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Ep 91: Joseph Fitzgibbon, founder at Growth & Company, on the new marketing paradigm

We discuss creating new channels like communities, avoiding product and marketing silos, whether brand trumps product, the rise of LinkedIn as a new medium for D2C brands (eg Surreal), who are best at adapting to the new paradigm of marketing and Joe’s take on whether to hire an agency or not. …………. A quick word from my sponsor Omnisend. You might’ve heard things like “email marketing is expensive,” “has low ROI,” or “is too complicated.” Now, what if I told you these are all myths? In reality, email marketing can be affordable, bring in a great return on investment, and is incredibly straightforward. Or at least, all that is true if you use Omnisend, the email & SMS marketing platform...

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Ep 90: Toby Hoppy, co founder at All Things Butter on disrupting dairy

In this week’s episode, Tim sits down with Toby Hoppy - co founder of All Things Butter - the dairy industry disrupting brand he’s created with chef and food influencer Thomas Straker. With Toby’s experience with Harry’s, Trip and Cubits teamed with Thomas’s 4M audience online and gift as a chef, this episode looks into how they look to build this brand out in the social space. Tim and Toby discuss, disrupting dairy, the power of attention to detail and data, the challenges of D2C unit economics, category expansion, the pros and cons of leveraging a huge audience and why we might need to wait a while for chicken skin butter. …………. A quick word from my sponsor Omnisend. You...

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Ep 89: William Lynch and Tim Richardson discuss last week’s most interesting eComm and beyond news

…………. A quick word from my sponsor Omnisend. You might’ve heard things like “email marketing is expensive,” “has low ROI,” or “is too complicated.” Now, what if I told you these are all myths? In reality, email marketing can be affordable, bring in a great return on investment, and is incredibly straightforward. Or at least, all that is true if you use Omnisend, the email & SMS marketing platform used by more than 100,000 ecommerce brands to attract, convert and keep new customers. Omnisend is intuitive, packed with pre-built templates and automation workflows, and guess what? It's also 40% cheaper than the leading ecommerce marketing platform. So, don’t let myths hold you back. Experience email marketing that really sells with...

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Ep 88: Andrzej Dąbrowski, co founder & CEO of Shopstory

In this week’s episode Tim sat down with Shopstory co founder and CEO, Andrzej Dąbrowski. From his background in building digital experiences in Ecom, Andrejz talks about how Shopstory empowers designers and marketers to build visual content without the use of code or developers. Thus meaning, developers can spend their time elsewhere. Hear Andrejz's thoughts visual building, CMSs and the Headless horse race between Shopify, commercetools, Centra, Commerce Layer et al. …………. A quick word from my sponsor Recharge. Recharge has helped over 15,000 ecommerce merchants grow and retain their customer base through subscriptions—allowing the brands to grow their business by increasing lifetime value, reducing churn, and providing predictable recurring revenue. Create a seamless subscription experience for your customers community...

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Ep 87: Craig Somerville, Managing Director at The Reload Group on selling an agency

We discuss the advantages of a long term strategy horizon when it comes to a sale, why internal and external alignment on what people want out of the deal is key, the ceiling ones hits when they bootstrap, the pros and cons of different communications strategies when announcing the deal and Craig’s top tips for a better due diligence process. …………. A quick word from my sponsor Omnisend. You might’ve heard things like “email marketing is expensive,” “has low ROI,” or “is too complicated.” Now, what if I told you these are all myths? In reality, email marketing can be affordable, bring in a great return on investment, and is incredibly straightforward. Or at least, all that is true if...

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Ep 86: William Lynch and Tim discuss last week’s most interesting eComm and beyond news

  It’s the last Wednesday of the month so Will and Tim are here to deep dive on eComm (and beyond’s) most interesting news. They tackle IKEA adopting AI, LMVH’s innovation award, Shopify’s answer to Prime Day, BNPL Pizza, Shop Pay moving into the enterprise, Peleton on the ropes and the sad passing of Bother. …………. A quick word from my sponsor Recharge. Recharge has helped over 15,000 ecommerce merchants grow and retain their customer base through subscriptions—allowing the brands to grow their business by increasing lifetime value, reducing churn, and providing predictable recurring revenue. Create a seamless subscription experience for your customers community and turn one-time shoppers into long-term customers with Recharge. Enjoy ✌️

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