When you first start your business, that first sale is a big deal. It's proof that your idea is valid. The excitement wears off and the second sale just isn't as exciting. It quickly becomes a game of chasing the dragon to repeat that success high. Maybe it's your first 100 orders, or your first $100K.

Either way, the only way to maintain the high of achievement is to keep scaling.

There's a lot of information on how to go from 0 to $100K in a business, but what separates the six figure businesses from the nine-figure businesses?

To find out, we look to an ecommerce expert consultant that's worked with many of the top Shopify stores in the world (including MVMT, Dr. Axe, and Kettle and Fire) to define a growth strategy, scale their advertising, and hire the team necessary to get to the next level.

Austin Brawner joins us to reveal the growth secrets his consultancy, Brand Growth Experts, uses to help established ecommerce companies scale up while remaining profitable.

Austin also hosts the fantastic Ecommerce Influence Podcast, where Andrew Foxwell and he share advanced traffic and conversion strategies for fast-growing online brands.

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Rounding up our four-part series this quarter on content marketing, in this episode, we discuss practical approaches on building relationships with content marketing (and several mistakes you're probably making.)

By creating a content marketing plan, publishing videos, blogs, and even Facebook Live, you'll gain consistent branding, amplified online exposure, and real relationships with your customers so that you can sell more, more often.

Joining us to discuss all things content & social is super-powered serial entrepreneur Lyndsay Philips. She's the CEO & Founder of Smooth Sailing Business Growth & Smooth Business Growth Podcast. She leads a rock star team to support entrepreneurs who are seeking fast-paced business growth but finally have come to the realization that they can’t do it alone, do it all, and do it well.

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In today's episode, you'll learn how to sell more, more often with personal branding, an often overlooked strategy that lets you sell person to person at scale by sparking that human connection.

Two reasons:

We're joined by recurring guest, good friend, and master of his own brand, Kai Davis.

Kai Davis is an Ecommerce and Shopify Marketing Expert. He helps Shopify store owners sell more, more often to their best customers.

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Ever meet those entrepreneurial super heroes who can do it all?

Today's guest definitely falls into that category.

After double majoring in Business and Economics, Dan Cox fell back on his love for athletics and nutrition and started opening up 5 nutrition stores in Las Vegas and Southern California.

Seeing a gap in the market, Dan then also started developing his own all natural Supplement lines which he sold online through laser-focused branded websites.

His Shopify stores include MetCon® for endurance athletes, Detox Tea Caps™ for and fat burning, and most recently Wellthy™, a health essential And lifestyle supplements.

The drive for Dan's own lines came from his interested in providing the cleanest, most effective, all natural products that filled voids in the market.

Oh, and on top of that, he still runs his brick & mortar stores, travels regularly, and has appeared in two primetime network reality TV shows.

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As of May 25th, 2018, the European Union requires companies of all sizes to take steps to help secure personal data rights and more generally protect that data.

(And if you don't comply, that'll be a 20 million euro fine.)

But what does it mean for US stores? You will hear about it, and it will impact you, but to what degree?

Joining us to decipher the law's impact on US merchants is Dave Rodenbaugh. Dave runs an email marketing service with European customers who necessitated he figure out GDPR fast or risk losing them.

Dave is the founder of Recapture, an abandoned cart and email marketing solution for Shopify and Magento. He's also the co-host of Rogue Startups podcast (https://roguestartups.com) talking about his entrepreneurial journey, and he runs Big Snow Tiny Conf West (https://bigsnowtinyconfwest.com), a small web business mastermind-style conference with skiing.

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Last week, you heard the firsthand announcements from Unite attendees on-site at Toronto.

Today, you'll get caught up on what’s new & improved from Shopify, what it means for your store, and how to avoid being overwhelmed.

Joining us to break it down are fellow Shopify Partners and agency owners Ross Beyeler of GrowthSpark and Alex O'Byrne of We Make Websites.

You'll learn our takes on:

Sound like a lot? It is! (And it's not even everything that was announced. )

It's easy to get overwhelmed, so we'll break it down where you should put investing resources.

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This week we have a special Shopify Unite edition of the show in which we cover many of the announcements from Unite last week by interviewing the attendees on-site.

In early May, Shopify Partners from around the world gathered together in Toronto for the 3rd annual Unite conference: a three-day event to discuss all things Shopify, commerce, and technology.

And they announced a ton of stuff. Rather than have me tell you about it, we put together lightning interviews with twenty attendees (including Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke) to find out what's most impactful coming out of Unite.

Having a celebrity-endorsed brand and a great product must be like easy mode for ecommerce, right?

Maybe not. In today's episode, we learn the behind-the-scenes story on how Jay Leno began selling a complete line of car care products.

We're joined by Chris Walters, the Director of Marketing at Jay Leno’s Garage.

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In this episode, you'll hear about some of the best ways find brand advocates because your affiliate program (or customer referral program) is only as good as its advocates!

Arlen Robinson is a seasoned business owner and co-founder of OSI Affiliate Software which gives businesses the opportunity to setup and manage their own affiliate and customer referral programs. He should know, he's been doing it for 20 years.

Arlen also hosts the weekly Ecommerce Marketing Podcast in which he interviews marketing experts (such as yours truly) about successful ecommerce marketing strategies.

Together, we lay out a strategy for identifying your brand advocates, and reaching out to them.

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