Author: Dan Gosling

One might call Indianapolis, Indiana, where I’m from, Marching Band Mecca. Lucas Oil Stadium is not only home to the Indianapolis Colts NFL team, it is also the home of the Bands of America Grand National Championships sponsored by Music for All.

Now that ChopSaver is being sold in a major national chain like CVS/pharmacy, people often ask me how we are getting the word out.

I recently visited New York for some business and pleasure with my family to meet some ChopSaver friends and endorsers and hear one of the world’s great orchestras…

Recently, I had a chance to speak to a group of young musicians. It was actually a youth orchestra and there were many aspiring professional musicians in the group. As a professional trumpet player turned business man, my message to them was simple. The skills one learns as a musician can be applied to careers outside of music. Here are some of the most important, in no particular order.

I don’t pretend to be an internet marketing whiz, but I have certainly learned a lot in the last 10 years of “on the job” training.

(This article was originally published in the Feb-Apr 2016 issue of the The Brass Herald. In Part 1, Dan explains how the idea for ChopSaver Lip Care first came to him. In Part 2, Dan discusses how he prepared his company for expansion. While ChopSaver is no longer sold in CVS stores, this was still a […]

This is why I do what I do. This is why I have pushed the “idea” of ChopSaver for so long, against unbelievable odds. Imaging creating a product in your kitchen and, with no business background, trying to compete with Band Aid® or Coca Cola® or Kleenex®, brand names so common they have become the noun.