Anthony Standifer is the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer for the mSEED Group, a contract manufacturer and marketing agency specializing in expediting the growth of small businesses and entrepreneurs in the beauty and personal care space.
Anthony helps serve several small indie brands looking to start or escalate their beauty or personal care business. In its five-year existence, mSEED Group has become a seven-figure company that launches and supports development for more than 150 brands.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- Anthony Standifer shares how he got into cosmetic product manufacturing
- What Anthony did for a 55-year-old woman who quit her safe job to start a risky hair care products line
- The supply chain advantage of small manufacturing companies
- Anthony reveals the ideal business to work with mSEED Group
- How Anthony is supporting beauty brands beyond manufacturing
In this episode…
Are you suffering through a job you don’t like but can’t quit because starting your own business scares you to death? Do you have an idea for an innovative brand and are ready to make it a reality?
What if you could start a beauty business on the side while you keep your regular job? From manufacturing to marketing, mSEED Group is helping new entrepreneurs launch and build beauty brands. Tune in to find out more!
Listen to this Inspired Insider Podcast episode with Dr. Jeremy Weisz featuring the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer for the mSEED Group, Anthony Standifer. They discuss Anthony’s journey into cosmetics product manufacturing, how his company supports small beauty brands, how to start a cosmetic line, and more.
Resources mentioned in this episode
- mSEED Group
- Anthony Standifer on LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
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Episode Transcript
John Corcoran 0:22
Hey everybody, this is John Corcoran with Dr. Jeremy Weisz and this episode is a little bit different. This is a live interview that we recorded at the Global Leadership Conference from Entrepreneurs’ Organization, where some of the best entrepreneurs from around the globe gathered in Washington DC to share ideas and to learn about entrepreneurship. And of course, this episode is brought to you by Rise25 where we help b2b businesses to give to and to connect to their dream 100 relationships and partnerships helping you to run a podcast so that it generates a referral pipeline and ROI
Jeremy Weisz 0:57
yeah, I mean, John, after both of us have been podcasting for over a decade, the number one thing in our life is relationships. And we’re always looking at ways to give to our best relationships and we found no better way to do that over the past decade than to profile the people in companies we admire and shout from the rooftops what they’re working on. And this interview is no different. So if you’ve thought about podcasting, you should go to Rise25.com To learn more, or email us at [email protected]
John Corcoran 1:23
Thanks everyone, enjoy the interview.
Jeremy Weisz 1:25
Enjoy.
Alright, Jeremy Weisz here, it’s we are live from EO GLC brought to you by Rise25. I’m here with Anthony and Anthony, tell people about your company and what you do.
Anthony Standifer 1:49
I am Anthony Standifer, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of mSEED Group. We are custom product manufacturers and formulators of beauty and personal care products. We serve a bunch of small customers, indie brands that are looking to start or escalate their beauty or personal care business. And so we manufacture beauty products.
Jeremy Weisz 2:09
How did you get into this?
Anthony Standifer 2:12
Oh, God only knows. I met a woman at another it always relates to a woman man always goes there. I met a brilliant woman at the last place that I was employed like nine years ago at this point. She had an idea of our company, she’d quit the job that we were at, as co workers, she shared with me her idea. I thought it was the brilliant, most amazing idea. I was trying to be a friend at the time to support her and providing some ideas. And then she made me an offer that I first refused, said no, I will not do this. But I recognized that it was a huge opportunity. And I usually try to run into things I’m scared of. So here I am eight years later,
Jeremy Weisz 2:53
what was it that changed your mind? You went from a no to? Hell? Yes. Oh,
Anthony Standifer 3:00
it’s circumstances, like I was clearly not happy in the place that I was working. And so my idea that was like, Oh, I don’t like it here. I’m just gonna go find a job someplace else. And so when the opportunity then presented itself, I was like, wait a minute, Anthony, you know, you’re this is not a place that you’re going to be in the next five or 10 years. Here’s an opportunity, it has a risk associated with it. But the potential reward is really you betting on yourself and this other business partner who was my friend at that point. So I was like, This sounds like a good, a good risk to take.
