#ThisWeekWithSabir - eCommerce Mastery with Sabir Semerkant

Meet Chris Arndt. Chris Arndt is the Entrepreneur’s CFO, also known as the Director of ORBA’s Cloud CFO Services , an outcome of the company he founded in 2011, Red Granite. For over 15 years, Chris has been harnessing the latest technology and sharing his accounting expertise with his clients to anticipate their needs and ensure their bottom-line growth. Chris specializes in financial statement a...

Meet John Readman. John is the CEO/Founder of MODO25 and BOSCO. John has been working in digital marketing and e-commerce for over 20 years, during which he has grown several global digital marketing agencies and marketing technology businesses. During this time, he has enjoyed working with some of the world’s largest brands, helping them shape their online proposition and increase their e-co...

Meet Sarah Young. Sarah is the author of EXPANSIVE IMPACT & Founder of ZING COLLABORATIVE. Sarah Young is the founder of Zing Collaborative, a boutique leadership development company that works with organizations, teams, and individuals to create Expansive Impact. Sarah is grateful to work with leaders spanning industries and roles: from executive leadership teams to construction and manufactu...

Meet GaryVee. Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and serves as the Chairman of VaynerX, the CEO of VaynerMedia, and the Creator & CEO of VeeFriends. Gary is considered one of the leading global minds on what’s next in culture, relevance, and the internet. Known as "GaryVee" he is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business - he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early t...

Meet Michael Lastoria. Michael is an American serial entrepreneur and co-founder of &pizza, a creatively led, mission-driven, culture carrying, pizza chain voted one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative companies in 2018 and 2019 for Social Good. Referred to by Bloomberg as “what Jesus might look like if he walked in a Yohji Yamamoto show,” Lastoria grounds &pizza in a commitment to better fl...

Meet Nicholas "Nick" Stone. Nick is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Bluestone Lane, the Australian-inspired specialty coffee and lifestyle brand with 55+ units across the U.S. and growing. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Nick envisioned Bluestone Lane to provide the premium coffee and cafe experience readily found in his hometown but lacking in the U.S. Nick started Bluestone Lane in...

Meet Luke Hohhman. Luke is the Founder and CEO of FirstRoot, a Benefit Corporation devoted to creating great economic equality. A serial entrepreneur, Luke's last company, Conteneo, was an enterprise software company that helped global companies manage investment portfolios using Participatory Budgeting. Luke is now leveraging the experience he gained working with some of the world's largest compa...

Meet Danna Olivo. Danna is a Business Growth Strategist and CEO of MarketAtomy, LLC. Her passion is working with small first-stage entrepreneurs to ensure that they start out on the right foot and stay on the path to financial freedom. Known as the Business Birthing Specialist, Danna understands the intricacies involved in starting and running a successful business. Her efforts extend beyond the i...

Meet Seth Erickson. Seth's personality, and particular brand of humor, are the kind that draws people to him. He’s a quick thinker with the ability to distill complex ideas into easy-to-understand information, and he’s not afraid to work hard and apply tenacity when needed. Sometimes Seth uses these traits for good, sometimes to go after world domination, but one thing is true above all else. Seth...

Meet Orly Amor. Orly is a successful entrepreneur who has started five companies. As a corporate trainer, bestselling author, and international public speaker she has helped over 200,000 entrepreneurs around the world maximize their bottom line by tripling and quadrupling their sales. Orly Amor always enjoyed speaking and helping people change their lives and impact their circle of influence where...

Meet Zubin Mowlavi. President of VaynerCommerce, Zubin Mowlavi has built a career helping brands build and grow their direct-to-consumer interactions.  His professional journey started in 2000 when he co-founded Lucid Fusion, a digital agency that would later become one of the leading global eCommerce solutions providers.  In 2020, Gary Vaynerchuk and Zubin partnered to form VaynerCommer...

Phil Fraser went from a kitchen table start-up, with no investment, all the way to multi-million pound sale to a PLC 18 years later. He’s traveled the full SME business journey. Phil now works with ambitious SME-owners as a Business Sounding Board (think somewhere between Business Coach, Business Mentor, and ‘personal NED’). In simple terms, he’s ‘a pair of ears and an extra pair eyes’ for SME Own...

Steve Cadigan is a highly sought-after talent advisor to leaders and organizations across the globe. He speaks regularly to conferences and major universities around the world and is regularly retained by Silicon Valley’s top VCs for his talent expertise.  Steve is frequently asked to appear on TV and is a regular guest on Bloomberg West and CNBC. Prior to launching his own firm, Steve worked...

Tim Ash is an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is a sought-after international keynote speaker, and the bestselling author of Unleash Your Primal Brain and Landing Page Optimization . Tim has been mentioned by Forbes as a Top-10 Online Marketing Expert, and by Entrepreneur Magazine as an Online Marketing Influencer To Watch.  For nineteen years he wa...

Lindsay Pedersen is a brand strategist and author of the best-selling book "Forging an Ironclad Brand." Known for her methodical, framework-driven approach to brand building, Lindsay has advised companies from burgeoning startups to national corporations, both B2C and B2B, including Zulily, Starbucks, IMDb, and Duolingo. Her background as a P&L owner at Clorox fostered in Lindsay a deep apprec...

Stu Heinecke is the author of a new book releasing May 2022 on business growth strategy as inspired by weeds. Years ago, as he drove the Santa Monica Freeway in Los Angeles, Heinecke noticed a dandelion growing from a crack in the concrete median. That set in motion a thirty-year fascination and study of how weeds grow, expand, dominate and defend their turf—and how any of that might translate to...

Meet Neil Twa. Neil is the founder and CEO of Voltage Digital Marketing. He has been launching, operating, and growing private label e-commerce businesses for the last 9 years. As of today, he and his clients have sold over $100 million+ in physical products primarily through the Amazon FBA sales channel. Neil shares his blueprint for how to build an online business that can generate a passive six...

Meet John Mediana. John is the Founder & CEO of Executive Brand Growth an Agency solely focused on humanizing companies by building the personal brand of their CEOs and Executive leaders in today’s digital era. John has spent over 15 years behind a camera, a computer, and some of the largest influencers in the world. John has a very refreshing perspective when it comes to building the digital...

Dr. Brooke Goldner is a best-selling author, the founder of www. GoodbyeLupus.com , creator of the Hyper-nourishing Nutrition Protocol for Lupus Recovery, and is the author of 3 best-selling books, Goodbye Lupus, Goodbye Autoimmune Disease, and Green Smoothie Recipes to Kick-Start Your Health and Healing. Dr. Goldner was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Nephritis with stage IV kidney disease at 16 ye...

Next in our hot seat is SHAY BERMAN on #ThisWeekWithSabir . Shay and I take a deep dive into starting and scaling your digital agency. Shay shares his deep scars and the highs/lows of his journey. Shay Berman is the founder and president of Digital Resource, a three-time Inc. 5000-ranked and Great Place to Work-certified digital marketing agency located in South Florida. At the age of 29, he is le...

Anderson Salgado is an accomplished e-Commerce expert who in the past five years has made a name for himself for having keen knowledge of the Amazon Marketplace.  This U.S. Marine Corps Veteran who served in Operations Enduring Freedom in 2011-12 is also a University of Miami MBA Graduate, former Amazon Senior Vendor/General Manager for the Beauty and Professional Beauty Categories, former He...

Chief Executive Boss Lady of naming agency Eat My Words , Alexandra Watkins is a leading and outspoken authority on brand names. Her breakthrough book, Hello, My Name is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick, is considered "the brand name bible," and was named a Top 10 Marketing Book by Inc. Magazine. Since 2005, Alexandra and her firm have created love-at-first sight brand names for clien...

Next in our hot seat is BIANCA BUCARAM on #ThisWeekWithSabir​. Bianca Bucaram is an award-winning public relations professional. She has been honored as PR News’ Rising Stars 30 & Under, Women in the Fast Lane by the Greater Houston Women’s Chamber of commerce, and has also been recognized as one of the top female business professionals in Houston by the Houston Business Journal. As a lead pub...

Next in our hot seat is Ricky Choi . Ricky and I will be covering DTC Operations. If you run a Shopify, BigCommerce, or any DTC (direct-to-consumer) business, you need to check it out. Ricky Choi understands what it takes to drive the growth of a brand. In 2013, he launched Nice Laundry as a single-purchase solution for guys to overhaul their sock and underwear drawers, and recycle their old texti...

New! In the hot seat is JAMIE MUSTARD ... author of THE ICONIST . We are discussing BECOMING ICONIC: How to STAND OUT in a world OVERLOADED WITH CONTENT! Jamie Mustard is a strategic multi-media consultant, artist, design and product futurist, and Iconist. He has codified the primal laws of what causes anything, in any medium, to STAND OUT and take hold in the human mind. His breakout work, The Ic...