Shopify Masters | The ecommerce business and marketing podcast for ambitious entrepreneurs

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Business experience and marketing inspiration from successful ecommerce entrepreneurs and experts. Brought to you by Shopify.

Each week, our host Felix Thea invites successful entrepreneurs to share their experience and practical advice for growing an online business. Guests on the show come from a wide range of backgrounds and share insight into topics such as creating viral Facebook ads, outsourcing parts of your business, creating licensed products, running a news-worthy pop-up shop, optimizing your social media marketing, content marketing for SEO, and tons more. These are seasoned entrepreneurs that com from diverse backgrounds who are willing to peel back the curtain and share their practical advice. Subscribe to the show and leave us a review to let us know what you think!

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11.12.2019

In this episode of Shopify Masters, we’ll hear from Danielle Vincent of Outlaw Soaps on how they navigated production and why feedback from customers are crucial.

Shopify Masters | The ecommerce business and marketing podcast for ambitious entrepreneurs episodes:

11.12.2019 Why Losing Money on a Sale Can Be Beneficial In this episode of Shopify Masters, we’ll hear from Danielle Vincent of Outlaw Soaps on how they navigated production and why feedback from customers are crucial.
11.05.2019 Why Telling Stories is More Important Than Ads In this episode of Shopify Masters, Micki Krimmel of Superfit Hero shares her approach to building a community, how she shares inspiring and inclusive stories, and what has helped her to grow her business.
10.29.2019 How to Scale Beyond Stagnant Sales In today’s episode of Shopify Masters, Chris Carey shares how they moved past stagnant sales, which resources changed his way of thinking, and why they closed down their original service business to focus on ecommerce.
10.22.2019 Bulletproof's Branding and Scaling Advice In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear from Karen Huh, the VP of Product Management and Strategy and Bulletproof. Karen grew her team from one direct report into three teams of five to six employees, and she looks after ...
10.15.2019 Disrupting a Stagnant Market through Self Funding In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Josh Elizetxe of Snow on how he found his interest within the dental industry and why it's important to pace yourself in the entrepreneurship journey.
10.08.2019 Building a $1.8 Million Gift Box Company In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Sam Davidson of Batch on how they validated the concept, work with local makers, and switched their business focus.
10.01.2019 Viral Idea To Product In 60 Days In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Justin Clark of Romperjack on how he validate product-market fit, work with manufacturers, and move from a viral brand to an everyday brand.
09.24.2019 How to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Pitch On National TV In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Krista Woods of GloveStix on how she created a physical product, sold during live events, and pitch on national TV programs.
09.17.2019 How a Beauty Subscription Box Launched Through Facebook Groups In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Bili Balogun of Tribe Beauty Box on how to collaborate with brands, build relationships with subscribers, and launch a business through other Facebook groups.
09.10.2019 How to Create Your Own Viral Moments In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Yanal Dhailieh of Peace Collective on how to build a community, grow from viral moments, and create your own virality.
09.03.2019 Why an MBA Was Important for This Entrepreneur In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Sali Christeson of ARGENT on how to build a fashion brand from the ground up.
08.27.2019 How to Partner With Physical Stores to Showcase Your Product In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Jeremiah Curvers of Polysleep on how to partner suppliers and physical stores.
08.20.2019 How They Quickly Made $1 Million By Partnering With Physical Stores to Showcase Their Product In this episode, you'll learn from an entrepreneur who had a creative approach to partnering with physical stores to showcase their product
08.20.2019 This Leather Maker's Journey From Basement to Seven Figures In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Ryan Popoff of Popov Leather on how to take outstanding product photos and how he works with micro-influencers.
08.13.2019 Why This Founder Took Two Years to Launch In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Mel Wells of Beefcake Swimwear on why it's important to grow at your own pace and how to create a brand that authentically reflects who you are.
08.06.2019 How to Automate Your Business as Fast as Possible In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Remi Silva of Blank Tag Co. on how he as automated his business and why keeping his day job helps his business.
07.30.2019 The Real Sacrifices of Growing a Seven-Figure Business In this episode, you'll hear from Stacia Guzzo of SmartPits on how she found her niche and the decisions she had to make to scale her business to seven-figures.
07.23.2019 The Simple Business Model Used to Build a $2.4 Million Business In this episode, you'll learn from Colin McIntosh, founder of Sheets & Giggles, on how he built a $2.4 Million business by following a simple but effective business model.
07.16.2019 How a Blog Became a Physical Store in Two Years In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn from Nat Elison of Cup & Leaf on how he built a successful blog, grew organic traffic, and is turning the Ecommerce business into a physical store.
07.09.2019 How a Domain Created Credibility In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn how Andrew Lissimore got the domain for Headphones.com, how he scored a feature on CNET, and the reason behind their unique 365-day return policy.
07.02.2019 How A $15 Million Company Was Built On Personal Messages In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn how BombTech Golf became a $15 million company and why founder, Tyler Sullivan, credits personal responses, comments, and emails for his success.
06.25.2019 How To Create a Need and Justify Your Use Case In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll hear from Tyson Wilson of Shred Defender on how he built a completely new product category, educated his target demographic on the use case, and generated a need for Shed Defenders.
06.18.2019 Why Pivoting Your Business is Vital In this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn from Dylan Jacob of BrüMates on how he built businesses ever since high school and how he's been able to generate $21 Million in sales last year by changing his main target ...
06.11.2019 Why Building a Community Prevents Subscription Cancellations Community is key to this loyal set of subscribers.
06.04.2019 A Lesson in Project Management for Entrepreneurs How these entrepreneurs project managed their way to success.
05.28.2019 Fame Didn't Do Any Favors For This NFL Player Turned Entrepreneur Clout won't save you from product-market fit.
05.21.2019 The Corporate Gifting Strategy That Unlocked Their B2B Revenue In today's episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from a trio of entrepreneurs who bootstrapped their way to a $9 million business thanks in large part to their corporate gifting strategy.
05.14.2019 Growing from 7 FIgures to 8 FIgures And The New Problems You Face With success comes a new set of problems.
05.07.2019 How This Company Stays Profitable While Giving Away Cars Planning a giveaway that gets them talking.
04.30.2019 Achieving a 4.5% Mobile Conversion Rate As mobile shopping continues to rise, have you thought about optimizing your mobile site to keep up?
04.23.2019 Tripling Revenue on a 30-Year-Old Mattress Company Thinking outside the mattress-in-a-box trend.
04.16.2019 Focus Is the Key for New Entrepreneurs (In More Ways Than One) From perseverance to product development, focus is the determining factor for most entrepreneurs.
04.09.2019 What It Takes to Get a Million Views on YouTube What it takes to go from 1,000 to 1,00,000 views on YouTube.
04.02.2019 Building a $5 Million Business By Speaking to Sneakerheads with Content In this episode, you'll learn from an entrepreneur who built a $5 million business through sponsored Instagram posts.
03.26.2019 The Pillar Approach: Turning a Twitch Show Into Months of Content How this company produced one of the biggest online festivals ever and turned it into a source of content that keeps on giving.
03.19.2019 Selling Courses and a Membership Program on Shopify How one maker monetized her experience through a membership program.
03.12.2019 Controversy, Haters, and Trolls: Dealing With Negativity Online Haters are going to hate. Here's how to professionally manage it as a brand.
03.05.2019 Being Unique Vs Being Too Unique In this episode, you'll learn how to create a product that is both unique looking and still recognizable to new customers
02.26.2019 The Secret to Partnering with A-List Celebrities Like Drake From a founder who collaborated with Drake, 2 Chainz, and other well-known rappers.
02.19.2019 The "100 T-Shirts" Approach to Product Validation In this episode, you'll learn from an entrepreneur who tested her business idea by selling 100 t-shirts before launching their own website
02.12.2019 Partnering With Influencers While They're Still Small The case for working with micro-influencers.
02.05.2019 When Facebook and Google Ads Are Off the Table What do you do when you can't advertise your products?
01.28.2019 Why You Need to Get on the Phone When Selling a High-Ticket Product Sell a transformation, not the product.
01.21.2019 Getting the Perfect YouTube Product Review Editorial vs. sponsored content and how to earn them both on YouTube.
01.14.2019 Using Free Digital Products to Grow Your Business How this entrepreneur grew an email list of over 200,000 prospective customers.
01.07.2019 Turning Your Customers Into Your Influencers The micro ambassador program that grew her revenue by 600%.
12.10.2018 Growing an Email List of 20,000 (Without a Product to Sell) And why your pre-launch list is more than a marketing asset.
12.03.2018 Extreme Business Makeover: Overhauling a Decade-Old Brand How to reinvigorate a brand without losing what makes it great.
11.26.2018 Customer Onboarding: The Key to Repeat Customers Help customers realize the true value of your products.
11.19.2018 Lessons in Scaling Becoming one of the fastest growing companies in your category.

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