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He hand-wrote 2500 apology letters to customers, including offering discounts.

While I was making my research about amazing founders that are building great brands, I came across Ben Francis, Founder, and CEO of Gymshark.

Something interesting happened to him in 2015.
Gymshark suffered a website outage on Black Friday, resulting in customers not being able to get their deals. Whilst this might have broken many companies, Gymsharkโ€™s founder ( Ben Francis ) personally hand-wrote 2500 apology letters to customers, including discounts, who werenโ€™t able to purchase during the crash.
This singular act has endeared a lot of loyal customers to them.
Gymshark is not just a company, it's a Lifestyle.

As a Founder, What insane strategy have you used to connect with customers or users?

Please share in the comment below.

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https://founderstory.net/how-ben-francis-built-gymshark-at-19-a-1-5-billion-brand/

on August 25, 2022
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