The Ecomcrew Ecommerce Podcast

Shipping and logistics has become a nightmare (If it wasn't already). Between sea freight rates soaring 300%, massive delays in getting your shipments from China into Amazon warehouses, and Amazon making sellers bear the brunt of its inventory limits, a lot of ecommerce sellers are struggling to foot the bill.   In this episode, Dave and I break down this nightmarish sea freight situation and how...

Launching your very first product and managing inventory can be tough. Fortunately, many of our community members have had great success using the tips and tricks that we share here at EcomCrew.    In this Under the Hood episode, I'll be breaking down some of those exact strategies.   For those who are new to the podcast, Under the Hood is a segment where I do an hour-long coaching session with on...

If you've been tuning in to the podcast for a while now, something I've said quite often is that Gino Wickman's book, Traction , had a tremendous impact on me and my business. So much so, that I've done an entire podcast series documenting how I applied his principles in running my own company.    This is a big reason why today's episode is special, as my guest is none other than Gino Wickman hims...

Crafting an ad campaign that actually helps your ecommerce business can be quite tricky.   Luckily, Ilana Wechsler of Teach Traffic has come up with an effective approach to working out a paid campaign strategy tailored to your business—the Paid Traffic Puzzle.    Just as you would do with an actual puzzle, Ilana explains why the four corners are great starting points to crafting an effective ad c...

We're inching our way to four hundred episodes, but this might be the first time I've talked to someone who got into ecommerce out of desperation—and grew to seven figures at that!   Kata Phipps is a clinical psychologist by trade. She's married to a military guy, which meant, for years, having to constantly move from one place to another and not being able to settle in and practice her craft.   ...

Ecommerce is a fast-changing industry, and people rarely ever get that holy grail experience that our guest today has.   Ben Leonard is the founder of Beast Gear , a fitness equipment brand born out of this personal interest in physical activities like crossfit and boxing. In just a span of 3 years, he grew the company to a whopping 7-figure brand and has since sold his business.   He eventually c...

As someone who's immigrated to another country for a few years myself, I know how tough it is to navigate, much less succeed in unfamiliar territory.  Today's guest did just that.  Ronnie Teja traveled from Mumbai to Vancouver and to so many other places across the globe during his long tenure in digital marketing. He realized he was making a lot of money for a lot of people and eventually decided...

Rocking a good old plain white shirt is cool, but a white shirt with the Nike 'Swoosh' on it? A hundred times cooler. A great brand design means so much more than a sight for sore yes—it's the easiest way to establish your brand, drive your conversion rates, and invite 5-star product reviews.  Think Steve Job's bitten apple or the golden arches of McDonald's. Joining me today is Miriska Harris of...

Wearing many hats as an e-commerce seller isn't easy, but letting someone else take over a task you've been doing for years could be much harder. If you're looking to grow your business, though, you will eventually need to hang up some of those hats to focus on your high-level goals.  In today's episode, Kevin Sanderson of Maximizing Ecommerce joins me in breaking down some of the struggles and th...

Finding products that actually sell can be difficult. But it doesn't have to be.  This is why Dave and I have decided to share with you the exact secrets that make our lives so much easier when it comes to finding, developing, and defending products in e-commerce.  In this episode, we discuss some effective tactics you can use to protect your products from getting ripped off, or at least make it i...

Insurance is not a fun topic. Trust me, I hate it as much as the next guy.  But you know what else is not fun? Having your business go under because of a frivolous lawsuit that has absolutely nothing to do with you or your company. That is why today, Maggie Walden and I will be talking about one of the best things you can do to protect your business from exhausting (not to mention, expensive) laws...

When business is good, you want nothing more than to keep finding stuff to do in order to grow even further. In this follow-up Under the Hood session, Elias Manopla is looking to do just that.  Elias was our guest for Episode 194 , where we talked about how to grow a highly niched ecommerce business. He runs an online butcher shop that sells a wide variety of barbecue meat and other food products....

I'm back in the trenches! We sold one of our ecommerce brands back in 2019, and I've been itching to get involved in something again for quite some time.  Today, I'm excited to share with you my recent experience in buying a new ecommerce company. Joining me for this episode are my good friends and business partners, Andrew Youderian and Bill D'Alessandro, whose insights are valuable to ecommerce...

Ever felt like you have waaay too much on your plate?  So have I, and so have a lot of other entrepreneurs. Making the best use of your time and staying productive are essential ingredients for success in e-commerce. Which is why today, we'll be talking about productivity hacks with Chris Bello. Chris has a wealth of knowledge in supply chain management and he hosts the Entrepreneur Motivation Pod...

Between new COVID strains and Reddit revolutions, 2021 has been a crazy year—and we're only barely a month in! E-commerce is no exception to all this madness, as there seems to be a crazy trend of huge rollup companies gobbling up small Amazon FBA businesses.  The rollup strategy is when a company looking to put its large capital to work merges and consolidates a bunch of small companies, aiming t...

Sebastien Taché was our guest for Under the Hood back in E187 , where we talked about saving on high-quality content for SEO, developing a product in a competitive niche, and then some. Today, Sebastien is back to share how his business has done after our first 1-on-1 coaching session more than a year ago.  In this sequel episode, I share a lot of things that helped me grow my own ecommerce brands...

As ecommerce sellers, we want nothing more than to grow our business and maximize our profits, but sometimes, the opposite can also be true.  David Wilson, who was a previous guest in our  Under the Hood segment , is trying to downshift his business and transition it into a stable side hustle to support his personal hobbies. In this episode, I give David some valuable advice on how to keep his bus...

About eighty percent of the most popular classical music comes from only twenty percent of all the composers. When working out, twenty percent of the exercises account for eighty percent of the muscle you gain. This is known as the Pareto principle or the 80-20 rule. In e-commerce, 80 percent of your sales often come from only 20 percent of your entire product line.  In this follow-up Under the Ho...

Ecommerce today is hardly the same as it was ten years ago.  The competition has gotten much stiffer, black hat sellers are all over the place, and simply writing cheap blurbs just to get clicks no longer cuts it. That said, there's one surefire way to grow your business and gain an unfair advantage over much bigger ecommerce brands without resorting to cheap tactics—creating valuable content. In...

Shoot for the moon, land among the stars , so the saying goes. Rob Hampton was our guest for a two-part Under The Hood session back in 2018, and he's back to share his experiences with us after taking my advice for growing his ecommerce business. In this catch-up episode, we pick up right where we left off. Rob talks about some of the things that prevented him from achieving his million-dollar-rev...

As e-commerce business owners, much of our livelihoods depend on Amazon. However, in this episode, Steven Pope and I bite the hand that feeds us as we unpack the ugly side of Amazon from a seller's standpoint.  Steven runs My Amazon Guy , a Seller Central Consulting Agency based in Georgia that helps sellers grow their Amazon businesses. He also hosts an awesome podcast and a YouTube channel . Tod...

Last month, we ran a community poll to find out which among the myriad of Amazon seller software our EcomCrew community predominantly uses. The poll was aimed at determining the most popular Amazon software in four categories:  Product Launches and Giveaways Keyword and Product Research PPC Management, and  Reimbursement Management  The results are in. In this episode, we'll be discussing the winn...

I absolutely dread bees. But for this episode, I'm casting my fear aside because our guest is someone who's made a thriving e-commerce business out of his personal hobby—beekeeping. Adam Hickman is an EAS Master Beekeeper and is the founder of Foxhound Bee Company, a full-service beekeeping company in Alabama. It offers everything from honey, to cypress hive parts, to educational content about bee...

Happy new year, and welcome to the first episode of the EcomCrew podcast for 2021! Last year was crazy for everyone, and the pandemic definitely brought about a lot of changes to the way we live, work, and consume. Many businesses experienced losses, but a lot of e-commerce sellers benefited from the fact that people can't easily go out to buy what they want and need. For this episode, my good fri...

Welcome to Episode 354 of the EcomCrew podcast! It seems like it wasn't too long ago when we started recording the first one, but here we are, closing 2020 out with the 354th episode. Throughout the year, we've talked to lots of interesting people in the industry and learned a bunch of new stuff both from their expertise and their mistakes. To cap it all off, we've thrown together a list of the be...