The Ecomcrew Ecommerce Podcast

Mike talks to the co-founder of Avataar, Gaurav Baid, about the future of ecommerce through the lens of Augmented Reality and how you can enhance the customer experience through AR.   Gaurav is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Avataar, a company that aims to bridge the gap between retailers and their customers to create a unique interactive shopping experiences for customers through Aug...

Mike speaks to Will Haire of BellaVix about some last minute tactics you can incorporate into your business before the biggest sale of the year -- Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend.    The biggest online sales event of the year is coming, and we're here to help you prepare your brand to make the most out of it. I'm joined by Will Haire of Bellavix to talk about the most important aspects of your b...

Mike talks to long-time Premium member Jamie Graham about restructuring the business and moving towards the EOS model, which entails moving from a high-level Amazon director position to a Training Manager, to spend less time on the business.   Jamie Graham is a Premium member that I was able to meet in an MDS event back in 2018. He and his wife Kayleigh own a beauty brand that's grown up to 6 mill...

We've had a lot of challenges in September, particularly those related to importing and developing products. This is not unusual for e-commerce sellers dealing with suppliers on the other side of the world.   However, despite these challenges, we've had a lot of wins in terms of content in many of our brands. We've recently been playing around with some new tools to improve SEO, including an on-pa...

Our guest, Tomer Rabinovich, is a magician-turned-entrepreneur. Without any formal training in sales, he was able to launch and scale multiple e-commerce brands. But aside from running his own business, Tomer is passionate about helping other sellers through mastermind classes and his live lectures. This time, he's gone a step further and wrote a book for beginner sellers called Ride the Amazon Wa...

Mike talks about where he's been the past 3 weeks, and highlights how Masterminds have been instrumental in his business.   Today's episode is a short one – I wanted to give a short life update on what's been going on during the past few weeks. I've been a little absent for work in the past few weeks to attend a wedding, go on an anniversary cruise with my wife, and also to speak at the Sell + Sca...

Mike and eCommerceFuel founder Andrew Youderian break down the biggest takeaways from this year's eCommerce Trends Report and discuss what they mean to online sellers.   eCommerceFuel's eCommerce Trends Report is an annual survey of 7-8 figure store owners that provides a unique and detailed look into which trends are shaping the ecommerce landscape year over year.   Joining me for this episode is...

Mike and Steve talk about the brutal truth behind success stories in business and how they manage to keep track of the more important things in life as entrepreneurs.   Hey, it's Mike and Steve here coming at you with a podcast before we go on stage at the Sell + Scale Summit .    In this episode, we give you a sneak peek into our topic of discussion at the event—brutal truths about success in bus...

Dave breaks down EcomCrew's August 2022 Brand Report—our big revenue drivers, the recent strategies we implemented, and our biggest wins and fails for the month.   It's Dave here, and I'm excited to jump on this quick solo podcast to talk about our biggest wins and fails in this August 2022 Brand Report.    For those who are new to the podcast, our Brand Report is a monthly Blog and Podcast update...

Mike and longtime friend Cole South talk about why ecommerce sellers can learn a thing or two from poker pros, the challenges of running a lot of brands, and some awesome new ecommerce tools.   As I've mentioned dozens of times in this podcast, I was into poker and affiliate marketing before ultimately starting my first ecommerce brand. While some people may find this to be a strange transition, t...

Mike and Jake unpack the biggest takeaways from the latest edition of Jungle Scout's State of the Amazon Seller Report to learn how sellers did this past year and what their plans are moving forward.   The State of the Amazon Seller is an awesome annual report by Jungle Scout that gives valuable insights about Amazon sellers every year.   In this episode, Jungle Scout's very own Jake Zaristian joi...

Society Brands CEO Michael Sirpilla explains why the company's founder-centric approach to aggregating is a more lucrative and fairer offer to online entrepreneurs.   Being the sentimental guy that I am, I've always found it a little disheartening how swift it is for entrepreneurs to sell and turn over their businesses to aggregators.   However, Society Brands strategy is more of a collaborative e...

After recording  this episode , Ben's back to ask about the various strategies that I've been incorporating into our brands to revive our profit margins.  In this new episode, Ben will be asking me a bunch of questions on how I've managed to increase profitability back to 15% from almost losing money in the beginning of the year. We've covered a few of these strategies in the past, but I thought i...

Learn how to take advantage of Amazon's livestreaming feature with tips from Wizards of Ecom's Carlos Alvarez.   Earlier this year, we got fellow podcaster Carlos Alvarez to share his personal and ecommerce journey with us – you can listen to that episode here .   Now, he's back on the podcast to talk about a topic I wish we could've unpacked sooner: Amazon Live!   Launched in 2019, this feature i...

Mike and Dave ponder EcomCrew's early years as they bid a bittersweet goodbye to the company's first employee.   July was an interesting month. For me, my top line number went down, but my bottom line number went up – thanks to reduced PPC costs, raised product prices, and AGL.   Dave, on the other hand, rants about the ridiculous sales tax being imposed on businesses based in British Columbia.  ...

Mike is joined by 101 Commerce founder RJ Jalichandra as he talks about the growing pains of being a pioneering FBA aggregator and where the industry might be headed in the coming years.   If you're well versed in the wider ecommerce landscape, you'd know that the FBA aggregator or acquisition industry have become a lucrative business in recent years.   RJ is the founder of 101 Commerce, which is...

In this yearly review episode, Dave gives an update on how his brand's been doing the past year, from feeling the fallout of a post-pandemic market to increased competition in the niche.   I did the first one of these annual reviews on July 17, 2017. It's kind of surreal how fast time flies. I've always enjoyed these because it makes me take an objective look at my brand.   Businesses in certain n...

Taking a more proactive approach, Mike and Dave talk about the measures they've taken to prepare for less-than-ideal market conditions in this Brand Report episode.   As we've mentioned in our previous episodes, Dave and I spent a good chunk of June in the Philippines spending time with our employees there.   We also made good headway on the content website we are launching this month–yes, this mo...

Taking a more proactive approach, Mike and Dave talk about the measures they've taken to prepare for less-than-ideal market conditions in this Brand Report episode.   As we've mentioned in our previous episodes, Dave and I spent a good chunk of June in the Philippines spending time with our employees there.   We also made good headway on the content website we are launching this month–yes, this mo...

Here's a reality check: there's more to life than just money. Amazon seller and aspiring personal development coach Jonathan Jesper shares his story of grit and resilience.   Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, I am very much aware of how unstable and unpredictable life in the business can be. The journey is never linear.   Fellow Vegasite Jonathan Jesper, who has never had a job, has been an e...

The results are in! In this episode, Mike and Dave unpack their recently concluded Amazon Consumer Behavior survey, which includes a shocker you'll want to know.   Over the past few months, we've been working on a survey to pick the brain of today's Amazon consumer a little bit – to better understand their purchasing habits.   What pushes a consumer to check out an item? Which matters more: star r...

According to Jungle Scout's new report, Amazon seems to be making very good money on advertising. Mike unpacks the report with Jungle Scout's Jake Corkin.   Personally, I've been using Jungle Scout for several years and I've found it to be a great tool for any ecommerce business.   We're also grateful to have worked with them as affiliates for a while now. We've even had their CEO on the podcast ....

Mike is back with EcomCrew's podcast manager Ben for a light yet informative Q&A session on keeping profits high and costs low amid inflation.   After recording this episode , I thought it would be nice to have Ben be in front of the camera more often and be a regular on the podcast.   In this new Q&A series, Ben will be asking me a bunch of questions on how to run a successful ecommerce business...

From finalizing a soon-to-be-launched content website to releasing a new cockroach product, Mike and Dave unpack a hectic May in this Brand Report episode.   Aside from our recent trip to the Philippines (which you can know more about here and here ), May was quite an eventful month.   Revenue-wise, there was a slight increase from April by almost $70,000. If we're talking about individual brand p...

Fresh (yet possibly still jet lagged) from their trip to the Philippines, Mike and Dave unpack their takeaways after reuniting with the team.   It finally happened–we made it to Cebu! Dave and I aligned our travel dates so that we'd have a few days to spend with the EcomCrew team while we were there.   It's been three years since I last saw some of them (most I haven't met in person at all), and i...