This Entrepreneur Shares How He Sold the Product That Everyone Said Was ImpossibleWhen Eric Korman told everyone he wanted to sell perfume online, everyone thought he was crazy. He ended up proving them wrong.

ByJoe Keohane

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Selling perfume online seems impossible. After all, people need to be able to smell it, right? And when former Ralph Lauren executive Eric Korman launched his online perfume companyPHLUR, he ran smack dab into that problem. Industry peers thought he was crazy. He hung in and devised a solution: an ingenious mix of smart ecommerce strategy, science, photography, psychology, music and storytelling. And with that, he made the impossible possible.

Hear from Korman on what it took to get customers to buy into PHLUR.

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Joe Keohane

Entrepreneur Staff

Author of the book "The Power of Strangers"

Joe Keohane is the author of the bookThe Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World.He is a journalist based in New York, and was formerly the executive editor of狗万官方magazine.

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