Episodes

Your Business Is A Journey. Invest In Yourself Today. Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Brian Long, the Co-Founder & CEO of Attentive. They are a personalized text messaging platform that uses real-time behavioral data to help Shopif...

Your Business Is A Journey. Invest In Yourself Today. Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Jonathan Poma the Founder & CEO of Loop Returns . They are a platform that allows Shopify brands to automate the entire return process including...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today's episode is Tim Ash, who’s an acknowledged authority on evolutionary psychology and digital marketing. He is a sought-after international keynote speaker and the bestsel...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Brian Guidry, Partner and Chief Growth Officer from Pixelz.com . They are a photo retouching service that helps merchants boost online sales with commercial ...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Dan LeBlanc the Co-Founder and CEO from Daasity . They are the first and only data analytics platform built for Shopify Direct-to-Consumer brands by industry...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Eric Netsch, the Founder and CEO from Tapcart . They are a mobile commerce SaaS platform that integrates directly with Shopify which enables brands to quick...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Alex Markov the CEO of Refersion . They are a Certified Shopify Plus Technology Partner that helps Shopify brands to manage, track, and grow their affiliate ...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today's episode is Cody Wittick, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner from Kynship. They are an Influencer Marketing Agency based in Orange County, CA. They work with brands acr...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Matt O’Leary, who leads Technology Partnerships at Shopify Plus. Matt joined Shopify just over a year ago to revamp and relaunch of the Plus Technology Partn...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Jason Goldberg the President & Co-Founder of Carro . They are a Shopify Sales Channel that helps brands partner with influencers, press, media, and each othe...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr from Octane AI . Over the past 4 years, they have built the wildly popular Facebook Messenger and SMS App used by 1000’s of Shopif...

Growth Mindset? Invest In Yourself Today! Being an entrepreneur truly is a life of learning. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand. My guest in today’s episode is Simon Poulton the Vice President of Digital Intelligence at Wpromote . They the largest independent Digital Marketing Agency in the United States. They take ...

My guest in today’s episode is Jake Cohen, the Head of Product Marketing for Klaviyo . They are a marketing automation platform that incorporates email, SMS, and signup forms to help Shopify brands make money on day 1 and scale with them as they grow. What You Will Learn Today Why now is an epic time to be an ecommerce entrepreneur What Shopify brands should be doing now to future-proof scalable growth How data science is playing a role for successful Shopify brands How to communicate more perso...

Today is an exciting day… A milestone… A time to reflect… A time to celebrate… Today is the 100th episode of eCommerce Fastlane!! It’s been an incredible 2-year journey of growth. Personally, professionally, and most importantly the impact the show has had with knowledge sharing from subject matter experts in commerce including our Agency Partners, Marketing Platform partners, and App Partners in the Shopify ecosystem. Joining me on the podcast, I could think of no other person who I’d like to c...

My guest in today’s episode is Cary Lawrence, the Co-founder and General Manager at SocialCode. They are a full-service marketing partner that combines media, data-management, creative, and marketplace strategies to help brands grow revenue and be more profitable. Cary spearheads SocialCode’s Audience Intelligence Platform (referred to as AIP), an industry-leading technology that enables disruptors to prospect and acquire their highest-value customers and maximize LTV. What You Will Learn Today ...

My guest in today's episode is Jordan Brannon, the President and COO of Coalition Technologies. They are a long time Shopify design, development, and marketing agency that specializes in driving growth to small and mid-sized Shopify brands. They’ve been a Shopify Partner for a decade and are now a Certified Shopify Plus Digital Marketing Partner. Well known in the ecosystem for supporting complex, high value, SEO focused migrations onto Shopify. What You Will Learn Today Why successful branding ...

My guest in today’s episode is Shoshanah Posner the Director of Business Development at NoFraud . They are an online fraud prevention company that helps identify fraudulent orders while ensuring the highest order approval rate. Chargebacks, unfortunately, are a part of doing business online. While many can be disputed effectively by providing proof that the items were shipped, it is almost impossible to win a fraud chargeback. Preventing fraud chargeback losses occurs at the point of purchase. A...

My guest in today’s episode is Cooper Harris the Co-Founder & CEO from Klickly. They are a 100% commission-based SaaS advertising platform that helps Shopify brands take control of their return-on-ad-spend. Their unique solution allows consumers to buy directly in-ad from over 25M+ premium website properties. And the best part, you get to choose your own commission that results in actual conversions. Given the way the market is leaning and the impact that the Coronavirus has had on ecommerce adv...

My guest in today’s episode is Greg Smith the Co-Founder and CEO from Thinkific . If you are known for your expertise and find yourself being asked for similar advice regularly, or if you have ever wanted to package up your wisdom and deliver it to help others, then you might have considered creating an online course or membership site. Greg created his first online course 15 years ago, to share his passion and expertise with thousands of students. The revenues from his course soon surpassed his...

My guest in today’s episode is Brandon Brown the Co-Founder and CEO from Grin . They have developed a software tool built to enable direct-to-consumer brands to scale influencer marketing. As more and more people spend time on their phones instead of socializing in real life, research shows that the average screen time is up to over 5 hours per day, which is an 18% increase pre-Covid. It’s predicted this trend will only continue to increase or at the very least stay the same, while we all contin...

My guest in today’s episode is David Waltzman the Director of Strategic Partnerships from Feedonomics . Feedonomics combines best-in-class technology and service to list your products everywhere people shop online, including Google Shopping, Amazon, Facebook, and 100's of other marketplaces around the world. Feedonomics services many of the world's most prolific advertising agencies and Shopify brands, including over 30% of the top 1,000 internet retailers. What You Will Learn Today Stopping the...

My guest in today’s episode is Jerry Jao the Co-Founder and CEO from Retention Science . They are a personalization and customer data platform (CDP) that helps Shopify brands to deliver more personalized messages to create meaningful and personalized relationships with their customers. If you have the desire to learn the strategy and the technology necessary to build lifetime customer loyalty for your commerce brand, this is a fantastic episode for you! Let’s jump in and learn together with the ...

My guest in today’s episode is Michael Krakaris, the Co-Founder of Deliverr . They are a fulfillment provider that helps multi-channel eCommerce merchants access nationwide 2-day delivery, no matter where they sell. Amazon Prime Walmart 2-Day Delivery eBay Fast ‘N Free Wish Express 2-day delivery is valuable because buyers today expect fast delivery, but many Shopify brands cannot offer it outside of Amazon. If you want your own store to compete with big marketplaces and diversify across multipl...

My guest in today’s episode is Todd Trimakas, the founder of ByteStand . They are a Shopify app developer with apps that simplify the connection between Shopify and Amazon both in the US and abroad. Back in 2016, while selling on Amazon, Todd had a problem, and out of pure necessity taught himself to code in order to fix his own business challenges. It turned out that his problems were shared by sellers around the globe. And now four years later ByteStand has helped thousands of stores around th...