Winning With Shopify

Have you acquired new customers but struggling to get them to buy again? Then this episode is for you! This week we are joined by Alex Fell, the co-founder of Barc London, a luxury pet goods & apparel Shopify store. Alex shares his insights and learnings how he overcame the learning curve when first starting out, how to choose the right help for your business and how to increase customer lifet...

This week we are joined by Kristen Baileys, the founder of Bake Eat Love. Kristen’s energy and passion for her business & digital marketing is infectious and she shares all of her insights and hidden gems on how she has grown her business through email marketing! Give this episode a listen if you are wanting to engage more website visitors and keep the conversation going with customers! Key ta...

This week’s episode is all about how to build a community with your customers between, and how creating a strong community, builds an even stronger brand! We are joined by the wonderful Sonya Michele, Founder of premium scarf brand, Dog & Boy. Sonya shares her journey to creating Dog & Boy and shares her knowledge in how you can build a strong community through email. If you’re looking to...

“65% of consumers plan to do all of their shopping before Black Friday / Cyber Monday!” This week we are joined by the extremely knowledgable and all round great guy, Brian Krug, who is the Customer Success Lead at Seguno. In this episode Brian shares his insights into how you can maximise your sales throughout the Black Friday Cyber Monday period via email, and why you should start preparing now....

“I would rather they didn’t get my emails!” This week we are joined by the founder of Total Sports Enterprises, Todd Murphy. Todd shares his story and insights to growing TSE into what it is today and how he sends 2 emails to his subscribers every single day! If you're looking to build a loyal and raving fan base of customers, this episode is not to be missed! Key takeaways: 0:00 Introduction...

This week is all about email design with the awesome Katherine from Seguno! Nick and Katherine discuss the importance of email design in marketing, email templates that work, and trends in email marketing right now. If you need help with designing your emails and converting more customers, this episode is not to be missed! Key takeaways: 0:00 Introduction 2:19 About Katherine 3:32 How important is...

In this episode we are joined by Jonnie who has co-founded the awesome Shopify business, Toast’d! Jonnie shares his story and knowledge following an impressive career in marketing, and shares his top tips on how you can grow your Shopify store through email marketing! Key takeaways: 0:00 Introduction 2:18 About Jonnie & Toast’d 5:45 Working with family & building a team 8:32 How to generat...

This week we are joined by Chris Huntly-Gordon, Co-founder of the Shopify store, KillaVanilla, & Merchant Outreach at Seguno! Chris and Nick discuss email marketing strategies that work, gaining a competitive edge and overcoming regulations, building brand sentiment through customer reviews, how Chris got involved with Seguno, email automations you must prioritise and much much more. This is n...

This week we are joined by Rob Avery, Founder of Next FPV, to share his knowledge on using email marketing to scale an e-commerce brand! This episode includes using stories for marketing content, how do you personalise branded emails, aligning Email Marketing with other channels and far more! Key takeaways: 0:00 - Introduction 2:27 - About Rob Avery 7:14 - Using stories for Marketing Content 9:04...

This is the first episode of a very exciting series all around email marketing! We are joined by email marketing legend and Founder of Seguno, Chris Geiss. Chris and Nick discuss where you should start with email marketing, how email automations can generate you sales in your sleep, creating content ideas for email and much more! Key Takeaways: 0:00 Introduction 1:46 3 Fun facts about Chris and Ni...

This week we are joined by the incredibly knowledgeable Dominic McGregor. Dom started out creating viral Twitter accounts at age 19, and then went on to co-founding Europe’s fastest growing social media agency, Social Chain, working with some of the world’s most recognisable brands. Years later, he is now the co-founder of Fearless Adventures, investing in founders looking to rapidly scale their b...

This week is all about paid social media advertising! We are joined by the extremely knowledgable, Marin Ištvanić, who is a Partner at the social media advertising agency, Inspire. Marin and Nick dive into the foundations of a successful Shopify store, how to create compelling marketing campaigns, paid social strategies to consider and much more! Key Takeaways: 0:00 Intro 1:36 About Marin 3:50 Fou...

For Week 2 of our Social Media Series we are joined by the lovely Janis Thomas, Managing Director of the e-commerce brand, Look Fabulous Forever! Janis shares an insight into their social media marketing strategy, how they amassed over a million views on a single video, how they have grown their social media presence and turning followers into customers! If you are looking to grow your brand’s soc...

This week is our first episode of our social media series! We are joined back by the brilliant, Ben Leonard, to share his experience starting and scaling brands and what social media channels you should be focusing on in 2023. Ben & Nick cover how to work out where your target audience is, cutting through the noise, creating social content ideas, how to attribute revenue to social, and much mo...

We're sorry it's late! There has been a lot of uncertainty around Google Analytics with the discontinuation of Google Universal Analytics on Friday and the move to GA4. So, due to popular demand, Nick dives into the details of GA4, what’s good about it, what’s bad about it, how to set it up on Shopify and the new opportunities GA4 presents! We hope you enjoy the episode and Spec is offer...

In the second part of our SEO series, we are joined by Senior SEO Consultant, Rob Stanbury! Rob has worked at Spec for the last 5 years and has a variety of experience working with a range of clients. Rob & Nick discuss a variety of topics from how to create blog posts that rank and convert, should we use ChatGPT for Content marketing, how to implement off-site marketing for SEO, and much, muc...

In our first week of our SEO series, Nick is joined by SEO Manager at Spec, Emily! Nick & Emily cover the fundamentals of SEO, providing a great insight into what you need to know about SEO to get started and how it works. From covering how to optimise your site, to what tools and channels you should be using to improve your SEO. Spec is offering a FREE SEO health check. Complete the contact f...

Week 2 of our Google Ads series! Nick is joined this week by Daisy, who is a specialist in Google Shopping Ads at Spec Digital. Nick and Daisy share their insights and knowledge in what you can do to get customers to convert more and spend more, what Performance Max is, creating and optimising ad audiences, effectively testing ads, and much more! Spec is offering a FREE Google Ads check. Complete...

This episode is all about covering the fundamentals of Google Ads! Nick is joined by Jonny, who works alongside Nick in the digital marketing consultancy, Spec Digital. Nick and Jonny discuss what you need to be thinking about before you start running ads, the basics of setting up Google Ads, the different types of Google Ad campaigns and much much more! Spec is offering a FREE Google Ads check. C...

This week we are joined by David de las Morenas, Founder of the Youtube channel, How To Beast, and clothing brand Edge Lifestyle. David started out on Youtube a few years ago and very quickly gained over a million subscribers through his content. Nick and David discuss how to start and grow a clothing brand through social media, how to review what is selling well and clear dead stock, how to order...

This week we are joined by Marc Bacher, Founder of Stuga Studio to share his expertise of starting and scaling a successful brand on Shopify! Nick and Marc dive into how to talk to customers to create a strong brand, stocking products for scale, how to build great relationships with suppliers, and much much more! Topics: 1:50 About Mark & Stuga Studio 09:57 The importance of talking to custome...

For the second episode of our Fulfilment Series, we are joined back with the founders of Ships-A-Lot, Max and Zach, and also their business partner John to discuss the importance of SKUs, calculating your shipping rates correctly, effective inventory management, how to manage customer expectations with shipping costs and much, much more! Ships-A-Lot is an e-commerce fulfilment company based in the...

It’s a new month and a new series all about fulfilment and operations! We have never covered this topic in detail before on the podcast and after lots of questions from the Winning With Shopify Community, thought it was time to do so. We are joined by fulfilment and postage experts, Max and Zach, the founders of Ships-A-Lot, who share their insights and expertise about the industry. Ships-A-Lot is...

To continue on our Influencer marketing series, we are joined by Youtuber, Christianne from the channel Backpacking Bananas! Christianne started her travel Youtube channel 10 years ago, and since starting her channel, has amassed almost 200,000 subscribers, explored many corners of the globe and partnered with some amazing brands. In this episode she shares her insights into being a content creato...

For our second episode of our influencer marketing series, we are joined by affiliate marketing expert, Dustin Howes, to discuss how affiliate marketing can work for your brand! Dustin Howes is a partnership nerd spreading the good word about performance marketing. He is the founder and chief coach at Perfmm.com where he trains digital marketers how to optimize their affiliate programs. Key Takeaw...