Jack Black opened nearly 1,000 accounts through independent sales reps
Jeff Dandurand · Advice Line with Jeff and Curran Dandurand of Jack Black Skin Care · Apr 3, 2025 · at 12:56
Jeff Dandurand, co-founder of Jack Black Skin Care, shares the historical distribution playbook Jack Black used to scale retail accounts nationwide.
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“Independent rep groups all over the country. And we use them to help us build and open up accounts for Jack Black. I mean, we had almost a thousand accounts like that in you know, over the course of years.”
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