Episodes

This episode features Marin Istvanic, head of performance at Inspire Agency. During the last 12 months, he has profitably spent $30M on Facebook ads generating over $200M for his clients. Marin shares about bringing results to their clients and how the result varies from client to client. He talks on the biggest mistakes that he sees people make when running Facebook ads on their own. Andy and Marin discuss regarding conversion rates between videos and static images and the types of products f...

This episode features Carl Weische, CRO-Expert and co-founder of ACCELERATED where they specialize in accelerating the growth for D2C-Brands by unlocking the power of CRO and A/B-Testing. His agency works with fast scaling 7-10 figured D2C brands. Carl discusses how conversion happens and the tool that he finds useful when converting. He also shares what are some of the KPIs that a store owner should be reviewing after the holiday season and the multitude of programs they are using for tracking...

This episode features Yulia Blinova, founder of Zignify. She’s here to talk about how you can successfully source products that will sell and how you can use these products to begin or grow your online business. Yulia discusses the people commonly looking to source products, what the right products are, and supply chain issues. Listen as Julia shares what she thinks about sourcing products and if it is still a viable option for being successful online. She shares how she and her husband origin...

This episode features Josh Dittrich, an Amazon Growth Expert and author of the book Aggregator Navigator. This guest built, grew, and sold his Amazon brand for $10 million in less than 6 years with zero investors and is here to share how you can do it too. Josh discusses a couple of factors that lead to him being able to grow a brand to such a large sum in such a relatively short period of time. He shares sending traffic to amazon from the website, buying another e-commerce business for 750,000...

This episode features Travis Zigler, a recovering optometrist turned e-commerce entrepreneur. He is the founder of Eye Love, whose mission is to heal 1,000,000 dry eye sufferers naturally. They have used the profits from Eye Love to fund free clinics in Jamaica and the US through their charity, the Eye Love Cares Foundation. Specializing in Amazon PPC, he is here today to talk about increasing Amazon sales and how to increase your brand's clout. Travis shares making the change from optometrist ...

This episode features Matt Edmundson, the CEO of Aurion Digital. As an eCommerce entrepreneur, his sites have generated over $75m in worldwide sales. Add to that, as a Coach his clients have combined sales of over another $100m. In addition, he is the host of The eCommerce Podcast. Matt defines what customer-centric is and why is it so vital. He shares where he sees being a customer-centric brand fitting into the whole conversion puzzle. Listen to Matt as he discusses how a website can determin...

This episode features Alexej Pikovsky, the founder of Alphagreen Group. Alphagreen is a digital house of Health and Wellness brands. With over 15 VC-backed startups/scaleups, Alphagreen uses a long-term mindset, favoring strategies such as SEO & acquire profitable brands and scaling them to enter new geographies and unlocking new growth channels. Alexej discusses why they focus on long-term strategies such as SEO, rather than shorter-term, mediate client acquisition strategies such as Google pa...

This episode features Tim Bucciarelli, Director of Engagement at IronPlane. IronPlane is an eCommerce agency helping businesses with platform design, development, and digital marketing. He is passionate about helping businesses discover and implement new technologies. Tim shares what should a company consider and some of the biggest mistakes a company makes when choosing an E-commerce solution. Andy and Tim talk about the major players, the advantages, and some of the most important aspects of...

This week features Paul Rafelson, the Founding Partner at Rafelson Law Firm, the #1 go-to law firm for online businesses facing legal challenges and digital sellers looking for the best deal when exiting their businesses. In addition, he is the Founder of the Online Merchants Guild (OMG), a trade association that enables thousands of online sellers to voice their concerns on various legal issues affecting them, where he volunteers in a position as an Executive Director. Finally, he also was the ...

This episode features Brandon Amoroso, the founder and CEO of Electriq, a DRINKS company that scales brands with profitable e-commerce models built from innovative proprietary methods. Powered by the freedom and individuality of the Gen Z mindset, Electriq has fueled over 35 in-house specialists in a range of growth-focused strategies, including email/SMS marketing, SEO/content marketing, paid acquisition, and web design/development. Brandon shares how his GenZ mindset translates into an advant...

This episode features James Scherer, the VP of Strategy at Codeless. Through his work with Codeless, he has helped companies such as Monday.com, AdEspresso, Freshworks, HotJar, and dozens more SERP-topping SaaS & affiliate brands dominate their page one positions through content and backlink profiles. James talks about content marketing and why he thinks small businesses don't actively do it. He shares what tools they are using to find keyword terms on what they’re creating the content around. ...

This episode features Steve Sims, dubbed the Real Life Wizard of Oz" by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, He is the best-selling author of the book "BLUEFISHING - The Art of Making Things Happen”; he is the host of The Art Of Making Things Happen podcast; he's a sought-after coach and a speaker at a variety of networks, groups and associations as well as the Pentagon and Harvard–twice! Steve shares the underlying theme for his message when speaking at events and where he feels the biggest oppor...

This episode features Eric Youngstrom from Austin, TX-based Onramp Funds. Before Onramp, he helped launch, scale, and successfully exit ShippingEasy, which was acquired by Stamps.com in 2016 for $55M in cash. Today he is widely regarded as the go-to source for early-stage eCommerce growth specializing in SMB lending, shipping, and raising capital. Listen as Eric shares the definition of a small business and how difficult it can be for a small business to get a loan. He discusses some of the com...

This episode features Chris Knudsen and Dan Bishoff, two of the members of the founding team at Purple Mattress where they took the company from a Kickstarter campaign to a public company with $700 million/year in revenue in just four years. These days, they run Stoic Yeti, which is considered the leading direct-to-consumer agency, with a focus on paid ads. They have generated over $2B+ in DTC revenue, for brands like Casper and Harley-Davidson. Chris and Dan share why they believe video ads ar...

This episode features John Shea. John is the owner of No Shame Income where he offers his email marketing automation solution as well as his blog where he shares what he has learned since 2011 where he has tried about every program known paid program to internet marketing. John shares how his experiences shaped him for what he is doing today. He discusses where he feels the biggest opportunity would be for somebody who's just starting out, and trying to figure out how they could make a living o...

This episode features Gil Bar-Lev, the founder of HomeRoots. HomeRoots is a novel wholesale platform that leverages “community buying power” by uniting sellers of furniture, lighting, and home décor and retailers and licensed trade in one place, making the B2B shopping experience in this vertical as easy as the B2C shopping experience. Gil defines HomeRoots and its mission and shares why a retailer or a shopper goes to HomeRoots over other platforms. Listen to Gil as he discusses where the sel...

This episode features Adam Pearce, the co-founder and CEO of Blend Commerce, an eCommerce Customer Experience Agency. He and his team have worked with over 200 Shopify retailers to help them provide memorable customer experiences that drive growth in revenue and profit. Adam defines what it means by creating a memorable customer experience and shares how providing a great customer experience correlates to increasing customer lifetime value. Adam discusses how they do tracking, implementation, ...

This episode features Melissa Williams and Polly Sidoruk. Melissa is the Head of Content at Synder, an automated accounting platform for businesses to manage their finances better, smarter, and faster. She used to manage her own content design and strategy business and now, as Synder's Head of Content, she aims to inform you about efficient business management, eCommerce and SaaS accounting automation, smart invoicing, instant analytics and reporting, and financial data improvements. Polly Sidor...

This episode features Jack Paxton, the founder of Top Growth Marketing. Through his agency, he has accumulated over $250 million in profitable ad spend. He's worked with small startups to large brands managing to spend between $100/day to$100,000/day. He is the co-founder of Vyper and the host of the Blitz Growth Podcast. Jack shares why he decides to work with clients with a lower-range budget. He discusses some actionable tips for companies doing all of their Facebook ads in-house. Discover ...

This episode features AJ Saunders, the founder of AJS Digital Group, a media company with over a decade of experience in digital marketing. In addition, he has also launched an eBook publishing company, a global e-commerce shop, and started the current brands in the AJS Digital Group’s portfolio. Listen to AJ as he shares what brand identity is and why it’s important. AJ discusses what could happen to those companies that don’t focus on creating their brand identity. AJ shares his new course a...

This episode features Colby Flood, the founder of Brighter Click, an education-first agency that focuses not just on performance but on proactive communication led by education. Brighter Click helps eCommerce companies 2-3x their current Facebook marketing performance and they are the only agency that leads all communications through education. Listen to why Colby believes it is important to educate the clients on the process of advertising and why he thinks other agencies don't employ this typ...

This episode features Fred Vallaeys, the Co-Founder and CEO of Optmyzr, a leading and award-winning PPC management platform. He is also a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, author, and thought leader in pay-per-click search marketing. As an AdWords Evangelist, he helped pioneer the PPC marketing as one of Google's initial 500 workers. Fred shares being an AdWords Evangelist and what type of Google AI he recommends for the advertisers to use and why. Discover the top three mistakes Fred sees advertis...

This episode features Jessica Totillo Coster, an eCommerce & Email Marketing Strategist for scrappy entrepreneurs. She teaches actionable steps & strategies to grow and scale their eCommerce businesses. After 20+ years in retail, owning her own multi 6-figure brick & mortar boutique and 3 years as the ONLY employee of a 7-figure e-Commerce store and having the pleasure of learning from the top experts in the digital marketing & eCommerce industry – she is now sharing everything she learned the h...

This episode features Tim Redmond, CEO of Redmond Growth Consulting. He has spent the last 35 years helping grow highly successful businesses including his work at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, growing a software company from 2 to 400 employees before selling it to Intuit INC, and helping thousands of business owners gain time and valuable freedom. Tim shares his thoughts on some of the biggest mistakes that he sees business owners making that stop their growth. Discover the traits that Tim has foun...