Will Perry is the CEO & CMO of REASON Agency, an eCommerce growth consultancy.Will is dedicated to accelerating growth for eCommerce businesses through 13 years of experience and REASON’s unique optimization strategies. Welcome to the show, Will. How did you get started?What is a media buyer?Google was #1, then FB came, and now who are the top ad platforms?Why is it that most fail when it comes to paid social ads?is the FB algorithm smart enough that you can just create a campaign and let it...
Oct 28, 2022•41 min
Brian Roisentul is the Founder & CEO of BSR Digital, a performance marketing agency where we help e-commerce brands grow through paid ads and email/SMS marketing. Quin and Brian had an amazing conversation about e-commerce and Brian has some great ways of growing e-commerce brands. Please listen to the episode until the end, so you don't miss some of the golden nuggets Brian shared with us Tools and links mentioned: Text expander https://textexpander.com/ Brian's Linkedin https://www.linkedi...
Oct 18, 2022•49 min•Ep. 417
Mark Achler Managing Director at MATH Venture Partners and Co-author of Exit Right. Mark was an early employee of Apple and Head of Innovation at Redbox What's your business story?Was RedBox the DVD rental ATM?What is Math venture partners?So you guys are not buying brands like aggregators, you are simply funding them?Where are these investments made? The US only?The only companies you invest in are digital tech?Can you give examples of companies or services funded?So if I were looking for fundi...
Aug 10, 2022•42 min•Ep. 416
Today’s guest, Jay Gibb, is a former software engineer and the Founder and CEO of B2B SaaS company, CloudSponge. Together with his team, Jay has helped thousands of ecommerce store owners optimize their word-of-mouth sales since 2010. Jay is an expert at helping e-commerce stores build the right features to reduce customer acquisition costs and increase sales. Welcome to the show, Jay! You live in California, but you studied at SAIT?How did you get into software development?Do you still code?Wha...
Jul 28, 2022•41 min•Ep. 415
Ben Leonard, best known as the founder of Beast Gear, Ben Leonard is the classic millennial entrepreneur. He built a business on a laptop, in a cupboard, in his spare time. The difference? Ben grew an international 7-figure business and successfully exited after 3 years, the business holy grail. Now Ben is doing it all over again and helping others to do the same with his ecommerce brokerage Tell me about your journey to where you are now What does Ecom Brokers do? Why sell your ecom business? H...
Jul 05, 2022•32 min•Ep. 414
Andy Hooper CEO of Global ECommerce Experts has been successfully expanding e-commerce brands into new markets for over 15 years. ⦁ Before we start, tell me what is a Petty Officer of the sea cadets⦁ Tell us about our journey⦁ Expanding your brand into Europe⦁ Has Brexit affected the expansion to Europe?⦁ is it worth selling on Amazon Europe?⦁ What is needed?⦁ Does Amazon collect taxes automatically?⦁ if I sell in Europe on Amazon and Shopify, do you recommend having Amazon fulfill my EU Shopify...
May 23, 2022•37 min•Ep. 413
Brent Zahradnik Founder of AMZ PathfinderBrent started Amazon ads in 2015 and he already had a Google ads background. ⦁ The only guest to have been here 4 times⦁ Are you still in France?⦁ How many people do you have on your team now?⦁ What's new in the Amazon PPC world⦁ Do you use 1 ad per campaign? for relevancy⦁ Do you see better results with DSP or SP?⦁ How about DSP for external services, like yours for example?⦁ do you use Amazon Advertising Manager for anything? I created rules⦁ Do you hav...
May 16, 2022•50 min•Ep. 412
Robyn Johnson Founder and CEO at Marketplace Blueprint, and owner of Best from the nest ⦁ We are together in the SEMrush / Sellzone lifetime VIP circle⦁ I see you are also a professor on the SEMrush Academy free course⦁ You are a VIP contributor for the search engine journal, how long have you been writing there?⦁ Robyn, I heard you started with $100 tell us the story⦁ We both know the days of starting with $100 are gone, do you think starting with $10K today would be as good as $100 back then?⦁...
May 09, 2022•43 min
Michael Epstein sold his first company in 2013 and served as CMO of multiple ecommerce brands.He's a principal at PostPilot, a platform that allows you to send personalized postcards automatically at scale, as easily as you'd create an email campaign. PostPilot is a marketing platform specializing in direct mail marketing for Shopify and ecommerce brands. It offers solutions for prospecting, retargeting, retention, and reactivation using postcards and Cardalogs™️. The service includes full-funne...
Apr 19, 2022•28 min•Ep. 407
Founder of Science Natural Supplements, Cody Bramlet Cody Bramlett is a “recovering personal trainer” turned eight-figure nutritional supplement brand owner.After scraping by as a personal trainer and gym owner, Cody’s supplement empire all started with solving problems with his father's chronic inflammation. Cody's dad had pain because of his diet, stress, and being generally overweight. He custom-formulated products such as Turmeric with BioPerine that stopped his Dad’s chronic inflammation. C...
Apr 05, 2022•33 min
Touseef Riaz, CTO at Inventooly, a tool that helps with inventory management and Forecasting (AI-based forecasting) across multiple channels including Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify. Brother of Omer Riaz, Founder of Urtasker - One of the biggest Amazon agencies Questions for Touseef Riaz ⦁ Do you work with Urtasker?⦁ How big is the Urtasker team now?⦁ So, what is this new tool Inventooly?⦁ The tool predicts my future sales so It can estimate how much inventory is needed?⦁ What is the Strategic Pro...
Mar 24, 2022•48 min•Ep. 409
Frederick Vallaeys CEO at Optmyzr and One of Google’s first 500 employeesFred spent 10 years at Google building AdWords and teaching advertisers how to get the most out of it. How did you start with Google back in 2002⦁ it's safe to say you are Google certified lol⦁ What was your job at Google?⦁ How did Optmyzr start?⦁ Did you have a day you realized it was going to work?⦁ Tell me how Optmyzr works⦁ Do I create the ads in your platform and it sends them to Google or do I create them the old way ...
Mar 15, 2022•40 min•Ep. 407
Ganesh Krishnan founder of AiHello AiHello uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning algorithms ⦁ How did you get started?⦁ Are you still a seller?⦁ Is AiHello actual Ai?⦁ With the number of new sellers every day, getting new customers to your platform is easy?⦁ What's an example of cost per acquisition?⦁ Very important for me is to dominate a keyword and not simply get sales from it. Can I tell my ai, at the keyword level what my intentions are?⦁ If I have multiple accounts can I c...
Mar 09, 2022•28 min•Ep. 407
Dr. Travis Zigler is a recovering optometrist turned ecommerce entrepreneur. He is the founder of Eye Love and an Amazon PPC specialist. Due to the success of Eye Love (over $5.4 million in 2021), others have asked if Dr. Travis would help them grow their business online, and more specifically with Amazon, which led to the creation of the Profitable Pineapple Ads Agency Questions Asked to Dr. Travis Zigler ⦁ How do I fix my chronic dry eye?⦁ How did you get started on Amazon?⦁ Why should someone...
Feb 23, 2022•46 min•Ep. 406
Chase Harmer Founder and CEO at ProfitPayAn entrepreneur since the age of 19 - learned from the school of hard knocks - raised 25 million Almost died but came back to life to make a successful company from the ashes ⦁ ProfitPay isn't your first venture, what's your story before profitPay⦁ ProfitPay is a payment processor, like Stripe or PayPal?⦁ So I can use PP on my shopify, Woocommerce…?⦁ The logo is a flying pig? Why?⦁ You have a virtual CC with cashback! How does it work?⦁ Can I use it to pa...
Feb 15, 2022•24 min•Ep. 405
Anita Mar is a registered Trademark agent and the founder of Trademark Angel ⦁ How do you know if you need to protect your business name?⦁ The most interesting legal battles she has seen and how to protect yourself.⦁ Do you know how many trademarks you have done?⦁ Benefits of getting a TM in China?⦁ What if I want a brand that is already trademarked in another country?⦁ Does an EU trademark capture all European EU members? ( 27 countries)⦁ How long is it taking now to actually get the TM⦁ Amazon...
Jan 26, 2022•40 min•Ep. 404
He is an active Amazon Seller and has also coached other Amazon Sellers on how to grow their business. Isaac Kuhlman - Co-founder at Real Coaching Isaac, how did you start your eCommerce journey?Selling since 2013Do you remember the moment you realized it was going to be more than just part-time?Do you mostly Private label?What is the biggest mistake you see new sellers making?Who do you coach? starting sellers, advanced, or both?How is your coaching? Zoom calls, in person, 1vs 1?Since you are a...
Jan 10, 2022•45 min•Ep. 403
Lesley Hensell Co-founder of Riverbend Consulting An Amazon seller turned consultant, Lesley and her team at Riverbend solve critical problems and offer growth strategies for sellers on Amazon and other eCommerce platforms Lesley, how did you get started with eCommerce?When did you realize it was going to work, and you could finally leave the 9-5?How does one become a high-quality seller on Amazon?What's the best way to deal with the storage limitations?Black hat and dirty tricks are growing lik...
Jan 03, 2022•38 min•Ep. 402
Directly from LV Nevada founder of Branded Shareables, Edwin Dearborn Edwin is on a mission to help business professionals attract their ideal customers.To that end, Edwin has written three books on the topics of branding, social media strategies, and influencer marketing.His latest book, Referology, details proven methods to exponentially grow one’s best clientele. source: referrals. How long have you lived in Vegas? Was Vegas a strategic location or simply a personal choice? I want to talk abo...
Dec 14, 2021•40 min•Ep. 401
He is a commerce marketing strategist, analyst, and content marketer with more than 15 years of experience in email, mobile and social media marketing Director of Content at Omnisend - host of the podcast, Cart Insiders: Greg Zakowicz What is Omnisend? Omnisend email & SMS automation platform for eCommerce.More than 70,000 eCommerce brands use Omnisend Questions Tells us a bit about yourselfCan you explain Omnisend for those who don't know itI believe IOS 15 came out a few days ago, what are...
Nov 30, 2021•48 min•Ep. 400
Nigel Thomas, the CEO of Alpha Inbound ⦁ How did you get started?⦁ What is Alpha Inbound?⦁ You were the chief growth officer and now CEO⦁ Recently we added SMS marketing to our service list - the insights & results we got are mind-blowing⦁ The upcoming Black Friday and eCommerce businesses' must-dos, to prep for it⦁ Why Lifetime Value & Economics are important to scale an eCommerce Brand. Links for Nigel Thomas and Alpha Inbound www.alphainbound.com/quizemail: [email protected]...
Nov 23, 2021•25 min•Ep. 399
Rael Lowenthal Head Of Sales at Zee What is an Importer of Record and how does it apply to Amazon FBA?What is Zee and what service or services does Zee offer to Amazon sellers?Why Zee, was it just because you guys were lucky enough to get the domain?In which countries does Zee support an Importer of Record service for Amazon sellers?Who are Zee’s target clients? Is there a certain size that a seller has to be in order to use Zee?What is the difference between Zee and a Freight Forwarder?How long...
Sep 24, 2021•25 min•Ep. 398
Joe Valley is Co-Owner of Quiet Light Brokerage #1 best seller in 7 AMZ categories - The Exitpreneur Joe has 5 steps of negotiation with Aggregators What we talked about - Every FBA business has been or is being approached by Aggregators - what are aggregators - how do they get money? - In most cases, more than half of the money you ever make in a business is the day you sell it - Chapter 13 ais FBA Roll UPS - can you explain what this is -is an earn-out ever favorable for the seller? - hired to...
Sep 15, 2021•31 min
CEO of Buyboxer, a top 100 Amazon seller. Founder of Smart Scout and Host of the Smartest Amazon seller podcast. Scott Needham Scott has been here before in 2019 episode 325 so you can check that one out after if you didn't already.Scott Needham is a top seller, and been selling on Amz since 99 but started FBA in 2009 ( so a lifetime ago)Welcome, Scott. When you were here in 2019 pre covid, you had 150 people working for you, how much did covid affect that number?Scott, I saw a video you did, at...
Jun 02, 2021•41 min•Ep. 396
Mac Schlesinger went from minimum wage warehouse worker to Amazon Tycoon within a few years.Mac’s Amazon journey began over 10 years ago. He started off buying discounted goods from the local shopping mall and selling it for profit online.He became fascinated by the world of e-commerce and began to experiment with simple strategies like selling retail arbitrage, drop-shipping, and selling his own private label products. After growing his own online business to 7+ figures he discovered the key in...
Apr 27, 2021•28 min•Ep. 395
Joining us today is Ian Bower, founder, and owner of Graphic Rhythm, and other businesses that revolve around design, copywriting, and Amazon marketplace selling.When Ian isn’t working, you can find him outside hiking, camping, and spending time with his wife and children. How do you go from being a chef to founding a design company?Being a chef is one of those things that never really goes away, right?How does Graphic Rhythm work?How Graphic Designers Can Monetize Their WorkHow To Sell Identity...
Mar 08, 2021•38 min•Ep. 394
Glenn Lundy Grew a Dealership 800% In Five Years Glenn Lundy has 20 years of experience in the automotive industry, Glenn lead a dealership from 120 cars a month to an 800% increase in sales in five years, becoming the 2nd largest used car franchise in the country. Glenn has been spotlighted on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and is an expert in dealership culture development, and leadership training. He is a husband to 1, a father to 7, and the host of the wildly popular Facebook Live show #RiseAndGrind. Hi...
Mar 04, 2021•42 min•Ep. 393
Tarik Berrada Co-founder and CSO at Chez M19 an AI-Powered Advertising Technology for Amazon sellers. Are you in ParisTarik you are a data scientist?When did you realize you had a passion for data?How did all this get started?I see you have at m19 people who used to work at Google and a few ex Criteo and even a Former Senior Manager at Amazon Advertising, how did the team get together?I tried some ai companies before but one didn't even have ai, just bulk If then statements all performed once ev...
Feb 17, 2021•38 min•Ep. 391
Product and Factory Inspections With Mitchell Johnson at V-Trust Inspection Service Mitch, how did you get started, what's your story?how long have you been living in China?What is V trust?Can you explain how an inspection/ independent assessments work?Pre-shipment is the one you do when dealing with a traderHow big is your team?How does factory audit work and why do we buyers need it?do you inspect certificatesBuyers don't know much about compliancewhat are the most common mistakesTry to verify...
Feb 08, 2021•48 min
Nacham Lieser Founder of ConnectBooks 4Billion + In Amazon transactions processedHe is the go-to guy when sellers want to get real clarity in their business. How did all this get started?The nightmare of sharing products from one account with a partnerdo you also sell on Amazon, or have you ever?What is the craziest thing you've seen in business?What is connectbooks?what are the 2 large equations you've been in the past year?Can I use it for Amazon in Europe?so, if I have QuickBooks and connectb...
Jan 28, 2021•32 min•Ep. 390
