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

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Do you want to start your own business? Great! But how do you actually do it? Don't worry, we've got you covered on Shopify Masters, an official podcast from Shopify. Each week, hosts Shuang Esther Shan and Adam Levinter sit down with entrepreneurs and e-commerce experts as they share their experiences running successful online stores. Learn how to create social media ads that pay off, how to optimize your website for sales, what it takes to find the right supplier and so much more.

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On this episode of Shopify Masters, founder Ely Khakshouri explains how he started Retrospec — a bike and outdoor gear company — amid a recession, and why starting a business during an economic downturn has benefits.

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02.07.2023 Why the Best Time to Start a Business is During a Recession On this episode of Shopify Masters, founder Ely Khakshouri explains how he started Retrospec — a bike and outdoor gear company — amid a recession, and why starting a business during an economic downturn has benefits.
02.02.2023 From Fairs to Big Retailers: How to Scale Your Craft On this episode of Shopify on Location in Los Angeles, founder Kristen Pumphrey shares how she found her candle niche, got discovered by big retailers, and continues to nurture her passion for making things.
01.31.2023 Why Meghan Markle Starts Her Day With This Beverage Brand Hannah Mendoza created oat milk, superfood latte blends designed to help manage mood, energy, and stress levels. Clevr Blends’ first investor, Meghan Markle, helped the company shake up the instant beverage industry.
01.26.2023 The Key To Setting Yourself Apart In The Automotive Industry Shock Surplus helps unique drivers reach their own car goals by offering premium shocks and suspension parts for any car. Based in Los Angeles, California, Sean Reyes founded Shock Surplus back in 2014 and now operates one of the largest ...
01.24.2023 A Food Truck’s Drive For Multimillion Revenue and Multichannel Success We're chatting with Mathew Carver of The Cheese Bar in London to hear how he was able to grow from one food truck to multiple restaurants and retail locations.
01.19.2023 Why L.A. Had the Right Ingredients for a Wellness-Inspired Skin Care Brand On this episode of Shopify on Location in Los Angeles, founder Greg Gonzalez shares his story, from his grandmother’s skin care business to Youth to the People’s acquisition.
01.17.2023 The Best Way To Prepare Your Business For 2023 Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of two popular podcasts, Build for Tomorrow and Problem Solvers. He stops by to talk about some of the big business trends founders need to be aware of in 2023, ...
01.12.2023 How Birdy Grey Upended Weddings With an Affordable $100 Dress In this episode of Shopify On Location recorded in Los Angeles, we chat with Grace Lee the founder of Birdy Grey. Grace shares with us how she disrupted the wedding wear industry by introducing the $99 bridesmaid dress to the ...
01.10.2023 How To Turn Content On Social Media Into A Business Amanda Rach Lee has become synonymous with bullet journaling and has built a community of more than two million on YouTube. Amanda also turned her passion for art and drawing into her own stationery business. In this episode of Learn ...
01.05.2023 How Therabody Became Synonymous With Recovery and Wellness Dr. Jason Wersland was in a life-altering motorcycle accident that left him in constant discomfort. His needs led him to create the Theragun, a one-of-a-kind electronic massage device that helps people alleviate their pain.
01.03.2023 There's Something About Los Angeles, A Shopify Masters Miniseries Growing a successful business requires you to get a lot of things right. The right product. The right team. The right messaging. But what about the right city? If you ask the founders of Therabody, Birdy Grey, Youth To The ...
12.29.2022 How Bobbi Brown Created Her New Makeup Empire Bobbi Brown's son and Chief Marketing Officer at Jones Road Beauty, Cody Plofker talks about the strategies behind their success, and why their products work for customers of all ages.
12.27.2022 What Blueland Can Do That CPG’s Can’t In this episode of Shopify Masters, Sarah Paiji Yoo shares how she built a company that makes household cleaners and personal care products in tablet form to help consumers reduce their plastic use.
12.22.2022 How This Brand Is Increasing Access To Period Products LA stylist Karla Welch is changing menstrual care with absorbent and comfortable period underwear sold at an affordable price.
12.20.2022 The Key To Creating High Demand Around Your Product Drops After growing up in Los Angeles, Nica Yusay was an expert at hunting down the best secondhand finds to fit all the latest trends. Now, Nica sources vintage designer handbags that drop weekly at shopfashionica.com and sell out in a ...
12.15.2022 How Good Design Can Elevate Your Home Products In this episode of Shopify Masters, founder Sara Panton shares how she quit medical school to start Vitruvi, sourced clean ingredients, and kept design at the heart of it all.
12.13.2022 Loop Earplugs' Approach To Securing the #1 Ranking in Their Industry Maarten Bodewes and Dimitri O founded the world’s number-one-rated earplug company, Loop Earplugs. They reduce noise in style, and dedicate themselves to educating their customers and encouraging everyone to live life at their own volume.
12.08.2022 How To Make A YouTube Channel That’s Profitable Too In this live episode of Learn with Shopify, YouTuber Lyn Allure shares her journey from content creator to serial entrepreneur, plus tips for people who want to do the same.
12.06.2022 The Chocolate Company That Sold One Million Bars In 20 Months Nick Saltarelli saw a gap in the chocolate market and created a functional, protein-rich chocolate bar from scratch in their kitchen. Nick shares the fundraising journey behind Mid-Day Squares, and how he and his wife sold more than one million ...
12.01.2022 Eliminating Plastic Waste, One Lunch Bag At A Time Kirsten Quigley, the founder and CEO of Lunchskins, is making sustainability accessible for everyone. Lunchskins sells biodegradable lunch bags and eco-friendly straws, created by a mother who wanted to make a difference when packing her kids’ school lunches.
11.29.2022 How ButcherBox Reached Nine-Figure Annual Revenue Without Investors In this episode of Shopify Masters, we chat with Mike Salguero, founder and CEO of ButcherBox on how the company reached over $550 million in annual revenue.
11.24.2022 Madhappy Is Fighting For Mental Health — One Sweatshirt at a Time Madhappy is a streetwear brand with a message — to take care of your mental health. In this episode of Shopify Masters, co-founder Peiman Raf discusses Madhappy’s L.A. roots, philanthropic initiatives, and the pop-ups and collaborations that have made the ...
11.22.2022 Customer Before Product: A Different Way To Win With E-Commerce For most entrepreneurs, the path to success is difficult, but clear: find a product and then find your customers. But what if you did it the other way? Customer first. You'll hear how one Shopify merchant did just that on ...
11.17.2022 The Dropshipping Tips You Need This Holiday Season On this live episode of Learn with Shopify, Tan shares how he learned by doing, why he started sharing his knowledge on YouTube and what beginners can do to get started on their own online businesses.
11.15.2022 5 Black Friday Cyber Monday Tips for Business Owners We speak to 4 founders to get their take on Black Friday and Cyber Monday strategies for 2022.
11.10.2022 The Key To Branding Your Beverage Business Get a closer look at the branding and marketing strategies behind Better Booch with Ashleigh Lockerbie, co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer. Better Booch is a kombucha company making light-hearted fermented drinks, designed to improve your day and your immune system.
11.08.2022 How To Create A Beverage Business From Your Kitchen Trey Lockerbie began brewing at home kombucha as a way to help strengthen his sister's immune system. His love for kombucha grew when he met his spouse Ashleigh. Together they founded Better Booch–a kombucha company that brews light-hearted fermented drinks, ...
11.03.2022 What It Takes To Earn Capital Funding In this episode of Shopify Masters we hear from Robin Axon, Managing Partner at Mantella Venture Partners to get a behind the scenes look at what is takes to raise funding from venture capital.
11.01.2022 Marketing Strategies From Rare Beauty’s CMO A behind the scenes look at Rare Beauty, the cosmetics brand by Selena Gomez as its Chief Marketing Officer Katie Welch shares their marketing strategies.
10.27.2022 6 Dropshipping Tips from the Ecom King In this special live episode, the Ecom King Kamil Sattar shares his strategies on how to start an online business with less than $500 and market your products on TikTok.
10.25.2022 The Multimillion Dollar Apparel Brand Created By a YouTuber We chat with YouTube veteran and athleisure apparel designer Cassey Ho to hear how she's navigated the challenges of building a direct-to-consumer brand from scratch.
10.20.2022 The Unintuitive Rule of Customization: Keep it Simple Aaron Zack, a former vice president at Propeller Coffee Co. shares strategies for building a more streamlined online buying experience and how to customize marketing tactics and products for different customers.
10.18.2022 Discover The Brand Creating A Sustainable Fragrance Empire Michelle Feeney is responsible for catapulting brands like Creme De La Mer, MAC, and St.Tropez to cult-favorite status. In 2017, she launched her own vegan, cruelty-free, and sustainable fragrance brand Floral Street.
10.13.2022 How Multiple Revenue Streams Kept Propeller Coffee Co. Brewing In this episode of Shopify Masters, the founder and president of Propeller Coffee Co. Losel Tethong joins us to talk about why important multiple revenue streams was key to surviving the pandemic and how building a sustainable coffee business starts ...
10.11.2022 Turning Your Hobby Into A Profitable Business We are chatting with Raquel Acosta the owner and artist behind Glaze Me Pretty, she shares her journey of pivoting careers and building an Instagram following as a ceramics maker.
10.06.2022 The Key To Creating A Regenerative Food Company In this episode of Shopify Masters, we chat with Michael Sacco the founder of ChocoSol, a bean-to-bar chocolate maker and learning community. Michael shares the process of building a regenerative food business that is good for the environment and communities.
10.04.2022 Building A Climate-Friendly Business That’s Profitable Too Our guest this week is Edwin Broni-Mensah, founder of GiveMeTap, a social enterprise that’s reducing plastic waste by mapping out establishments that offer free tap water, and building wells in Africa to supply drinking water.
09.29.2022 How TKEES Transitioned from Wholesale to Ecommerce TKEES took its wholesale flip-flop business online to reach new audiences beyond its established market. By also expanding its product offering with apparel, the company has grown into an ecommerce force.
09.27.2022 How Wild Is Removing Waste From Bathrooms and Building a Multimillion-Dollar Brand In this limited mini-series, Shopify On Location, we visit the United Kingdom to speak with various merchants on their business journey.
09.22.2022 How Efficiency Helped This Online Flower Shop Blossom In this episode of Shopify Masters, we chat with Jennifer Fowlow of Wild North Flowers on how she started a flower shop without a physical store.
09.20.2022 How Grind Turned a Single Café Into an 8-Figure Direct-to-Consumer Coffee Brand We chat with David Abrahamovitch, the founder of Grind on his strategies for retail expansion, fundraising, and building a lovable brand.
09.15.2022 Building A Brand From Your Hometown Seven years ago, Balraj Jutla and Shehan De Silva combined their passion for craft beers with their love for Ontario, Canada to create their own beer company, Lost Craft. In this episode of Shopify Masters, we chat with Balraj on ...
09.13.2022 How To Take Your Brand Global Are you having a hard time falling asleep at night? If so, Mark Zhang, the founder of Manta Sleep, has a solution: his company’s adjustable, blackout sleep masks that have taken the ecommerce world by storm.
09.08.2022 Creating An Appetite for Products You Need to Taste Chandler Honey sources its honey close to home — as in literally from the family farm. Tique Chandler’s parents own a bee farm, so honey and entrepreneurship run in the family. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Chandler talks about ...
09.06.2022 The Dropshipping Playbook: What You Need To Know Within three years, John Murphy went from teaching himself e-commerce by watching YouTube videos to running a dropshipping company that posted $3 million in revenue. He found his niche in selling e-bikes to hunters — even though John had never ...
09.01.2022 How Inkbox Revolutionized Temporary Tattoos and Built an 8-Figure Business Braden and Tayler Handley had the idea to create better temporary tattoos that look and feel permanent but last up to two weeks. From successful Kickstarter campaigns and viral press coverage, Inkbox scaled to over 8-figures and was acquired by ...
08.30.2022 Is Shopify’s Starter Plan Right For You? Steve Roeenfeldt has had a knack for crafting quality cocktails ever since his first job waiting tables at his father’s restaurant. After opening a cocktail kit business, Steve was inspired to begin making step-by-step cocktail videos onto a Youtube channel. ...
08.25.2022 How This Business Built on Curation Started To Create Its Own Line of Products In this episode of Shopify Masters, Martha Grace McKimm shares what it was like to become an entrepreneur after being in the corporate world for two decades. Partnering with friend Andrea Hopson, the pair founded Hopson Grace, a home goods ...
08.23.2022 How To Find Production Partners That Are Like Family In this episode of Shopify Masters, Robert Felder, the founder of Bearbottom Clothing, shares how a high school trip to Bangladesh sparked an idea for a company that gives back. Felder went on to start Bearbottom Clothing in college, and ...
08.18.2022 Everything You Need to Know About Finding the Right Customer In this episode of Shopify Masters, Ben Sehl of KOTN breaks down how he built a multimillion-dollar apparel and home goods company by perfecting the production of a plain white t-shirt. From going viral on Reddit to tapping into the ...

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