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
Is Voice The Future of eCommerce Search?
We've got everyone's favorite dynamic duo on the show today, regular guest Bill D'Alessandro of Elements Brands and Miracle Wanzo, a longtime eCommerceFuel member and our in-house Facebook guru. Today we're bantering back and forth on what we think the future of voice looks like, how Alexa and Siri measure up against one another and whether we think this trend is overhyped or about to explode.
Selling Physical Products with a 100% Remote Team
Fred Perrota has a team of nine remote employees that help him run Tortuga, a backpack brand that's beloved by travelers and digital nomads. Today he's weighing in on how he finds solid remote employees and how his entire business runs like a well-oiled machine. He also shares some of the biggest lessons he's learned as he runs his physical product business with a completely remote staff.
Having Difficult Conversations with Employees
Navigating uncomfortable topics with your employees can be tricky. Alison Green, the columnist behind AskAManager.org sheds light on all the craziest employer and employee situations she's come across, along with tips on how to handle anything that comes your way.
Our New eCommerce Job Board + Case Study
We've got some exciting news to share today. We've officially launched our newest venture, the eCommerceFuel Job board. Not only do we want to dive in to tell you what to expect from our curated job board for eCommerce gigs, but we want to talk about the process behind the launch and what we plan to roll out in the coming months.
Prioritizing Happiness Over Growth + Other Marketing Talk
Today is part two of my interview with Adam Saraceno, the Chief Marketing Officer of Peak Design. We’re picking up the conversation we started last week on leveraging Kickstarter, but we shift gears to talk about how Adam's company has cultivated and maintained such an awesome culture (while still managing to create super high-quality products), which marketing tactics are giving them the best ROI, and more.
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.