Jeff Braverman, CEO of Nuts.com, recalls the on-air mixup on Rachael Ray's show that pushed his company to rebrand from nutsonline.com.
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“We did ship them to Rachel Ray, and at the very end, she says, in the credit, she says, oh, I really want to thank nuts.com. And we were nutsonline.com, so I was like, oh, man.”
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