Fern is the COO of Omnivore - https://www.omnivore.com.au

Omnivore is a SaaS based, omnichannel product listing, data feed and integration platform

Omnivore has out of the box, pre-built connectors for all major eCommerce platforms, marketplaces, social & ad platforms and shopping comparison websites

Omnivore makes it easy for merchants to list their products on many different digital sales and marketing channels simultaneously and then integrate orders from transactional channels back into a core eCommerce platform or ERP for fulfilment

In this episode, Jason and Fern discuss the importance of a well planned omnichannel strategy and how merchants can onboard new, popular channels quickly, easily and relatively cheaply

Jason Recently Spoke at the DTCX3 APAC Virtual Conference

Here is his track from the conference where he discusses DTC strategies for B2B brands

Many B2B brands want to establish DTC routes to market but have no idea where to start or how to measure success

This talk covers all the basics of the why and how for you to sink your teeth into

Ido is the Founder & COO of Revuze - https://www.revuze.it

Revuze have developed a unique, proprietary, AI driven, CPG product sentiment and insights engine called Sentimate - https://sentimate.com

Sentimate is a consumer insights SaaS platform that claims: "Get instant and free access to 1 billion consumer product insights — indexed, analyzed, and ready to be used for your market research."

Sentimate helps global CPG brands track the consumer sentiment around their products in near real time

It does this by capturing and unifying User Generated Content data (primarily customer/user reviews) across thousands of major websites and marketplaces worldwide

In this episode, Jason and Ido discuss the importance of monitoring and acting on customer sentiment for localised/regionalised product enhancement, marketing and New Product Development (NPD)

Yair Miron is the Founder & CEO of Rise.ai - https://rise.ai

Rise.ai is a complete gift card, store credit, loyalty and associated customer experience SaaS platform & app originally built exclusively for Shopify

Site builder platform Wix acquired Rise in May of 2021 and Rise technology will soon be coming to Wix and other platforms

Rise also integrates with other popular apps and platforms such as Klaviyo, BOLD Apps and Loop Returns for a more seamless, end to end customer experience

In this episode, Jason and Yair discuss how to identify market gaps, build a popular Shopify app from scratch and how merchants should build out a unique and differentiated customer experience despite heavy competition

Chris Jarvis is the Founder of uReturn - https://ureturn.ca

uReturn is a new, Canadian startup SaaS platform designed to efficiently automate and manage the returns process for (primarily) eCommerce and Omnichannel merchants

You can think of uReturn a bit like a reverse logistics order management system

The entire goal of uReturns is to make returned, resalable items available to sales channels as fast as realistically possible via smart routing and returns logic

uReturns goes way beyond traditional returns UX platforms and dramatically enhances the experience for both merchant and customer

In this episode, Jason and Chris discuss how the reverse logistics industry is badly broken and how uReturn intends to help fix it

Tom Coburn is the Co-Founder & CEO of Jebbit - https://www.jebbit.com

Jebbit is a 'Quiz Commerce' SaaS platform for eCommerce

Jebbit allows merchants to create interactive quizzes and gamification experiences that gather zero/first party customer product preference data to create a hyper personalised, guided shopping experience

Jebbit allows merchants to recommend the right products, to the right customers, at the right time, in the moment based on product preferences the customer provides in real time

In this episode, Jason and Tom discuss how and why merchants can and should gather detailed customer preference data in a fun, customer friendly way and then use that data to personalise the customer journey now and into the future

James Taylor is the Founder & CEO of Particular Audience - https://particularaudience.com

Particular Audience is a dynamic eCommerce website personalisation platform for commerce

Particular audience also helps merchants personalise the customer experience across other digital platforms and services via native integrations with 3rd party marketing tools

Particular Audience is a true 'Search & Merch' platform, personalising the customer experience across site search, category merchandising, product recommendations and content

In this episode, Jason and James discuss how important it is to personalise the experience for each and every customer if they are to feel valued, appreciated and ultimately brand loyal

Mike Angell is a Co-Founder & CTO of Fractal - https://www.fractal.is

Fractal is a new Gaming NFT Marketplace

Mike's well known Fractal co-founders are: Justin Kan (co-founder of Twitch), David Wurtz (founder, Charm.io) and Robin Chan (Founder & GP, Goat Capital)

Mike is a legend in the eCommerce space and this is his 2nd time guesting on the Pod (he was also on E81) - he is our first ever repeat guest

Fractal co-founder David Wurtz was also a previous guest on E96 of the Pod

In this episode, Jason and Mike discuss how Fractal came to be, how he got involved and how he thinks Web3 will dramatically impact commerce as we know it

Subbu is the Founder & CEO of Zycada - https://www.zycada.com

Zycada is SaaS based website performance optimisation platform

Zycada uses completely unique and proprietary technology to help accelerate websites by fully caching them all around the world, ensuring the content is being rendered from close to the site visitor

Zycada differs from traditional CDN's in that it even caches dynamic content and data ensuring performance is not compromised by having to fetch this dynamic data in real time

In this episode, Jason and Subbu discuss the root causes of site performance issues and how businesses can solve for them for better web rankings, customer experience and ultimately sales and profit

Sam is the Founder of GiveTree - https://www.givetree.io

GiveTree is a coming (launch planned for April 2022) social good and fundraising NFT marketplace platform combined with a social good focused Metaverse platform

Sam had a vision to combine charitable fund raising and NFT's - GiveTree is the fruit of that vision

Sam went from knowing almost nothing about NFT's to building a HUGE Discord community around his project in a matter of weeks - such is the power of the Web3

In this episode, Jason and Sam discuss all things Social Good/Impact, Web3, NFT's, how Discord plays an essential part of most successful Web3 projects, how Crypto underpins Web3 transactions and how no one really knows how Web3 will turn out yet

This is the first of many episodes dedicated to Web3 and key players in the space