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Ramon van Meer

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Ramon van Meer

@ramonvanmeer

Father, Investor, Serial Entrepreneur. Shark Tank Season 15 - Now building Afina.com

Austin, TX

Joined March 2010

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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Apr 24, 2025
Everyone says they’d pay more for “Made in the USA.” I tested it. We make a $129 filtered showerhead manufactured in China. With tariffs surging to 170%, we explored reshoring. We found a U.S. supplier. Our costs nearly tripled. I ran a clean A/B test: 👇
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Apr 24, 2025
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The results were brutal: 🚫 0 customers bought the U.S. version ⬇️ Add-to-cart rate for US version was less than 1% 📍 Over 3,500 bought the Asia-made version
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Apr 24, 2025
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We want to bring back domestic manufacturing. But when consumers face the actual price tag—they didn’t. It's not because they don’t care. I think it is because most people are not willing to pay the premium (yet). This isn’t just our story. 👇
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Oct 12, 2021
2.5 years ago I bought a dog ramp business for $300,000. Since then, I’ve sold $35,000,000 of dog ramps. I’m going to explain Why I bought it How I scaled Why I bought a business vs built from scratch But first...dog ramps? 👇
Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Apr 24, 2025
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The test: • 25,650 users • Same landing page • Only difference? “Made in China” at $129 vs. “Made in USA” at $239
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Apr 24, 2025
Replying to @ramonvanmeer
It’s a story about reshoring, tariffs, and the real economics behind American-made. Full story + data here:
Everyone Says They’ll Pay More for “Made in the USA.” So We Ran an A/B
From afina.com
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Dec 30, 2022
Proud of our team at Genius Litter... We just launched in PetSmart nationwide (and soon in Canada as well!) Excited for the future of our health-indicating cat litter!
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Jan 26, 2023
How I bought a blog about @WWE for $16,000 and sold it for $240,000 one year later. I was looking for a niche content site that had a good foundation but still had 3-5 easy wins that would increase traffic and increase RPMs. 👇
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Oct 12, 2021
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How we scaled: 1. Moved to @Shopify, updated all images, videos and copy 2. Social ads, just took videos from customers and created ads 3. Built email flows and campaigns with @klaviyo 4. Paid ads, mainly FB/Instagram Now expanding into dog food, cat litter, and more
Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Oct 14, 2021
My last tweet about my 35M dog ramp business kinda went viral. Common question I got was: where did I find the this business? Let’s go over it + I will give you my black book with all broker’s info 👉 How to find deals 👉 What to look for and what are red flags 👇
Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Oct 10, 2021
Super proud of our team here at Alpha Paw! We successfully broke into the crowded pet food space by pursuing our belief that each breed has a different wellness need and our mission to make it easy for pet parents to address those needs!
techcrunch.com
Alpha Paw brings in $8M to carve out its niche in the pet wellness space | TechCrunch
Alpha Paw offers pet products for dogs and cats like food and supplements that are customized with pet breed in mind.
Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Jan 9, 2023
My friend is an independent artist and just surpassed the 200K in monthly revenue from streaming alone… and this will only keep growing. it’s an amazing time for artists now…
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Jan 28, 2024
Tune in next Friday to see me and my co-founder cat “Kevin O”Purry” on Shark Tank!
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Ramon van Meer
@ramonvanmeer
Feb 8, 2023
In 2016, I created a fake story to test media gullibility. The fake story was that I hacked my Tesla and installed Pokemon Go. We edited a video together, wrote up a release, and hit send: 12 hours later my VM box was full and over 40 sites picked it up. Here we go: 👇
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