eComFuel Podcast
Not Your Typical Business Show
The eComFuel Podcast (formerly known as the eCommerceFuel Podcast) features weekly conversations with entrepreneurs who are doing the impossible—building thriving businesses AND rich, meaningful lives.
Expect to geek out on business tactics, swap financial wisdom, share family wins, and hear the occasional story of adventures gone awry.
Episodes
How Peak Design Raised Over $14 Million on Kickstarter
Today is part one of a deep dive I’m excited to do with Adam Saraceno, the Chief Marketing Officer of a company that has done a phenomenal job leveraging Kickstarter to grow their brand and their business. I think it’s safe to say Peak Design is the most successful crowdfunded company today that’s still active and thriving in 2018. How did they do it? Adam shares that and more.
Accounting for Amazon Sellers
On today's episode we want to help you save a ton of money if you're an Amazon seller. If you're currently a seller on the platform, that lump sum deposit from Amazon sends you contains all of your revenue, your fees, and doesn't tell you much else. So how do we make sense of it?
Firing People, MAP Pricing, Cybersquatting & More
Internet, Data Privacy, and Intellectual Property Lawyer John DiGiacomo of RevisionLegal.com is back for the fourth and final part of our series on legal issues. So far, we’ve covered trademarks and patents, as well as the GDPR, and today we’re wrapping up with a grab bag of legal questions to round out our series.
Understanding and Defending Trademarks
Today we are continuing our legal series with Internet, Data Privacy, and Intellectual Property Lawyer John DiGiacomo of RevisionLegal.com. John specializes in both IP and businesses on the web—both subjects that a lot of lawyers don’t know much about—so it’s great to have him back on the show.
How to Build an Audience from Scratch
Michael Jackness is probably an eCommerce name you're familiar with. If you don't know him from our private community or from being a past guest on the podcast here, you probably listen to him over at his podcast EcomCrew. Or maybe you've heard him speak at a conference or have had the chance to take one of his eCommerce courses. He's the true definition of an eCommerce influencer.
Growing Through Fanatical Customer Engagement
There are some people in this world that are nuts about pens. We're not just talking about the classic boxes of Bics, but pens that are worthy of being held in their own mahogany box and destined to sign an important document. Brian Goulet of Goulet Pens is one of those guys. He understands that engaging customers about something they're passionate about is crucial to the success of his business.
The 2018 State of the Merchant
Our second annual State of the Merchant report is here. Hundreds of store owners weighed in on our survey on everything from the health of their business to the impact Amazon has on their store, as well as how satisfied they are in their lives as eCommerce store owners.
Paying for Traffic on Google and Amazon
Online advertising is changing rapidly, so much so that store owners that have had their hand in paid traffic over the past five years have seen how it has hurt (or helped) their businesses firsthand. Today we get into it with Brett Curry from OMGCommerce.com to discuss traffic generation from Google and Amazon in 2018.