TikTok is important to direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands because it allows them to showcase products, create engaging content and advertise to a wider audience. Three key takeaways:

TikTok offers unique opportunities for brands to connect with customers in a fun and engaging way.

DTC brands can utilize TikTok advertising options to drive traffic to their website or e-commerce platform.

Incorporating social media planning tools like Plann can help DTC brands create a consistent content calendar and track their social media performance.

In this episode, we speak with Dan Bischoff and Chris Knudsen, partners of Stoic Yeti, an ad agency for DTC brands.

They share their experience with the growth of Purple Mattress from a startup to a public company, including how they helped with the go-to-market strategy and scaled with paid ads.

The conversation covers a wide-range of marketing topics, including:

- Explore how to customize online shopping experiences

- Find out why simplicity is key to conversion rates

- Discover the importance of mapping out messaging throughout the customer journey

Tray Brunner is the co-founder of two seven-figure brands: Bamboo Ave and Vybe Interior.

Bamboo Ave sells sustainable athleisure clothing, including shorts, t-shirts, and soon, joggers and women's clothing. Vybe Interior is a home decor brand that sells canvas art in the US and focuses on partnering with artists to bring their art to the US at affordable prices.

After living in Bali for two years and growing their businesses, Tray recently moved to Austin, Texas to network, meet new people, and continue growing their brands.

Trey discussed the process of starting Bamboo Ave and the importance of getting started and learning along the way. He also touched on the brand's focus on sustainability and building products for people who live intentionally.

"We're trying to build products for people who just kind of are intentional about the way that they live," Trey said. "We're focusing on trying to be as sustainable as possible, but we just try to be a fun brand for people who don't live a cookie cutter life."

Kiril Kirilov is the CEO and Co-founder of Rush, a shipment tracking software designed for Shopify merchants. It automates the shipment tracking process on all fronts, so you never have to worry about losing customers again. Rush helps ecommerce sellers and agencies increase their average order value (AOV), customer lifetime value (CLTV), and lower support costs by 90%.

Kiril began his career in the ecommerce space in 2008 as an eBay seller before transitioning to Amazon fulfillment in 2014. He has a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and a Master of Business Administration in business and corporate communications. Kiril was a national track and field champion of the Balkans, having competed in the sport for 11 years.

In this episode, we learn how Kiril sees merchants increase repurchase rates, the ideal post-purchase messaging, and tactics to increase customer lifetime value.

Shopify Apps are the backbone of a Shopify merchant’s revenue.

And as Director of Marketing at LTV SaaS Fund, Deb Mecca oversees that marketing and growth of 10 Shopify Apps in various niches and has been in the Shopify ecosystem for 8 years.

If you are a Shopify App developer or marketer, this is a unique episode that you won’t want to miss.

Learn how to address (and change) negative reviews, which channels work for customer acquisition, and where there are new opportunities in the Shopify App ecosystem now!

Eric Melchor is the Personalization Ambassador at Optimonk, helping brands build personalized experiences.

Optimonk helps eCommerce brands improve the end-to-end shopping experience and build customer lifetime value with personalization.

Personalization has a direct tie to increased revenue and increased sales. Customers want to receive personalized experiences, yet marketers struggle to deliver on the promise of a personalized shopping experience.

Eric is deep in the personalization of eCommerce marketing strategies, and shares how brands can increase their opt in rate, implement a personalization strategy, and plan for the changing marketing landscape in light of consumer privacy restrictions.

Billy Price is the co-founder of BILLY Footwear, a shoewear company that was started after suffering a spinal cord injury as a teenager. They currently are doing over seven figures in revenue with 20+ full-time employees.

BILLY Footwear quickly became a prototype to fulfill Billy’s personal needs and help those like him, and is now featured in hundreds of stores like Nordstrom and Zappos.

Will Perry is the CEO+CMO of REASON Agency, an eCommerce growth consultancy. He is dedicated to accelerating growth for eCommerce businesses through 13 years of experience and REASON’s unique and unequaled optimization strategies.

Will has mastered how to create a profitable funnel – between testing the right creative, messaging, audiences and follow up sequences.

There are so many nuances to setting up an ad funnel that scales profitably.

Will has done it countless times, and shares his expertise in detail.

Danavir Sarria is the Founder of SupplyDrop, The Email Marketing Agency 8 Figure Brands Recommend.

He helps ecommerce brands drive up to 30% of their total revenue from email marketing, by using advanced strategies like high frequency email sends, objection-based creative, and quarterly email calendaring.

He is a wealth of knowledge about email and Klaviyo in particular, so this was a fun conversation to get into the weeds of how to set up email marketing content calendars, how to stand out from competitive inboxes, and how to overcome customer objections.

Brian Eberman is currently the CEO of Zeenk, an actionable analytics company

for e-commerce sellers.

Zeenk provides companies with the forecasts, insights, and operating data they need to run their growing business across multiple sales and advertising channels. He has run multiple e-commerce companies, data analytics focused business, and has deep experience in AI and Robotics. Brian holds thirteen patents in Speech Technology, Internet Search, and Robotics along with a Ph.D., M.S., and Bachelor’s Degrees from MIT.

In this convo, we discuss:

- Brian’s assessment of DTC trends today, and the strategies brands are deploying to succeed in a challenging climate

- How the impact of privacy changes on DTC brands has impacted advertising platforms and Acquisition costs

- The importance of customer lifetime value to emerging brands, and how these brands managing and optimizing their business against this?