Freddie Sawkins is a director at Czech & Speake and manages eCommerce, and international development. Czech and Speake an international luxury retail brand and family run business. Launched in 1978 Freddie joined in 2017 to establish and grow the eCommerce business in the UK and around the world. They now turnover £2m per year.
[Read more…]259: Colin McIntosh explains how he took Sheets & Giggles to $1m in 12 months
Colin McIntosh is the founder and CEO at Sheets and Giggles (awesome business name), which is the fastest growing bedding brand in the USA. It all started in 2018 with a crowdfunding launch, and in the first 12 months they hit $1m in sales.
[Read more…]258: JJ Resnick explains how stories have been at the heart of his eCommerce success
JJ Resnick is the founder of multiple 7-figure brands, including the Moscow Copper Co–the creators of the famous Moscow Mule cocktail. JJ’sjoining us to talk about some of the brands he’s built, and how story has been central to success in each case.
[Read more…]257: What is your top tip for growing an eCommerce business in 2020? Our eCommerce Experts tell all
Chloe is joined by a host of eCommerce experts to answer the question What is your top tip for growing an eCommerce business in 2020? The answers are VERY wide ranging from delivery to international, lots of marketing tips, and much more.
The answers will help you work out your plans for 2020. Our experts include Chris Dawson from Tamebay; Ian Hammersley from Smartebusiness, Lucy Bloomfield of 10,000 Customers; Rachel Jacobs from eCommerce Partnerships, Ria Fiscina from Parkfield, Alex O’Byrne from WeMakeWebsites AND Rytis Lauris from Omnisend. There’s so much in this episode you’re going to listen more than once!
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[Read more…]254: Taking a jewellery site from 0 to $3m in 3 years, and then exiting with Ashish Malhotra
Ashish Malhotra joins us to talk about how he took online jewellery website Novadab.com from launching from his spare bedroom to annual sales of $3million within just 3 years, then he sold it in a multi-million dollar exit.
2020 eCommerce MasterPlan Growth Series sponsored by Omnisend
This episode is part of our annual growth series – you can find out all about how it can help you grow your business and links to the rest of the episodes here.
[Read more…]253: Ethical eCommerce and how to get to 10,000 customers in 18 months with Lucy Bloomfield
Lucy Bloomfield is an ex retailer. She grew her eCommerce business, Trefiel, to over 10,000 customers in just 18 months, then decided to close it and re-focus on helping online retailers replicate her success. She’s also on a mission to see eCommerce become far less damaging to the planet, and that’s what she’s joining us to talk about today.
2020 eCommerce MasterPlan Growth Series sponsored by Omnisend
This episode is part of our annual growth series – you can find out all about how it can help you grow your business and links to the rest of the episodes here.
[Read more…]244: How to grow a new store fast with Google Ads and SEO with Joe & Mike Brusca
Joe and Mike Brusca have a unique approach to eCommerce. Quickly scaling high ticket dropshipping eCommerce stores, then selling them via brokerage sites like Empire Flippers to generate cash to repeat the whole process again. A huge part of their success is in finding a great product to sell so we can’t talk about any particular sites they’re currently running – it would give too much away! BUT Joe & Mike are going to share the most crucial part of the model – how they quickly grow the stores.
[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!
[Read more…]221: Ex AirBnB Head of SEO Tommy Griffiths shares his top SEO tips, plus the power of automation
Tommy Griffith used to run SEO for big businesses – 4 years at Airbnb, and before that 2 years at PayPal. Then in 2017 he decided to turn his training side business, ClickMinded, into his main occupation. With projected 2019 revenue of $490k for 10 hours work per week, spending 2018 working on automating the business has clearly paid off!
[Read more…]216: Achieving 80% of sales via Instagram and sticking to your strengths with Ella from Fitbakes
Ella Rauen-Prestes is the founder and CEO of Fitbakes, a low sugar high protein bakery. Ella started the business from her kitchen table in 2017, and projecting 2019 annual sales of £170k.
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