eCommerce Fastlane

Hosted BySteve Hutt

Shopify Experts Share Strategies for Acquisition, Conversion, Retention | Grow Your Shopify Store with DTC Marketing Tips with Steve Hutt, the host of eCommerce Fastlane – your go-to podcast for proven strategies and actionable insights to accelerate your Shopify store's growth. As a seasoned ecommerce entrepreneur, I'm passionate about empowering online retailers to boost traffic, conversions, and lifetime customer value. One reviewer described the show as having an "impressive level of content that is accessible for beginners, but even more rewarding for deep e-commerce experts who want to get into the weeds of marketing & operations and translate these strategies into actions." Since 2016, eCommerce Fastlane has been the pit-stop for Shopify entrepreneurs and marketers looking to thrive in the co...


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eCommerce Fastlane | The $9,000 Affiliate Fraud Most Shopify Brands Are Paying For (And Don’t Know It)

A mom influencer with 3,000 followers pocketed $9K in fraudulent affiliate commissions in 90 days. If you run a Shopify affiliate program, you’re likely overpaying too. In this episode,...

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | The $9,000 Affiliate Fraud Most Shopify Brands Are Paying For (And Don't Know It)
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Shopify Store Might Be Selling at a Loss (And Your Inventory Is Why)

Shopify’s free inventory tool Stocky shuts down August 31—and most of the 100,000+ merchants using it don’t have a replacement plan yet. In this episode, Riikka Söderlund, COO of...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Shopify Store Might Be Selling at a Loss (And Your Inventory Is Why)
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your ROAS Is Lying to You: How Profit-First Marketing Actually Works

Spending more on ads than ever but not seeing profit? Most Shopify brands trust their ROAS dashboards over their P&L—and it’s costing them. In this episode, Matt Raminick, founder...

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | Your ROAS Is Lying to You: How Profit-First Marketing Actually Works
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Shopify Store Is Already Inside ChatGPT — Here’s What That Actually Means

Your Shopify store is now live inside ChatGPT, Copilot, and Google AI Mode—and most merchants have no idea it happened. In this solo episode, Steve breaks down what Shopify’s...

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | Your Shopify Store Is Already Inside ChatGPT — Here's What That Actually Means
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Ads Aren’t Broken. Your Data Is. (Here’s the Fix)

Three dashboards, three different numbers—if your Meta, Google, and Shopify analytics can’t agree on conversions, you’re making spend decisions on broken data. In this episode, Sean Larkin, Chief Product...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Ads Aren’t Broken. Your Data Is. (Here’s the Fix)
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your 7X ROAS Isn’t Showing Up in Your Bank Account

Revenue rising, profit shrinking? Your Shopify brand may have a profitability problem disguised as a growth problem. In this episode, Ben Dyer, Head of Growth at Webtopia — managing...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your 7X ROAS Isn't Showing Up in Your Bank Account
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eCommerce Fastlane | From 8 Cents to 40 Cents Per Subscriber: Building a Retention System That Actually Pays

Your email list generates $0.08 per subscriber on average—but Shopify brands with the right retention system are hitting $0.40. In this episode, Tris Dyer, founder of Oaks Email Studio,...

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eCommerce Fastlane | From 8 Cents to 40 Cents Per Subscriber: Building a Retention System That Actually Pays
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your ROAS Is Green. Your Bank Account Isn’t. Here’s Why.

Revenue climbing, dashboards green, bank account still running dry—Shopify brands can have an 8x ROAS and still lose $100K a month.  In this episode, Adam Callinan, CEO of Pentane...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Your ROAS Is Green. Your Bank Account Isn't. Here's Why.
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eCommerce Fastlane | How Much Should You Actually Spend on AI? A Revenue-Stage Framework for Shopify Brands

Shopify brands are stacking AI tools and wasting money. If you’re not sure what to actually spend on AI at your revenue stage, this episode cuts through the noise....

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eCommerce Fastlane | How Much Should You Actually Spend on AI? A Revenue-Stage Framework for Shopify Brands
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eCommerce Fastlane | Stop Giving Discounts To Customers Who Were Already Going To Buy

Blind discounting is quietly destroying your Shopify margins—even when customers were already ready to buy. In this episode, Muhammed Tüfekyapan, founder of Growth Suite, breaks down: Why “walkaway customers”...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Stop Giving Discounts To Customers Who Were Already Going To Buy
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your Best Content Is Invisible in AI Search (And How to Fix It)

Six-month window to rank in AI search before enterprises catch up—if your Shopify brand isn’t showing up in ChatGPT or Perplexity product recommendations yet, this is your roadmap. In...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your Best Content Is Invisible in AI Search (And How to Fix It)
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your $100 DTC Orders Can’t Compete with $10K Wholesale Relationships

DTC brands struggling in 2025: there’s a $5.9 trillion wholesale opportunity you’re missing while chasing the $1.3 trillion online market. In this episode, Meghann Butcher, founder of RepSpark, breaks...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your $100 DTC Orders Can't Compete with $10K Wholesale Relationships
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Alibaba Shows You The Wrong Suppliers First (And What Top Brands Do Instead)

Alibaba makes 90% of revenue from supplier advertising—meaning the factories you see first simply paid the most to rank there. In this episode, discover: Why Alibaba’s pay-to-rank model keeps...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Alibaba Shows You The Wrong Suppliers First (And What Top Brands Do Instead)
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eCommerce Fastlane | 162,000 Discount Codes Analyzed: The Unique Strategy That’s Secretly Driving Shopify’s Top Brands

Most Shopify stores are bleeding margin with generic discount codes that get scraped, shared, and abused—while missing the strategic segmentation that actually drives conversions. In this episode, discover: How...

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | 162,000 Discount Codes Analyzed: The Unique Strategy That's Secretly Driving Shopify's Top Brands
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Shopify Brands Need a Data Layer (Not Just Better Tracking)

When Facebook shows 50 sales, Google Analytics shows 35, and Shopify shows 68 — which number do you trust to scale profitably? In this episode, discover: How server-side tracking...

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | Why Shopify Brands Need a Data Layer (Not Just Better Tracking)
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