Derek Dodds is the CEO of WaveTribe.com, a business on a mission to create an important relationship between sport and planet. Today Derek joins the show to discuss how he has managed to combine his passion – which is surfing – as well as his work, something that doesn’t always go over well. Derek is an inspiring person, someone who has a lot of knowledge to give on the subject on standing by your values. If you have been wanting to structure your weeks so you have a more balanced lifestyle between work and play, this is the episode for you.
You’ll learn:
How Wave Tribe came to be
How Derek structures his life to combine business and surfing
Why he is ruthless about setting value and assigning dollar amounts to different tasks
Paid Google search ads provide an instant boost of traffic to your store. Here’s everything you need to know to maximize the success of your first campaign!
Al Cuttell, Diana Paisis, and Jos Reinders are the trio behind Bitten Design, a global giftware maker based in Utrecht, Netherlands. The team designs and produces over 40 new items each year and distributes them in over 45 counties. With over a decade of operating under their belts, the team shares how they entered entrepreneurship, built a global network of distributors, and remained financially independent.
Your store’s security is critical, but it doesn’t have to be hard. Get the checklist of tools, strategies, and practices you need to protect your store!
Starting with a business plan template is the easiest way to simplify the work of writing a business plan. We put together a template (and an example) to help you optimize your planning time.
Both Shopify and Facebook launched new features to help businesses be more flexible when selling online. The two tech giants paired up to create a better multi-channel shopping experience for customers and a more integrated business management platform for merchants.
Merchants have immediate access to new tools like Shopify Balance (a business banking solution), native installment options with Shop Pay, store functionally improvements, and much more.
Shopify announced its commitment to investing $1B into its Shopify Fulfillment Network over the next five years.
New purchase orders functionality lets merchants order, track, and receive inventory from their suppliers
Brands can upload products to a single customized online store that customers can access through Facebook or Instagram, or discover through ads.
Integrates with third-party platforms like Shopify, BigCommerce and Woocommerce for easier management
Customers can direct message businesses to ask them questions, get support, track deliveries, and more—similar to how you might ask a store associate for help in a brick-and-mortar store
“There is an Amazon team in Plano as we speak,” according to the WWD report. “There is a dialogue and I’m told it has a lot to do with Amazon eager to expand its apparel business.
J.C. Penney shares dropped another 23% before stopping on Monday.
Consumers can order a variety of snacks and beverages from PepsiCo’s two new DTC websites, PantryShop.com and Snacks.com, to be delivered straight to their door.
Extremely difficult to determine how big a bag of Cheetos is online
Twitter says that, with a few exceptions, their offices won’t open before September.
CEO Jack Dorsey said in Twitter’s Q4 2019 earning call in February that he hopes to see a more distributed workforce outside San Francisco: “Our concentration in San Francisco is not serving us any longer”
Other Interesting Things
From Rock to Ring – Watch as someone makes a ring from scratch, including mining, smelting and purifying their own silver from the land they own. Pretty impressive and a good reminder of how spoiled we are in 2020 to have 99.9% of what we own made for us.
Create a Profitable Online Blog – If you’ve been wanting to ramp up your own successful blog Steve Chou and Toni Anderson, two successful bloggers and friends of mine, have built a killer course to help you build momentum. (Not an affiliate link)
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If you’re interested in long-term funding from a team that also has the skills, eCommerce rolodex and battle-tested knowledge to help you grow, you need to check out eCommerceFuel Capital.
Get your physical products or food safely into the hands of customers with contactless store pickup and USPS shipping options. Here’s how to set it up fast!
We conducted a study of our 10,000 largest Shopify merchants with Shop Pay enabled, over a 1-month period spanning mid-January to mid-February 2020. Our study showed that checkouts going through Shop Pay have an average checkout-to-order rate of 1.72x times higher than those going through regular checkouts.
Meet your customers where they are—it’s the golden rule. In that spirit, we’re thrilled to share a first-ever preview of Facebook Shops for Shopify merchants: a new shopping experience that lets you create a customizable storefront on the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps.
