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 Hidden Revenue Leak Sitting on Your Shopify Collection Pages

Sorting your Shopify collection pages by bestsellers feels smart, but it quietly buries your highest margin products and leaks revenue. In this episode, Julia Wawrzynek, Marketing Manager at Sortwise,...

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eCommerce Fastlane | The Hidden Revenue Leak Sitting on Your Shopify Collection Pages
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eCommerce Fastlane | The AI Employees Running Your Amazon Brand While You Sleep

One Amazon brand added $215K in annual profit across 15 SKUs by replacing its software stack with coordinated AI agents. In this episode, Chad Rubin, founder and CEO of...

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eCommerce Fastlane | The AI Employees Running Your Amazon Brand While You Sleep
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eCommerce Fastlane | Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales

Paying more for ads while 97% of your Shopify traffic leaves without buying? The cheaper growth lever is conversion, not acquisition. In this episode, Krisztian Kiraly, International Partnership Manager...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Conversion Rate Is Lying to You: The 4 Numbers That Actually Predict Revenue

Your conversion rate is lying to you. If you’re scaling a Shopify brand and treating CRO as a single number, this episode rebuilds how you diagnose what’s actually broken...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Conversion Rate Is Lying to You: The 4 Numbers That Actually Predict Revenue
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eCommerce Fastlane | From Dashboards to Doing: Triple Whale’s Moby 2 with Maxx Blank

Your attribution dashboard tells you ROAS dropped, but not what to do about it, and for scaling Shopify brands that gap costs real ad spend. In this episode, Maxx...

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eCommerce Fastlane | From Dashboards to Doing: Triple Whale's Moby 2 with Maxx Blank
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eCommerce Fastlane | What’s Your Profit Target? The Question Most Shopify Founders Can’t Answer (with Thomas Gleeson, StoreHero)

Great ROAS but no profit? If you’re a Shopify brand watching revenue grow while margin disappears, this episode shows you where the money actually leaks. In this episode, Thomas...

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eCommerce Fastlane | What's Your Profit Target? The Question Most Shopify Founders Can't Answer (with Thomas Gleeson, StoreHero)
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eCommerce Fastlane | The 5 to 15% of Revenue Hiding in Your Shopify Store (and Why You Never Capture It)

There’s revenue sitting in your Shopify store right now, and most brands doing $1M+ never capture it because they’re too busy fighting fires. In this episode, Apoorva Modi, founder...

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eCommerce Fastlane | The 5 to 15% of Revenue Hiding in Your Shopify Store (and Why You Never Capture It)
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why AI Recommends Some Shopify Products and Ignores Yours

ChatGPT and Google’s AI are recommending products right now, and Shopify brands with messy, scattered product data are the ones getting skipped. In this episode, Trever Chidester, director of...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why AI Recommends Some Shopify Products and Ignores Yours
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eCommerce Fastlane | Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here’s Where It’s Already Working)

AI voice agents are recovering 35% of abandoned Shopify carts, and most operators haven’t noticed yet. In this solo episode, Steve Hutt breaks down: Why AI voice beats email...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here's Where It's Already Working)
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why a 3,000-Follower Creator Beats a Celebrity Influencer (And How to Run It at Scale)

Meta and Google CACs keep climbing, so Shopify brands are paying micro-influencers in product, not cash. In this episode, William Gasner, co-founder and CMO of Stack Influence, breaks down:...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why a 3,000-Follower Creator Beats a Celebrity Influencer (And How to Run It at Scale)
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eCommerce Fastlane | AI Brought a Stranger to Your Door. Now What?

AI just delivered a stranger to your Shopify store who has zero brand context — and the first 48 hours after purchase decide whether they ever come back.  In...

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eCommerce Fastlane | AI Brought a Stranger to Your Door. Now What?
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Ads Know Your Customer. Your Website Doesn’t

Your ads are hyper-personalized. Your Shopify storefront isn’t. That mismatch is leaking conversions for 7-figure brands. In this episode, Kratik Agrawal, founder and CEO of Kinect (YC-backed), breaks down:...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Ads Know Your Customer. Your Website Doesn't
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eCommerce Fastlane | How First-Party Shopify Data Cuts Meta Ad CAC by 30%

Your strongest Meta ads signal is sitting in Shopify, not the pixel, and most brands are leaving it untapped. In this episode, Tiago Costa, co-founder and CEO of FULLVENUE...

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eCommerce Fastlane | How First-Party Shopify Data Cuts Meta Ad CAC by 30%
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eCommerce Fastlane | Revenue Up, Profit Flat: The Multi-Marketplace Trap Stalling Shopify Brands

Scaling your Shopify brand to Amazon, Walmart, or TikTok Shop with revenue climbing but profit flat? You’ve hit the freelancer fragmentation trap. In this episode, Saad Sohail Khan, founder...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Revenue Up, Profit Flat: The Multi-Marketplace Trap Stalling Shopify Brands
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eCommerce Fastlane | Only 30 Shopify Merchants Used OpenAI’s Instant Checkout. Here’s Why That Matters.

Out of millions of Shopify merchants, only 30 went live with OpenAI’s Instant Checkout before it got killed six months later. Here’s what actually happened with agentic commerce, and...

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eCommerce Fastlane | Only 30 Shopify Merchants Used OpenAI's Instant Checkout. Here's Why That Matters.
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