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Strategy Sessions Marketing Podcast - Ash Young


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Ash Young runs carmats.co.uk, a lockdown project that grew from zero to £4m turnover. Find out how and why it’s been a roaring DTC success story.

In this episode we discuss:

  1. Why car mats – where the idea came from and why ANYONE cares about car mats
  2. The story of how it grew to £4m turnover in 2 years
  3. Paid v SEO v Social while scaling the business
  4. The benefits of investing in the brand
  5. Customer reviews and why they’re gold
  6. The use of data and customer relationships
  7. Supplier relationships and why marketers usually stink at these
  8. The benefits of a negative cash conversion cycle (much like Amazon)
  9. Learning in public
  10. The benefits of being DTC
  11. Ash Young

    Ash is the founder of CarMats.co.uk & digital agency Evoluted. He was inspired by the web after launching the Weebl & Bob website back in 2002. Since then he has been helping clients at Evoluted, his passion is ecommerce where he loves driving sales for clients & on his own sites.

    Ash on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashyoung/

    Ash on Twitter - https://twitter.com/webmonkeyash

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    If you have any questions or want to talk about anything that was discussed in the show, the best place to get me is on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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    Andi Jarvis, Eximo Marketing.

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