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Avoid All-Caps Headlines, Says CRO Pro
Nate Lagos is a seasoned conversion rate optimizer, yet a recent A/B test surprised him.
A client used all caps in key landing page headlines. Nate, h…
2 months, 1 week ago
Printful Exec on Profitable Print-on-Demand
Thanks to companies such as Printful, an enterprising entrepreneur can select a product, upload an image to place on it, sync it with her ecommerce s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Building a Life, Not Just a Business
The last few years have been rough for Beardbrand, the direct-to-consumer company that host Eric Bandholz founded over a decade ago. He says pretty m…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Pinwheel CEO on Selling Kid-Safe Phones
In 2019 Dane Witbeck had a problem familiar to parents: What were his kids doing on their smartphones?
That problem became his motivation to launch Pi…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Engineer Quits, Launches Online Art School
Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada's Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she disl…
3 months ago
2 Bootstrapped D2C Brands, 1 CEO
For four years Eric Steckling has run two direct-to-consumer brands. Brio, the company he founded in 2014, sells beard trimmers and related goods. In…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ecommerce Investor on Turnaround Tactics (Encore)
Please enjoy this repeat of a popular episode first aired in April 2025.
Mehtab Bhogal is the co-founder of Karta Ventures, a Canada-based acquirer of…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Chord Commerce CEO on Pivoting to Data
When he appeared on this podcast in 2021, Bryan Mahoney had just co-founded Chord, an ecommerce platform that separated the public frontend from the …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside Beardbrand's Expansion Plan
We've hit a plateau at Beardbrand, the direct-to-consumer business I launched 15 years ago. Our revenue is down from its peak. We've made mistakes.
Th…
4 months ago
Viahart Founder Eyes Sales in China
Contrary to much U.S. sentiment, Molson Hart sees opportunity in China. His direct-to-consumer toy brand, Viahart, sells mostly on Amazon, though gro…
4 months, 1 week ago