Talk Commerce

This week, we interview Brittany Allen, who is on the Digital Trust and Safety team at Sift Fraud Prevention. We learn about Sift and how it helps merchants decrease friction in their checkout while stopping fraudulent transactions. We talk about the "Merchant Risk Council" and some of the latest hot topics, and the big one being crypto currency. Brittany gives some great examples of what merchants can do to mitigate fraud, and we also talk about how consumers have a responsibility in fraud prevention. We go over their fraud index and why fraud is up more than 300% in the last two years. We talk about the "fraud economy" and ways that merchants can protect themselves.

Not to leave out running. We learn that Brittany is a budding runner, and Brent exerts pressure to sign up for the 2022 New York Marathon.

This week we interview Sandra Gonzalez and Sergii Ivashchenko with Adobe. We discuss the new Magento Upgrade Compatability Tool (UCT) and why this tool is so important to Merchants, Developers and Agencies. We talk about the specific features and how this tool will reduce the cost of ownership for all merchant runnign Adobe Commerce. We also talk about how some other tools like the Magento Coding standard project and the Site Wide Analysys Tool will all work together to make the development process for an Adobe Commerce store easier and more efficient.

"This week we interview Alessandro Ronchi with BitBul, a Magento Agency in Italy. He has organized Magento events and appeared at many conferences across the world. He is a member of the Magento Association Content Committee. Brent shows off his shirt from the x.commerce event in San Fransisco in 2011. We talk about the Magento Association and the Magento Community. We dive into Meet Magento and some critisisms about this. We talk about the importance of small events and why the Magento Association needs to pay attention to these. We discuss Magento 2 and it's future. There is also some forshadowing on helping Adobe understand that Merchants want to see a road map. We learn that Alessandro's heart is in Magento and still in Magento. We learn about Alessandro's passion... and guess what? It's Running.

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This week we interview Courtney Taylor and Jeff Campbell with Fidelity Bank. Courtney tells us how she is the matchmaker of the banking business. We learn how peer groups will help every entrepreneur succeed in their business. We talk about how important it is that your banker knows your business and you as a business owner are not just a number. We talk about trends in the banking industry that relate to commerce. We dive into a lot of great subjects that business owners should know and do with their bank.

This week we interview Jakub Winkler (No relation to the Fonz) he has some very strong opinions on the MOSCA letter and why this has happened now.

This week we interview Tomas Gerulaitis who signed the original letter for the Mage Open Source Alliance.

This week we interview Jenifer Roth, the President and Co-Founder of GrowthMode Marketing. https://growthmodemarketing.com We discuss B2B marketing and why every business owner needs to break down what they are doing for marketing and measure, measure, measure! Jens’s best advice for an agency? “Listen to your clients”

We talk about the reasons why entrepreneurs need to hire a marketing agency some of the benefits and ROI they will get in return. This is a very informative episode for merchants and agencies. We also discuss how diversity helps us all be better business owners.

This week we do a pub interview with David Arago and talk about the speed of WordPress and why content providers need to be aware of the speed of their site just like an ecommerce provider. We recorded this outdoors at Steel Toes brewery in Saint Louis Park MN

This episode was hosted by Kalen Jordan. The interview happened on the behest of Kalen to talk more about the Mage Open Source Community Alliance and the recent letter published.