Dear Lifted Family,

I would just like to start out by saying, on behalf of everyone here at Lifted and myself…THANK YOU!  We can’t even begin to tell you how grateful we are for all of your support throughout the past few years.  With your continued support we will keep trying our best to provide the same great products, lifestyle, and events that all of you have grown to know and love.

“Lifted began as a simple outlook on life, do what does and always will make you happy”. I still think about that saying on a daily basis. I think about what it meant back in 2007 when I wrote the line, and what it means now years later.  Before Lifted began Kyle, Rachel, and myself were working at a local Ski/Bike shop about 20min from our home town. I had recently graduated college from Arizona State, when I decided to move back to New York, and Kyle hooked me up with a much needed job. Something was missing during our time there, and we saw our ideas moving in a different direction, and needed a way to vent those ideas. Lifted was born.

We started out in the lower level of Kyle and Rachel’s father’s accounting office in a room that was just slightly larger than most people’s bedrooms, with a couple credit cards and a few thousand dollars pooled between the three of us.

What this means now I think,  “doing what makes you happy”, has more to do with doing what it takes to make you happy. It’s the sacrifices you make, and work you put in to reach your goals. It’s also about the experiences, knowledge, and relationships you create during that journey.

We are extremely busy these days.  Over the past two years our company has grown by 200%. As of last summer we moved into a new location right here in Rome on Dominick St., and are now currently adding another 1,400sq/ft to our storefront, and are launching our brand new and much anticipated e-commerce site.

The website (www.LiftedLife.com) is something that we have always been pushing and gravitating towards. A few years ago we had the site in development, but due to some less than desirable circumstance with the company who was building it we were unable to launch the site. Here we are now two years later; slightly more mature and more in tune with what our customers are looking for. The two year wait, was somewhat of a blessing in disguise perhaps. It gave us time to grow as a company, argue, laugh, problem solve and succeed as a team, and all in all become a better business and better friends.

Through this growth period we’ve meet some great people. Industry leaders and brand reps that helped us grow, and gave us the tools to help their brands grow and expand into the lives of the thousands of great customers who walk through our doors every season.

Most importantly we can’t leave out our families and friends.  You guys are amazing people. You are the most important piece of this puzzle, and if it wasn’t for all of you we would certainly not be here today….Thank You, and we Love You All.

Special Thanks To: The Gabes, Sharon and Frank Puma, Dustin Livingston, Bob Carrier(Bab!), Kevin Cross, Matt Sneed and everyone at Syntive(if you need a site built these guys are it!), Joe Patane, The Lifted Team, The Mill, All the Groms helping out for free,  Justin Gualtieri, All of our awesome reps for believing in us, Ann Pohl at NBT,  Dave Peroni(the voice), Rome N.Y, Erik Wilson at Lab, and of course…God.

Sincerely,
Gabe Sbarglia, Kyle Puma, Rachel Puma, and The Lifted Crew
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