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eCommerce Fastlane | The Affiliate Channel Most Brands Ignore: One Partner Driving $120K a Month

Up to 90% of affiliate applications add no value, yet paid search partners drive six figures a month for scaling DTC brands. In this episode, Joshua Kennedy, founder of Imagine Marketing, breaks down: Why paid search review sites beat PR hits, with one affiliate partner driving $120K a month for a single brand How $5,000…

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eCommerce Fastlane | The Affiliate Channel Most Brands Ignore: One Partner Driving $120K a Month
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eCommerce Fastlane | The Cheap Ad Inventory Everyone’s Ignoring While They Fight Over TikTok

Shopify retargeting stuck on one channel? A 4-person brand hit 35x ROAS running ads across social, email, and display. In this episode, Lizzie Chapman, VP of Technology Partnerships and Channels at AdRoll, breaks down: Why cutting brand awareness spend can double your recovery time, and how it feeds your retargeting funnel How a $1,500 product…

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eCommerce Fastlane | The Cheap Ad Inventory Everyone's Ignoring While They Fight Over TikTok
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why a Bootstrapped Product Guide Spends More on Bing Than Google (And Converts 3x Better)

Shoppers often choose your product on a comparison site before reaching Amazon or Shopify, and most brands never see it. In this episode, Tigran Egoyan, Founder and Chief Growth Officer at BestChoice.guide, breaks down: Why Microsoft Ads converted two to three times better than Google for high intent desktop shoppers The dynamic landing page tactic…

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eCommerce Fastlane | Why a Bootstrapped Product Guide Spends More on Bing Than Google (And Converts 3x Better)
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eCommerce Fastlane | An Agency Charges $3,000 Per Listing. That’s What Monte Desai Charges Per Year.

Weak product images cost Shopify brands sales every day, and agencies charge $3,000 per listing to fix them. In this episode, Monte Desai, co-founder of Pixii, breaks down: How one listing URL becomes seven optimized visuals in three minutes, then scales to 500 products The AIDA image sequence that carries a shopper from attention to…

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eCommerce Fastlane | An Agency Charges $3,000 Per Listing. That's What Monte Desai Charges Per Year.
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eCommerce Fastlane | Multichannel Inventory: What Breaks When Shopify, Amazon, And TikTok Stop Talking

Selling on Shopify, Amazon, and wholesale but still running inventory from spreadsheets? That disconnect is quietly costing your product brand time, money, and customers. In this episode, Ben Hussey, Co-CEO at Katana, breaks down: – Why connected multichannel starts with one source of truth for stock, orders, and available-to-sell inventory– How Katana customers cut order…

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eCommerce Fastlane | Multichannel Inventory: What Breaks When Shopify, Amazon, And TikTok Stop Talking
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eCommerce Fastlane | Pre-Orders And Back In Stock Alerts: Restocked 500, Emailed 10,000

Sold out does not have to mean lost sales. Out-of-stock product pages leak demand every week that Shopify brands could capture with preorders. In this episode, Sandesh Kulai, CEO of STOQ, breaks down: Why batching back in stock alerts to your actual restock quantity beats notifying the entire waitlist When to collect full payment upfront…

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eCommerce Fastlane | Pre-Orders And Back In Stock Alerts: Restocked 500, Emailed 10,000
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eCommerce Fastlane | The 2-Week Holiday Test That Decides What Your Store Is Worth

Your Shopify store’s revenue isn’t what buyers pay for. After 72 acquisitions, here’s what actually sets your exit valuation. In this episode, Bawar Ahmad, founder at eComma, breaks down: Why founder dependency caps valuation, and the two-week holiday test buyers use to measure it The profit band that gets real offers, $100K to $2.5M a…

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eCommerce Fastlane | The 2-Week Holiday Test That Decides What Your Store Is Worth
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eCommerce Fastlane | How To Know If You’re Ready To Hire Offshore

Most Shopify brands hire offshore for the wrong reason, and it often costs them double what they think they’re saving. In this episode, Nicolas Bivero, CEO and co-founder of Penbrothers, breaks down: Why chasing the cheapest labor costs brands more, and what cost efficiency looks like instead The 6-month Hypercare framework Penbrothers uses to onboard…

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eCommerce Fastlane | How To Know If You're Ready To Hire Offshore
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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Products Have Beautiful Names. AI Has No Idea What They Are.

AI search drives just 1 to 5% of your traffic today, but it converts far better than the rest. Here’s how Shopify brands get recommended. In this episode, Robert Langenback, President and COO at Eight Oh Two, breaks down: Why LLM traffic converts nearly as well as branded search, and why it’s up 1,200% year…

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eCommerce Fastlane | Your Products Have Beautiful Names. AI Has No Idea What They Are.
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eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your Best Sales Month Might Be Draining Your Cash

De minimis is gone and tariffs are squeezing Shopify brands manufacturing overseas, but cash flow is still the real bottleneck. In this episode, Izzy Rosenzweig, CEO & Founder at Portless, breaks down: Why cutting inventory from 6 months down to 4 to 6 weeks can free up hundreds of thousands in cash How eliminating stockouts…

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eCommerce Fastlane
eCommerce Fastlane | Why Your Best Sales Month Might Be Draining Your Cash
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