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Also Available on YouTube: youtu.be/_nqN9HyOpxM What happens when a 23-year-old refuses to play the ecommerce advertising game? Colby Stevens built Shine Supply into a $7M detailing brand using nothing but Instagram ASMR videos, authentic storytelling, and a "people over profit" philosophy. No paid ads until last month
Available on YouTube: [youtu.be/wDlijQtbLJo](https://youtu.be/wDlijQtbLJo) What if your brand could sell a million orders before shipping a single product? Bryant Garvin, marketing lead at Ozlo Sleep and former CMO of Groove Life, did exactly that. In this episode, he shares how performance branding, differentiated pro
Watch the video interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TMVqWfaddG8 Shopify store owners: what if one simple question could improve your ad spend, creative, and segmentation? In this episode of The Unofficial Shopify Podcast, Matt Bahr, founder of Fairing, unpacks what 20 million post-purchase surveys taught him about a
Also on YouTube... What’s really holding your Shopify store back? After 10,000 UX audits, Oddit co-founder Shaun Brandt has answers, and most stores are making the same 7 mistakes. Menus that bury the merch. Popups that hijack the screen. Product pages with zero context. This episode is a takedown of bad ecommerce deci
Available on YouTube: youtu.be/qdpFmuFD8yE Shopify merchants are getting pitched AI SEO “solutions” left and right—none of them proven. So I called Jason Berkowitz, an SEO who actually knows the game, to answer the real question: what should you actually do to rank in an AI-powered world? (Spoiler: most of it’s nonsens
Sara Olsher started Mighty + Bright as a handmade calendar to help her toddler cope with divorce. A decade (and one breast cancer diagnosis) later, it’s a full-time Shopify business helping kids, adults, and neurodivergent folks navigate tough life stuff with visual structure. In this episode, Sara shares how she boots