MegaMinds | eCommerce Growth + Personal Development

By Evan Bryce RiddleBusiness Entrepreneurship

MegaMinds | eCommerce Growth + Personal Development episodes

December 01, 2022‍💨 Is branding just smoke and mirrors?‍💨 — Creative Strategy, Brand Building and Personal Brands (Ft. Mark Drager, Founder of Phanta Media)
With 15+ years, 3,000+ projects, and hundreds of clients under his belt, Mark knows what it takes to build a brand.
Joining Evan and Ben is Mark Drager, Founder of Phanta Media, Spartan Race runner, and host of the We Do Hard Things podcast.
Together, the team chat about:
Using "Loss Leaders" to build a brand

Personal brands vs corporate brands - what's the difference?

Why perception is truth (or is it?)

Is branding just smoke and mirrors?

What is experiential branding?

Mark’s biggest mistakes scaling an agency

The “Zone of Mastery”
Want to join the discussion? Message Evan, Mark or Ben on LinkedIn.
1 hr 1 min
October 18, 2022 #33 💻 25 CRO Tips in 25 Minutes ⏰ – How to Get MORE Customers and MORE Sales with Tiny Website Changes (Ft. Ben Gogos, Growth Marketer)
It doesn’t matter how good your ads are, or how good your product is. If your website is slow and painful, your customers will make a beeline for your competitors.
Tiny changes compound. Today, the boys deliver a special episode FULL of actionable changes you can implement for your business right now.
A 1% increase in CRO can be $1000s of dollars in new customers.

Want to join the discussion? Message Evan or Ben on LinkedIn.
Go back and listen to Ben and Evan’s last chat about Supercharging Word of Mouth
[Interested in Hey Bud? Go back and listen to Episode #17 with Hey Bud Skincare co-founders Ollie and Alex, who went from 0 to $10 million in less than 3 years.]
31 min
October 12, 2022 #32 🚀 High-School Dropout to 8-Figure Entrepreneur — Disrupting the Furniture Industry with Old-School Hustle (Ft. Edgar Blazona, Founder BenchMade Modern)
"The Real Sofa King", serial entrepreneur Edgar Blazona has a no-BS take on building brands — it's all about HUSTLE, social engineering, and providing the BEST service possible.

After working at Pottery Barn and Restoration Hardware, he saw customers waiting MONTHS for sofas. So he went away, harnessed his entrepreneurial mind, and solved this problem in 2015 when he launched BenchMade Modern — a way to create custom hand-crafted furniture in DAYS - not months. He also previously founded Modular Dwellings and TrueModern (and has attended Burning Man 23+ times).

In this jam-packed chat, the boys talk about how to sell sensory products online (without touch and feel), how to run such a cash-intensive business, and some of the biggest lessons from over 25 years in the industry. You won't want to miss this one.
Want to join the discussion? Message Evan or Edgar on LinkedIn.
50 min
October 04, 2022 #31 ⭐How To Skyrocket Customer Service⭐ NPS Scores, Red Flags, and Sourcing Meaningful Feedback (Ft. Ben Gogos, Growth Marketer)
💬 "And that’s how you turn a mediocre customer into a diehard fan for life" 💬
Today Evan Bryce is joined by Growth Marketer, Ben Gogos. As part of the Hey Bud Skincare team — Australia's #1 Hemp Skincare Brand — Ben is always on the nose of trends and growth tactics.

In this jam-packed chat, the boys talk about NPS scores, how to improve customer service, clever feedback tactics, how to quantify the customer experience, red flags that businesses should avoid, and how to minimise distractions with Deep Work.
Want to join the discussion? Message Evan or Ben on LinkedIn.
Go back and listen to Ben and Evan’s last chat about Supercharging Word of Mouth
[Interested in Hey Bud? Go back and listen to Episode #17 with Hey Bud Skincare co-founders Ollie and Alex, who went from 0 to $10 million in less than 3 years.]
33 min
September 06, 2022#30 🤔 How To THINK About Content — High-End Production & Learning Philosophies (Ft. Matt Gattozzi, CEO Goodo Studios)
🚨 Don't sleep on high-end production 🚨
(Listen to episode #29 - part 1 - first)
Evan is joined once again by Matt, creative agency CEO and founder), Matt Gattozzi!
Together, the boys dig into themes like:
How to THINK about content

Pretty ads VS Ugly Ads

Why you should invest in high-end production

Is photography DEAD?

Using content on your Shipping page

Learning and working philosophies

"Don’t work like a cow, work like a lion"
Love what you're hearing? Join the chat!
- Connect with Matt on LinkedIn
- Follow Matt on Twitter (where you'll find his newsletter Your Content Should Sell)
- Connect with Evan on LinkedIn
- Follow Evan on Twitter
🚨 And don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode🚨
37 min
August 30, 2022#29 📸 Creating Content That SELLS — Overcoming UGC Saturation, Long-form Content & Will TikTok get Banned? (Ft. Matt Gattozzi, CEO Goodo Studios)
TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Google, UGC – what's working? What's not? Should I run "pretty ads" or "ugly ads"? Is UGC untrustworthy? 😱 Will TikTok be banned? And how can content build community?
Today Evan is joined by fellow content enthusiast and creative agency founder (and super nice guy), Matt Gattozzi!
Together, the boys explore themes like:
Why long-form content is key

Why TikTok could be BANNED

Is UGC Oversaturated?

CAC vs. LTV - what's more important?

What’s the difference between customer and community?

Why every brand should GO LIVE

Using Patreon for ecommerce to boost lifetime customer value!
Love what you're hearing? Join the chat!
Connect with Matt on LinkedIn
Follow Matt on Twitter (where you'll find his newsletter Your Content Should Sell)
Connect with Evan on LinkedIn
Follow Evan on Twitter
And don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode
42 min
August 09, 2022 #28 💬SMS Marketing Deep Dive💬 – Competing with Amazon, How To Stand Out, Increasing AOV With SMS (Ft. Osa Gaius, CEO of Parrot)
"If it doesn’t make them smile, don’t send it."

(Founder of Parrot, former Lead Software Engineer at MailChimp and Vice President at BlackRock, Osa Gaius joins Evan on the show to dive into SMS marketing, ecommerce growth, learning philosophies, and more!
After working with literally thousands of brands at Mailchimp, discovering everything about email marketing, Osa launched parrot to make SMS marketing mainstream and simple.
Today, the boys dive into:
- Optimising your marketing for mobile.
- Using SMS and texting to increase AOV, retain customers longer and boost your conversion rates per transaction.
- Easy ways to implement SMS in your strategies.
- How to stand out – branding, a feeling, an experience.
- How to ethically capture phone numbers.
- Time management and discipline.
Thinking about getting some advice on how to scale your business? Get in touch with Evan or Osa on LinkedIn (and send a message when you connect), or follow Evan on Twitter.

Book recommendations:
The Everything Store - Brad Stone
The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Sapiens - Yuval Harari
59 min
July 28, 2022#27 🧠 The OLDEST wisdom and the NEWEST technology 🧠 – Running a business in ALL weather conditions (Ft. Simon Severino, CEO Strategy Sprints)
💬 There is only ONE thing you need when making less than $35k monthly revenue... 💬
Today Evan Bryce is joined by Strategy Sprints CEO, Ted Talk Speaker, and expert in marketing, leadership, and growth hacking, Simon Severino.
Want to know how to automate your entire business? Then FIRE yourself from operations.

Want to find the right thing to do, and, more importantly, how do we do it the right way?

Want to understand the difference betweeen Concept Fit and Market Fit?

And want to protect your business through a recession?
Then listen and take notes 💪.
Want to join the discussion? Message Evan or Simon on LinkedIn.

Footnotes:
Strategy Sprints — https://www.strategysprints.com/
48 min
July 05, 2022 ⚡Supercharging Word of Mouth⚡ Branding Deep-Dive, Earned Media. & Learning Through Inversion (Ft. Ben Gogos, Hey Bud Skincare)
💬 If you’re not doing this in 2022, you’re not being competitive 💬
Today Evan Bryce is joined by Growth Marketer, Ben Gogos. As part of the Hey Bud Skincare team — Australia's #1 Hemp Skincare Brand — Ben is always on the nose of trends and growth tactics. In this jam-packed chat, the boys talk about quantifying branding, creating "WOW" moments, supercharging word of mouth, the Ecom World conference, and implementing the inversion lifehack.
Want to join the discussion? Message Evan or Ben on LinkedIn.
[Go back and listen to Episode #17 with Hey Bud Skincare co-founders Ollie and Alex, who went from 0 to $10 million in less than 3 years.]

1 hr
May 18, 2022 3.5 BILLION TikTok Views (& counting) – Crushing TikTok, Scaling Ecommerce Brands & Forming Good Habits (Ft. Jai Howitt, Founder Brand Boostr & NTL)
Back by popular demand, Jai Howitt (Founder of Brand Boostr, Co-Founder of NTL) joins Evan on the show to dive into TikTok, ecommerce growth, and the power of building positive habits.
Last year we spoke with Jai after he generated over $40 million in sales for brands through performance-focused creatives. Since then, TikTok has taken the world by storm, and he's been at the forefront of capitalising on the mega-trend, achieving millions of views and finding the winning formulas for scaling brands.
Today, the boys dive into:
- How to use TikTok to grow brands.
- Simple, actionable techniques to accelerate your TikTok growth.
- Biggest lessons from the first year as an ecommerce brand founder.
- The 50-day challenge.
- The importance of building good habits (and where to start)

-> Missed the chat last year? Listen to Jai's last episode here (tinyurl.com/MegaMinds-Jai-Howitt-1)
Thinking about getting some advice on how to scale your business? Get in touch with Evan or Jai on LinkedIn.
51 min

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