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

My guests on today’s episode are Ryan Lavery and Max Stewart from Perfect Audience . They offer simple and powerful online tools that give Shopify brands everything they need to gather visitor data and use it to power advertising campaigns that show the right ad to the right person at the right time. We’re talking about all things retargeting, including... Web Retargeting Facebook Retargeting Inst...

My guest on today’s episode is Chris Jacobs, from Katana , the smart workshop software platform that is helping Shopify brands that manufacturer and fulfills their own orders. Katana allows you to manage your whole order fulfillment process from a single dashboard, including sales, manufacturing, and purchasing. As a Shopify brand owner, you get stock availability and fulfillment status for every...

My guest on today’s episode is Cooper Harris, the Founder and CEO from Klickly , a unique and patented advertising platform with a built-in Smart Commerce-Engine. Not only do brands pay on a "commission-based" model (hello free advertising), it’s a solution that powers impulse-payments online, exactly where your potential customers are browsing the web. Leading brands use Klickly's machine-learnin...

My guest on today’s episode is Leigh Sevin, the co-founder from Endear , a marketing platform that connects to Shopify’s POS system and empowers retail associates to increase sales by dedicating their downtime to personalized customer outreach over email and text message. They have a compelling solution that is guaranteed to boost customer lifetime value for your Shopify brand. They enable store a...

My guest on today's episode is Aidan Weinrib from Bench.co They are a market leading company that is focused on helping Shopify brands when it comes to bookkeeping, reporting, and revealing insights to help control the financial health of a business. Let's be honest...as a business owner, you wear a lot of hats. Bench are professional bookkeepers with experience serving other Shopify entrepreneurs...

My guest on today's episode is Kate Bradley Chernis, Co-Founder & CEO from Lately . They are a disruptive social media management platform that pairs AI (artificial intelligence) with humans. The platform automatically turns blogs, press releases, white papers, online articles, newsletters, videos and podcasts into dozens of pre-hashtagged and pre-shortlinked autogenerated social media posts....

Today I’m chatting with Adii Pienaar, the founder of a wildly popular Shopify app called Conversio. They are an email service provider (ESP) and user-generated content (UGC) solution all packaged up into one solution to help you as a Shopify merchant to engage with your customers and build lifetime loyal customers. With super-personalized email marketing and on-site social proof, Conversio is the...

My guest on today's episode is Felix Süllwold, Head of Partnerships & Marketing from PushOwl, a marketing platform that drives more conversions with web push notifications. Think about this...you are investing time, effort, and money to bring traffic to your store and the goal is to keep these people engaged. But the reality is, more than 90% of your site visitors may never come back to your b...

My guest on today's episode is Casey Armstrong, CMO from ShipBob, a technology-enabled third party logistics company (3PL). The tech-enabled part of ShipBob is the technology that was developed to streamline shipping and fulfillment solutions for Shopify brands. In addition to fulfillment services, such as warehousing, picking, packing, and shipping, ShipBob also provides software that integrates...

My guest on today's episode is Jordan Gal, the Founder & CEO of CartHook. We chat about how they help Shopify merchants to improve conversion rate and grow average order value through their checkout and funnel solution.  What You Will Learn Today… Learn how CartHook allows for complete control over the entire checkout process with your Shopify store, including a customizable one-page checkout...

Today's episode was recorded on the show floor at IRCE 2019 in Chicago (Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition) This years event merged a few shows into one mega-show called RetailX. It was marketed as the only complete solution for a transformative retail market. RetailX is a colocation of the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE), the world’s largest e-commerce event, with...

My guest on today episode is Mike Averto, the Co-Founder & CEO of ChannelApe. We chat about how they help Shopify merchants unify sales and fulfillment operations as they have done for many Shopify merchants including AllBirds, Steve Madden, Kids Shoes, Monster, Skicks, Campus Protein, and more. ChannelApe is Mission Control for Direct to Consumer (D2C) order management operations. The platfor...

Today I’m chatting with Liran Tadmore, the founder of WooHoo, an engagement platform for Shopify brands. He talks about boosting your conversion rate and taking your coupon game to the next level. Who said pop-ups can’t be fun? Add some playful spirit to your pop-up ads, pop-up banners and pop-up windows and watch as the gamified email capture process boosts subscriptions and sales. It’s a win-win...

Today I’m chatting with Mark Faggiano, CEO of TaxJar, a leading technology for Shopify eCommerce businesses to manage sales tax. TaxJar seeks to make eCommerce easier for everyone by helping merchants spend less time on sales tax to focus on growing the businesses they love. What You Will Learn Today… How you can accurately and easily automate sales tax for your Shopify store What the Wayfair deci...

On today's episode, I'm chatting with Sharoon Thomas, the Co-Founder and CEO of Fulfil.io Fulfil gives modern Shopify retailers the tools to deliver a superior customer experience that feels effortless. Whatever your current process is and wherever you are selling. Complete post checkout operations are covered with the Fulfil.io Platform. It's your one-stop for everything from purchasing and manuf...

On today's episode, I’m chatting with Ron Dod, Co-founder, and CMO of Visiture . They are a Shopify Plus Agency Partner that is focused on helping eCommerce companies grow their brand online and increase the bottom line. Through an omnichannel marketing approach, they incorporate web design, development, conversion rate optimization, Google shopping campaigns, SEO, content marketing, social ads an...

On today's episode, I’m chatting with Aidan Mattrick from Pixel Union . They are a triple threat when it comes to Shopify Partners. They are one of the top premium theme developers, they’re a Shopify Agency partner who has helped design and launch 1000’s of digital brands, and they are also a Shopify App partner, with 6 apps in the Shopify App store. We chat about one today called: Wholesale Club...

On today’s episode, I’m chatting with Jill Liliedahl, Business Development Manager from  Inventory Planner . It’s an incredible time and money optimizing solution that puts you in charge of your inventory. Sales forecasting does sound sexy but it helps to anticipate your customer demand and it’s a way to see what trends are happening in your business. You can view all of your sales trends and inve...

On today’s episode, I’m chatting with Roddy Smith, the Senior Growth Specialist from Spently. They have developed a solution that allows merchants to leverage the Shopify notification emails as a stand-alone sales channel using marketing components and follow up sequences. What You Will Learn Today… How to leverage event-based upsells, discounts, and referral components through your Shopify notifi...

Today I’m chatting with Kyle Wong, CEO & Co-founder of Pixlee, a User Generated Marketing Platform (UGC) that enables Shopify brands to use photos and videos from real people to help tell authentic brand stories to drive revenue and lifetime customer loyalty. What You Will Learn Today… How to unlock hidden revenue by amplifying your most passionate customers Strategies for selling to the moder...

Today I’m chatting with Mark Gally, the Co-founder, and CEO of Zaius.com, a marketing platform on steroids, that assists Shopify brands to delight customers at every interaction. Their solution and resources are built to assist you to properly segment and personalize your marketing interactions and ultimately design and deploy cross-channel campaigns to those customers. What You Will Learn Today…...

Today I’m chatting with Yoni Elbaz the Co-founder and CEO of Loox. An exclusive Shopify App that allows you to collect photo reviews for your happy customers which will strengthen your brand and drive more sales through social proof. What You Will Learn Today… How photo reviews increasing trust and conversion rates. Consumers trust other consumers much more than they trust brands. 85% of customers...

Today I’m chatting with Sergiu Ciumac, the Co-Founder and CEO of Visely, a compelling solution that offers meaningful and effective product recommendations for Shopify store owners. What You Will Learn Today… How to optimize your conversion rate. How to increase customers engagement with relevant product recommendations. Learn how strategic product recommendations with decrease bounce rates and wo...

Today I’m chatting with Dave Atchison, the Co-Founder, and CEO of New Engen a Shopify Plus Agency Partner that exclusively focuses on new customer acquisition. New Engen is uniquely positioning itself in the Shopify ecosystem to help brands drive new visitors to a site either through a done for you Agency model or now with their public release, in-house, purpose built marketing technology solution...

Today I’m chatting with Michele Romanow, the Co-founder and President of Clearbanc. They are redefining banking that is tailored to the needs of e-commerce entrepreneurs. They help Shopify businesses secure credit without personal guarantees, equity, or credit scores. If you're looking to increase traffic and revenue to your Shopify store, Clearbanc funds your digital ad spend so you acquire more...