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May 30, 2022 • 46min
Ep 206: $50K to $21 Million: How Noa Home Scales Furniture Globally (and 4x ROAS Profitably)
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Noahome.com
Today we're chatting with Noa Home Furnishings founder Jeremy Kopek about his company's incredible growth journey, that started with a $50K investment, a completely soiled pallet, a clever international strategy, and a burning desire to re-invent how furniture is sold online.
Listen to this podcast to learn:
Why starting in international markets can be your best play (think 60% lower cpms for starters)
How Jeremy managed to scale to $20 Million with only 5 employees
How to create GREAT unit economics for furniture
Why a custom-built ERP has made all the difference for Noa's ability to maintain 4x ROAS on ads.
how virtual consultations are the cherry on top of Noa's conversion funnel
Get Comfortable, and settle in for a great episode.
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May 27, 2022 • 23min
Ep 205: AKNF - Roast my funnel -- Top CRO Bottlenecks with Pilothouse's Liam, Evan, and Kyle
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Today on Part two of our Pilothouse Audit Series we cover the final section of the Audit offering: Customer Experience.
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Kyle, Liam, and Nate provide tactical advice about funnel congruency, offer construction, presell page strategy and lots more in this value packed episode that covers:
What is CRO?
Bottleneck Mapping & Flow Optimizations
Prospecting & Retargeting Landing Pages
Offer Composition & Product Positioning
Cart Experience & Upsells
Page Speed
LTV & Subscriptions
Must-use Page Templates
Calendars & Planning High-level Strategy
Execution Strategy: Early Access, Sale & Last Chance
Discounting Opportunities
Launching Products
and more
Want Pilothouse to roast your funnel, and produce a 50+ page tactical document that will help you fix it?
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May 23, 2022 • 34min
Ep 204: $100 Million+ in Vancouver-Based DTC Sales: Duer, Tru Earth, Blume, Monos and Black Crow AI [Live Panel]
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Welcome to a VERY special edition of the DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck
Today you’re invited to listen in on the panel we hosted last week in Vancouver, BC, where we packed in 150 of the west coast’s top DTC entrepreneurs and marketers for a live podcast and some facetime with with their local peers.
We wanted to know if the world was ready for Real Live Events, and our hypothesis was glowingly confirmed with what turned out to be a really magical event. More on the future of DTC events soon…
The panel gathered leaders from diverse sectors of the ecom spectrum from Tru Earth, Duer, Blume and Monos, and Black Crow AI.
Ryan McKenzie - Tru Earth
Roxanne Tan - Monos
Richard Harris - Black Crow AI
Bunny Ghatrora - Blume
Calvin Roex - Duer
We focused on REAL talk about what’s working and what’s not in 2022 including:
The return of Brick and Mortar
Rebounding from The iOS14.5 breakup
Why everyone goes broad (and why Meta likes it that way)
The importance of First Party Data
And where every brand should be fitting TikTok into their media mix
I hope you enjoy the panel, and stay tuned for one coming to your neighborhood….
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May 20, 2022 • 34min
Ep 203: AKNF - 19 Point Audit on Traffic and Creative with Pilothouse's Liam, Evan, and Kyle
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Today we're jamming with Liam who's building out Pilothouse's DTC Audit product.
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We got Liam and Evan to share the 21 points that Pilothouse looks at every time they launch client, or perform a traffic and creative audit for a brand.
Listen in to hear the full structure, plus lots of best practices around
Incrementality
Facebook Attribution & Cross-referencing with Google Analytics
UTMs audit
Naming Convention Hacks
Pixel & CAPI Implementation
Shopify Efficiency Mapping
Pilot Testing & Discovering Angles
Annualized testing Strategy
Audience Matrix Testing
Leveraging Owned Audiences
Comment Moderation
Prospecting & Retargeting Ecosystem
TOF/MOF/BOF Audiences & Exclusions
Consolidated Scale VS. Testing Campaigns
Budget Management - Vertical And Horizontal Scale
Leveraging Dynamic Ads
Influencer Dark Posting & Whitelisting
Stay tuned for Part 2 of the Pilothouse Audit series when we discuss everything that goes into a CRO and Customer Experience Audit.
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May 18, 2022 • 26min
BONUS: Growing your Shopify store from $5 to $30M with Richpanel
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Hello and welcome to DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck, today we’ve got a Tech Stack episode featuring Bumpboxx and Rich Panel.
Fix your customer service! ➝ https://richpanel.com
Get a sweet customized boombox ➝ https://bumpboxx.com
You’ll meet Christina Ebersole, Customer Service Manager from Bumpboxx and Amit RG, CEO of Richpanel to hear Bumpboxx drove $150K from customer service alone, with 20% of that coming from Self Service.
This episode is a gold mine for learning best practices around customer service and for Amit’s reminder that the best customer experiences are the ones where customers get what they need without talking to anyone…and you’ll hear exactly how Christina’s set up Bumpboxx to do exactly that…
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May 16, 2022 • 46min
Ep 202: 5x Your Revenue with a Facebook Group, 40 new creatives a week, and an app with Ash Melwani from Obvi Collagen.
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Hello and welcome to DTC Podcast, I’m Eric Dyck, and today we’re talking with Ash Melwani, cofounder of Obvi collagen
Obvi is disrupting the nearly $10 Billion dollar collagen industry, standing apart from the competition by building a deeper connection to its customers through branding, community, and a gamified customer experience.
https://myobvi.com
In 2022 Obvi’s aiming to 5x its revenue from just two years earlier in 2020 and with ash leading the charge I don’t doubt they’ll get there.
In today’s cast you’ll hear all about:
Why you should add a Facebook group to your customer experience and exactly how to leverage it as a nucleus for your brand.
How to gamify your cart experience, and why adding complimentary products beats discounting
Why Ash tests 40 new pieces of creative every week on Facebook Ads to beat the iOS14.5 blues
And how a set it and forget it App with TapCart produced 10% of their 2021 revenue passively
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May 13, 2022 • 21min
Ep 201: AKNF - Top 5 Copy Styles for Facebook Ads with Nate and Taylor from Pilothouse
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Welcome to All Killer No Filler DTC Podcast -- Today we're catching up with Pilothouse Facebook Ads team leads, Nate and Taylor to discuss the five copy styles they test with almost every campaign we run.
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Let us know what you think!
Possible Copy Styles:
Short and sweet - concise single line with your most powerful angle
3 paragraph - easy to read, can tell a story
Hook + emoji list + CTA - really disruptive
Long-form with testimonials - one brand we work with has seen lots of success with 3 paragraphs of benefit breakdowns and hooks and then 3 reviews underneath
Question and answer - throwing yourself an alley oop pass off the backboard could be an analogy - can be incredibly punchy and impactful
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May 9, 2022 • 39min
Ep 200: SMS is no longer optional with Sophie Baer, Win Brand Group’s Retention Director (and Automation Overlord)
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Hello and welcome to DTC Podcast,
Today we’re getting in the win column with Win Brands Group Director of Retention Sophie Baer.
https://winbg.com
Win is an omnichannel retail platform that specializes in buying and building category-defining brands, like: Qalo, Homesick Candles, Gravity Weighted Blankets, and Love Your Melon headwear.
Sophie oversees CRM management, email marketing, SMS marketing, and lead generation, and collaborates across marketing channels to focus on improving and increasing LTV, AOV, and CVR
Today we dove into:
Email and SMS automations and why more retention communications should be automated (but still personalized)
Why Sophie’s rolling out quizzes to all Win brands (and what softwear she’s using)
Building purchase history into all automations and why every brand needs a recapture sequence.
Why SMS is no longer optional for DTC brands
You’ll learn why Sophie is an automation overlord and what you can do to drive more second purchases than ever this year.
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May 6, 2022 • 32min
Ep 199: AKNF - The Creator's Perspective and how to get 20% Click to Conversion Rates On Organic Content
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Hello and welcome to All Killer, No Filler.
Today we're talking with two budding creators that we work with across multiple fronts at DTC, Pilothouse, and Helmkin about what makes great organic content, as well as advertising content.
https://www.tiktok.com/@b_turner50
https://www.tiktok.com/@marinarossa_
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May 2, 2022 • 59min
Ep 198: Perry Belcher on Ecom Tripwires, Premiums, and Making Sure the Cheese is Worth the Squeeze
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Hello and welcome to the DTC Podcast, today I was lucky enough to interview a legend in the marketing space, and someone I’ve learned a huge amount from over the years, Perry Belcher.
You may know Perry as a co-founder of Digital Marketer, as well as Traffic and Conversion summit, or as the legendary sales and copy expert behind several hundred million in ecommerce sales.
Why the squeeze is on for retailers, and what you can do to make sure the cheese is worth the squeeze
What ecommerce people can learn from direct marketers
You may be making offers to your customers, but are you leveraging premiums and bonuses as well?
How the football phone saved Sports Illustrated
What the future holds for AI, and how Perry uses AI copywriting already
Down the rabbit hole and through to the silver lining of the semi dismal economy we’re facing
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