eCommerce MasterPlan

Yinka Martin is the founder and CEO at HairWeavon. A bricks and clicks retailer she founded in 2011 to help women and men experiencing hair loss to find the best Wigs and Hair Replacement Systems. Ten years on they have just achieved 20% year on year growth. We chat about the empathy superpower growing your team, email marketing, celebrating 10 years in business and their migrations from ZenCart t...

Jessica Bellinger is the founder of online cosmetic brand Jessica & Color. Founded in December 2019, now 12m in they’re at $37,000 sales with growth accelerating. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-analytics-privacy-policy/ --- Downloa...

Megan Bingham-Walker is the co-founder and CEO at Anansi an eCommerce insurance specialist. We're talking about what insurance you should consider having as an eCommerce business, and why! The most interesting chat I've ever had about insurance - and listening could REALLY pay off for you! Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com This podcast uses the following...

Dan Erdman is the Owner and Founder at Uther Supply, the industry leader in high fashion golf towels and balls. Founded in 2016 they now are doing over $1m a year. We discuss how he took his eCommerce-only products into Dick's Sporting Goods and other top Golf retailers, his team expansion, AND making the shift from towels-only into golf balls as well. Get all the links and resources we mentio...

Daniel McClen is the founder at Solace Jewellery. Founded in 2015 Solace specialises in hypoallergenic jewellery, and they now on track for £250k in sales this year, which is more than triple last year. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-a...

Jason Butcher is a specialist at the forefront of fintech he’s a key advisor to multiple businesses focused on aspects of payment solutions and emerging currencies. His core role as the CEO at Coinpayments, an integrated payment gateway for cryptocurrenices. Who better to update us on the latest payments opportunities? It’s been over 4 years since we’ve had an episode about payments – getting mone...

Kev Wiles is the Group SEO Manager at Halfords, a UK bricks and clicks retailer specialising in motoring and cycling. Founded in 1892 in 2019 they had revenue over £1.1bn with profits of nearly £60m. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/ad-anal...

Nicolas Metzke is the co-founder and CEO at Melvin & Hamilton Digital, a high-end brand selling shoes and accessories. The brand has been around since 1988 and launched online in 2012. The site now sells 80,000 shoes a year and annual sales are over €7m. He talks to Chloe about their replatforming, how the pandemic has changed their marketing focus - and how reorganising the marketing team has...

Antoine Gagné is the founder and CEO at J7 Media, a creative and data-driven Facebook Ads agency managing over $2m in monthly ad spend. J7 Media specialise in helping DTC brands grow their sales, and have analysed the advertising they’ve been running to put together a guide to best practices – and that’s what I’m chatting with Antoine about today. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCom...

Neal Schaffer has been deep in the world of Social media for over 10 years, and is an expert on both building your own social influence and leveraging that of others through Influencer marketing campaigns. In 2020 he published the bestselling book “The Age of Influence: The Power of Influencers to Elevate your Brand”. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com This podca...

Luke Carthy is a well known eCommerce CRO and SEO specialist, AND now the founder of Afro Drops. We're chatting about how he got to live, why he's not creating his own products, why he chose to launch with WooCommerce, and what he has planned for the first 6 months. We'll be catching up with Luke again in episode 330 to see how things are going and what he's doing to grow the busin...

Chloe is joined by a host of eCommerce experts to answer the question What is your top tip for growing an eCommerce business in 2021? And there's a lot! Covering LOADS including new customer acquistion, customer retention, live chat, SMS, capitalising on the new consumer trends and whole lot more. The answers will help you work out your plans for 2021. Our experts include Chris Dawson from Tam...

John Hagan is Director of Growth at Purelei. It’s a German jewellery brand inspired by Hawaii and founded in 2017 that now an 8 figure brand who aim to double in size every year. In this episode we discuss just what it takes to double each year, what it means for the team, for mindset, for every area of the business. Lots of great advice in here for growing fast. Get all the links and resources we...

Lucy Bloomfield. Back in 2017 Lucy was busy growing her own eCommerce business to over 10,000 customers in just 18 months (hear about that back in episode 253). Today she focuses on helping {other} retailers replicate her success. Lucy is a regular guest on the show because she always brings such great insight. In the past we’ve covered ethical, sustainable eCommerce and Customer Personas and in t...

Dan Dicker is the Managing Director and Founder at Circular and Co who manufacture and sell homewares with a conscience. Launched in 2003 they now £2.8m in annual sales. They are commited to building a sustainable business, and sustainable products by embracing the circular economy. Doing this has led to exponential growth in the business. listen to find out how they've acheived all that! Get...

Kristi Diemoz is the Senior Manager Go to Market Strategy at eBay. She’s been at eBay for over 18 years and throughout has been focused on helping eBay sellers succeed on the platform. In this episode, she's going to be discussing with Chloe why using a marketplace like eBay can be a great way to grow sales, reduce risk, and sell internationally. Plus the different strategies brands are using...

Heidi Jarvis is the founder of 2 eCommerce businesses – Boutique Heidi and Garage 79. Launched in 2011 and 2013 they’ve experienced rapid growth in 2020 Garage 79 is up 1,071% Boutique Heidi up 4,601% year on year. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Spotify Ad Analytics - https://www.spotify.com/u...

Chloe is joined by a host of eCommerce experts to answer the question What is the most important thing we learnt in eCommerce in 2020? And there's a lot! Covering everything from customer behaviour changes, the surge into online ordering, how that fits with offline retail, marketing lessons, risk mitigation, backup plans and whole lot more. The answers will help you work out your plans for 202...

Travis Zigler is the SeeEO at Eye Love, a US DTC retailer of eye health products, who give a portion of profits to ending preventable blindness. Founded in 2015, now in 2020 are on track for over $4m in sales. We discuss how he's developed his business through a lazer focus on content marketing that's enabled him to cut the time he spends working AND increase profits drastically. We discus...

We’re joined for the fourth (and final time) by Simon Driscoll from UXB Skincare. Who’s been sharing his startup journey with us all year – and what a year it’s been! In this episode Simon updates us on his lead generation skincare quiz, using Pinterest Ads to drive sign ups, and his forays into Influencer Marketing. We also talk about lessons learnt and what he's going to be focusing on in 20...

Ric Rodriguez is the Head of Search at Vashi, and co-author of the Amazon best seller “Mastering in-house SEO”. Vashi is an ethical fine-jewellery service that puts its customers at the heart of the design and making process – especially when it comes to custom engagement rings. They were founded in 2007 and are busy disrupting the jewellery industry – including going from a digital team of 5 to 4...

Ben Woodward and Tash Jones from SmartFreight are experts in the shipping and fulfilment industry, which means they’ve spent 2020 getting to grips with how a global pandemic has changed the shipping habits of retailers. From getting stock into the warehouse to getting the parcel to the customer they have seen retailers across the world ripping up the rule book and making huge (and small) changes t...

David Zinberg is the CEO and Founder of Bids.com. An online auction marketplace focused on jewelry, accessories and collectibles. Founded in 2018 they now have over 200,000 registered users and have grown over 300% in the last year. We discuss what it takes to make an auction site successful, competitive advantage and much more. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com...

Shivraj Bassi is the Founder and CEO at Innermost. Originally Innermost sold their nutritional products B2B, but in 2019 shifted their focus to DTC. The combined DTC and B2B operation is now 3 years old and achieving a 7-figure run rate. We discuss why starting wholesale has been brilliant, how understanding the customer has influenced product and marketing, and how they've used content and ve...

To celebrate reaching episode 300 host Chloe Thomas is going to answer our listeners questions about how we create our podcasts. How do we get guests? What is recording like? Editing, promotion and more. We've been collecting your questions and in this episode Chloe will answer them all. Get all the links and resources we mention at eCommerceMasterPlan.com/300 This podcast uses the following t...