Inside Commerce: Ecommerce Strategy, CX and Technology Podcast

In our 21st episode, we're joined by Sejal Parekh who talks to us about her new initiative (started with her husband, Kevin Maguire), called Help Your Hood. Help Your Hood is designed to drive awareness around local businesses and encourage users to buy gift cards online, helping to provide much-needed financial support whilst they're unable to trade.

In our 20th episode, we're joined by Andrew Chart, the Head of eCommerce at Andertons Music Co. Andrew kindly agreed to talk to us about their large-scale move to IBM from a bespoke platform - we discuss the selection process, why IBM was chosen, how Andrew's team managed the project, the highs and lows and lots more.

In our 19th episode, we’re joined by James White (UK General Manager) and Valter Andersson (Product Manager) from NOSTO, who talk to us about a wide range of eCommerce personalisation topics and also NOSTO itself.

In our 18th episode, we're joined by Scott Wright (Paul's colleague at Vervaunt) to talk about best practices for paid media when moving eCommerce platform. We cover general involvement & timings for paid media representatives, core considerations around data feeds, tracking and site structure, web analytics and more!

In our 17th episode we're joined by James and Tim from Akeneo, who talk us through how a PIM system can benefit replatforming projects, the general value that can be added for eCommerce teams, the core problems PIM systems can solve, some of Akeneo's key features and much more.

In our 16th episode, James shares 10 project management essentials that all eCommerce teams should bear in mind when managing their replatforming project. Based on experience from many replatforming projects, this advice will help ecommerce teams plan sensibly and improve internal control for project delivery.

In our 15th episode, we're joined by Neill Holland (currently working as a Solution Architect for Burberry), who talks about all things business systems integrations (in the context of replatforming) - covering topics such as planning, the concept of an MVP, managing stakeholders and much more!

In our 14th Re:platform episode, we discuss why it’s important to select the right ecommerce platform and the potential risks of getting it wrong, amongst other things. This episode is designed to cover the general process retailers should follow to better understand the platforms and what they should be looking to know before they start talking to providers.

In our 13th episode, Paul is joined by Piers Thorogood to talk about Shopify Plus at scale, managing international Shopify builds, new features likely to be introduced at Unite 2020, headless Shopify and various other things!

In our 12th episode, we're joined by Stuart McMillan, who is the Head of Multi-Channel at Tiso Group and the former Head of eCommerce at Schuh. Stuart talks us through the importance of performance optimisation, general best practices to follow, how performance can be measured, creating an optimisation culture and much more.