Honest Ecommerce

Today’s guest, Ari Messer from Littledata, has some frightening news: our Shopify data is broken! But don’t worry too much – Ari is going to teach us how we can fix it. It can already feel like you’re drowning in data when you’re running an online store, so you might be wondering why you’d ever want MORE data – and the simple answer is that the data you currently have from Shopify and is incomplet...

Why do some ads delight us, yet others frustrate us to no end? As an experienced entrepreneur and current CEO of Shoelace, the world-class retargeting solution for Direct-to-Consumer businesses, Reza Khadjavi wants all marketers to consider that question. The days of annoying ads are numbered. Instead the path forward for successful brands is to start leveraging each and every single touch point a...

Cyndi Thomason is a Certified Master Profit First Professional, and the founder and president of bookskeep, a virtual company that provides bookkeeping and Profit First consulting services to ecommerce clients all over the world. Cyndi also just released a new book, Profit First for Ecommerce Sellers: Transform Your Ecommerce Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine . So far,...

Anthony Blatner, founder and Advertising Director at ModernMedia.io , started delivering newspapers when he was 11 – and has been hooked on advertising ever since. He’s learned a lot since then and, now, he helps other entrepreneurs leverage Facebook ads, create Ecommerce sales funnels, and build successful lead generation campaigns. Today, Anthony shares the findings and insights that he learned...

Shibo Xu is the co-founder and COO of Refersion, a fantastic application that helps retailers start and manage private affiliate and referral networks. Shibo runs us through a quick and dirty Affiliate Marketing 101 course today, teaching us how to set ourselves up for success and and use affiliate marketing and influencers to add revenue to our Shopify stores. To learn more, visit: http://honeste...

Ready to improve the profit margins of your Shopify store, reduce waste, and take an unplugged vacation? Well, you’re in luck! Because today we’re talking to Adrienne Dorison, who co-founded Run Like Clockwork™ with Mike Michalowicz, author of the show-favorite book Profit First and Clockwork . Their goal is to help CEOs design a business and team that can run itself, as the name suggests, like cl...

Vincent Phamvan is the Head of Growth at Simplr, where he helps high-growth companies engineer unforgettable customer experiences through top-notch human + AI-powered customer service. Vincent previously led business development and innovation for Asurion, where he helped launch several company initiatives, engineering operational business processes and leading process improvement initiatives that...

Jessi Roberts is the Founder, President and Boss Lady at Cheekys Brand and author of the new book Backroads Boss Lady . She founded Cheekys in 2011 with her life savings of $7,000 – and, today, the company employs 30 people in rural New Plymouth, Idaho (population 1538), with revenues exceeding $20 million dollars. Cheekys made the 2018 Inc. 500 list for rapid growth, and the company reaches about...

Caroline Danehy is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Fair Harbor Clothing, a lifestyle brand that makes swimwear out of recycled plastic bottles. Caroline shows us that, although Shopify is an online platform, it is still valuable to merchants who do in-person sales. Fair Harbor Clothing does a lot of trunk shows, and Caroline says having Shopify has been been a game changer for trackin...

Are you interested in building a relationship with your customers and, in the process, creating a recurrent revenue stream in your Shopify store? Then you need to learn more about subscription models! Rob Barr leads partnerships and enterprise sales at ReCharge, a subscription billing platform for Shopify. He manages strategic relationships with global partner agencies and some of the largest subs...

Nathan Hirsch is a serial entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and Ecommerce. He started his first Ecommerce business out of his college dorm room and, since then, has sold over $30 million online. He is now the co-founder and CEO of FreeUp, a marketplace that connects businesses with pre-vetted freelancers in Ecommerce, digital marketing, and much more. To learn more, visit: http://honestecom...

Philippe Roireau, Head of Partnerships at Gorgias, joins the show to teach us about how we can turn customer service into a revenue generator for our Ecommerce store.  Philippe previously operated an 8-figure Ecommerce company as a co-founder and worked at Google and Microsoft in various sales and operations positions.  He is now helping dozens of leading Ecommerce brands become more successful th...

Jeff Couret is the founder of SEOak, a company that helps established brands explode their web store's sales.  At SEOak, they have over a decade of experience optimizing websites, and in that time, they’ve seen both a number of successes and failures – so they know from experience what works and what doesn’t.  Over the past two years, SEOak has niched down to helping Ecommerce brands.  To learn mo...

Karan Jassar is the founder & CEO of Socioh.com, which specializes in social media marketing for online stores. Before Socioh, Karan was with Yahoo for 6 years and had the opportunity to work on all of their advertising systems, starting in their display ads team and later transitioning to building their search marketing system (think Adwords but for Yahoo/Bing search).   That experience gave Kara...

Sean Campbell is a Project Manager with Out of the Sandbox, which you are likely already familiar with if you are currently a Shopify user (and if you aren’t, your life is about to get a whole lot easier). Out of the Sandbox has been designing robust and revolutionary themes for the Shopify ecommerce platform since 2011. They create feature-rich, flexible, and beautiful themes that not only make y...

Nick Raushenbush is the cofounder of Shogun, and today he teaches us about the power of building a mobile first website. Shogun is a powerful page builder that seamlessly integrates into platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce. This allows anyone to easily build out their store with a drag and drop editor, no code required. Nick is also generous is enough to share a a special discount for podcast l...

Brennan Dunn is the co-founder of RightMessage, a software company that helps bring on-site personalization to the masses by integrating your existing website with your email marketing database. Today, Brennan shares why it's important to segment your audience by who they are and what they need – along with what to do once you have that data. To learn more, visit: http://honestecommerce.co Resourc...

Kassia Meador began surfing at 14, and by 17 she was a sponsored pro-longboarder, traveling the world and competing in surf events globally. Known for her graceful surf style, Kassia was crowned the “queen of noseriding” by the New York Times and, in 2011, ranked 2nd on the WSL women’s longboard tour. In 2013, Kassia left sponsored surfing to build KASSIA+SURF, a brand focused on quality instead o...

Kai Davis is a lead generation expert who is enamored with the concept of becoming a niche celebrity, or a celebrity in a very small, specialized target market. He’s spent much of the last decade studying what it takes to build a personality-powered business in the Ecommerce and information marketing spaces, and today he’s going to share what he’s learned about how personality sells a product. To...

Nick Disabato is the writer and designer behind independent interaction design consultancy Draft and the newly released book Value-Based Design . If you are a designer in any kind of organization, or if you run an organization that hires designers, this book is a must-read. It’ll help you understand how a designer proves their worth, turning design from a qualitative concept that you just feel to...

Kurt Elster does one thing (and he does it very well): help Shopify merchants make more money. After working with hundreds of Shopify merchants, Kurt can look at almost any store and identify what it’s missing and how it can make more money. Today, he shares some of what he teaches so that any eCommerce entrepreneur can make the most out of Shopify. To learn more, visit: http://honestecommerce.co...

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