Speaker 1: the original sharks on Shark Tank, so you've seen him

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Speaker 1: many times on TV. And if you're fanatical about Shark Tank,

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Speaker 1: like my family, as you watch the reruns too. Also

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Speaker 1: want to bring in a person that he is partnering

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Speaker 1: with now who is the CEO of this company that

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Speaker 1: Kevin Harrington has joined. Steve Smith has also a long,

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Speaker 1: long career as a successful entrepreneur and their new company

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Speaker 1: that they're going to tell us about now is called

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Speaker 1: Shark Reach. It's to reach millennial. So, gentlemen, long introduction,

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Speaker 1: for Johnny Mean Studio. Great to be or Kathleen, thank

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Speaker 1: you so, so Kevin Harrington, tell me what drew you

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Speaker 1: got you know how to sell, you know how to market,

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Speaker 1: so why join Shark Reach? So is it the essene

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Speaker 1: and TV industry has had a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: disruption because there's fewer people watching television nowadays, and so

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Speaker 1: our business has moved into a digital means now. So

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Speaker 1: we we do over half of our sales digitally and

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Speaker 1: we still have lots of TV stuff happening, but but

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Speaker 1: really use digital to test. We use influencers. And so

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Speaker 1: as our industry is moved into all of the social

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Speaker 1: Instagrams and now Instagram is doing stories video. We take

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Speaker 1: the ideas, we put them onto the social networks. This

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Speaker 1: is the way of the future and using influencers to

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Speaker 1: for us. Okay, So Steve Smith, you have just gotten

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Speaker 1: this trick. Trick Sherman who brings a lot to the table.

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Speaker 1: You have so many years in marketing and uh in

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Speaker 1: plenty of hair exactly. Well, thanks You guys have to

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Speaker 1: very much to Kevin Harrington, he's the chairman and board

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Speaker 1: of Shark Reach. I'm Kathleen Hayes. This is Bloomberg