{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"2X eCommerce Podcast","title":"EP 05: How Danz Spas Uses Celebrity Endorsements & PR To Build Trust For Their £1m+ Hot Tub Business","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7520905f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4496,"description":"Danz Spas are a pure-play online retail business that sell affordable, high quality hot tubs and spas online to the UK and EU market.\n\nFounded in 2006 by Daniel Thomas, it is now a £1 million ($1.7 million) plus business based in Nottingham (UK). What caught my attention and triggered this interview, was a BBC article titled 'The value of celebrity endorsements' - that revealed pop star, Sophie Ellis-Bextor endorses Danz Spas.\n\nDanz Spa also boasts of having other UK celebrity customers like: John Barnes (UK footballer), John Newman (pop-star),  Sophie Ellis-Bextor and soon to be Alexandra Burke (pop star). It was the second time I had read about Danz Spas in the mainstream press and I really wanted to dig into the workings of their PR strategy as well as the impact of a high powered celebrity endorsement on their eCommerce sales. Daniel is by all measures  a gentleman with a lot of hustle. He was very well prepared for this interview and shared a lot of figures about his business as well as the Spa industry in general.\n\nhttp://2xmedia.co/podcast/ep05/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6rfU37IUp0-QWXYKPd34Jy_W0ArNIQ3hAOszLOacSoM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIwMTI5LzE2ODY5/NDE4MzgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}