Belly Band creator Carol Brunswick spent over $300,000 of her family’s savings, with little or no return, before landing on a more effective way to grow her business. The new improved way involved bootstrapping everything, and adopting a people first, profit second philosophy. It worked! Now she’s sold 70,000 Belly Bands and absolutely loves building a business that’s making such a difference to her precious customers’ lives. Although it does raise the question … What on Earth is a Belly Band?! It’s a curious, yet warm and fuzzy episode 595 of The (13 year-old, award-winning) Small Business Big Marketing podcast with host Tim Reid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.