The D2Z Podcast

Brandon talks with Kevin Kline, Director of Agency Partners at Recharge, a recurring payments and retention optimization company. They talk about the recent Shopify Editions report which dives into Shopify solutions for merchants, creating strong communications after the sale, and how to optimize every part of the ecommerce journey. They go into the psychology of today’s customers and their ecomme...

Brandon talks with Roman Yoffe, Founder and CEO of Absolute Web, a digital commerce agency. They talk about creating and sustaining a founding team for start-ups, specialization and the importance of focusing your practice, and recent DTC platform trends. They go into the business of Shopify, what to expect with the tech companies in the Shopify ecosystem, and how to make companies resilient durin...

Brandon talks with Benjamin Mitchell the founder and CEO of Privé Creative, a performance marketing creative agency and studio for digitally native DTC brands. They talk about building a founding team and start-ups, scaling businesses, and the importance of honing your practice so you can be confident with your service offering.  They also discuss entrepreneurship, taking the plunge into creating...

Brandon talks with Michael Charleston, Sr. eCommerce Product Manager at Nordic Naturals, an award-winning omega-3 fish oil and other foundational nutrients company committed to delivering the world’s safest, most effective nutrients essential to health.  They talk about the technological side of building a strong omnichannel brand at various levels of development and maturity. From the front-end f...

Brandon talks with Pranay Prakash, Founder & CEO at Windsor, an AI video-marketing platform that helps D2C brands acquire, grow, and retain customers through an AI video-personalization tool that enables brands to level-up customer communication from email to mass personalized video at scale. Using their tech, a founder or marketer can record a single video and send out millions of personalize...

This week D2Z Podcast producer Mark Havenner puts Brandon in the hot seat so we can all learn more about him and his journey. They talk about what “the Gen Z” mindset means, Brandon’s approach to business and building teams, and the story of Electriq. They also reveal Brandon is working on a book about his journey as a Gen Z entrepreneur. Links:  Find Brandon Amoroso at https://www.brandonamoroso....

Brandon talks with Richie Jones, CEO & Owner at vvast, a B Corp certifying D2C at vvast scale, where he blends his agency and brand side experience by bringing a market disruption approach for lifestyle, retail and action sports brands seeking low capital EMEA market entry.   They talk about the vvast direct to consumer marketing playbook that delivers a comprehensive framework and strategy to...

Brandon talks with Josh Fonger, CEO & Owner at WTS Enterprises, a business operations consultancy that helps ambitious business owners develop and implement systematic solutions that optimize operations, enabling them to break free from the day-to-day and generate powerful growth.     They talk about the power of systemizing business operations into a collection of streamlined processes and st...

Brandon talks with Emilio Di Marco, CEO & Founder at Aument, the eCommerce toolbox to get new sales easily by providing customers with the best practice, product and experience. They talk about simplifying communications tools for small brands and solo-founders to help them make the most of their resources with omnichannel marketing automations, personalizations through email/SMS campaigns, an...

Brandon talks with Monica Sharma-Patnekar, a Brand and Growth Strategy Consultant/Coach at Business with Monica, who helps conscious and creative D2C companies with a clear and focused vision know how to communicate and connect with their real audience in order to grow and scale. They talk about the power of purpose-driven brand strategies to establish loyalty, build trust, create growth and foste...

Brandon talks with Christine Russo, Principal and Founder of Retail Creative & Consulting Agency, a Retail Technology B2B Communications Consultancy, Sales and Marketing agency.     They talk about the challenges and opportunities of creating a tightly integrated shopping experience for customers, regardless of where they purchase, whether digitally through your website or mobile app, or at yo...

Brandon talks with Andrea Popova, CEO of CPGD, an investor-backed community of 5,000 founders, creators, and investors in the DTC industry.   They talk about how emerging consumer brands can get off the ground with the right marketing and operations resources to build them. In matching brands and agencies, brands are enabled to amplify their digital footprint and, build effective relationships bet...

Brandon talks with Philip Portman, CEO of Textdrip, a text-focused business growth platform. They talk about the power of text drip campaigns, keeping up on SMS/Text compliance, and how the text will help growth through automation. They also go into changing old-school mindsets to address business problems, the Gen Z mindset, business culture, how to be innovative, imposter syndrome, and more. Lin...

Brandon talks with Kausambi Manjita, Founder of Mason, an e-commerce conversion platform. They talk about the nuances of building a technology company, the need for conversion services for e-commerce brands, and solving the customer acquisition cost problem. They explore making effective promotions,  helping the customer as a driver of promotions, and missed opportunities for customer conversions....

Brandon talks with Alexej Pikovsky, CEO & Co-Founder of Alphawell Brands and NUOPTIMA (formerly the Alphagreen Group), a global health and wellness e-commerce platform. They talk about building health and wellness brands online, how to determine what brands to acquire or pursue, the anatomy of product supply chain and distribution channels, and Health and Wellness trends. They explore authenti...

Brandon talks with Bill Boulden, a serial tech startup CTO who focuses on bringing products from the idea phase to launch. They explore Bill’s unique approach to building start-ups as a  fractional CTO, and they go into some common mistakes start-up founders will make. Brandon and Bill discuss building a minimum viable product, success strategies, and start-up trends.  Links: Find Brandon Amoroso...

Brandon talks with Yash Chavan, founder of the DTC influencer marketing management platform SARAL. They talk about the pitfalls and issues around influencer marketing, nurturing influencer relationships, and aligning influencers with your brand. They also go into influencer marketing trends and building a business.  Links: Find Brandon Amoroso at https://www.brandonamoroso.com and  https://www.ele...

Brandon talks with Hiral Zalavadia, Founder and CEO at Stately, a men’s fashion subscription service and innovator in the space. They talk about entrepreneurship and Hiral’s journey,  growing a business, and getting past pain points and bottlenecks, how to assess and mitigate risks, and navigating toward the future. They explore the ins and outs of the online subscription model, leading with subsc...

Brandon talks with Billy McClennan, Director of Partnerships at customer service platform Gorgias. They go into Billy’s journey from chemist to e-commerce platform Gorgias, customer service platform, and the e-commerce industry. They explore driving revenue and retention with customer service, using automation for improving the customer experience, and building self-service processes. They parse t...

Brandon talks with Dan Sweeney, Chief Operating Officer of Torque Detail, a leading automotive detailing product company. They talk about distribution in e-commerce and brick and  mortar, the benefits of brick and mortar for some products and getting into retail, using database segmentation for local activations and community building for retail, and e-commerce tactics that are working. They explo...

Brandon talks with Matt Bahr, CEO of Fairing, formerly EnquireLabs, a marketing insights technology company. They talk about the potential of technology and consumer data, the shift to retention as a strategy, and using data to build a competitive advantage. They go into how to create effective segments, identifying what data to analyze, where to capture it, and what to do with it, building a cust...

Brandon talks with Zac Brandenberg, co-founder and CEO of DRINKS, the online leader in adult beverage who pioneered the world’s first Wine as a Service (WaaS) platform and now the parent company of Electriq Marketing. They talk about the DRINKS acquisition of Electriq and the need to bring innovation to a highly regulated and fragmented industry that hasn’t changed since Prohibition. Zac and Brand...

Brandon talks with Rich Watson, Founder of Augmented Hype an augmented reality ad filter technology. They talk about the challenges of customer acquisition, how AR can create connections with customers, the power of immersion for e-commerce, and how effective AR Is compared to traditional ads. They talk about use cases for AR, AR for NFTs, and elevating AR beyond standard marketing tactics.   Link...

  Brandon talks with Calvin Lammers, SVP of eCommerce for premium hot sauce TRUFF. They talk about CPG online and retail, how to differentiate food products by using content to identify taste profiles and educate audiences, handling the shift from acquisition to customer loyalty, and  tips on building a consumer brand. They also explore CPG business challenges and fulfillment, understanding TikTok...

Brandon talks with Louis Amoroso, Co-Founder and President of DRINKS’ DTC marketplace Wine Insiders. Louis and Brandon talk about a newly launched program for adventurous wine lovers called the Ultimate Wine Insider, wherein the winner of the program will get 100k and four trips to four continents courtesy of Wine Insiders. They explore how and why the program was created, what they expect from it...