eCommerce Podcast

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eCommerce Conversations with Carolyn Lowe

Is Amazon Cutting Your Product Titles to Just 75 Characters?

with Carolyn LowefromROI Swift

Carolyn Lowe left a $2B division at Dell to build ROI Swift, an Austin agency that's helped 150+ consumer brands generate over $100M on Amazon. Her core argument is that when sales stall, most brands throw more money at ads when the real problem is their product pages. She explains how she grades listings A to F, why roughly a fifth of most ad budgets is wasted, and the clean rule that your main image drives traffic while your content drives conversion. There's also a hard Amazon deadline every seller needs to act on, plus why she backs affiliates over influencers and rates Amazon Business.

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Can Old-School Direct Mail Beat Email Marketing in Ecommerce?

Daniel Dunn spent years inside Tesco Clubcard data before co-founding Paper Planes, and he thinks almost every ecommerce brand is ignoring a hugely profitable channel, the letterbox. He explains why direct mail to your warm, first-party customers pulls four to five times the response of email, how a single abandoned-cart postcard nudges buyers back around day seven, and why the right product combinations lift basket spend by 25 to 30 per cent. The real prize, he argues, is the second purchase, loyalty needn't mean discounting, and one loyal customer is worth thirteen who only ever trial your brand. Drawing on his Clubcard heritage, Dan makes the case for mail as the reactivation channel hiding in plain sight.

How AI Is Quietly Killing Your eCommerce App Stack

There are thousands of software companies all chasing the same small pool of brands on Shopify — and AI is quietly dismantling the bloated tech stacks they built. Neal Goyal, a go-to-market advisor who's led sales at some of ecommerce software's biggest names, explains why the "uninstall rate" is surging, how the ecosystem commoditised in three waves, and why agentic commerce is about to change everything again. His advice for anxious founders is bracingly old-school. Stop chasing shiny objects, do the Business 101, and invest in the human relationships AI can't replace. The thing that sets you apart was never the software.

How to Win on Walmart, Not Just Amazon

Andrew Deramo, founder of SellTru, on winning on Walmart Marketplace — the mistake that kills launches, the account managers who place your product on virtual shelves, switching your ads off once you rank, and the wholesale play most sellers walk past.

Why Your 2-Pound Parcel Ships Like It Weighs 18

Leo Rodriguez, VP of River Plate, has spent years watching ecommerce brands quietly overpay on shipping, sometimes billed for 18 pounds on a parcel that weighs two. In this episode he breaks down dimensional weight, cartonization and carrier rate-shopping, the moves that save $2 to $3 on every order and protect margin at scale. He also explains why smaller brands got hammered hardest by the new tariffs, the international shipping gray zones that get products stuck in customs, and why fuel surcharges and packaging costs look like the new normal. Essential listening for anyone shipping physical product.

The Elastic Band That Became a Global Brand

Emma Burke spotted Laceeze on the touchline of her son's football training, where a parent had looped an elastic band around a boy's boots to stop his laces coming undone. She joins Matt to share how a £6 band became a global brand, how to market a product nobody is searching for, why she pulled her best seller right before Christmas, and how she turns angry customers into five-star reviews.

Two Ecommerce Podcasters Walk Into a Studio…

Brett Curry of OMG Commerce and Matt Edmundson each host a top ecommerce podcast, so they recorded one conversation for both shows. The first half is about building a business worth buying — thinking like an investor, Jay Abraham's three ways to grow, why a 5% price rise can mean roughly 40% more net profit, and how turning buyers into subscribers and members can lift an exit from a 3x to an 8x multiple. The second half is a 2026 YouTube ads masterclass: why half of YouTube is watched on a TV, the five things every ad needs, turning Meta winners into YouTube creative, and the measurement trap.

He's Never Written a Line of Code in His Life

Dima Negodiuk runs five businesses with zero employees, and he's never written a line of code. A self-styled Fractional AI Officer, he joins Matt to get practical about where a non-technical ecommerce founder should actually start with AI. They cover why Claude Code is the on-ramp, pointing it at your biggest problem rather than a tutorial project, and the difference between playing with AI and deploying it. Dima shares the 24/7 use cases that give small stores an edge — from an AI call centre to overnight autonomous work — and why a human still has to stay in the loop.

I'm Spending 90 Days Cracking Instagram For My Ecommerce Business (Here's The Plan)

Two founders, both wildly successful, just gave completely opposite advice about whether ecom operators should build a personal brand — and Matt is running a 90-day experiment to find out which one is right for founders like us. Davie Fogarty (the $200M-a-year founder behind The Oodie) reckons founders shouldn't bother with personal brand until they're past $10 million — the opportunity cost of a single YouTube video runs to roughly $3,200 of founder time, and that money tests paid-ads creative far more effectively.

How to Get Organic Traffic for Ecommerce in 2026 (6-Front Playbook)

Most ecommerce founders are fighting for organic traffic on one front — Google SEO — while paid CAC detonates around them. In 2026, organic actually lives on six surfaces: AI Discovery, Site SEO, Blog and Content, YouTube, Social SEO, and Digital PR. Matt Edmundson walks through all six, gives one concrete action per surface, and shares the free 6-Surface Organic Audit Kit so you can run the whole playbook in a single Saturday afternoon.

The 25 Questions That Make Amazon Rufus Push Your Product Higher

Selluna founder David Balan walks Matt through the three pillars of Amazon — traffic, clicks and conversion — and makes the case for optimising for Rufus, Amazon's new AI shopping assistant, before everyone else does. With up to 40% of US sales now touching Rufus, the brands building Rufus-ready listings today will defend their positions for the next decade, like the SEO winners of 2016. David shares his framework for the top 25 questions, why not A/B testing your main image is criminal, and the line that sums it up — text speaks to the algorithm, images speak to the customer.

The £500 Tool She Uses to Fact-Check Her Marketing Agency

Rachel Hanretty ships 25,000 macarons a week — and pays £500 a month for a tool that fact-checks what her marketing agency is telling her. In this episode, she explains why Klaviyo overstates its impact, how she caught agencies dodging accountability, and why every seasonal ecommerce founder feels "gaslit" by their own business between April and September. Rachel is the founder of Mademoiselle Macaron, a Scottish macaron brand she built from a St Andrews student flat in 2013 after learning the craft in Paris. Thirteen years on, she ships UK-wide, colour-matches macarons to Charlotte Tilbury lipstick launches, and runs the attribution gauntlet every seasonal ecommerce brand knows well. Subscribe for weekly conversations with founders and experts who've built the kind of ecommerce businesses worth listening to.

Why Your Products Should Be on 60 Marketplaces, Not Just Amazon

There are 1,300 marketplaces worldwide and most ecommerce brands are stuck on just one or two. Jorrit Steinz, CEO of ChannelEngine, reveals why the biggest mistake sellers make is not exploring marketplace selling at all. He shares a practical framework for choosing the right platforms using seller-to-buyer ratios, explains why marketplace ad spend builds organic ranking in ways Google never will, and tells the story of a German customer running 60 marketplaces with just two people. Whether you are established and looking to expand or just starting out, this episode maps a clear path from Amazon-only to multi-marketplace scale.

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