Shopify Masters | The Ecommerce Business And Marketing Podcast For Ambitious Entrepreneurs

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who focuses on selling her customers on a transformation and why the phone is one of her most important channels. Misha Tenenbaum is the CEO of EditStock provides unedited film projects for students to practice video editing. Tune in to learn: How to find your first 100 customers and what you what you should try to learn from them Why you need to sell your customer’s transformation instead of your product Why it’s so important to get on the phone with customers especially when you have a higher ticket product Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/edit-stock-cold-phone-call

YouTube is arguably one of the top destinations for editorial (i.e. not sponsored) product reviews. Having your products covered by the right reviewer, especially if you're confident in what you're selling, can be a huge win for your business. On today's episode of Shopify Masters, we talk about how one company leverages reviewers in the tech and gaming space to bring their products to customers who are ready to buy. Joe Lieberman is our guest and the Director of Marketing for Antlion Audio: a company that manufactures the world’s leading attachment mic, turning any pair of headphones into a gaming headset. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2W5zE23

At its core, effective content marketing isn't merely about churning out blog posts, YouTube videos, or podcasts—it's about creating value independent of your products or services and giving it away to your ideal customers. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who did just that with free printables, growing an email list of over of 200,000 parents and teachers. It's the strategy they first used when they start and still use today. Alexandra Eidens is our guest today and the founder of Big Life Journal: the world’s first growth mindset journals for kids, tweens, and teens. Tune in to learn: How to find freelancers to build your lead magnets How to build a 200,000 person email list using free printables How to run a 60,000 member Facebook group without losing control Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/big-life-journal-printables

With all the buzz about influencer marketing, it's easy to forget that many of your customers have their own online presence and a network they can influence. On today's episode of Shopify Masters, we invite an entrepreneur to share how she grew her business by creating a micro-ambassador program for her brand, effectively turning her customers into her influencers. Cindy Collins is the founder of Euphoric Herbals: maker of herbal products, specializing in pregnancy and postpartum, for women and their families. Tune in to learn: How to identify which business to focus on when you’ve started multiple businesses How to think bigger as an ecommerce entrepreneur What is a micro ambassador program and how to identify worthy ambassadors Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/euphoric-herbals-micro-ambassadors

In this episode, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who had a successful product launch by having a highly engaged pre-launch email list. Will Africano is the co-founder of GNARBOX: a company that develops products and solutions to revolutionize the multimedia management experience. Through that email list, we started messaging and surveying and bringing all of those people into the product development experience. Tune in to learn How to find the right co-founder for your startup How to build a highly engaged 20,000 person pre-launch email list What angel investors care about versus venture capitalists Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/gnarbox-list-building

Buying a 10-year-old brand often comes with its fair share of advantages: a proven product, an established customer base, and a solid reputation. A rebrand, no matter how much it's needed, can put all of that at risk. Alex Yurek is an entrepreneur who bought and overhauled a mature brand, and on this episode of Shopify Masters he'll share how to do it right. Detour Coffee Roasters is one of the top coffee roasters in Canada and is on a mission to make sure no one has to drink a bad cup of coffee again. Tune in to learn: The process that goes into buying an existing brand How to overhaul your brand safely How to create a website that serves new customers, returning customers and B2B customers all at the same time Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/detour-coffee-rebrand

It generally costs a lot less money and time to sell to existing customers than it does to acquire new ones. That's why marketing shouldn't stop when a customer makes a purchase—not when you can onboard them to help them realize the full value of your products. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who believes the most important activity you can do to generate repeat business is to onboard new customers after they purchase. Patrick Coddou is the founder of Supply: an independent online retailer of premium grooming gear for guys that demand the best. Tune in to learn How your approach to business transforms when you are able to work on it full-time How to onboard new customers with emails so they can get the most value out of your product How to catch viewers' attention in the first 5 seconds of a YouTube video so they don’t skip your ad Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/supply-customer-onboarding

Growing a seven-figure business in your first year means scaling fast just to keep up. But it's sometimes the things that don't scale that get you there. In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who built an 8-figure business by focusing on product-market fit above all else. Paul Hedrick is the founder of Tecovas: makers of beautiful, top-quality western boots & accessories by hand and sells them directly at honest prices. Here are the lessons he learned as he scaled the size of his team and his advertising spend. Tune in to learn How this brand reached 7-figures in their first year by doing things that did not scale How to do market research by talking to sales associates at retail stores How your average order value affects your advertising strategy Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2DoxFyQ

In today's episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn how one company transitioned from selling directly to consumers to selling mostly to businesses through partnerships. Alon Tamir is the founder and CEO of Studio Proper: maker of beautiful hardware accessories that enable great Apple technology experiences for individuals and businesses alike. Tune in to learn What is an industrial designer and how much does it cost to work with one How you can get burned from a partnership How to transition your site to attract more B2B customers Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/proper-b2c-to-b2b

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who relentlessly studies his market to remove features from his products and achieve a better product-market fit. Tune in to learn A unique way to get an appointment with a retail buyer How to mold your product to improve your product-market fit How to keep the momentum going after a successful crowdfunding campaign Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/paper-wallet-product-market-fit

The memories you make are priceless. Unless you create a service to help people immortalize them, like our guest on this episode of Shopify Masters. Nick Macco is the founder of Legacybox: a service that helps people organize, preserve, and enjoy the most important recorded moments by digitizing aging analog tapes, film, and pictures. Find out how he used small frequent failures to bootstrap his company into a $20 million per year business. Tune in to learn Why talking to customers gives you important insight faster than looking at analytics reports The lesson they learned from losing 80% of their company savings on one ad Why revenue should not always be the most important organizational goal Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/legacy-box-bootstrapping

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who launched a business with one of the biggest men’s lifestyle influencers on YouTube. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/tiege-hanley-influencer-cofounder

On this episode of Shopify Masters, you'll learn from two growth hackers about how to go about prioritizing your marketing channels by asking the right questions about your context. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/kettle-and-fire-choosing-channels

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from Gaurav Agarwal, VP of Growth at Molekule: a science and technology company that has reinvented the air purifier. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/molekule-prelaunch-email-list

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who focuses on solving one major problem per product and then selling them in bundles. MagMod designs sleek, portable, and durable flash modifiers for amateur and professional photographers. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/mag-mod-bundles

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from a serial dropshipper about the mistakes that he made, and that many new dropshippers make, and why he thinks Facebook ads aren't the best place to start your marketing. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blog/sunyez-dropshipping-mistakes

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from a marketer who broke through stagnating revenue growth by translating his ads into different languages. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/keysmart-translating-ads

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from Raivis Vaitekuns, an entrepreneur in Latvia who found inspiration outside of the specialty coffee industry that he'd been in for six years, to produce a chocolate bar instead. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/coffee-pixels-product-inspiration

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who has built multiple businesses selling licensed products. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/uncanncy-brands-licensing

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear from Chris Little, an entrepreneur who reduced his cost and time to market by 3D printing his prototypes before approaching manufacturers. Show Notes: http://www.shopify.com/blogs/blog/wintersmiths-prototypes