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Now displaying: October, 2017
Oct 26, 2017

My guest today is Brian Johnson of the software company PPC Scope and online course Sponsor Products Academy. Brian has been selling online for a number of years now and has really found his stride on Amazon. On today’s episode, Brian talks about his selling background and explains why he dove into PPC advertising. This a really meaty episode and there is a lot of information crammed into it.

If you are an established Amazon seller or just getting started this episode will offer some golden advice to make your business grow.

Here’s what we covered in today’s episode:

  • How Brian and I met.
  • Brian’s long business journey.
  • How Brian learned PPC advertising.
  • The importance of adapting in business.
  • The most effective way to use PPC advertising on Amazon.
  • The biggest mistakes sellers make in PPC advertising.
  • How to use your PPC knowledge off-Amazon.
  • Where Amazon is heading in their PPC advertising evolution, in Brian’s opinion.

If you are wanting to get started in PPC advertising on Amazon, start with Brian’s Facebook group called Amazon PPC Troubleshooting. Then check out his software PPC Scope and sign up for his course called Sponsored Products Academy. Let Brian show you the most effective way to use this valuable tool!

Resources Mentioned Today:

Amazon

Amazon PPC Troubleshooting Facebook Group

Jump Send

PPC Scope

Sponsored Products Academy

If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast you can now email us directly at ecomcrew.com!  Just send those emails to support@ecomcrew.com. Also, we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

Oct 19, 2017

Today’s episode is a pre-recorded episode. At the time of this podcast, Dave and I are attending Global Sources. These pre-recorded episodes are a great opportunity to interview some highly successful ecom business owners. My guest today is one of those highly successful ecommerce entrepreneurs.

Dana Jaunzemis is the owner of Homehealthtesting.com. She purchased the business at a time when she saw the potential for profitability. That eye for good business decisions seems to be Dana’s superpower. This is her seventh business she has purchased and she has owned it for seven years. On today’s episode, Dana tells me what draws her to ecommerce and why she feels she is so well suited for it. Dana has some great insights into ecommerce business. Tune for some solid advice from this awesome entrepreneur!

Here are some of the points of our conversation:

  • Why Dana likes ecommerce so much.
  • Dana’s addiction to the “growth phase” of business.
  • What Dana looks for in a business opportunity.
  • What caused her to shift her perspective on her business.
  • Why a company should have a “comfort zone.”
  • Why Mike likes to focus on growth.
  • Why Dana likes the business to business model.
  • Problems a large amount of overhead can cause a business.
  • Dana’s top 3 skills set.
  • The importance of knowing your metrics.
  • How to be more efficient in your business.
  • Is being “addicted” to growth a bad thing?
  • The dangers of “hyper-growth.”
  • Why ecommerce conferences and meetups are so important to the community.

A special thank you to Dana Jaunzemis for joining us today! She and I will both be attending EcommerceFuel Live in January. For more information on that event, check out the link below.  We will be getting back to live episodes on Facebook soon, but at the moment Dave and I are traveling a lot, so please follow our page for updates.

Resources Mentioned Today:

EcomCrew Facebook Page

EcommerceFuel Live!

Homehealthtesting.com

Global Sources

If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast you can now email us directly at ecomcrew.com!  Just send those emails to support@ecomcrew.com. Also, we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

Oct 12, 2017

Today, Dave and I talk about the tricks and tips we have found running our businesses that have helped our bottom lines. There are a total of ten tips and we share some personal insight with each tip. If you are running your own ecommerce business, then today’s episode could be a helpful resource for you.

Here’s what we covered during this episode:

  • Why you need to keep your accounting books current.
  • How to trim your product catalog to save money.
  • How to cut back your advertising budget effectively.
  • Why you should consolidate shipments.
  • How to find the right manufacturers to save money.
  • The evils of air shipping.
  • How to trim back your SaaS tool budget.
  • The items or prices you should always negotiate.
  • Why Canada is a good source of cheaper labor right now.
  • How to choose a high margin product.

Some of these topics are covered in our online course called, Build A $1,000,000 Private Label Business Importing Kickass Products From China. Check the link out below if you are interested in taking part in it. If you are planning to get into the importing business, we tried to build a course that will get you started on the right foot!

We hope this list was useful to you and we plan to be getting back to the live episodes soon. If you want to be part of our live episodes just look for our Facebook page. That’s www.facebook.com/ecomcrew and like our page. You will get notices about when we’re about to go live.

We also have two sponsors for this episode. Stamped.io, which is a great tool if you need to get some quality reviews for your Shopify store. As well as, AsiaInspection, both Dave and I use AsiaInspection when we have to inspect a shipment from China. Both of these sponsors are great partners and we’re happy to have a relationship with them.

Resources Mentioned Today:

AsiaInspection

EcomCrew Course

EcomCrew Facebook Page

Stamped.io

If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast you can now email us directly at ecomcrew.com!  Just send those emails to support@ecomcrew.com. Also, we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

Oct 5, 2017

We get a lot of questions about what services and applications we use in our day to day business. Today I’m going to give our listeners a list of tools and services that really help us stay on top of our business. To begin with, we have four brands under the EcomCrew umbrella. The four brands are Colorit.com, Icewraps.com, Wild Baby, and Tactical.com. We use all these tools to run every brand and keep track of our customers’ needs.

Here is a list of those tools:

  • Shopify -- Every brand we have is built on Shopify. It is the best platform we have found for running an ecommerce business. I will explain how we came to that conclusion during the episode.
  • Stamped.io -- We use Stamped.io to get good quality reviews. Of course, they are a sponsor of the podcast, but we use their service because it is the best value.
  • Zipify Pages -- If we are running a promotion or sale, Zipify is the tool we use to build the landing page.
  • Shoelace -- This app allows us to create retargeting ads fast and easy!
  • Rewind -- A tool we use to make sure we have system backups.
  • Skubana -- This app gathers up our orders and distributes them to the right fulfillment station. It is a big time saver. I’m a little frustrated with Skubana, to be honest, but I will get into that during the episode.
  • Klaviyo -- If you are a long time listener, you know I use Klaviyo a lot. It is a time-saving tool that makes email marketing a lot easier.
  • ClickFunnels -- ClickFunnels is a service that helps keep track of our special promotion and contest email campaigns.
  • AdEspresso -- An essential tool for creating great Facebook ads.
  • Quickbooks Online -- The service we use to keep our books.
  • Gleam.io and Up-Viral -- We use both for contest promotions.
  • Phone.com -- This app redirects customer service calls to personal or designated phone numbers, so we can settle customer issues more efficiently.
  • Sellics -- An Amazon based tool that is similar to Skubana.
  • Splitly -- A split testing app.
  • Jungle Scout -- A service we use to research new products and current market trends.
  • RestockPro -- A tool that helps track our inventory and helps us plan reorders with plenty of time to spare!
  • Basecamp -- The newest addition to our toolbox. Basecamp is a project management tool that allows us to keep in touch with all team members, no matter where they are based.

So there you have it, our list of tools and services that help us keep the EcomCrew machine humming.

I recently did some traveling on the east coast and I attended an EcommerceFuel meetup and met some great people. So hello, to all of you I met up with earlier!

We have also released our first course on EcomCrew.com! The course is called Build A $1,000,000 Private Label Business Importing Kickass Products From China, if you are interested in the importing business, check out the link below.

As a reminder, I will be speaking at Global Sources (discount code: ec350) during October 17-19 and I will be attending and speaking at EcomerceFuel Live during January 11-13. Please keep in mind that with all this travel the live Facebook shows will be postponed, but there will still be pre-recorded episodes.

In closing, we also have a second sponsor for this episode, AsiaInspection. Dave and I both use AsiaInspection for our overseas shipments. They provide a very important service for anyone needing to double check the quality of their shipments.

Resources Mentioned Today:  

AdEspresso

AsiaInspection

Basecamp

ClickFunnels

Colorit.com

EcomCrew Course

EcomCrew Facebook Page

EcommerceFuel

EcommerceFuel Live

Gleam.io

Global Sources

Icewraps.com

Jungle Scout

Klaviyo

Phone.com

Quickbooks Online

RestockPro

Rewind

Sellics

Shoelace

Shopify

Skubana

Splitly

Stamped.io

Tactical.com

UpViral

Wild Baby

Zipify


If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also, we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

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