Meet Angie Viehman CEO + Founder of Clutch Businesses

We had the good fortune of connecting with Angie Viehman and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Angie, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
I fell into the business world unintentionally. I was an artist who majored in sociology and philosophy. After college, I wanted to create programs that empowered women and underserved groups. My bleeding heart entered the field when non-profit budgets were being cut. I put my dreams on hold to take a position in the buying offices at one of the largest for-profit companies in my home state. I went from the not-for-profit world to the halls of retail giant, Target Corporation.

I developed a surprising fascination with the business world. Sociology helps you understand how social systems work. Target understood how business and organizational systems work. Employees are happy, stores are run well, and customers completely LOVE walking in the doors. Efficiency and automation were an investment wherever possible for that to happen. And it couldn’t be done by people disconnected from the actual execution. Every new employee spent several months working in the stores–checking customers out, stocking shelves, mopping floors– before heading back to their cubicles. I immersed myself in these lessons and more during my tenure. Eventually I left to spread my wings with some of the top designers and manufacturers in the country.

And then…I burned out. I was working around the clock. I traveled overseas monthly. I struggled to find time to exercise, sleep, eat, do laundry, see friends and family, find the man of my dreams and train and love my beautiful dog. It was a premature mid-life crisis.

I quit my job and surrounded myself with an amazing group of supportive, hilarious, vibrant women. They were running businesses bursting with success. They had brilliant things to share with the world. Yet, they weren’t showing up for themselves or their families the way they wanted to. They knew that they could be doing so much more, and making so much more, but didn’t know how. I realized that the items on their “drags-me-down” list were exactly the things I love to do and could help end the epidemic I was seeing take hold of women’s lives.

I see the beauty in people’s ideas. I see ways for them to flourish and want to help as many women as possible live completely fulfilled.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Clutch Businesses provides fully customized, automated, self-sustaining e-commerce and online businesses built in two weeks. So businesses can start generating additional revenue in no time!

Our clients have gotten back 35% of their time, have 4x the revenue, have enhanced their customer experience and have done it all with no additional staffing expenditures.

The stores are built by a leader with over two decades of experience working with industry giants such as Target, Crate&Barrel, Room&Board and Blu Dot.

These e-commerce and online store can be used to amplify existing revenue channels, serve new customers and provide ways to do more with less. Online stores are an incredible avenue for women to build wealth and sustainable businesses that they can be proud of while tending to ALL the other things in their lives.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I live for summer so I’d pack a picnic, grab the paddleboards and head up to Gross Reservoir for a day in the sun and on the water. We’d grab a drink at the Clayton and then head next door to Forget Me Not for a snack, a great vibe and a killer playlist.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
SecondAct Women and its founder, Barbara Brooks. This group of incredible women feeds me in so many ways.

Rachel Rodgers and her We Should All Be Millionaires book and membership program. This group and book lights a fire in me on the regular to be the very best version of me and to be the strongest advocate for my business.

Website: www.clutchbusinesses.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clutchbusinesses/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angie-viehman-a0a1393/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clutchbusinesses

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@clutchbusinesses