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

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...

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...