manufacture our collection all in america. today i m seeking strategic direction to open up new sales channels and drive revenue and i m offering equity in exchange for funding to help accelerate the business. all right. nice job. thank you. good job. all right. i m going to give you i will trade you the pillow for your score board. i need two numbers. one to ten. the first one, how do you feel about the product? the second, how do you feel about the pitch? it s so funny when you talk about the extra long twin bed. i remember going to bed bath & beyond with that list. i do not need an extra long bed, but it was so hard to find those sheets. it was. and that s part of the problem and the impetus for starting the company. we like to say it s not your momma s 80s dorm room. okay. let s go. jessica, let s start with you. turn it around. all right. i give you a nine and a nine. i think it s an innovative idea and i think it s very timely when you think about young
mom, better leader at work, and makes me a happier person. we now have is the top two tips you need to know to help you grow your business. jason and jessica are back with us. jessica, let s start with you. my tip is simple. show up. show up if it means you re in front of your employees, vendors, clients. people need to know how much you care. they can t do that if you re sitting behind your computer or have your face tucked away behind your device. when you get out in the field, that s where the magic is. you can get feedback from your customers and prospective customers and see what your vendors are doing to make sure they are delivering on the promises that you need them to deliver. show up and show out. that s how you grow your business. i laughed when you said that, it seems so obvious. of course, sho up. it is so easy to jot off e-mails
when you think about young people and how they want to express themselves, it s nice to have something that s american made that they can get by in and make their dorm space their own. i also give you a nine for your pitch. i think that you were poised, you were were confident. you were convincing, and i think you re going to do extremely well as you reach out to potential investors and as you reach out for a thought leadership. thank you, jessica. jason, ton it around. i gave you an eight and a seven. i think that the product from the example i m looking at here really feels like super high quality. it is very impressive that the coloring, the texture, which is something you can t tell if you re watching on television. it is really soft. the softness of it. you could see it is just super high quality product. i think that s very important in this competitive consumer product marketplace we live in today. what was she missing in the pitch? in the pitch i think overall y
mom, a better leader at work and a happier person. we now have the top two tips you need to know to help you grow your business. jason albany and jessica johnson coe are back with us. jessica, let s start with you. my tip is simple. show up. show up if you means that you re in front of your clients, in front of prospective clients or employees or vendors. people need to know how much you care. they can t do that if you are sitting behind a computer or if you have your face tucked away behind your favorite device. when you get in the field you get insights on how to improve your business. you can get feedback from your customers and prospective customers and see what your vendors are doing to make sure that they re delivering on the promises that you need them to deliver. so show up and show out. that s how you grow your business. i laughed when you said that because it seems so obvious, of course, to show up. but it is so easy to jot off e-mails to someone or at which
i m ready to go. let s see how you do. you re going to be talking to two people today. both entrepreneurs and successful. they know what it s like to be you. the first one is jessica johnson coe. and the second one is jason albanese. perfect. all right. let s see how you do. thank you. hi. i m leigh goodwin the owner of leighdeux. i launched the company after my daughter went off to college and found trouble for the bedding in the extra long twin size. we designed a pillow shaped like a head board and that became the pillow head board, our best selling product. today we target girls going off to college and boarding school and reach them primarily using social media. the goal was luxury bedding at a great price. we do dorm decor differently than anyone in the space. we design our own textiles, we