It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

You may know about Baton Rouge s growing tech industry. What you may not know is that one of the pioneers of internet retailing is right here in the Capital Region. Shopperschoice.com was founded in 1998 and has grown from a mom and pop store selling barbeque equipment to one of the 300 biggest online retailers in the country, behind Google, Amamzon, Apple, eBay and the other household names. It s one of the 100 fastest growing companies, onn and off line, in the US. Annual revenues are heading for 75m. Shopperschoice.com CEO Corey Tisdale is Stephanie s guest on this edition of Out to Lunch. Back in the early 2000 s, when shopperschoice.com was rolling out its first website, Frank Ardoin was a hard working and successful guy in the mortgage business. Then he took a fateful vacation. Sitting on the beach staring at the ocean Frank had an inspiration. When he came home to Baton Rouge, and spent three years thrashing the kinks out of the idea, it became Homebuyerdiscounts.com. It s a membership based model that