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by Practical Ecommerce
Ecommerce Conversations is the long-running weekly podcast from Practical Ecommerce, hosted by ecommerce entrepreneur Eric Bandholz. •• Listen in as Eric interviews in-the-trenches founders and executives who address the essentials of launching, growing, and sustaining an online business. Hear their successes, mistakes, and plans — addressing customer acquisition, web traffic, marketing tactics, on-site conversion, shipping, favorite tools, funding, obstacles, and much more. •• New episodes every Friday. Subscribe to the podcast here, and then read a condensed transcript at https://www.PracticalEcommerce.com/tag/podcasts.
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- 4 days ago34 min
My AI Bots for Email, SEO, Reports, More
Last week host Eric Bandholz described the customer service voice agent he built for Beardbrand. The company is small and can't afford human phone support. Using Grok Bot and the Grok Voice API, both from SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), he built a surprisingly realistic and effective phone agent in less than a day. The agent sounds natural and responds accurately to shoppers' support calls. Yet for Eric, Grok Bot is more than a voice agent. It can drive productivity for himself and his staff acros...
- 1 weeks ago32 min
I Built a Voice Bot for Customer Calls
Customer phone support has been a huge burden for Beardbrand, host Eric Bandholz's company, with its small staff. His solution was an AI voice bot, which he recently built in about a day. He used Grok Bot, xAI’s agent platform, and SpaceXAI’s Grok Voice API. In this episode, he describes how he built the bot and his plans to test and improve it. He refers to his video at • https://www.practicalecommerce.com/i-built-a-voice-bot-for-customer-calls ****** Practical Ecommerce hel...
- 2 weeks ago30 min
Agency Founder Touts YouTube TV Ads
Alex Walser launched his North Carolina-based marketing agency, Savant Syndicate, in 2024. The firm manages advertising campaigns for ecommerce brands, with a focus on Google Ads. He says YouTube ads provide the most upside, especially YouTube TV. "I'm more bullish on connected TV ads than traditional YouTube," he states. In this episode, Alex addresses his increasing reliance on AI, Google Ads KPIs, and why he favors YouTube TV. For an edited and condensed transcript with embedded audio, ...
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Profit from Paid Acquisition Key for Ecom Owner (Encore)
Please enjoy this episode first aired in February 2023. Zach Stuck is an agency founder turned ecommerce owner. The agency, called Homestead, runs marketing campaigns for direct-to-consumer businesses. And lessons from those campaigns drive his second venture: acquiring and launching his own brands. His top lesson? A customer from paid acquisition has to be profitable on the first sale. He shares his journey — from running an agency to owning and operating ecommerce brands — in this...
- Oct 9, 202632 min
Your Next Product Could Be a New Brand
We asked Rok Hladnik, an ecommerce merchant turned agency owner, how to launch a new product line without confusing existing customers and diverting staff. He advised creating a new brand. "There's nothing wrong with applying learnings to a new company," he stated. Rok's agency, Flat Circle, is based in Slovenia and serves ecommerce businesses worldwide. In this episode, he shares how AI is changing advertising, why product quality matters, and the appeal (and risk) of launching a new ...
- Oct 2, 202636 min
TinyHealth.com Sells Gut Tests by Mail
Cheryl Sew Hoy says her company deals with poop. The Austin, Texas-based serial entrepreneur launched Tiny Health in 2020 to help folks monitor essential microorganisms in their digestive systems, which are critical for overall wellness. The process once required in-person doctor visits with cumbersome stool collection. Tiny Health offers the same service with a streamlined home-based kit and a prepaid mailer for the lab analysis. In this episode, Cheryl shares the importance of gut health ...
- Sep 25, 202636 min
Copywriter Grades AI Content at 95%
Many pro content marketers insist AI-generated text is inferior to humans'. But not Neville Medhora. He's a seasoned copywriter who claims AI is 95% as good as human writing, even for the most complicated work. "It's a hard pill to swallow, but you've got to adapt," he says. Neville is the founder of Swipe File, a curated library of promotional content, and before that, of Kopywriting Kourse, an instructional site. He first appeared on the podcast in 2019. In this episode, he addresses AI ...
- Sep 18, 202636 min
5 Levers Drive CAC, Says Ad Pro
Hal Smith says lowering clients' customer acquisition cost on Meta and Google is a focus of his agency, H Street Digital. He cites 5 performance levers, starting with the offer. Hal founded the D2C-focused agency in 2020 after stints managing political fundraising campaigns. "I learned the importance of the right message," he told me. In this episode, Hal shares his approaches to ad messaging, testing, targeting, and, yes, reducing CAC. For an edited and condensed transcript with embedded...
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About Ecommerce Conversations
Ecommerce Conversations is the long-running weekly podcast from Practical Ecommerce, hosted by ecommerce entrepreneur Eric Bandholz. •• Listen in as Eric interviews in-the-trenches founders and executives who address the essentials of launching, growing, and sustaining an online business. Hear their successes, mistakes, and plans — addressing customer acquisition, web traffic, marketing tactics, on-site conversion, shipping, favorite tools, funding, obstacles, and much more. •• New episodes every Friday. Subscribe to the podcast here, and then read a condensed transcript at https://www.PracticalEcommerce.com/tag/podcasts.
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