Episodes
Lesley Hensell is the Co-founder of Riverbend Consulting, an e-commerce and Amazon consulting agency. The company’s experts help sellers resolve account listing suspensions and other challenges.  Lesley has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running for the past 10 years. She is the author of The Amazon Incubator: Grow Your Business or Hatch a New One, to be released in January 2024. In this episode… When Amazon sellers get...
Published 01/18/24
Published 01/18/24
Lucas James is the Co-founder and CEO of Twiz, a digital marketing agency focused on driving leads for B2B service companies and online stores. Based in Los Angeles, Twiz was founded on the idea that traditional marketing companies were charging businesses too much without producing enough results. Lucas is also the Co-host of the podcast, How To Scale an Agency, and produces a variety of other content in the area of AI news and developing tech. In this episode… Entrepreneurship requires...
Published 12/28/23
Jordan Ross is the Founder and CEO of 8 Figure Agency, a firm that helps businesses scale their annual revenue through better operational, fulfillment, and management processes. Since its inception, the agency has worked with over 700 agencies and helped add $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Before founding 8 Figure Agency, Jordan was an Operations Lead at Amazon where he ran a division with over 800 people. In this episode… What is the most essential part of scaling a business? Is...
Published 12/14/23
Christene Marie is the Founder and CEO of The Knowing Agency, a brand identity and integrated marketing agency. The company helps empathy-driven brands develop marketing strategies to create connections with their target audiences.  Christene has worked with brands like Amazon, Toyota, NAACP, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. She is also an international speaker and has a new book coming out this spring. In this episode… How much do you know about the people in your business? What...
Published 11/30/23
Laurie Barkman is an M&A advisor and the former CEO of a $100 million revenue company that was sold to a Fortune 50 business. She now guides business owners as an M&A intermediary, facilitating both sell-side and buy-side transactions. Laurie is a dynamic speaker who has consulted, advised, and presented to hundreds of CEOs and business owners. She is the author of The Business Transition Handbook: How To Avoid Succession Pitfalls and Create Valuable Exit Options and is the host of...
Published 11/16/23
Greg Maddox is a Senior Business Advisor at Cultivate Advisors, a consulting firm that partners with small business owners to help them grow sustainably and rediscover the joy in entrepreneurship. With a background in the financial services industry, Greg works with business owners to plan and maximize their business exits. He is a serial entrepreneur and was also the Founder and CEO of the Maddox Group. In this episode... What does it take to successfully exit a business? How can you make...
Published 11/02/23
Chris Heivly is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the Managing Director at Build The Fort, an umbrella entity that serves entrepreneurs, and startup companies. He is one of the nation's leading experts on launching startups and has been dubbed The Startup Whisperer.  Chris co-founded MapQuest, which was sold to AOL for $1.2 billion. He is also a public speaker and the author of Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success as...
Published 10/19/23
Yoni Kozminski is the Founding Partner of South Col, an accelerator fund that partners with e-commerce brands to provide capital, strategic advice, operational support, and exit strategy. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of MultiplyMii and Escala, where he helps e-commerce businesses to grow and scale.  Yoni has more than 15 years of experience in digital marketing and creative advertising for top brands like Mercedes-Benz, Mastercard, Sony, and Medtronic. He is also the host of the...
Published 10/05/23
Jim Padilla is the Founder of Gain The Edge, a company that works with legacy-minded professionals and entrepreneurs to create scalable sales systems. He is known in the personal development and business coaching world as the go-to guy for all things sales. Jim is also a master collaborator whose purpose is to help entrepreneurs leverage the power of collaboration to scale their businesses. In this episode… In a highly competitive market, entrepreneurs need to focus on building sustainable...
Published 09/21/23
Gracey Ryback is a content creator, Amazon Live creator, and influencer marketing consultant. She works with e-commerce and Amazon brands to help them leverage the power of influencer marketing. With a focus on TikTok and Amazon Live, Gracey has worked with clients across multiple industries both on and off Amazon. She has grown a community of over one million followers. In this episode… Building a top brand on Amazon has become more difficult and expensive over the last couple of years....
Published 09/07/23
David Fairley is the Founder and President of Website Properties, an online business brokerage that has sold over $650 million. Prior to that, he started a hammock import business that eventually became hammocks.com, eventually selling it to a billion-dollar company. David established Website Properties to fill a need in the market, specializing in the listing and selling of profitable internet-based businesses. In this episode... How can you prepare your business for a future exit? When is...
Published 08/24/23
Rob Stanley is the Chief Evangelist and CMO at GETIDA, a global leader in Amazon FBA reimbursements and refunds. He has more than 20 years of experience in the e-commerce and marketing spaces, having founded and successfully exited two seven-figure e-commerce brands.  Prior to joining GETIDA, Rob was the CMO at AccrueMe and FeedbackWhiz. He is also a China sourcing expert, co-host of the Sellernomics Podcast, and a YouTube-certified expert with a previous channel that had over 48 million...
Published 08/03/23
Adam Lyons is the CEO of The S.M.A.R.T. Blueprint, which has been instrumental in driving revenue growth for over 2,200 small businesses since 2020. Adam has advised more than 500 brands and experts across the US and Canada, recognized by major media outlets including CNN, MSNBC, and Forbes. He has worked with PepsiCo, Nike, Discovery Digital Networks, and other brands. In this episode... Are there bottlenecks in your company slowing down growth? Do you have the right systems and processes...
Published 07/20/23
Reuben Hendell is an Operating Partner at Madison Alley Global Ventures, a leading independent advisory and M&A investment bank. After a series of successful exits and a fruitful career operating businesses, Reuben now helps companies from a very early stage and sets them on the right path towards scaling, building value, and eventually exiting. He also provides strategic and M&A advisory services to digital marketing, e-commerce, and DTC companies. In this episode… How can you...
Published 07/06/23
Brian Fouts is the Co-owner and CEO of The Elevation Group, a financial education company that helps individuals to create financial freedom. The company has offered courses to more than 50,000 students worldwide. Brian is also the CEO of the Living Legacy Association. Between both positions, he educates and empowers people about how money, wealth, and real estate investing work. In this episode… What are the essential steps to building wealth? How can you achieve financial freedom and use...
Published 06/15/23
Sumner Hobart is an Amazon, Etsy and Walmart seller who has generated over $1m in sales of his own private label products. His mission is to discover the most efficient ways to generate substantial personal profit online. With his wife, Ali, Sumner helps other sellers build more profitable businesses through online courses and their YouTube channel. In this episode… Building a successful business on Amazon has become more difficult over the years. With more sellers joining the platform,...
Published 06/01/23
Jason Fladlien is the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer at Rapid Crush, a software company that develops solutions for internet marketing. As an expert in sales, marketing, and product positioning, Jason helps businesses to use and improve their webinars. Jason is also the host of The Jason Fladlien Show and author of One to Many: The Secret to Webinar Success. He is best known for his record-breaking webinars, having sold more than $57.9 million in product launch by effectively utilizing...
Published 05/18/23
Izabela Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of RankBell, an agency that helps Amazon sellers to launch products and grow their rank on the platform. She is a highly respected keynote speaker, business strategist, and advocate for helping people create their own financial freedom.  Izabela's mission is to help sellers make an impact with their brands and build sustainable wealth. She also hosted the Seller Sessions podcast weekly for more than two years, where she focused on cultivating a better...
Published 05/04/23
AJ Cassata is the Co-founder and CEO of Revenue Boost. He helps digital agency owners and B2B companies get a consistent stream of high-value clients and build the right systems and teams to accelerate growth. AJ is also the Founder of B2B Sales & Marketing Secrets For Agency Owners, a free Facebook community. He is an entrepreneur and sales consultant who is passionate about helping companies systematically scale primarily through outbound and organic strategies. In this episode… There...
Published 04/20/23
Tim Jordan is the Founder and CEO of Private Label Legion, a community of sellers and entrepreneurs. He is also the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Carbon6. As a long-term Amazon seller, Tim provides e-commerce consulting services to entrepreneurs within the online marketplace. He has been selling for many years on Amazon and Shopify, and is now selling on Walmart. In this episode... Although the e-commerce space has experienced massive growth over the years, many online sellers...
Published 04/06/23
Kara Lorraine McGehee is the Co-founder and Chief of Operations and Experience at ClearSummit, a high-caliber product development agency. She started her career as an attorney before co-founding TuneRegistry, a rights management platform for the independent music community. Through ClearSummit, she aims to bring innovative software development projects to fruition, whether for clients or for internal initiatives. In this episode... Over the few years, innovation has become easier and more...
Published 03/23/23
Nate Lind is a Broker and Business Advisor at Website Closers, a full-service business brokerage company. He started in the real estate industry before becoming a Fortune 100 business consultant and transitioning to e-commerce. He exited his first company in 2016, selling more than $100 million of products online across his businesses. Nate is also the author of Maximum Exit: The Definitive Guide for Internet & Technology-Focused Business Founders where he helps entrepreneurs to sell...
Published 03/09/23
Chad Rubin is the Founder and CEO of Profasee, a dynamic pricing platform that enables e-commerce brands to predict the perfect price for their products. He leads the company's operations and oversees strategy. Chad was the founder of Skubana and co-founded Think Crucial and The Prosper Show. He has over 15 years of experience in the e-commerce space and often speaks about e-commerce, Amazon, and leveraging AI strategies on webinars and conferences worldwide. In this episode... Product...
Published 02/23/23
Angel Tuccy is an award-winning speaker, radio host, TV producer, PR media specialist, and a 15-time best selling author. With her help, clients have been featured in thousands of major media publications, podcasts, magazines, and stages. Angel's top selling book, Get Discovered, is the how-to example for creating media, drawing from over 2,500 broadcasts and interviewing over 5,000 guests.  In this episode… Have you invested in a media marketing strategy? Can media be used to create and...
Published 02/09/23