Margaret Larson is the founder and Managing Director at Sustainable Furniture, an online furniture business based just 30min from me in Cornwall. In the past year they’ve won a plethora of awards for both the quality and eco-friendliness of their products. Founded in 2007 they now do 7-800 orders a month and have sales of £3.5million annually.
[Read more…]237: David Williams (Ugg & Charles Tyrwhitt) on international expansion & DTC ecommerce operations
David Williams has been in eCommerce for over 20 years, mainly focused on fashion and during that time helped build, and digitally transform, several businesses both in the UK and across the globe. Most recently he’s been the Senior Director DTC at Deckers, looking after a range of footwear brands including UGG. Other brands he’s worked for in the past include Bowers & Wilkins, Charles Tyrwhitt and Book Club Associates. David is also on the advisory board of the IMRG here in the UK – that’s the UK’s online retail association.
[Read more…]236: Boden’s Head of Online Trade and eCommerce Nick Stragnell discusses everything eCommerce
Nick Stragnell, is the Head of Online Trade and Experience at UK fashion business Boden, he owns the digital customer journey and is responsible for online annual sales revenue of £670m+ globally.
[Read more…]235: Tracey Wallace (ex BigCommerce editor) tells all about launching her new startup Doris Sleep
Tracey Wallace is the founder of Doris Sleep a luxury pillow brand build on 3 generations of family expertise, that is also using recycled water bottles! The business is 6 months old and they’ve already done $10k in sales.
[Read more…]234: How to manage 4500% growth with Daniel Wellington’s IT Director Daniel Näsman
Daniel Näsman is the Global head of IT Development at Daniel Wellington, a Swedish watch and luxury brand who were the fastest growing company in Europe in 2017, and have a 3 year growth of over 4500%.
[Read more…]233: 20-year eCommerce big business expert Jennifer DiMotta shares her 4Ps of successful growth
Jennifer DiMotta is the founder of DiMotta Consulting and has been a guest professor at the Wharton School of Business. For the last 20 years she has been helping direct to consumer brands and retailers in the USA to successfully execute aggressive growth strategies. That’s included the consumer facing Hayneedle and Office Depot and the B2B ReStockIt.com. To achieve all that she focuses on building a financial foundation, empowering the top talent, and designing expert-driven strategies.
[Read more…]232: Dave Rotheroe is back to talk Viral Marketing, not as difficult as you might think….
Dave Rotheroe is the founder of Viral by Design, which is all about helping you leverage viral marketing to accelerate the growth of your business. It’s based on lessons Dave’s learnt growing his own eCommerce businesses – in fact, he’s back on the podcast for the THIRD time! And this time he’s going to be sharing the inside track on how to use viral marketing in your business.
[Read more…]231: Taking control of your products and your brand on Amazon with Steve Honight from Pukka Teas
Steve Honight is the eCommerce Lead at Pukka who sell organic teas and food supplements. They’ve been in business since 2001 and now over 2 million cups of Pukka tea are drunk globally every day. You’ll find their products on supermarket shelves around the UK, and they also sell via their own website and on Amazon. A big part of Steve’s role is managing their brand and performance on Amazon – so that’s what we’re going to be getting into today.
[Read more…]230: Doubling sales each year is all about building community with Micki Krimmel of Superfit Hero
Micki Krimmel is the founder at Superfit Hero a body positive lifestyle brand, launched with at Kickstarter at the end of 2015. The eCommerce store went live 2016, they’ve doubled sales each year so far, and this year are anticipating sales just under $1m.
[Read more…]229: “Ultimate Guide to e-Commerce Growth” author Ian Hammersley shares top KPI & optimisation tips
Ian Hammersley is the CEO at Smartebusiness, a UK agency focused on eCommerce growth. Earlier this year he wrote an excellent book with his brother (and smartebusiness CMO) Mark. It’s called “Ultimate Guide to e-Commerce Growth: 7 Unexpected KPIs to Scale an e-commerce shop to £10million plus”. I’ve known Ian and Mark for many years so as soon as I heard about the book I just knew I had to get one of them on to tell us all about it – and share some great tips from their years of eCommerce experience too!
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