Davies Roberts is an inventor and the founder of Flare Audio. He’s spent 5 years re-inventing the loudspeaker on a mission to minimize all types of distortion. After winning the ears of the music industry they used a kickstarter campaign to launch their range of in-ear headphones and ear plugs! In 2017 they reached a turnover of £5.9 million having grown 250% in the last 12 months.
152: South American eCommerce Pierre Larose of Calca Thai: delivery, virtual team, localisation
Pierre Larose is the founder of Calcathai who sell Thai pants in Brazil and beyond. He launched the business 3 years ago, with zero experience of fashion or retail, and has already built it to over £250k annual turnover.
151: Capitalising on opportunity by being EVERYWHERE – Jane Mason of Natural Birthing Company
Jane Mason is the Managing Director at Natural Birthing Company. An award winning range of natural products designed by midwives to soothe the journey from bump to baby. Selling both direct to customers via their website, and to many retailers including UK high street giants Holland & Barrett and Boots. They launched in 2014 and grew 60% in the last year, and are aiming for a £500k turnover in the coming year.
139: How would you recover from being liquidated by the tax man? Adam recovered by building 3 new eCommerce sites
Adam Watson has been in eCommerce for 16 years, after starting selling on eBay when he was 18, and in his own words has “made just about every mistake going along the way, and had some great success”. Right now he has 3 sites Hollywoodmirrors.co.uk, Decorelo.co.uk and AmbientMirrors.com they’ve launched since August 2016, and have a combined turnover of £450,000 per year. That’s an impressive start, especially when you consider that last year, due to an accounting error Adam lost everything.
132: Launching an eCommerce watch business with Burlingham London – design, export, PR, and Shopify
Geoff Hunt and Henry Waddilove are the co-founders behind Burlingham London Watches, a British watch company selling both men’s and ladies watches inspired by British heritage. They launched in August 2016 and have sold 100s of units in their first year.
122: Harper Wilde’s Jane Fisher, 18m of planning, 1m live and they’re already getting repeat customers…
Jane Fisher is a co-founder at Harper Wilde, an online retailer looking to change the way we buy bras. After 18 months of planning, they launched just one month ago and are already seeing repeat customers!
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093: Versakini’s Kelsey Duffey discusses launching a new fashion swimwear brand PR, Instagram, wholesale
Kelsey Duffy is the founder of Versakini an online only and wholesale eCommerce store. They design and sell a unique take on the bikini. Launched in Summer 2015 the 2016 collection has sold over 1,000 units.
083: 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
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 – obviously I’m a big fan of planning and goals so it’s great to be able to bring this to you, especially right at the start of 2017! But, more importantly they’ve just won the “People’s Choice” award in the 2016 Shopify Build a Business Competition. The website launched on 1st January 2016, and as we record they have sold over 28,000 journals globally (by the time you listen to this we reckon it’ll be over 100,000).
This is the first of our ‘2017 eCommerce Growth Series Sponsored by Veeqo the Number 1 Inventory Software’. The series will be running throughout January and is packed with insight and advice to help you make 2017 your best year yet.
056: Regal Gentleman’s Liam Jennings with great startup and social media tips, plus lots of Shopify ideas
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).
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046: The TeaShed’s Jules Quinn on the power of team-brand-product in growing a B2B business into an eCommerce business
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.
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