Talk Commerce

The brands winning today are building a community that drives repeat purchases. Loyalty is gained in drips and lost in buckets because there are so many layers of competition. We interview Ryan Alford with The Radcast agency in South Carolina He has been radical about marketing advertising for 22 years.

Open-Source and Software as a Service have traditionally not been aligned. The traditional SaaS model is closed code on a multitenant host. The Open-Source model is something you have complete control over, and you have to host it yourself.

Open SaaS brings the idea of open source to the SaaS Community. We talk to Katie Hoesley about the Big Commerce Hackathon and how developers can be active in a vibrant community.

We talk with Marta Molinska about how she has helped hundreds of Ukrainian refugees as they crossed the border during the war. We talk a little about the Magento Association and how Marta is helping with events and the community. Ukraine can still use your help!

When you say yes to something, you are saying no to something else. What are you saying no to?

If you’ve ever experienced burnout, it’s like hitting a wall. You’re done. You’re mentally and physically wiped out. You’ve lost your capacity to see beyond your present situation. Your life has become gray, devoid of color.

Lisa talks about her experience with burnout and how saying yes too much can contribute to this. This is a great conversational interview that covers a variety of topics that causes stress and burnout in the workplace.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisahammett/

https://www.lisahammett.com/book

I can do it faster myself. It will take too long to teach someone to do it. I don't trust that the person will do a good enough job. You must learn to elevate and delegate if you have said any of these statements. Jeff J Hunter helps us to understand the importance of getting S#!t off your plate.

We interview Sushma Vaya with Ranosys from Singapore. Sushma has been organizing Meet Magento Singapore since its inception. We learn about Singapore's vibrant and friendly city-state and the great event the team organizes there.

Listen to the entire episode and give me your feedback on the MA Pledge commercial I created at the end!

https://meetmagento.sg

Brent interviews Kate Brandly with Lately. In this week's episode, we talk about everything from entrepreneurship to employee happiness. Kate talks about the pressure on a start-up CEO and how it is compounded by trying to run a successful business and raise money at the same time. Kate reveals one really cool new feature on Lately.ai. (You have to listen to the end to hear the big reveal!)

Kate is the Founder & CEO of Lately. The A.I. that learns which words will get you the most engagement and re-purposes video, audio, and text into dozens of social posts containing those words.

Kate is a former rock 'n' roll DJ and served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer, and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales, and marketing expertise. What she learned in radio about the neuroscience of music helps fuel Lately's artificial intelligence.

Why go to Meet Magento in New York City? Vijay Golani joins us today to talk about why to go to events, how to organize your meetups, and the importance of becoming a Magento Association member.