Inside Commerce: Ecommerce Strategy, CX and Technology Podcast

In this week’s episode, Paul and James discuss how content migration should be approached, the common challenges, planning and how things should be approached by development agencies.

In our 28th episode we're exploring the WooCommerce platform to find out where it fits in the market. We're joined by Luke Carthy, a highly experienced Ecommerce Growth Consultant and Kimberley-Jane Leary, CEO of Birmingham-based Squibble Web Design and Chair Birmingham Tech Week.

In our 27th episode, we're joined by Brad and Martin from commercetools, who answer a host of questions about the commercetools platform, their eco-system, the benefits of using an API first platform and much more!

In our 26th episode, we're joined by Matt Barral and Hannah Rowlatt from Checkout.com to discuss all things payments and what needs to be asked when selecting a new provider. Topics covered include managing disputes, handling international payments & multi-currency, integrating with different systems, PCI requirements and much more!

In our 25th episode, Paul and James are joined by Finbarr Taylor, who is the CEO of eCommerce CMS and page building vendor, Shogun. We talk to Finbarr about best practices in managing content, the gaps in CMS with mainstream platforms, how Shogun works with these platforms, Shogun's brand new 'Front-end' headless CMS solution and lots more.

In this episode, we’re joined by Gavin Laugenie from DotDigital , a highly experienced digital marketer who talks to us about various CRM and email marketing topics, including best practice for marketing opt-in, customer data migration, broader CRM / ESP integrations and email marketing automation. 

In our 23rd episode, we're joined by Nilay Oza and Niraj Aswani who are founders of eCommerce search company, Klevu. We talk to Nilay and Niraj about the principles of semantic search and who it's relevant for, best practices for optimisation / merchandising, image search, Klevu's roadmap and lots more!

In our 22nd episode, Paul and James discuss when an MVP is needed in replatforming projects, how the scope (and any change) should be managed, the types of items / features that can generally be de-prioritised and lots more.

In our 21st episode, we're joined by Sejal Parekh who talks to us about her new initiative (started with her husband, Kevin Maguire), called Help Your Hood. Help Your Hood is designed to drive awareness around local businesses and encourage users to buy gift cards online, helping to provide much-needed financial support whilst they're unable to trade.

In our 20th episode, we're joined by Andrew Chart, the Head of eCommerce at Andertons Music Co. Andrew kindly agreed to talk to us about their large-scale move to IBM from a bespoke platform - we discuss the selection process, why IBM was chosen, how Andrew's team managed the project, the highs and lows and lots more.

In our 19th episode, we’re joined by James White (UK General Manager) and Valter Andersson (Product Manager) from NOSTO, who talk to us about a wide range of eCommerce personalisation topics and also NOSTO itself.

In our 18th episode, we're joined by Scott Wright (Paul's colleague at Vervaunt) to talk about best practices for paid media when moving eCommerce platform. We cover general involvement & timings for paid media representatives, core considerations around data feeds, tracking and site structure, web analytics and more!

In our 17th episode we're joined by James and Tim from Akeneo, who talk us through how a PIM system can benefit replatforming projects, the general value that can be added for eCommerce teams, the core problems PIM systems can solve, some of Akeneo's key features and much more.

In our 16th episode, James shares 10 project management essentials that all eCommerce teams should bear in mind when managing their replatforming project. Based on experience from many replatforming projects, this advice will help ecommerce teams plan sensibly and improve internal control for project delivery.

In our 15th episode, we're joined by Neill Holland (currently working as a Solution Architect for Burberry), who talks about all things business systems integrations (in the context of replatforming) - covering topics such as planning, the concept of an MVP, managing stakeholders and much more!

In our 14th Re:platform episode, we discuss why it’s important to select the right ecommerce platform and the potential risks of getting it wrong, amongst other things. This episode is designed to cover the general process retailers should follow to better understand the platforms and what they should be looking to know before they start talking to providers.

In our 13th episode, Paul is joined by Piers Thorogood to talk about Shopify Plus at scale, managing international Shopify builds, new features likely to be introduced at Unite 2020, headless Shopify and various other things!

In our 12th episode, we're joined by Stuart McMillan, who is the Head of Multi-Channel at Tiso Group and the former Head of eCommerce at Schuh. Stuart talks us through the importance of performance optimisation, general best practices to follow, how performance can be measured, creating an optimisation culture and much more.

In our 10th episode we were joined by Episerver's Brand and Product Evangelist, Joey Moore, to explore Episerver's core capabilities, how their recent acquisition of content personalisation engine Idio is driving the personalisation agenda and their roadmap going into 2020.

In our 11th episode, Paul and James discuss the importance of TCO cost model planning, how it should be used, the stakeholders that should be part of assessing your TCO, the costs that should be included and the pitfalls and nuances when assessing different platforms and technologies.

In our 9th episode, we were joined by Shopware's Dominic Klein to talk about their new version 6 release. This re-architected version of the platform features a host of major changes to core features as well as the introduction of a new API-first approach. We discuss these changes, the migration path, further upcoming features and how they plan to continue to develop the platform into 2020 and bey...

In episode 8 we're joined by Ben and Bill from Workarea, a rapidly growing eCommerce platform who recently announced an open-source solution. We talk about the open-sourcing of the core product, new features and their roadmap going into 2020.

In our 7th episode, Paul is joined by Rafael and Jade from VTEX - an eCommerce platform provider currently working on entering the UK market, having recently raised $140m of investment, led by SoftBank.

In the sixth episode of Re:platform we focus on a key process for replatforming projects: capturing business requirements. It's critical you have a clear process for understanding the high-level business requirements that will drive your platform evaluation. In this podcast, James talks you through 10 tips for managing stakeholders effectively to deliver a successful outcome, based on experience f...

In the fifth episode of re:platform we're joined by Fred Potter from leading payment company, Adyen. Fred answers our questions on all things PSD2 and SCA, along with the impacts and planning considerations for retailers.