Learning more about MOSCA with Jakub Winkler
This week we interview Jakub Winkler (No relation to the Fonz) he has some very strong opinions on the MOSCA letter and why this has happened now.
Sep 30, 2021•47 min•Ep. 49
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Episodes
All about MOSCA with Tomas Gerulaitis
This week we interview Tomas Gerulaitis who signed the original letter for the Mage Open Source Alliance.
Sep 29, 2021•24 min•Ep. 48
Building your Growth Marketing with Jen Roth
This week we interview Jenifer Roth, the President and Co-Founder of GrowthMode Marketing. https://growthmodemarketing.com We discuss B2B marketing and why every business owner needs to break down what they are doing for marketing and measure, measure, measure! Jens’s best advice for an agency? “Listen to your clients” We talk about the reasons why entrepreneurs need to hire a marketing agency some of the benefits and ROI they will get in return. This is a very informative episode for merchants ...
Sep 28, 2021•57 min•Ep. 47
Wordpress and website speed with David Arago
This week we do a pub interview with David Arago and talk about the speed of WordPress and why content providers need to be aware of the speed of their site just like an ecommerce provider. We recorded this outdoors at Steel Toes brewery in Saint Louis Park MN
Sep 27, 2021•30 min•Ep. 47
Mage Open Source Community Alliance with Kalen Jordan
This episode was hosted by Kalen Jordan. The interview happened on the behest of Kalen to talk more about the Mage Open Source Community Alliance and the recent letter published.
Sep 22, 2021•59 min•Ep. 46
Mage Open Source Community Alliance with Jisse Reitsma
Community Letter https://www.mage-os.community/blog/the-future-of-magento The Magento Association Response https://www.magentoassociation.org/commerce-co-op/full-article/a-note-from-the-magento-association-board-regarding-magento-open-source-1 Adobe's response https://community.magento.com/t5/Magento-DevBlog/bg-p/devblog
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 45
Magento Open Source and OneStepCheckout with Thien-Lan Weber
1) Hyva x OneStepCheckout live store: haardenexpert.nl You can also provide more contact by linking to this: https://blog.onestepcheckout.com/2021/08/hyva-onestepcheckout-partnership-improved-magento-2-experience/ 2) Examples of recent Magento 2 stores https://blog.onestepcheckout.com/2021/07/magento-2-examples-2021/ 3) Link to my rock band videos South Attitude Youtube channel
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 44
The life of a Developer with Anna Völkl
Welcome to Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Anna Völkl. Anna is the lead Magento developer and release manager at Economics the leading Magento agency in Austria. We dive into a great discussion about Magento security and tools merchants should use to help secure their Magento store. We talk about a day in the life of a Magento developer and Anna shares some of her passion...
Sep 16, 2021•55 min•Ep. 43
The Digital Transformation with Howard Tiersky
This week we interview Howard Tiersky, the CEO of From - The Digital Transformation Agency. Howard helps executives win in today's digital world. He is Wall Street Journal's best-selling author of "Winning Digital Customers, The Antidote to Irrelevance". Howard has been named one of the Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to follow today by IDG. As an entrepreneur, he has launched two successful companies that help large brands transform to thrive in the digital age. We have a great conver...
Sep 14, 2021•48 min•Ep. 42
Hyva and the community with Danny Verkade |
This week we interview Danny Verkade with Cream. Danny is the CTO of Cream, a leading Magento agency in the Netherlands. He is also on the Magento Association Board. We discuss his experience with the new Hyva theme and how it fits into the Magento ecosystem. We go over some of the tools that merchants can use to constantly evaluate the performance of their website. We talk about how someone can easily get into Hyva and why they should! We finish up with some conversation about the Magento Assoc...
Sep 09, 2021•55 min•Ep. 41
How wonderful is Gorgias with Rachel Fefer
Welcome to Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Rachel Fefer with Gorgias. Rachel talks about customer experience and how ecommerce merchants need to “Step up their game” for customer experience online. We go over some real-life examples of great and not-so-great customer experiences. Rachel walks us through the time to respond to a request (How long is too long), personalizin...
Sep 07, 2021•49 min•Ep. 40
The beginning of Oro Commerce with Yoav Kutner
This week we interview Yoav Kutner. The co-founder of Varien, Magento, Akeneo, MageCore, and Oro Commerce. (What didn't he found!) He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. We talk about the early history of Magento and go into the Oro Business Application Program. The BAP that Yoav developed is the foundation for many solutions on the market today. These include Oro CRM and Akeneo. We talk about Oro Commerce and why it makes sense for a B2B company to use this platform. Yoav gives us som...
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 39
The Art of Ecommerce Debugging with Joseph Maxwell
Welcome to this special Tech Edition of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Joseph Maxwell and discuss his new book, “The Art of Ecommerce Debugging”. The video version of the podcast includes an exclusive unboxing of the book. Joseph goes over his motivation for writing this book and how it will help developers be better developers! Joseph discusses the mindset of resolving ...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 38
Amazon FBA and starting a business with Neil Twa
Welcome to Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Neil Twa. Neil is an executive mentor to business owners responsible for over $100M in Collective FBA Sales. He has helped to launch, grow, and scale 7 and 8 figure, high ROI Brands. He is the CEO of Voltage Holdings which launches, operates, scales, and acquires ecommerce brands with a focus on Amazon FBA. He owns multiple ventu...
Aug 24, 2021•46 min•Ep. 46
Amazon Web Services and Magento
Welcome to this Bonus Episode of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we host a panel with Amazon Web Services and Wagento on how Wagento was successful in launching more than 200 stores on AWS and Magento. Kenny Rajan - AWS Senior Solutions Architect runs us through the benefits of AWS and why you should host your Magento store on the AWS Platform. Brent walks us through the solution that...
Aug 23, 2021•51 min•Ep. 45
The Hyva theme will make your store super fast with Magently
Monika Milewska Team Leader @Magently A long-time member of Magently. Has participated heavily in building what Magently is today. Currently the Team Leader and the interface between the team and top management. Always looking to improve and to take care of the well-being of the team. Privately, rides a bike till she drops, loves to travel, and blog about it. Antoni Paszkow Senior Magento Developer @Magently Antoni is calm and collected and hardly ever appears to be moved by anything, which is p...
Aug 19, 2021•31 min•Ep. 44
B2B commerce with Eric Landmann
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the ecosystems, and communities they work and live in. This week we interview Eric Landmann with Earthling Interactive. We kick off with how merchants are using eCommerce platforms and look especially at B2B and how B2B merchants are utilizing their catalogs. You may be surprised where they are missing out. We look at some specific features for B2B and touch on Adobe Commerce and Oro Commer...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 43
AWS Bonus Episode | Starting with Cloud Computing with David Arago and Jason Camp
Welcome to this AWS bonus edition of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This is another bonus episode on our series of interviews on Amazon Web Services and how it has helped merchants and content providers save money and increase performance. I interview David Arago and Jason Camp on getting started on AWS and what technicians and merchants can do to start off on the right foot (or server). I am ...
Aug 16, 2021•30 min•Ep. 42
Magento Extensions with Joseph Leedy
Welcome to this special tech edition of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Joseph Leedy with Wagento Creative. Discuss Magento extensions and integrations and look at the difference between the two. Joseph helps us understand why merchants need to take some extra time to vet any new extension they install on their website and developers need to be prepared to ask questions o...
Aug 12, 2021•52 min•Ep. 41
The merchants perspective on the Hyva Theme with Tyler Jensen
Welcome to Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Tyler Jensen with Wolf Automation. Tyler Jensen is a merchant and a Magento Association Membership committee member. We talk about Adobe Commerce and some of the pitfalls that merchants can fall into, especially around modules. Tyler tells us about his idea for a Merchant Hackathon and Brent hopefully will make it happen in the n...
Aug 10, 2021•59 min•Ep. 40
AWS Bonus Episode | Starting On-Prem with David Arago
Welcome to this AWS bonus edition of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we start a series of interviews on Amazon Web Services and how it has helped merchants and content providers save money and increase performance by using Amazon Web Services. I am interviewing David Arago and we are featuring these bonus episodes from different brewpubs. This brings out an honest conversation on movi...
Aug 09, 2021•34 min•Ep. 39
Magerun and Headless Magento with Christian Münch
Welcome to this tech edition episode of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Christian Münch, Head of Development for N98 in Germany. We talk a little bit about the history of MageRun, the Swiss Army knife for Magento. We talk about Magento and headless commerce and Christian helps us understand some alternatives to just going headless with a single app. This episode was reco...
Aug 05, 2021•46 min•Ep. 38
UltraCommerce with Professor U and Dave Crow
Welcome to this special Episode of ULTRA Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Dave Crow and Professor U with UltraCommerce. We learn about the platform, its history, and why it is a fantastic solution for a multitude of merchants who are looking for a robust ecommerce platform or an order management system, or a product information system, or even a marketplace! Wow, this is f...
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 37
A better life for a developer with the Magento Hyva theme with Vinai Kopp
This week we interview Vinai Kopp who is a big advocate of the new Hyva theme. We discuss why Hyva makes sense for every developer, agency, and merchant. Vinai gives us reasons why Agencies need to embrace Hyva and get their teams on board. He also talks about the benefits for the merchant to use it. We go into the differences between PWA and a monolith and dive into microservices. All this while not getting too technical. You have to listen to this episode to hear Vinai’s opinion on PWA vs Hyva...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 36
Spryker Commerce with Michael Turk
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Michael Turk, Senior Director Solution Consulting with Spryker. We start off the show with how Brent tricked Michael into running a marathon. (How often that happen?) We discuss the origins of Spryker Commerce OS. We examine headless verses monolith and dispel some notions that headless makes things complicated. We also dive into...
Jul 27, 2021•48 min•Ep. 35
Modern Commerce & Edgy Hosting with Sonal Puri
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the ecosystems, and communities they work and live in. This week we interview Sonal Puri, CEO at Webscale. We discuss the meaning of “Modern Commerce '', how online retailers should be thinking about new technology (the shiny new thing is sometimes the best), and how Core Web Vitals is something that requires every merchant’s attention (yesterday). We also discuss Jay Smiths’ “Edgy” open le...
Jul 22, 2021•57 min•Ep. 34
Adobe Commerce and AEM with Stefan Willkommer
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce, ecosystems, and communities they work and live in. This week we interview Stefan Willkommer with TechDivision in Germany. We discuss Adobe Commerce, Magento Opensource, and the health of the Magento community. We dive into Adobe Commerce and Adobe Experience Manager and look at how it is working for merchants, even in the mid-market. We learn about the fantastic new office space that TechDivis...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 33
Magento Community and the association with Sonja Franz
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Sonja Franz with Integer_net in Germany. We discuss the Magento community, online events, and the Magento association. We talk about diversity in the tech community and what everyone can do to help be more diverse. Even bald white guys. We touch on the new Hyva theme and finish with some ballroom dancing. This episode was recorded on June 10th, 2021...
Jul 15, 2021•58 min•Ep. 32
PWA Studio and the Magento Community with Eric Erway
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we talk about how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Eric Erway with Adobe. We discuss PWA studio and how big merchants are adopting and using it. We talk about how vibrant our Magento community continues to be and he gives us a low down of the local meetup seen in Austin with ShipperHQ. Eric tells us how merchants will save money and get ROI from using PWA studio. Eric balks at the chance to present in person, in Minne...
Jul 13, 2021•59 min•Ep. 31
Developer Training and Education with Joseph Maxwell
Welcome to this episode of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Joseph Maxwell with Swiftotter. We discuss how important it is for a developer to get a certification on an Adobe product. We discuss how everyone on a team should have a certification or accreditation on one Adobe Product. We talk about how agencies need developers to get certified and how merchants need to make sure their agency has certified developers...
Jul 08, 2021•55 min•Ep. 30