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When Downers Grove North called to ask if Charlie Williams, one of Digiwrap’s founders and an alum of the school, would come speak to students in the Entrepreneurship Course last May, he was more than happy to oblige—it was sure to be a far less intense experience than when he and co-founder Brad Boskovic swam with ABC’s sharks on a December episode of Shark Tank last year. Charlie was happy to return to his alma mater and share about the whirlwind experience.

When Williams attended school at North, he had no idea business would be in his future. Students found his speech totally inspiring and were excited to receive business advice from Williams and gain insight into his journey of appearing on Shark Tank.

“This was an incredible opportunity for North students to learn from a successful young entrepreneur. While students loved hearing about Charlie’s experience on Shark Tank, this was an opportunity for students to make a connection with an entrepreneur who was walking the same hallways only a few years earlier,” said Entrepreneurship teacher, Drew Himes.

On Saturday, Brad Boskovic and Charlie Williams, co-founders of Digiwrap, will be featured on Making’ It with Tommy and Todd, a national radio show that features powerful success stories and inspiring business advice and information. The show focuses on entrepreneurs with big dreams. We are happy to be featured!

On the 15-minute discussion, they talk about the “Aha!” moment that led to the creation of Digiwrap, how it felt to walk into the Shark Tank, and everything that’s happened since! Brad and Charlie offer advice to those who have big business ideas, tell great stories about Digiwrap and themselves, and have a lot of laughs with Tommy and Todd.

You can listen below:

We hope you enjoy!

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We were so excited to appear on Shark Tank in December, where we made a successful deal with Kevin O’Leary. A few weeks after the appearance, we were surprised and delighted to see illustrator Gerri Findley’s drawing of our appearance. What an excellent way for us to remember our time in the tank!

We tracked down Gerri Findley to send her some tissue paper with a repeat pattern of her illustration and to learn more about what inspired her to take the time to create this incredible illustration.

We noticed during the search that she has drawn several of the people who have appeared on the show. So we asked, why Shark Tank?

“A few shows into Season 7 (2015-2016), a credit card protection named Signal Vault was in the tank and the sharks were circling. Lori Greiner confidently grabbed her pen and quickly scribbled $1,000,000,” remembered Gerri. “At that memorable moment I reached for my markers to quickly capture and post. I had been sketching pop culture, award shows, music people, and posting on Instagram.”

“A ❤️ appeared from @ODangHummus founder, Jesse, who would enter the tank the following week. After Jesse’s fantastic food pitch with outstretched arms he asked, ‘Who wants to snack!?!’ I was hooked again to capture that moment, and so began my season of Shark Tank sketching.”

Since then she has been drawing people who appear in the tank, and we are so happy to have been featured.

We asked what inspires her to draw. “People fascinate me and I love to sketch them,” said Findley. “And I add a smile. And a headline. I sketch what I see. A moment that tells a story. They’re quick sketches, and they capture a memorable moment or event.”

You can follow Gerri’s work on Instagram @gerrifindley, where she posts her incredible work. “I aim to delight,” said Findley. “The world needs more delight.”

You can get in touch with Gerri at GoDesign.com.

We have been so excited by the buzz for our products after our appearance on Shark Tank in December. We wanted to share some fun reviews we’ve received via Twitter for products from new customers and fans:

@gibbons74 wrote:

@DigiWrapIt this is the coolest thing going. Kids will be impressed with #Santa this year #SharkTank

We love the crisp photos Santa’s helper @gibbons74 chose to print on the custom photo gift bags for his kids! What a great idea—those kids will believe forever.

@ValerieThompson wrote:

Valerie’s T-shirt, stickers, cell phone wallet – $20.00 includes shipping! Loving my new shopping bags @DigiWrapIt

Now that is a custom package by America’s Queen of Speed!!

@Flametrooper420 wrote:

@DigiWrapIt turned out amazing, arrived FAST, and wasn’t expensive at all. One of the most impressive @ABCSharkTank products ever! #sharktank

We love this personalized gift bag, and hope the recipient was as happy as the smiley folks in the photo!

We were so in love with this custom illustration after our appearance, illustrated by @gerry_findley.

Stay tuned for more about the drawing and Gerri!

Thank you, everyone, for your business and reviews! We are so proud of our consistent extremely high ratings on Zazzle and are always happy to hear when customers love our product. Thank you so much for your support!

Interested in ordering custom tissue paper or gift bags? Order yours today.

This year we had the exciting experience of auditioning to be on Shark Tank. So many people who know are very curious about how we got on the show. Here’s our story of our successful open casting call!

For various reasons which you can read here, we didn’t make the final decision to go to the Open Casting Call until the night prior. We hatched a plan over the phone and our crazy journey began. We wanted to showcase our unique custom printed tissue paper as much as possible, so we actually printed our application on our tissue paper. When we handed it in on the tissue paper, the woman accepting the applications was baffled. It was fun to tell her that this was our product.

We were so excited to show the features we love most about Digiwrap—our tissue paper is custom printed in high quality, with bright and accurate colors, and the process is incredibly fast. Also, you can print just one sheet if you want.

So here is what we did to highlight those features:

Once we received our wristband, we took a picture in front of the building wearing the wristband.

Then we rushed to the office and designed a tissue paper using that photo.

We then printed the tissue paper and brought it with to deliver our one-minute pitch just a few hours later. Regular paper version and tissue paper version, handed it to them and they asked why it was on tissue paper. Give the one-minute pitch.

In the end, they must have been impressed because that’s where our chaotic journey into the Shark Tank began! Tune in to ABC on Friday, December 9 at 8pm Central Time to see the results!