Debutify Podcast

Brooks Conkle shares with us his philosophy of mountains into mountains; and while I'd like you to ponder the meaning, I want you to hear the answer from him. Today's episode is a healthy blend of insight's into real estate such as the transition from landlord to service provider should you rent your property out like it's an Airbnb. We have a healthy discussion about mindset, including a whole new approach to in/out of box thinking, as the title says, perhaps you should consider... annihilating it.

Entrepreneur. Sponge. Husband. Father. Follower of the Golden Rule. These describe Brooks Conkle. After majoring in Finance at Auburn University, Brooks traveled to New Zealand and lived there for 18 months. Upon returning stateside, he got started tackling ideas and continuing to learn new skills. He started a real estate brokerage, a local media publishing company, an event production company, an education platform, and a brick-and-mortar franchise. He’s passionate about how the internet empowers us to build brands faster than ever before and continues to disrupt every industry on the planet. He believes that life and business are one giant adventure and wants others to join in on that journey with him. We should strive no to just think outside the box, but instead should destroy the box.

My talk today with Vivien Garnès of Upfluence opens up the possibilities of influencer marketing. The efficacy of it became apparent to Vivien from his own experience in selling ties, a process that turned out to be much more effective once bloggers were involved. We're at a point where you don't need to involve yourself with influencers who have millions of followers, I mean, you can it's just not the starting point anymore; not with the likes micro-influencers and even nano-influencers at your disposal.

As an entrepreneur with a background in eCommerce and marketing, Vivien has gone from D2C to cracking the code to successful influencer marketing. Vivien is the Co-founder and Co–CEO of NYC-based startup Upfluence, the leading social commerce software for eCommerce brands that helps businesses sell online and on social media via creators.

When we think about the complex and intricate nature of business, we make considerations for our own staff and departments, external matters like suppliers and supporting services like accountants or advertisers and finally the customers and whether or not they'll be coming back. The takeaway that stands out to me above all else from my guest Rob te Braake of Insight Matters is that finance is what ties all of this together. So when they say "you deserve the same insights as Corporate CEOs" you can listen in for the next hour and find out what those are.

Rob is a Dutch serial entrepreneur with 10+ years experience. Started in banking in the Netherlands, co-founded a technology & investment firm based in Beijing, China and has guided dozens of digital companies as Financial advisor. Master degrees in Finance and Strategy.

Today's discussion with Kobi Melamed of BeProfit focuses on a particular service worth your consideration because it's made with you - the ecommerce entrepreneur, CEO and business owner - in mind. What you're going to get out of this is more than just data, but data tailored specifically to your needs; for instance the much sought after long-term-value, something you might find yourself trying to calculate on your own, a risk you may want to avoid taking on top of all the other ones you have to as an entrepreneur.

Kobi Melamed is a Product Manager at BeProfit, an e-commerce analytics platform developed to help merchants make data-driven decisions to optimize their bottom line by tracking and analyzing their most important business metrics in one intuitive dashboard.

We're fortunate to have Jonathan Ng back for another great conversation, we had some, technical issues last time around. But a lot has happened in the ecommerce space and Jonathan ng is the kind of person we want to have on the show as his first-hand knowledge on how to deal with those changes is first rate. One great insight we get to share is Jonathan has a look at my own shopify store and luckily for you, it's a serious work in progress, which means we get a lot of great points that you're going to want to take note of.

Jonathan is the founder of OXG Media, a digital advertising firm focused exclusively at paid traffic acquisition. OXG Media has since helped multiple e-commerce businesses from around the world scale to 7 figures and 1 to 8 figures, completely bootstrapped. Clients generally see revenue increase by 2-10x after working with them.

While the last two episodes were all about mindset, manifestation and forming good habits, we're back in the trenches with Emily Foreman of CartHook. Her company transitioned from in-person to remote, an interesting story in it's own right. But we emphasize the unique value proposition of Carthook which is to ensure your post-purchase part of the funnel is utilized effectively or rather, at all. Every part of the funnel is important, that part you know, but what I think you'll get out of this episode is as clear an understanding of the importance and opportunity in post purchase that can be in an hour's time.

We have a returning guest today in John Mac, and we enjoy an hour's worth discussion on manifestation, cell memory, fate, will power and forming habits. Heavy stuff, certainly a niche discussion as far as what we do on Ecomonics but I'm delighted to not only offer great actionable advice on running a store, inspiring stories of success, but to dig all the way down into our psyche to understand our place in the universe. I understand not everyone is drawn to these discussions but I am, so much so that even though I signed on to produce an ecommerce podcast, this line of dialogue made it's way in anyways. So, have as open a mind as you can handle and give us the hour to pry it open just a bit more, it'll do you good.

My guest today Andy Mai is continuing on with his mission to empower others, through his pledge to create 1000 success stories and his gamified education website studying.com. We talk about some of the ideas about time management we explored last time around, and we get an in depth look at studying.com's functionality. And I get to provide some feedback for it, a privilege I don't take lightly. While the small details may seem that, small, what we get to talk about today in regards to managing those small details on a day to day basis is tantamount to living an optimised, productive and happy life. Even after the time between recording the episode and doing this introduction, not a day as gone by where I've not looked at how to make tomorrow that much better.

I can see a large concern around systemizing and automating key aspects of business and our life for that matter, leaving one with the sinking feeling their individual needs aren't being met or even addressed. What stuck out to me with my conversation with Andrew Maff of Bluetuskr is that every customer, every business is unique and thus Bluetuskr keeps that approach in mind in their business. There's a great need for systems and structures but if we lose sight of the individual needs, we lose everything.

Andrew is the Founder of BlueTuskr, a full-service marketing company for e-commerce sellers. With 15 years of experience, he has proved himself to be a leader in the field. His entrepreneurial knowledge and success allow him to excel in his industry as well as helping others grow theirs. His knowledge in branding, social media, SEO, web design, graphic design, email marketing, and more, providing exceptional results consistently.

We've had a few print on demand experts on thus far, ranging from individual experts to the ones running a service, I'm delighted today to get the expertise of Brittany Lewis, among the top 1% sellers on Etsy. If you're interested in the platform this is the episode for you, but otherwise this is a good chance to really understand what Etsy is capable of in delivering you creative and financial freedom.