With 20+ years experience in the advertising agency and tech space, Chris Fryburger, the founder of nReach, identified a core challenge within the Amazon ecosystem.

The problem is that it’s not always easy for brands and service providers to find one another. His solution was to launch a service that matches trusted Amazon service providers with brands that are looking to grow, scale, or get started on Amazon.

This week on the Ecommerce Braintrust podcast, we are joined by another member of the Bobsled team. Ross Walker is one of our PPC Managers and he’s here to share with us his insights about driving off-site traffic to Amazon.

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We've reached the end of 2019! It has been a very busy year and we're looking forward to moving into 2020 with lots of new projects and exciting ventures!

Our industry is changing very quickly and in today's episode, Kiri will be talking to us about the highlights of 2019 and what lies ahead, in the coming year, for herself, the podcast, Bobsled marketing, and for the industry. Tune in today to hear Kiri's recap and her projections of what will be happening next year, in 2020.

Today we have Bart Mroz, the co-founder, and CEO of Sumo Heavy, joining us. Voice-activated assistants are at the cutting-edge of commerce right now. Earlier this year, Bart compiled some interesting consumer research at Sumo Heavy, about shopping behavior and voice-activated assistants, like Alexa. He found that most of the respondents to his survey still use voice-activated devices regularly, despite recent reports about potential privacy breaches. Tune in now, to find out more.

Today we are joined by Christina Stembel, the founder and CEO of Farmgirl Flowers. Christina launched her company in 2010, to provide the best flowers and customer experience every single time. Listen in to find out how this direct-to-consumer bootstrap business is shaking up the online flower industry.

Today, we're having a conversation with Mario Lucibello, a partner at Greenhaus Riordan & Company LLP, in West Haven, Connecticut, about the fascinating topic of sales tax. Mario is a CPA who does a lot of work with e-commerce sellers and he is familiar with the way that sales tax works in this context. In today's episode, Mario talks to us about how the sales tax system works, the recent changes that have happened, what he recommends, and how he advises his clients to approach all of this.

Today, Brett Curry, the co-founder, and CEO of OMG Commerce joins us to talk about YouTube ads. In Brett’s extensive experience, these ads generally tend to be under-utilized, which is rather unfortunate considering that YouTube is the second most visited site on the web, and it's the fastest growing social media platform for millennials and Gen-Zs.

Our guest for today's show is Nick Giulioni. Nick has been on the marketplace management side of e-commerce for the last ten years. He started his career as a buyer for Newegg but soon realized that it was not where he wanted to be. He subsequently moved through several different electronics companies, using the networks he had built at Newegg to move from one position to the next. More recently, he has been managing Amazon for tier 1 vendors in the electronics and gaming category.

Today we are speaking to the very knowledgeable Scott Kilmartin, a retail advisor and Ecommerce architect in Australia. It’s the second time we have Scott on the show and the perfect timing to revisit the topic of Amazon Australia since it has been two years since its launch.

Today Scott is here for a detailed breakdown analysis of what went wrong when Amazon Australia first launched, what were the alternatives for sellers and what are the expectations for Amazon Australia going forward.

Our guest for today is Alex Song, the CEO, and co-founder of Innovation Department, a Manhattan-based tech-powered start-up studio that builds consumer brands. At Innovation Department, they understand that Amazon is an incredible platform, and they enjoy using it to launch their brands, in parallel with their direct-to-consumer websites. Alex believes that working with Amazon, rather than against it, is the best way to help start-up brands reach audiences and build brand visibility.