eCommerce Fastlane: Shopify Growth Strategies—Where AI Efficiency Meets Human Connection

My guest in today’s episode is Andrew Cargill the Founder from Zapiet . They are the most complete store pickup and local delivery solution for over 5000 Shopify brands in 130 countries. Amazing feature set that includes: Product Availability Control Shopify POS Integration Live Multi-Location Inventory Fraud Prevention Fulfillment Tools To Organize Orders Zapiet is focused on helping blur the lin...

My guest in today’s episode is Michael Epstein, the Co-Founder of PostPilot . Email inboxes and social feeds are drowning in a sea of offers and ads. Email marketing used to be king, but response rates have tanked to abysmal levels. And customers have become numb to banner ads, while pay per click costs skyrocket. PostPilot is Shopify App that helps you combat rising PPC costs and decreasing email...

My guest on today’s episode is Matt Bahr the Co-Founder & CEO of EnquireLabs . They’re a marketing analytics Shopify app that helps you build and launch attribution surveys. If you’re not familiar with what an attribution survey is, it’s a survey that lives post-purchase and helps you understand where your customers are coming from by asking one simple question, "how did you hear about us?”. ...

Today I’m recording from beautiful Whistler, British Columbia, with my friend Tink Taylor, who is the Co-Founder & President of dotdigital .   dotdigital is a leader in Omnichannel Marketing Automation with its Engagement Cloud Platform . Over 4,000+ successful brands, in 150 countries, use dotdigital to acquire, convert, and retain customers. It’s a platform for businesses that are seeking to...

My guest in today’s episode is Brian Anderson the Co-Founder and Product Architect of Nacelle . They are a headless Shopify solution paired with PWA (Progressive Web App) that helps merchants increase both mobile conversion rates and cart sizes. What You Will Learn Today How to give your customer’s ability to shop online as if they were using a mobile native app without having to download anything...

My guest in today’s episode is Erik Huberman, the Founder & CEO, from Hawke Media . They are a digital marketing agency that offers data-driven and performance-focused solutions for Shopify businesses of all sizes, industries, and revenue models. They refer to themselves as an Outsourced CMO and have helped thousands of commerce brands to launch and scale. What You Will Learn Today How to find...

My guest in today’s episode is Robin H. Smith, the CEO, and Co-Founder of VL OMNI. They are a data integration platform built on cutting-edge cloud microservice technology that helps scaling multichannel Shopify merchants do more with their data, including creating effective and unified customer experiences across any and all touchpoints. What You Will Learn Today What is a point-to-multipoint ser...

My guest in today's episode is Steve Smith the co-founder and CEO of an analytics platform called Conversific . It’s a solution used by over 10,000 e-commerce stores of all sizes, from startup to enterprise. It’s been developed to help you, the store or brand owner, to better understand your customers in 3 main ways: 1. Benchmarking your Shopify store against your competitors. Without context, num...

My guest on today's episode is John Chao, the CEO from Segments . They are an ecommerce analytics platform that helps Shopify brands uncover hidden revenue potential with automated segmentation.  Many Shopify brands are under-utilizing their customer data today and aren’t able to effectively draw insights to create revenue-generating customer segments to help improve marketing ROI.  You’ll learn t...

My guest on today's episode is Chase Harmer, the CEO from PayCertify . They have a suite of tools and a platform to increase your revenue up to 10% through frictionless payment processing, automated cash management, and secure fraud control. What You Will Learn Today… How to taking the same customers at checkout and making additional profit. How to take the money currently being spent on vendors,...

My guest on today’s episode is Chris Grouchy the Co-Founder and President of Convictional . They are a modern B2B trade enablement network.  Stores on Shopify and Shopify Plus use Convictional to rapidly expand their product assortment, launch new product categories, and grow revenue — all without taking on any inventory risk.  Here’s how they do it : Convictional provides the platform that enable...

My guest on today’s show is John Vrancsik from Recart . They are a chat marketing solution that helps to increase the revenue and lifetime loyalty of your Shopify brand by engaging customers on the platform they actively use, Facebook Messenger.   They help manage your customer’s journey through Messenger conversations like: abandoned cart reminders shipping and delivery notifications warm welcome...

My guest in today’s episode is Raúl Galera from ReferralCandy a platform that helps Shopify brands run customer referral programs. Referral programs are powerful. Word of mouth influences 80% of buying decisions , and customers trust referrals over every other channel. Your customers will know at least one other new customer; why not reward them for making a referral? Let’s jump in and learn more...

My guest on today’s episode is Rob Statsky, Director of Customer Success at Aircall . He talks about his experience at Aircall as the Director of Customer Success, their Shopify integration, and how Shopify brands can make sure their phone channel is the best it can be. Let’s jump in and learn more about this important customer experience channel for the modern shopper. What You Will Learn Today…...

My guest on today’s episode is Michael Vadini the Co-Founder and CEO of Glew.io. They have a powerful Ecommerce Analytics and Business Intelligence (BI) software solution that consistently helps Shopify brands save time and sell more. They deliver business intelligence, alerts, and automation to help you generate more revenue, cultivate loyal customers, optimize product strategy and most important...

My guest on today’s episode is Brent Spicer (a.k.a. Spice), the co-founder, and CEO of Marsello . They are a marketing automation platform that uniquely pairs email with loyalty & retention features to target the right customers, at the right time, with the right message. Today you’re going to learn how Marsello can be your virtual marketing assistant to deliver smart and targeted marketing, t...

"Who says, Black Friday Deals should only be for consumers?" As a Shopify business owner or marketer, you deserve to get in on the action and score some amazing app deals to help your brand grow and scale this holiday season! ...and that's exactly what you're going to get access to today! THE SETUP A survey was sent out to Shopify Experts, Shopify Plus Experts, Agency Partners, and Ecommerce Profe...

My guest on today’s episode is Phil Akhzar the founder from Arka, a company on a mission to help Shopify brands delight their customers with custom printed boxes which creates a memorable unboxing brand experience. If you ship a physical product, chances are you’re not slapping a label on it and tossing it in the mail. It’s going to go in some sort of package. With Arka, you’re able to select and...

My guest on today’s episode is Andreas Roell, the founder of DataQ . They are an intelligent and easy-to-use tool that maximizes marketing ROI and drives long term customer relationships. Analytics, attribution, and lifetime customer value, these are KPI’s and hot topics. I’d argue that many Shopify brands can appreciate the benefits of having access to this data, and how it would help their busin...

My guest on today’s episode is Stan-Avner Almaleh, the founder of AppSolute, the developer of the Drop A Hint Shopify App. This one-of-a-kind, clever app displays “Drop a Hint" under or next to your add to cart button on your Shopify product page. This allows a browsing customer to send an electronic hint card to a person of their choice. The person receiving, (the “hint receiver”) gets an on-bran...

My guest on today’s episode is Derric Haynie, the founder of EcommerceTech , where he works to connect Shopify merchants with the right tech tools and partners to grow their stores. We talk about necessary ecommerce tech stacks, the process to vet software vendors, and how to successfully roll out new tools for your Shopify brand. What You Will Learn Today… Expectations and considerations when imp...

My guest on today’s episode is Taylor Loren the Head of Content Marketing for Later.com , the #1 marketing platform for instagram. Their platform will also help you to visually plan, schedule and analyze posts for Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Its use by over 2,000,000 of the world's top brands, agencies, and influencers. With Later, you can spend less time posting to Instagram and more time gr...

My guest on today’s episode is Greg Zakowicz the Sr. Commerce Marketing Analyst from Oracle NetSuite , where he has a strong focus on the  Bronto Marketing Platform . Bronto is one of the leading email service providers (ESP) for some of the top retailers around the world. Personalized email and marketing automation are important strategies to have a firm grasp on, which is precisely why I invited...

My guest on today's episode is Romain Ogiela the co-founder of Shipup . They are a solution that is obsessed with helping Shopify brands create unique and amazing delivery experiences that your customers will remember. Essentially, Shipup tracks all your packages in one place and offers your customers a unique and customized experience during delivery. If you’re looking for a way to elevate your S...

My guest on today’s episode is Ben Jabbawy, the founder and CEO of Privy, a marketing platform that is used by over 300,000+ Shopify businesses. If you’ve not heard of this solution and why so brands choose Privy, then this podcast episode is definitely for you... Privy is helping to power the explosive growth of merchants like Leesa Mattress, Hubble Contacts, Dormify, Keene Footwear, Boosted Boar...