Trent Dyrsmid has been sourcing products and selling on Amazon for over 4 years, during that time he’s also got very into traffic driving, hosted the brilliant Bright Ideas Podcast, AND (which is what we’re chatting about today) mastered the process of systematising your business in order to take the stress and cost out of scaling. He’s got so good at systematising that in 2019 his Amazon business ranked 254 on the Inc 5000 list.

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Sam Grant is the Digital Marketing Manager at Toolstop, where he juggles the needs of both the B2C and B2B eCommerce sites. Toolstop launched in 1965 and they now do 9,000 orders a month across the two sites.

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We’ve just passed 500,000 listens – how crazy is that?? And how awesome.

Looking at the monthly listeners it’s going to take a lot less than 5 years to double that and reach the million.

I’d love your help to get there – so please do let others know about the show, or give us a share on social – use the hashtag #ecommasterplan

I’m going to think of someway to celebrate the milestone on the show soon – but for now…. 

Whilst I chat with retailers each week, and give you insight to what’s happening right now – my friend Derric Haynie has a new podcast that’s all about what’s coming up in the future.

It’s a great show, and well worth a listen – so I’ll let him tell you a little bit more…

The Future of eCommerce Podcast

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Neil Fitzpatrick is the Managing Director at Pet Drugs Online. The UK’s leading online pharmacy service for pets set up and run by vets in Somerset, UK. They launched in 2005 and are on track for over £50m in sales this year with a 33% yearly growth rate. During the height of the covid-19 pandemic they saw sales increase 400%, which caused a major problem with some of their Drop Shipping suppliers speed of despatch. This caused a lot of customer service headaches. Neil joins Chloe to discuss this and lots of other interesting and impacts and lessons from the peak of Covid-19.

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Chris Meade is one of the three co-founders of Crossnet, a business started in September 2017 that hit over $2m in sales in 2019. Crossnet is a business based on a game the 3 invented in order to escape the 9 to 5, which they’ve grown in a low-risk, life-friendly way! Since Covid-19 struck sales have quadrupled giving Chris and the Crossnet team a supply, and customer service challenge. Plus a massive marketing opportunity. in this candid chat Chris shares lots of detail about how they've coped with it all including their Facebook Ads and email strategy, which includes how to get your email sign up rates to over 10%.

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Ian Leslie is the CMO at US homewares brands Industry West and Favor. It all started with Industry West in 2010, and then Favor launched in 2019. Now the 2 sites typically grow at 25% per year with sales over $10m a year.

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Way back in January (episode 255) we started our journey with Simon finding out about UXB skincare and his plans for 2020. In May (episode 273) he came back on the show so we got to find out how Q1 had gone, and his plans for Q2 – which weren’t as disrupted as you might think…

Today he’s back to talk how it’s all going, email marketing, Facebook ads, business seasonality, Klaviyo AND his plans for Q4

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John Tabis is the founder and chairman at The Bouqs Company, an online florist. Founded in 2012 they have sold 100s of millions of dollars worth of flowers to millennial females. We chat about how they decided to launch into the flower sector, and the foundations they put in place to enable fast growth down the line. That includes tech, team, and culture. Plus a lot about supply chain - just as you'd expect in the world of flowers!

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Greg Spillane is the CEO at Fancy, a curated online retailer for customers looking to discover the coolest and most innovative fashion, accessories, art and gadgets from emerging brands and artists across the globe from their 200,000+ inventory. We discuss how social connection is at the heart of the business, and why this is the golden age for DTC brands.

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Aynsley Peet is the Head of eCommerce at Cox and Cox, a UK homeware retailer.

The business was founded in 2001 and sales are close to £20m per year; selling online, mail order, and B2B.

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