Tom Hunt is in charge of growth at sTitch Leggings – selling leggings for men. They launched in Dec 2012, and in March 2017 had their best month yet, turning over £5k. Tom has also recently launched a SaaS business called “Sneez” to publicise Sneez they’ve set themselves a challenge to get sTtitch Leggings up to £100k per month.
Simon Rigby is the founder of Delicious Coffee. Simon is a coffee lover who’s turned that passion into an online only business selling delicious coffee, and everything you need to make it. He launched in early 2016 and now has over 1,000 customers.
Mark Morris is the Managing Director of Introversion Software a highly respected independent game developer and publisher. Since launching in 2001 they’ve brought 5 critically acclaimed video games to market – including the BAFTA award winning Prison Architect, which has sold over 2 million copies to date.
Yanne Root is the founder of Violent Little Machine Shop. Violent Little Machine Shop is an online only & wholesale business distributing their unique and crazy morale patches (and many other items). They launched in June 2013 and now approaching their 50,000th order.
Our host Chloe Thomas attended Channel Advisor’s Catalyst conference in Manchester last week, and has distilled the whole day down into this show of takeaways for the smaller eCommerce retailer. Packed with inspiration, thought-provoking bits, and some top tips. Including updates from Channel Advisor, Amazon, Mary Portas and Julie Deane CEO of Cambridge Satchel Company – enjoy!
[Read more…]Christine Nicholson is the founder of Divine Legs an online only business selling tights (that’s pantyhose for our American listeners) individually and as subscriptions. Christine started Divine Legs in 5th August 2016 she hit 100 orders in the first 100 days, and things are continuing to grow, 25% of whom are subscribers.
Connor Gillivan built a seven-figure business trading dropship items on Amazon before founding Freeeup, where you can find over 400 vetted freelancers to outsource your technical and time-consuming eCommerce tasks. Connor also just published a book called Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies, which is packed with great tips and advice from Connor’s years of experience.
Shirine Modad-Neill is the founder of Full Disclosure a online fashion boutique bringing customers a curated selection of luxury lingerie, sleepwear and swimwear from established and under-the-radar designers. Launched in Aug 2014, with high price points, they now 1-2 orders per day, from £50-£2000 per order.
Right so this bonus episode is my takeaways from the Direct Commerce Association Digital Marketing Day I attended last week.
I ummed and ahhed about doing a takeaway from the event – partly because this week I’m busy promoting the launch of the new Get More Customers Club this week.
But I thought – there were a couple of awesome takeaways you all deserve to hear about, AND if any week deserves a bonus podcast – it’s the week episode 100 goes live!
(If you haven’t already had a listen to 100 – it’s me answering your questions – well worth a listen!)
Right – back to the takeaways…
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What a milestone! Episode number 100.
A huge thank you to all who’ve listened, spread the word, given me feedback and of course to the guests as well. Launching the podcast was a great idea, but a leap into the unknown I had no idea if it would work or not. So it’s great to reach episode 100
(technically the 115th episode we’ve released, and very nearly 2 years since we launched).
Normally it’s all about the interviews, or the conference takeaways,- but since the “Ask Chloe” session in episode 50 went down so well, I thought I’d do it again for episode 100.
This time the SIX questions have come from the members of the eCommerce MasterPlan World Facebook group – it’s totally free to join.
The Six questions cover marketing, startups, copy-writing, organisation, conferences, Facebook and more. The questions and askers are detailed below, you’ll have to listen to hear the answers!
Keep Optimising!
Chloë