Ecommerce Q&a

Episode Quotes "If you don’t fix the fundamentals and the rest of it is isn’t any good." "You not only need to focus on marketing, you need to focus on the core fundamentals of business as well which it will all come down to cash flow." "My whole kind of philosophy is you need to start at the core of the issue. The core of the issue is demand forecasting." "We don’t do Amazon marketing or ecommerce marketing. All we focus on is inventory replenishment and everything that goes into that." "If you aren’t organized when you’re small then you’re going to be a lot lot lot less organized when you’re larger." "A lot of times I think I’ve learned a ton from podcasts." Listen to Learn 00:40 Jeremy's Forecastly story. How did it started? 05:28 Ecommerce pain points and the importance of cash flow more than marketing 07:07 Solving demand forecasting 08:27 Why Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) is a good move for business? 10:14 Inventory in FBA 11:34 How does Forecas

Episode Quotes "Moving fast in the wrong direction can only get you into trouble exponentially faster." "Innovation is really about risk taking, and a lot of companies don’t like to take risk." "Opposites work better." "If it can be done, it will be done. If you don’t do it, someone else will." "If you continue to play the old game and think you know what it is you’re going to undershoot." "Whatever problem you’ve got, that’s not it." Listen to Learn 00:24 Introduction about the guest speaker (Daniel Burrus) 00:46 Daniels new book and what it is about? 02:06 Daniel talks about his article, as well as insights about innovation 04:12 What does being proactive means? The idea of being preactive - hard trends and soft trends. 07:38 The science of "cycles" 09:00 Three categories of hard trends (Demographics, Regulations, Technology) 15:40 The idea of "Opposites work better" 18:17 What are some hard trends in ecommerce? Transcription Mi

Shownotes: Nextopia.com ecommerceqa.com/nextopia Transcript: Michael: Hello folks and welcome to eCommerce Q & A, this is the show where, as you know, store owners and directors of eCommerce and eCommerce managers can stay up to date on the latest and greatest in eCommerce. I'm Michael Bauer, your host and self-proclaimed eCommerce junkie. Basically means I'm really into this topic, super passionate about it and frequently host on this show. Our guest today is an expert onsite search and personalization, his name is Derek Wisnewski and his company is called Nextopia. We've been working with Nextopia actually for about five or six years with clients and just been extremely happy with their company and what they offer. But we've never done a podcast together so here we are. Derek, welcome. Derek: Hey, thanks Michael. Thanks for bringing me on to this podcast. Excited to share some more knowledge about onsite search. Michael: Absolutely, it's wonderful to have you. Derek, can you tell me a little bit about y

Michael: Hello folks, and welcome to eCommerce Q & A. This is the show where we equip you, as a store owner, director of eCommerce, CTO, CIO, CMO, and many other titles like that at three letters long at an eCommerce company, or multi-channel companies to just kill it. I'm joined today by my colleague, and good friend, Chris [inaudible 00:00:25]. Chris, thank you for joining us. Chris: Hey, Michael. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. Michael: Absolutely. Chris, can you give us a little background on the topic today, which is going to be around why you should, maybe, consider a re-platform under eCommerce. And also some reasons maybe why you shouldn't. Chris: Yeah. Absolutely. As you know, majority of commerce stores migrate every two to three years, according to Forester. It's important to know, what are those main reasons that can kind of flag and say, maybe we need to look at a new platform. Briefly, these points include legacy systems that don't allow you to scale effectively and efficient

Shownotes: hotjar.com everyonehatesmarketers.com Transcripts: Michael: Hello folks, and welcome to Ecommerce QA. This is a podcast where store owners, directors of e-comm and e-commerce managers can stay up to date on the latest tools and tech in e-commerce. I'm your host, Michael Bauer, and my guest today is Louis Grenier from hotjar.com. Louis has three jobs, he posts a digital marketing podcast called Everyone Hates Marketers.com, it's a show for digital marketers sick of shady, manipulative marketing, like everyone who's listening here. Nobody on this show would ever do any of the things that you talk about on that show, right? Louis: Yeah, for sure. And then you put them under pressure and the magic happens. It's not easy to not be sleazy sometimes when you have [crosstalk 00:00:43]. Michael: Oh, that's wonderful. I'm gonna write that down. It's not easy to not be sleazy. Louis: Yeah. That should be amazed, actually. Michael: That's what my wife, love that kinda quote. You're also the content strategist

Dillon: Hello everybody! This is Dillon Holst and today, I am joined by the founder and CEO of Freeeup, Nathan Hirsch. Nathan is a serial entrepreneur. He is an expert in remote hiring and e-commerce in general. Nathan, thank you for being on with us today. Nathan: Dillon, that's for having me. Dillon: One of the things that I found interesting, just browsing through your site, how many people it seems, really have latched onto this idea of remote hiring and are really excited about the things that it can do, just in terms of either augmenting, or completely staffing their workforce. Maybe you could just give me a little bit of background about how you were introduced to the idea of remote hiring and how you decided to kind of make this your thing. Nathan: Sure, so, going way back, when I was 20, I'm 27 right now, I started an e-commerce drop-shipping business out of my college dorm room. It quickly blew up. I was running a multi-million dollar business before I knew it. Hiring my friends for the first time.

Show Notes: Get Your Conversion Rate Optimization Starter Guide Courtesy of Disruptive Advertising. Tell Us Your Ecommerce Pain Points Check out our episode with Nick Disabato Use Unbounce To Build Beautiful Landing Pages. (FOR FREE if you can be considered a startup) Optimizly or Visual Website Optimizer or Adobe Target to create a better version of your current landing page Talk to Chris On Twitter Transcripts: Michael: Hello folks, and welcome to eCommerce Q&A, this is a podcast where store owners, directors of eCommerce, and eCommerce managers can stay up to date on the latest tools and tech in eCommerce. I'm your host Michael Bower, self proclaimed eCommerce junky and my guest today is Chris Dayley, the VP of testing inside optimization at Disruptive Advertising. I'm reading Chris's bio here. It says, "When he's not fixing his hair, you will most likely find him pushing the boundaries of AB testing. Disrupting the website design space, Chris frequently speaks on the topics of CRO and other thing

Show Notes: Tell Us Your Ecommerce Pain Subscribe On iTunes Set Up Merchant Center Set Up Adwords Set Up Remarketing SocialSEO twitter Josh@socialseo.com How To Setup Gmail Ads Set up Product Listing Ads Learn More About One of The Most Valuable Adwords Demographics Transcripts: Michael: Hello folks and welcome to eCommerce's Q&A. This is the show where store owners, directors of ecommerce, and ecommerce managers can stay up to date on the latest tools and tech in ecommerce. Our guest today is Josh Martin, pay-per-click manager at SocialSEO which is a wonderful agency down in Colorado Springs. Anybody that's doing this type of work in Colorado, we consider wonderful, but these guys are really amazing. We've done a lot of great work with them. We used to do SEO back from the day. Then we realized that it was a discipline where it wasn't really possible for us to stay on top of that and all the other things that we do, so we basically have opted to partner with really excellent providers like SocialSEO. Jos

Show Notes: Tell Us Your Biggest Ecommerce Pain Check out Freeeup Schedule a Call with Nathan Nathan's Recommended Repricing Software Check Out Freeeup on Facebook Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies Upgrade Your Ecommerce Store With Sellry podcast@sellry.com Transcripts: Michael: Hello folks and welcome to E-commerce Q&A, this is the podcast where store owners, directors of E-commerce, and E-commerce managers can stay up to date on the latest tools and technologies in E-commerce. Our guest today is Nathan Hirsch and Nathan is the CEO and founder at FreeeUp, which is an amazing company. We've actually interviewed Nathan before and today we're gonna talk about very a interesting topic that jumps further back into his history. Nathan, thank you for joining us. Nathan: Thanks so much for having me guys. Michael: Absolutely. First of all is it Nate or Nathan? Nathan: Nathan's fine. Michael: Cool. I was looking at your LinkedIn and you're in Winter Park, is that right? Natha

Show notes: Tell Us Your Ecommerce Pain Points Check out some work by Seth kodisagency.com Email Seth. seth@kodisagency.com Email us, we want to hear from you! podcast@sellry.com Sellry Transcript: Michael: Hello, folks. Welcome to eCommerce Q&A. This is the show where store owners, directors of eCommerce, eCommerce managers stay up-to-date on the latest tools, tech, and techniques in eCommerce. I'm your host, Michael Bower, and I am joined by Seth Erickson of Kodis Agency. You might recognize Seth from our previous episode on customer experience and this is third episode of a little miniseries that we're doing on timeless UX principles. With Seth being a master of those things, we thought it would be a fitting conclusion. Seth, welcome. Seth: Thank you for having me. Michael: Very quickly, before we go into stuff, I want to talk about the quick review of parts one and two. In the first episode, we talked about some general truths about UX and how it relates to other disciplines like conversation rate opt

Shownotes: Get the world's best Shopify marketer working for you today at KitCRM Whether you need a brand new ecommerce site or you just want to improve the one you've got Sellry can help. Email Michael Perry mp@shopify.com Talk To Michael Perry on Twitter Michael Bower and Michael Perry talk about KITCRM, the AI bot that will run your Shopify store's digital marketing for free. Transcripts: Michael B.: Hello folks and welcome to eCommerce QA. I'm your host Michael Bower and today I'm joined by Michael Perry, the founder of Kit CRM, which is an amazing app that can be used by Shopify stores. Hi Michael. Michael P.: Hi Mike. Thank you for having me today. Michael B.: Absolutely. So I was looking you up on LinkedIn and I noticed that I found not only you, and you have an amazing amount of accomplishments that I noticed, but also your assistant Kit is also on LinkedIn. Michael P.: Yeah, that's right. We really try to do everything that we can to kind of personify Kit and make people feel a little bit more comfor

Show Notes: Our Sponsor As Always Sellry.com Gunnar Computer Glasses Smart Medicine For Your Eyes Ocular Nutrition Handbook Dr. Anshel's Website Transcripts: Creighton: Hello and welcome to the Ecommerce Q&A Podcast. My name is Creighton and I will be your host. Today we're joined by Dr. Anshel, optometrist and fellow of the American Academy of Optometry. He's also the founder and past president of Ocular Nutrition Society, as well as the current president of Corporate Vision Consulting. Dr. Anshel, how are you doing today? Dr. Anshel: Doing great. Thanks for having me. Creighton: Yeah, absolutely. This is the third part of a three part series on eye strain, particularly eye strain caused by computer monitor or active computer monitor usage. Tell us a little bit about yourself. How long have you been working with eye health and in particular eye health around, you know, computer usage? Dr. Anshel: I've been in the industry for 40 years. Graduated optometry school in 1975 in Chicago, and been in San Diego

Shownotes: Tell Us About Your Ecommerce Pains Email Nick: office@draft.nu Email Us: podcast@sellry.com Do-it Yourself Heat Maps Hire Nick Get Nick's Course Nick's Newsletter Transcripts: Michael: Hey everybody. It's Michael, one of your hosts and welcome to Ecommerce QA. This is the show where store owners, directors of Ecommerce, and Ecommerce managers can stay up to date on the latest and greatest in Ecommerce. Today we are joined, very happily, by Nick Disabato, founder of Draft. Nick, welcome. Nick: Happy to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Michael: Absolutely. Well, this is the second time, a little bit of déjà vu going on, because was it last week? We started ... We actually were recording this episode, and the audio went all crazy, so now we have to outdo ourselves. Nick: Software is terrible. Michael: Yeah, yeah. Who writes the software anyways? So Nick, just in case nobody's heard of you ... Which everyone being on the show, if you haven't heard of Nick, you'll be very happy to hear what he

Shownotes: Can you tell us about your ecommerce pain points? http://sellry.com/survey Want to learn more about scrum? https://www.scrum.org/ Check out this TED talk, recommendation courtesy of Noelle. https://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_feiler_agile_programming_for_your_family Transcripts: Michael: Hello, folks, and welcome to eCommerce Q&A. This is the podcast where store owners, directors of eCommerce, and eCommerce managers can stay up-to-date on the latest tools and technologies in eCommerce. I'll be joined on the show by my colleague and partner-in-crime, Dillon Holst. Our goal is to handle one or two questions per episode. You can check us out on the web at eCommerceQA.tv. There, you'll be able to get in touch, ask us questions, and just generally participate. Dillon: Hey, everybody, my name is Dillon Holst, and I am joined today by Noelle of Sellry Commerce. Noelle, how are you? Noelle: I'm doing great. Dillon: Glad to hear it. Today, we're going to be talking about project management methodologies, sp

Show Notes: Subscribe on iTunes/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ecommerce-q-a/id1053721778?mt=2 Timeless UX Principles Part 1 of 3/ http://ecommerceqa.com/soundcast_music/timeless-ux-principles-part-1-of-3-whitespace/ Free Text Readability Consensus Calculator/ http://www.readabilityformulas.com/free-readability-formula-tests.php -The Flesch Grade Level Readability Formula/ http://www.readabilityformulas.com/flesch-grade-level-readability-formula.php Subject Line Tester/ http://subjectline.com Talk to us/ podcast@sellry.com Transcripts: Michael: Hello and welcome to eCommerce Q&A. This is the show where we address the needs and interests of eCommerce store owners and operators just like you. During the show, we'll cover such topics as how can you maintain a healthy lifestyle while growing an internet business, how can you optimize your shipping, and everything in between. That's right, folks, we're going to address lifestyle, as well as the tactical nuts and bolts of growing an eCommerce business.

Shownotes## Sherry's Personal Website http://www.sherrywalling.com/ Zenfounder Podcast http://zenfounder.com/ Mind Space App http://www.mindspace.org.uk/mobile-app/ Email sherry@sherrywalling.com Twitter https://twitter.com/zenfounder Transcript Michael: Hello folks, and welcome to another episode of E commerce QA. This is the show where we keep it fast and simple, to dig into the things that e commerce store owners and operators need to hear, need to be thinking about, and today I'm joined by Sherry Walling. Sherry has a PhD and we're going to talk about a topic that, I think, we all can get as much as possible of, which is clarity. Focus and clarity. Sherry thank you so much for joining. Sherry: My pleasure. Thanks for having me on. I'm a PhD in clinical psychology, incase that matters to your listeners, as opposed to history or astrophysics. Michael: It does. I realize as I said that I was like, "oh that wasn't very descriptive". So speaking of being clear about things, Sherry, what brings you

Show Notes: TED talk about the Quantified self https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_wolf_the_quantified_self Why Some People Respond to Stress by Falling Asleep https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/why-some-people-respond-to-stress-by-falling-asleep/282422/ Here is more information about Jawbone Trackers https://jawbone.com/up/trackers More Info about sleep sleephub.com.au Sleeptalk Podcast http://sleephub.com.au/podcast/ National Sleep Foundation https://sleepfoundation.org/ On this episode of eCommerceQ&A Podcast; Michael talks to Dr. David Cunnington of sleephub.com.au about the unique problems regarding sleep that face the eCommerce business owners of 2017 Transcript: Intro: Hello and welcome to E-commerce Q&A. This is the show where we address the needs and interests of e-commerce store owners and operators just like you. During the show, we'll cover such topics as how can you maintain a healthy lifestyle while growing an internet business? How can you optimize your shipping? And everythi

Show Notes Flickering article: http://www.eizo.com/library/basics/eyestrain/ Blue light article: http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/blue-light.htm Blue light Screen Protector https://www.amazon.com/Protector-Accurate-Films-Diagonal-Hazardous/dp/B00OL26BVK There are amber colored glasses Gunnar: https://gunnar.com/shop/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA5vXEBRChycOl36LPn5EBEiQAJV2-bEbcS9e3mPXNQ9u1ULnw_mIMyuUQAmKPgb-jCEDrB7EaAnSr8P8HAQ A cheaper option: https://www.amazon.com/Wayfarer-Sunglasses-Computer-Shooting-Protection/dp/B01C6IMJR F.lux Software: https://justgetflux.com/ Iris Software: https://iristech.co/ Transcript Noelle: Welcome to E-Commerce Q&A. Today is yet another lifestyle podcast. This is our second recording on our series with digital eyestrain. Today we'll be delving a bit deeper, as we discuss monitors, how they could potentially induce eyestrain, and what we can do about it. The information below is from our own basic research and practices. We invite you to research everything for yourself, and most importa

Eyebright Drops from Wisdom of the Ages on Amazon seems like a good clean option: https://www.amazon.com/Eyebright-Drops-Wisdom-Ages-oz/dp/B004THC2SS/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1484790557&sr=8-1&keywords=natural+eye+drops#As Lightpack for ambient lighting: https://www.amazon.com/Lightpack-LightpackUSB/dp/B00LFW1P6U Noelle: Hey everyone. Welcome to e-commerce Q&A. The winter sun is shining brightly outside, it is a gorgeous day. Today we're going to try something a little different, we're going to be doing a mini series on computer vision syndrome. This is the technical term for eye strain and pain linked with the use of computers. I have Michael Barrow with me today and we will be touching on some of the basic first steps to put into place that help in preventing computer eye strain. Welcome Michael, so glad to have you with us. Michael: Thanks Noelle, it's good to be here. Noelle: Awesome, okay to jump right in, and just for our listeners. There are some pretty basic steps nothing to complic

If you want to talk to us, feel free to call us at (866-873-5579) or email us at sales@sellry.com. Michael Bower: Hello folks, and welcome to eCommerce QA. This is the podcast where store owners, directors of eCommerce and eCommerce managers can stay up-to-date on the latest tools and technologies in eCommerce. I’ll be joined on the show by my colleague and partner in crime Dillon Holst. Our goal is to handle one or two questions per episode. You can check us out on the web at ecommerceqa.tv. There you’ll be able to get in touch, ask us questions and just generally participate. Dillon Holst: What’s going on ladies and gentlemen? I am Dillon Holst and today I am joined by Michael Bower of Sellry Commerce. Today we’re going to be talking about UX designed specifically for e-commerce websites. So Michael, how are you? Michael Bower: I’m good Dillon, how about you? Dillon Holst: Doing very well. I’m excited to be here today and talk about something that’s relatively interesting, but I think often overlooked in th