Where Premium Brands Come To Grow
Do you remember back in the COVID boom years when eCommerce felt like an endless money machine? Customers were stuck at home and governments were handing out cash. So customers had lots of free time and more spare money so what did they do? They shopped online. eCommerce sales skyrocketed with almost zero effort. Paid […]
When it comes to launching and growing your e-commerce brand, other than your cost of goods, the two biggest expenses of operating your business will be fulfillment and marketing. Now, we all know very well that no courier or postal service will ship our orders out for free. So we’re well trained to expect […]
This week we’re sharing Part 2 of my podcast, “How To Choose The Best Email App For Your Ecommerce Store”. In it, I compare two email platforms that a lot of eCommerce businesses are currently choosing between – Flodesk vs Klaviyo. Now, if you’re looking at or already using something different, I’m also going […]
Let’s talk about traffic. Not the kind that makes you late for school drop-off. The kind that determines whether your ecommerce business thrives or remains the world’s best-kept secret. Because here’s the thing: without eyeballs on your website, nothing else matters. You can have the most beautiful products, the most compelling brand story, the best […]
Shopping online is a very different experience to shopping in physical stores in one very key way: When you go to the shops, you often wander into stores and that’s how you discover new products. Whereas, when it comes to shopping online, typically you have to be actively searching for that thing. eCommerce […]
Recently, we started working with a brand who came to us with a really common problem that I see many eCommerce brands struggle with. The business in question was guaranteed a specific – and very high – ROAS (return on ad spend) by an agency pitching to win their digital advertising account. However, the results […]
To succeed in growing an eCommerce business, we need to get enough people visiting our websites, adding products to their shopping cart and checking out. And we need to do that without over-spending on advertising. However, getting traffic to our websites is harder and more expensive in 2025 than even just a year ago. This […]
It’s the start of the new year, and I know many of you are in planning mode, setting ambitious goals for 2025. It’s a time of excitement but also some uncertainty. As I record this episode, Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that Meta will be removing fact-checking and a whole lot of policies on their […]
Over the last year, I’ve seen a lot of businesses come up for sale, in fact I’ve been approached a number of times by brand owners wanting me to buy their business from them, and I did actually buy two of them within the last 6-7 months. That’s super exciting, but it’s also been […]
My favourite podcast episode to record this year was episode 227, titled “How to calculate your ROI on learning to grow your business”. At the time, I was inspired to record it based on some experiences with my clients and with my kids, but in truth it’s also because I realised something about myself: If […]
