Have you hopped onto the NFT bandwagon yet? If not, would the idea of being able to wear your NFT persuade you to purchase one?
Today’s episode is all about what happens when the internet spills over into the real world. We’ve got Tyler McCourt, the founder of Dott, here with us today to uncover the world of wearable NFTs.
Dott is an e-commerce company that enables you to create wearable merchandise using the NFTs and GIFs you own. It was founded by Tyler McCourt, who’s a serial e-commerce entrepreneur and visionary.
This episode is sponsored by Budai Media. Budai Media is a retention marketing agency that helps e-commerce stores increase their customers lifetime value through the power of email and SMS marketing.
This episode of The Ecom Show talks about:
✅ Tyler’s Journey As A Serial Entrepreneur
✅ The Easiest Way To Start A Customized Apparel Store
✅ NFTs And E-commerce
Tyler double majored in college in marketing information systems and finance—and landed straight into a corporate desk job. Realizing that he wasn’t passionate about a career in corporate, he shifted gears and found himself working with a small apparel company that designed clothes for wrestlers. Working there with a small team of just 5 employees helped him discover his interest in e-commerce and marketing technologies, and he left soon after to start his own venture.
Tyler and a friend of his started a venture called Emblem Athletic, where they helped e-commerce apparel stores automate their systems. They were able to grow this to generate a steady 7-figure revenue in a couple of years, and Tyler then proceeded to sell his shares back to his co-founder to pursue other ventures.
After exiting this space, Tyler pursued his vision of creating wearable NFTs and GIFs and launched his latest venture, Dott. He also launched Teamtime, a fully custom apparel store.
Starting your own online e-commerce brand can be difficult when you don’t have a big team. Between production, design, inventory management, marketing, sales, and accounting, there are a dozen different hats entrepreneurs need to wear to get the show-up and running.
Tyler McCourt’s latest venture, Teamtime, helps individuals get started with zero upfront costs. It gives users access to a free online store and custom designs.
All they need to do is sign-up and fill out a form. Users can even outsource the logistics to Teamtime, as they offer free shipping.
In short, Teamtime lets users build a fully custom, automated storefront with personal team designers and unlimited customization options.
How do they achieve these goals? They use a combination of developers, designers, artificial intelligence, and Shopify to create your store and products. This enables them to quickly provide you with a store with up to 10 products. They’re building a massive library of editable templates and an application that allows users to create their basic templatized custom design; users can then directly speak with the in-house designers to modify their products till they’re satisfied. All of this is connected to Shopify using APIs, making it easy to set up and edit the store as the brand scales.
NFTs have been taking the world by storm. It’s already fusing technology, finance, and art together. Could it also find its place in the world of the apparel industry? Well, it already has! Tyler came up with this idea in college after attending several music festivals; he’d always notice people around him wearing cool shirts, which got him wondering as to why you couldn't wear a GIF.
He started looking into products that could do the same, and the closest he came to this were bulky LED tee shirts. He saw an opportunity to create a new product that could reinvent wearable technology, but he just didn’t have the funds to start developing it. However, he noticed the rising popularity of NFTs after he cashed out of Emblem Athletic, and he jumped at the opportunity to bring his old idea to life.
That’s how Dott was born. Dott is an e-commerce apparel store that connects with your wallet and allows you to create a personalized item of clothing with your NFT or GIF on it. Dott gives you the ability to wear your NFT out and then show off your NFT in a way that you couldn't before. It’s also great for artists because they’re able to promote the NFT in a way that they couldn’t before.
Dott is changing the way that customized e-commerce apparel stores work, and it could open a huge opportunity for artists, designers, and other NFT enthusiasts looking to fuse NFTs with a physical wearable product.
Listen to this episode of The Ecom Show to learn more about Dott and the world of wearable NFTs. It also contains information on the best automation tools and systems e-commerce stores can use to streamline their operations.
If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to check out episode 96 of The Ecom Show to know more about another extremely innovative company called Ketonia.
See you again next Thursday!
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Visit Teamtime
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