Add To Cart: Australia’s eCommerce Show

In this episode of Add To Cart, Nathan Bush revisits two of the most popular guests from last year: Simon Beard, co-founder and former CEO of Culture Kings, and Hannah Udina from Shopify. They dive into the latest retail and e-commerce trends for 2024, exploring everything from the importance of mastering ad accounts to the power of omni-channel experiences. Simon and Hannah share practical insigh...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Anaita Sarkar, the Co founder of Hero Packaging and author of "Sell Anything Online." Anaita is a self confessed marketing and ecomm nerd with a massive Tik Tok following and a refreshing way of looking at life that only comes when you’ve had a few wins and a few bumps and bruises along the way. She’s been an accountant, a consultant, an e...

Around 14 years ago, armed with a background in design and advertising and a man-crush on Stephen Fry, Jesse began a journey to popularise critical thinking, reason and understanding for the greater good. It started with a Creative Commons poster and deck of cards, grew into a crowd funded offering and is now a SaaS platform and a framework for businesses to harness the benefits of higher order th...

In this episode of Add to Cart , we dive into the world of tech-driven plant care with Jared Carlin and James Shamim, the founders of Plant With Willow. What started as a solution to a common household problem - keeping plants alive - has grown into a thriving business with a global reach. From a successful Kickstarter campaign to a strategic partnership with Bunnings, Jared and James share the in...

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In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Hamish McKay, the Co-founder of Order Editing. Hamish is a whip smart entrepreneur who has taken the ecommerce world by storm with his super fast-growing app that empowers customers to make post-purchase amendments and retailers to upsell post-purchase. Learning his trade creating merchandise for creators such as Mr Beast, Hamish has now expanded hi...

Welcome to the Checkout, where we dive deeper into the minds of our guests to learn more about their personal experiences and insights. Today, we have the pleasure of speaking two leading figures in consumer research. Anastasia Lloyd-Wallis is a Research and Insights Specialist at Retail Doctor Group . She brings a wealth of knowledge about how emotions and personality traits drive consumer loyalt...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Hannah Neumann, Head of Marketing at Hey Bud. Hey Bud create skincare products that deliver premium products combining nature and science. Started by three friends in 2019, the brand now has a global customer base in 90+ countries. Hannah has been a part of marketing teams at Styletread and L’Oreal before joining Hey Bud in 2022. In this chat, Hanna...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Michael Jankie, Gary Tramer and Andrei Safonau, Co founders of NATPAT, a brand creating wearable stickers for kids infused with essential oils that offer a range of solutions to everyday problems. There’s a patch to repel mozzies, one to aid sleep and even a sensory patch to alleviate stress and anxiety. NATPAT started as a D2C brand and is now stocked i...

In this episode of Add to Cart, we sit down with Aaron Woolf, the visionary founder of Trendii , to explore the intersection of content and commerce. Trendii is redefining how consumers shop by seamlessly integrating shopping experiences into the content they love. Aaron shares insights into the cutting-edge AI technology that powers Trendii, offering ecommerce managers a glimpse into the future o...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Justin Bausch, CRM Manager at Ryderwear, the fitness apparel brand. Founded in 2009, the brand’s range is specifically designed to mould to the muscular physique of athletes and bodybuilders of any size to ensure comfort and style.  In recent years, Ryderwear has developed four gym locations in South Australia.   Links from the episode: Ryderwear Unleash...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Kerryn and Aaron Langer, Founder and CEO of Arms Of Eve, a jewellery and accessories brand that channels self expression. Starting life at the markets, Arms of Eve now boasts celebrity customers such as Margot Robbie and Hailey Bieber - and is soon to open its fourth and fifth stores.  In this chat, Kerryn and Aaron share why they love the Japanese...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Bianca Romano Smith, Ecommerce and Digital Manager at VRG GRL, which started life as a retail store in the Brisbane Arcade almost 17 years ago and has grown alongside its sibling founders. After moving online, VRG GRL has more recently shifted from a multi-brand online retail model to a dedicated in-house label.  Bianca joined the VRG GRL team earlier th...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Stacey Hollands, CEO and Creative Director of Lust Minerals, a high performance mineral make-up brand.  Stacey was an experienced beauty consultant and used her knowledge to create the clean makeup products she felt were missing in the industry.  Lust Minerals is vegan certified, paraben-free and Australian made - all non negotiables for Stacey.  Th...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Founder and CEO of Snotty Noses, a brand that pretty much does what it says on the tin…provides a practical solution for dealing with the bucket loads of snot that the babies and toddlers in our lives seem to generate from the moment they come into our lives.  If you are not a parent or have had no experience of this phenomenon…you might want to have a l...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Jesse Richardson, Founder and CEO of Kitted Thinking Tools and The School of Thought. Around 14 years ago, armed with a background in design and advertising and a man-crush on Stephen Fry, Jesse began a journey to popularise critical thinking, reason and understanding for the greater good.  It started with a Creative Commons poster and deck of cards...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Holly Cardew, founder and CEO of Carted, an app designed to help consumers super charge their shopping game with organisation, comparison, collaboration and sales access.  Holly’s entrepreneurial background saw her selling handbags on Ebay aged 14 and now, several startups and a decade later, Carted is her focus and is drawing the attention of some of Au...

In this episode of Add To Cart, Danny Chiha and Natalie McDermott join us from Kelly + Partners Accountants, an ASX listed company with branches in Australia and expanding globally.  Danny and Nat are both partners at the Northern Beaches branch in Sydney, working with around 50 ecommerce brands with turnover running from $50,000 to $50m.   In this chat, Danny and Nat share what an ecommerce busin...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Chris Clark, Marketing and Ecommerce Director at Milton and King.  Chris built and ran his own successful design agency, but after it took multiple hits,  first through COVID and then the Brisbane floods, he decided to take up an offer from an old friend and joined the luxury wallpaper company.  Launched in Brisbane in 2012, Milton and King has expanded...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Tom Walenkamp, Co founder and CEO of Good Pair Days, a company that have built a custom, personalisation engine to deliver expert wine curation specific to each customer’s taste - in their words, it’s like you’ve got a best mate who’s an award winning sommelier.  A decade after launch, they now have over 65,000 subscribers and were dubbed the ‘Netfl...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Tom Harris, Chief Revenue Officer at Emarsys.  Tom supports leading global brands to realise their greatest personalisation and omni-channel aspirations and he loves it so much, he’s been doing it at Emarsys for ten years!   He’s based in London and we are very lucky to have caught him on a trip over here in Australia.  Links from the episode: Unleashing...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Martin Filz. CEO of Pureprofile and Anastasia Lloyd-Wallis Chief Operating Officer & Head of Insights at Retail Doctor Group. Experts in research and retail, Martin and Anastasia collected data from 1000 people across all demographics to generate ‘How To Grow Consumer Loyalty’ and they join us to share the findings. In this chat, Martin and Anas...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout William On and Rob Hango-Zada, Co founders and Co CEO’s of Shippit, a multi carrier shipping software specifically for Ecommerce.  After seeing eye to eye at uni (quite literally) and watching their Attlassian mates do well, the friends decided to get in on the action and launch their own logistics solution. Now, millions of packages are sent with the he...

In this episode of Add To Cart, we are joined by Michael Jankie, Gary Tramer and Andrei Safonau, Co founders of NATPAT, a brand creating wearable stickers for kids  infused with essential oils that offer a range of solutions to everyday problems.  There’s a patch to repel mozzies, one to aid sleep and even a sensory patch to alleviate stress and anxiety.  NATPAT started as a D2C brand and is now s...

We have a rule on Add to Cart, that our guests should be very much about Australia and Australian ecommerce. Today, we’re breaking that rule…the rebels that we are…but with very good reason. My guest is Eric Siu, Founder of growth marketing agency Single Grain, based in San Francisco. You will also no doubt know Eric as the host of the hugely successful Marketing School and Levelling Up podcasts w...