Shopify Success Stories: Real Store Owners, Real Results
Want to know what actually works on Shopify? Skip the theory and learn directly from store owners who’ve built successful businesses on the platform.
Shopify powers millions of online stores, but most of them struggle to generate significant revenue. What’s different about the ones that do?
In these podcast episodes, successful Shopify store owners share their real numbers and actual strategies. No sugar-coating, no holding back the good stuff. You’ll hear about their first sales, biggest mistakes, and what finally clicked for them.
What you’ll learn:
- Which Shopify apps are worth paying for (and which ones are a waste of money)
- Simple changes that can double your conversion rate
- How to get traffic without burning through your ad budget
- What it really takes to scale from $10K to $100K per month
- The biggest Shopify mistakes that kill businesses before they start
- How to prepare your store if you want to sell it later
Perfect for: Anyone with a Shopify store, people thinking about starting one, and entrepreneurs who want to learn from others who’ve already figured it out.
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Listen to all our Shopify Case Study Episodes on the Podcast:
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Best Self Co’s Cathryn Lavery and Allen Brouwer on how they won the Shopify Build a Business Competition and will achieve 100,000 orders in their first year (episode 083)
Cathryn Lavery and Allen Brouwer are the co-founders of BestSelf Co. It’s an online only eCommerce business that started by selling just one product, and is now branching out into digital content. The product is a daily planner to help you optimise your day. There are 2 reason’s I’m very excited to have them on…
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Winter National’s Tamsin Burford why you should put the products AND customers at the heart of your business (episode 079)
Tamsin Burford is the founder and director of Winter National an online only women’s designer skiwear boutique. They’ve been running for 10 years, and over the winter they now get 100-150 orders per month. Click to Tweet: On @eComMasterPlan #podcast with Tamsin Burford talks about her seasonal fashion business Winternational Powered by RedCircle
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Lick My Dip’s Dave Rotheroe is back! Subscription product optimisation and influencer outreach plus more (episode 076)
Today for the first time our special guest is a returning guest! The last time Chloë spoke to Dave Rotheroe he’d just launched two subscription eCommerce businesses in 6 months, Lick my Dip and Cheese Posties. 8 months on it’s all going well – Dave’s moved to Spain, and the businesses are continuing to grow…
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Snakehive’s Tim Thorp on how to sell 7,000 mobile phone cases a month using Adwords and customer service (episode 065)
Tim Thorp is the co-founder and head of marketing and sales at Snakehive an online only and piggy backing business selling premium mobile phone cases. They sell both via marketplaces and online store and sales split 50:50 between the them. They currently have over 1,000 skus and all products are their own design. They started…
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The Kewl Shop’s Charles Fitzgerald on how to get to 50,000 visits per month, using content and customer service (episode 063)
Charles Fitzgerald is the founder of Online Only American retailer The Kewl Shop. It’s a fashion retailer specialising in bandage dresses. They launched in late 2012, and are now top 150,000 websites in the world! Click to Tweet: @eComMasterPlan #podcast Charles Fitzgerald from The Kewl Shop on how he has grown his US business from…
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Regal Gentleman’s Liam Jennings with great startup and social media tips, plus lots of Shopify ideas (episode 056)
Liam Jennings is co-founder of Regal Gentleman an online only retailer who sell the very best male grooming products. Launched in late 2014 they’ve had quite the journey already, and now 150% year on year growth (revenue and customers). Click to Tweet: @eComMasterPlan #Podcast listen to hear how Liam Jennings has successfully groomed his business…
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Garage Flex’s Alasdair Broom on using eCommerce to satisfy and recruit more customers (episode 054)
Alastair Broom founder of Garage Flex. Alastair and his team design and install perfect garage storage solutions. 3 years ago they started selling their modular products online, and today the online side averages £5,000 per month – and attracts new customers into the core design and install side of the business. Click to Tweet: @eComMasterPlan…
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The TeaShed’s Jules Quinn on the power of team-brand-product in growing a B2B business into an eCommerce business (episode 046)
Jules Quinn is the founder of Online Only eCommerce business TeaShed, with a strong wholesale arm. This year she was named by Forbes magazine as one of the 30 under 30 in retail and eCommerce. She’s been running TeaShed since 2011 and they’ve grown to have 16 people in the team. Click to Tweet: This…
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Goodbye Crutches’ Tom Schwab discusses how he used content to get 70k visitors a month (episode 028)
Tom Schwab is the CEO of Goodbye Crutches. An American eCommerce store which educates about, and sells alternatives to the humble crutch (who knew!). Tom is a master of understanding his customer and creating the content that just pulls them to his site. This has taken them from 3,000 paid monthly visitors to 70,000 organic…
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Beard Brand’s Eric Bandholz on growing to a 7-figure turnover since 2013. By delivering on a vision (episode 027)
Eric Bandholz launched Beardbrand in 2013 and is now a 7-figure business. Beardbrand is a range of products for looking after a beard (strangely enough!), the majority of the products are designed by the Beardbrand team, with a few best of breed exceptions. The products are available from their 2 international online stores, and various…
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Miso Tasty’s Bonnie Chung chat about subscriptions, and getting to 1,000 regular customers in under 2 years (episode 016)
Bonnie Chung runs the UK’s first dedicated Miso brand – and the name? “Miso Tasty”, genius! She spent 3 years researching to make sure her Miso Soup is the best you can get, and now ships the soup direct customers in letterbox friendly boxes. And of course there is a subscription offer…. She’s now into…
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Mannequin Madness’s Judi Townsend on turning a B2B eCommerce business into a retail business (plus much more!) (episode 007)
Here is our first American guest! Judi Townsend started Mannequin Madness in 2001 and has built it into an award-winning family business specializing in everything related to mannequins. Selling the most extensive range of mannequins available online, as well as renting, recycling and repairing. Definitely at the niche end of the Product Range Scale! Mannequin…
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Lifestyle Labs’ Valerian Voegele redefining the vitamins sector through outstanding customer service (episode 006)
Valerian Voegele is an Entrepreneur currently working on an eCommerce start up. That start up recently celebrated its first 6 months of trading. Lifestyle Labs is an Online Only eCommerce business, and was born out of the desire to offer customers in the UK alternative health industry a truly amazing shopping experience. Powered by RedCircle…