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Ian Leslie has been in marketing for nearly two decades and the past seven years of his career, have been in eCommerce. As CMO of Industry West, Ian helped turn a startup into a leading eCommerce provider of furniture to both B2C and B2B markets online. In this episode, we talk about all the things that lead to their success online on the Magento platform and how they evolved with the market. Ian is now a brand ambassador at Bolt, helping merchants get best-in-class payment technology with Bolt's new checkout operating system.

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Joe Kovacs has found a niche in which many unwarranted sellers are destroying brand loyalty and brand reputations on marketplaces. He founded, Brand Guarde, which has dedicated the last 3 years to helping companies of all sizes successfully regain control of their distribution and presence on marketplaces like Amazon. We talk about how brands can take control of their distribution, pricing, and processes to reduce bad actors that may harm their pricing models and brand reputation.

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In our very special 50th episode, CEO of Corevist, Sam Bayer, joins us to discuss his journey in B2B around SAP. Sam has been working in software most of his career, and has over 20 years of experience with SAP. SAP has the strongest ERP offering and touches most of the major companies in the world. That is why he developed an ERP first B2B eCommerce offering, Corevist, that is tightly integrated with SAP's S4/HANA. We discuss why an ERP 1st approach to eCommerce is so important and why you need deep integration with ERP to be successful.

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In this episode, we get the please of speaking with Jordan Huck who has taken on the difficult task of trying to modernize the restaurant and food industry. In this multi-trillion-dollar industry, most things are done manually and even chefs are up late at night trying to prepare for their food needs in the coming days and weeks. Jordan Huck has developed a B2B eCommerce platform, Notch, that helps restaurants and food industry companies automate many of these things. They can integrate directly into your POS to automatically place orders and replenish inventory with a quick manual review to ensure everything is right versus the time-consuming manual order processes of the past.

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Tim Reintgen has seen a large variety of clients using Plytix across many channels such as marketplaces, selling to distributors, retailers, and direct-to-consumer eCommerce. Plytix is an SMB focused PIM (Product Information Management) solution that allows for anyone, even very small companies to get started with modern data management best practices. Tim helps us navigate the complexity of channel management and where B2B companies should be investing their time to grow new channels without cannibalizing or hurting existing channels. 

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Chris Bidleman has been building integrations for B2B eCommerce for over a decade and has seen everything from legacy technology like EDI that is still widely adopted today to newer GraphQL based integrations. Integrations are a key backbone and issue that often stops B2B companies from moving forward with eCommerce. We discuss how to get over those hurdles and leverage modern technologies to move forward in a positive direction that may include both EDI and other more modern approaches.

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Josh Penfold has been in eCommerce and B2B for 20 years. He has worked on both the brand side and built his own eCommerce website. In doing so he realized how many challenges come up in B2B eCommerce and that there isn't really a great solution for the customer B2B needs to buy online. That is where he came up with Goose, a B2B focused marketplace that takes away the complexity and hassle of buying or finding B2B goods online.

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Dan Renda has an impressive eCommerce background. He started out on the agency side managing eCommerce projects and then transitioned into B2B eCommerce at Siemens Healthcare. Dan Renda has helped scale Siemens to billions of dollars in eCommerce via a combination of EDI, digitizing payments, invoices, and of course through eCommerce via multiple platforms like SAP, Bigcommerce, and more!

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Many companies struggle with the idea that their data and analytics hold the key to growing their business. Nick Amabile can unlock business growth with that key. Between unifying and organizing all key data in one place or analyzing the path to purchase, Nick and Das42 have been able to help many businesses leverage data to grow their business. Often times the simple drop-off of sales from the homepage, category page, product page, or other parts of the website are the key reasons eCommerce is failing.

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In episode 43 we break down what Bill Mirabito has been seeing in the eCommerce industry over the past two decades. His experience has led him to work with some of the largest and most successful eCommerce businesses in the world and he continues to help major enterprise companies grow eCommerce. What was most interesting about his experience was that the single biggest issue he found was that the culture in companies not succeeding with eCommerce was often the biggest issue. A losing culture allowed companies to maintain and not grow and thus under-invest and underappreciate the growing channel of eCommerce.