Ecommerce Conversations

Practical Ecommerce

Ecommerce Conversations is the long-running weekly podcast from Practical Ecommerce, hosted by ecommerce entrepreneur Eric Bandholz.
•• Listen in as Eric interviews in-the-trenches founders and executives who address the essentials of launching, growing, and sustaining an online business. Hear their successes, mistakes, and plans — addressing customer acquisition, web traffic, marketing tactics, on-site conversion, shipping, favorite tools, funding, obstacles, and much more.
•• New episodes every Friday. Subscribe to the podcast here, and then read a condensed transcript at https://www.PracticalEcommerce.com/tag/podcasts.

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Top 10 Ecommerce Conversations Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Ecommerce Conversations episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Ecommerce Conversations for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Ecommerce Conversations episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

'Impossible Sleep' Makes Sleep Possible

Ecommerce Conversations

05/27/22 • 30 min

Joel Runyon launched Impossible, a fitness and performance company, in 2010. The company sells digital training programs, apparel, and nutritional supplements. "Sleep," a powder drink, is the latest. It helps high performers recharge and recover via deep sleeping.

Fed-up Toy Company Responds to Knock-offs

Ecommerce Conversations

05/20/22 • 31 min

Molson Hart launched Viahart, a manufacturer of educational toys, in 2010, selling mainly on Amazon. The company experienced repeated intellectual property theft, which prompted his launch of a second company, Edison Litigation Financing.

3PL Founder: 'I'm in the Exceptions Management Business'

Ecommerce Conversations

04/02/21 • 30 min

Jay Sauceda launched his ecommerce fulfillment company, Sauceda Industries, in 2013 in Austin, Texas. He says packing and shipping products is easy. What's difficult, he stated, is managing unforeseen events. "The shipping business is, essentially, the exceptions management business," he told me.

Building an Ecommerce Business, Part 4: Copywriting Is Key

Ecommerce Conversations

10/16/18 • 35 min

Good copy sells. Generic imagery and descriptions might cause shoppers to move on without giving your product a second thought. Spicing up your copy, whether it be emails, social media, or product descriptions will give your online store a personality to stand above competitors.In this fourth installment in my series of conversations about building an ecommerce business, I'm visiting with Neville Medhora, founder of Kopywriting Kourse.

Amazon Complements SMB Ecommerce, Says BigCommerce CEO

Ecommerce Conversations

04/12/17 • 22 min

Many small-to-midsize ecommerce merchants view Amazon as a competitor, albeit one they are force to sell on. Brent Bellm, CEO of BigCommerce, disagrees. He believes Amazon can complement an ecommerce business.

Sales-Tax Update from Streamlined Sales Tax Director

Ecommerce Conversations

05/22/14 • 22 min

Attempts to simplify the administration and collection of Internet sales taxes might be the most daunting task in the ecommerce industry. There are thousands of state, county and city taxation districts in the U.S., and they all have different tax rates, and rules. But the Streamlined Sales Tax organization is attempting to make it easier for ecommerce merchants and its executive director, Scott Peterson, is here to update us on that organization’s progress. He joins Practical Ecommerce’s Kerry Murdock.

Lingo24 Founder On Reaching Global Markets

Ecommerce Conversations

05/22/14 • 19 min

There are many countries with fast-growing economies — and fast-growing Internet audiences — that are not natively English speaking. How do ecommerce merchants reach those countries, and those audiences? Through translation and localization, mainly. We’re joined by an expert on those topics. He’s Christian Arno, founder of Lingo24, a global translation and localization firm. He speaks with Practical Ecommerce’s Kerry Murdock.

Early Impact CEO On Subscription Revenue Opportunities

Ecommerce Conversations

05/22/14 • 19 min

The notion of adding additional revenue to an ecommerce business presumably appeals to merchants. And, increasingly, one way to do that is with the use of subscriptions. Amazon Prime may be the best example of a merchant selling subscriptions, but there are many ways smaller merchants can do it, too. To discuss the possibilities of subscription revenue, we welcome Massimo Arrigoni, the CEO of Early Impact, which has just launched a new hosted subscription management platform. He joins Practical Ecommerce’s Kerry Murdock.

AlgoZone CEO on Ready-Made Ecommerce Templates

Ecommerce Conversations

05/22/14 • 13 min

Ecommerce merchants frequently incur development fees to obtain specific features or appearances for their websites. But there are also prebuilt templates that can do this and one maker of them is AlgoZone. It offers hundreds of ready-made templates for, mainly, open source ecommerce platforms. It’s CEO is Pavel Rojkov, and he joins Practical Ecommerce’s Kerry Murdock.

Software Founder Pivots to PPE Manufacturing

Ecommerce Conversations

10/18/24 • 38 min

Host Eric Bandholz has interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs for this podcast. Most are problem solvers and optimists, confident in their ability to fulfill a need.
Take Lloyd Armbrust. He's an editor turned software founder, having launched OwnLocal, a Y Combinator-backed portal for local newspapers.
When the pandemic hit, he observed doctors and nurses struggling to obtain protective masks and gloves. He thought, "This is ridiculous. How hard could it be to make these things?"
His solution was Armbrust American, an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of personal protective equipment, which he started in May 2020 and remains viable despite the dramatic drop in demand.
He shares his lessons in this episode, addressing manufacturing, ecommerce, and family-first priorities.
For an edited and condensed transcript with embedded audio, see: https://pec-ly.com/?6tC7
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How many episodes does Ecommerce Conversations have?

Ecommerce Conversations currently has 517 episodes available.

What topics does Ecommerce Conversations cover?

The podcast is about E-Commerce, Ecommerce, Podcasts and Business.

What is the most popular episode on Ecommerce Conversations?

The episode title 'Amazon Consultant on Competition, Black-hat Sellers' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Ecommerce Conversations?

The average episode length on Ecommerce Conversations is 25 minutes.

How often are episodes of Ecommerce Conversations released?

Episodes of Ecommerce Conversations are typically released every 6 days, 22 hours.

When was the first episode of Ecommerce Conversations?

The first episode of Ecommerce Conversations was released on Jan 11, 2008.

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