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Smith: UGG's board outvoted him to approve Rush Limbaugh ad campaign
“You know, we'd spent years building up this image of casual comfort and fashion and everything, and so I really fought it, but I was outvoted at a board meeting.”
Brian Smith pooled $500 to secure US distribution for sheepskin boots
“We pulled 500 bucks together and called the guy who ran the advertisement, and we talked him into being distributors for the U.S.”
Brian Smith Took No Money From UGG Until Year Five or Six
“I think that was the fifth or sixth year. That was the first money I'd ever taken out of the company.”
UGG gifted free boots to 400 Hollywood stylists to secure celebrity placement
“I found a mailing list of stylists in Hollywood and sent a letter to them, and about 400 people responded, and so I sent them all a pair of Ugg boots, you know, no questions asked, and it was a couple of months before I started seeing them on Celebrities”
Smith: Originally came to California seeking products to export to Australia
“Yeah, and I was really literally on a search for something to take back to Australia. I had no desire to stay and live in America.”