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Paul Orlando, author of Growth Units and professor at USC, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Unit Economics for Ecommerce: LTV and CAC with Paul Orlando

Paul Orlando, who teaches Growth Hacking at USC and wrote Growth Units, walks through how ecommerce founders should calculate lifetime value and customer acquisition cost, why a single static numbe...

Joe Spector, co-founder of Hims and CEO of Dutch, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Hims Co-Founder Joe Spector on Launching Dutch on Shopify

Hims co-founder Joe Spector built a billion-dollar brand from scratch, then applied those lessons to Dutch, a telehealth platform for pets built entirely on Shopify. He talks about why launching sm...

Nik Hall, CEO and co-founder of vitafive, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Facebook Ads, Retail Expansion, and vitafive's Growth Path

Nik Hall built vitafive from a custom gummy vitamin subscription into a brand stocked in 6,500 retail stores, but the iOS 14 and 15 changes forced a full pivot away from Facebook ads. He breaks dow...

Dr. Amy Divaraniya, CEO and founder of Oova, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Oova's B2B2C Strategy: Growing to 88 Clinics Without Paid Ads

Dr. Amy Divaraniya built Oova, an at-home hormone diagnostics device for women with irregular cycles, and scaled to 88 clinics almost entirely through organic word-of-mouth before running a single ...

Emily Vaca, founder and CEO of La Vaca Designhouse and MINNIDIP, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
La Vaca Designhouse: Using Design to Launch a First-to-Market Pool Brand

Emily Vaca spent 15 years as an ad agency art director before launching MINNIDIP in 2017, the first designer inflatable pool. She built the brand herself, drove 75% of traffic through Instagram and...

Rabah Rahil, CMO at Triple Whale, and co-founder AJ Orbach on the Honest Ecommerce podcast discussing iOS 14 attribution solutions.
Triple Whale Attribution After iOS 14: How the Pixel Works

iOS 14.5 caused a 25-50% drop in Facebook attribution visibility and a 25% performance hit. Triple Whale co-founder AJ Orbach and CMO Rabah Rahil explain how their first-party pixel restores that v...

Chase Dimond, email marketing expert and founder of Structured, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast.
Email Marketing Strategy for Ecommerce: Chase Dimond on Structured

Chase Dimond has sent over two billion emails and driven more than $100 million in email revenue for ecommerce clients. In this conversation, he breaks down the exact fundamentals behind those resu...

Rob Seo and Raja Agnani, co-founders of PS Condoms, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Launching PS Condoms: FDA Approval, Trust, and DTC Growth

Rob Seo and Raja Agnani, co-founders of PS Condoms, break down what it actually takes to launch a regulated consumer product DTC. From FDA clearance and co-founder dynamics to conversion rate lesso...

Charles McElroy, founder and chief creative at Goldleaf, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast.
Goldleaf's SEO and Niche Strategy for Cannabis Brands

Charles McElroy built Goldleaf by doing something traditional (printing) in a space nobody was doing right. He breaks down how SEO, brand collaborations, and expert-validated content became the gro...

Alexa Meyer, founder and CEO of Alexa Leigh Jewelry, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Alexa Leigh Jewelry: Building a Brand by Staying True to Yourself

Alexa Meyer spent 10 years building Alexa Leigh Jewelry before going full-time. She shares how working at small ecommerce companies gave her real operator skills, why a viral UGC hashtag outperform...

Joe Johnson, CEO of VADE Nutrition, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
VADE Nutrition: From $17K Year One to 88,000 Retail Doors

VADE Nutrition CEO Joe Johnson started with $17,000 in year-one sales after two failed launches, a cease and desist, and a manufacturer going out of business. He shares how a Shark Tank deal with M...

Kyle Lafond, founder of American Provenance, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
American Provenance: From Classroom R&D to 5,000 Retail Doors

Kyle Lafond spent four years doing free R&D as a middle school science teacher before launching American Provenance in a renovated barn. He bootstrapped the brand for three years through hands-...

Austin Brawner, CEO of Brand Growth Experts, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Zero-Sum vs Abundance Mindset in Ecommerce | Brand Growth Experts

Austin Brawner of Brand Growth Experts breaks down the two founder mindsets he's observed across hundreds of ecommerce brands, why physical product companies are actually marketing companies, and t...

Steve Sando, founder of Rancho Gordo, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Rancho Gordo's Bean Club: 11,000 Members and Zero Paid Ads

Steve Sando turned a farmers market bean hobby into a cult ecommerce brand with 15-25% annual growth every year, a Bean Club with 11,000 members and 30,000 on the waitlist, and 150,000 email subscr...

Sam Dean, founder of Plug Your Holes, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Plug Your Hole's 13 Warped Tours and Ecommerce Growth Strategy

Sam Dean launched Plug Your Holes in 2006 with no marketing budget, a piercing background, and a hunch that stretched ear jewelry was being sold to the wrong aesthetic. He funded the start with eBa...

Chase Clymer, co-founder of Electric Eye and host of Honest Ecommerce, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
How $1M Ecommerce Brands Scale to $10M: The 3-KPI Framework

Chase Clymer of Electric Eye breaks down the exact framework his agency uses to scale ecommerce brands from $1M to $10M. The core insight: three numbers drive everything. Fix conversion rate and av...

Reza Khadjavi, founder of Motion and Shoelace, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Creative Testing Strategy for Paid Social Ads with Motion App

Reza Khadjavi, founder of Motion and Shoelace, explains why creative is now the biggest frontier in paid social, how to build a three-part content production system, and why most teams test at the ...

Chaz Chazanow, co-founder of LIV Watches, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
LIV Watches: From $200K Kickstarter to $2M Ecommerce Launches

Chaz Chazanow of LIV Watches shares how he went from a $200K Kickstarter debut to a $2M campaign, then navigated the hard transition to direct Shopify sales. He covers crowdsourcing product design ...

Joaquin Arce, Chief Growth Officer at Bearaby, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Bearaby's No-Discount Growth Strategy and Bold Marketing Campaigns

Bearaby CGO Joaquin Arce breaks down how the brand sold out its launch inventory in two days, landed West Elm as its first retail partner, ran an anti-Black Friday campaign with near-zero returns, ...

Thomas Smale, founder and CEO of FE International, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Selling Your Ecommerce Business: Valuations & Exits | FE International

FE International founder Thomas Smale has closed over 1,100 deals worth more than $1 billion. In this episode, he breaks down the most common mistakes ecommerce founders make before selling, how bu...

Sarah Delevan, CEO of Sarah Delevan Consulting, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast discussing financial strategy for food and CPG brands.
CPG Profit Formula: Financial Strategy for Food Brands | Sarah Delevan

Sarah Delevan of Sarah Delevan Consulting breaks down the financial formula every CPG and food brand needs: how to assess real profitability, why competitor pricing destroys margins, and where foun...

Hilary Quartner, co-CEO and co-founder of Hilma, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast
Hilma's Omnichannel Strategy: Retail, Amazon, and DTC Together

Hilma co-founder Hilary Quartner built a natural remedies brand by going omnichannel from the start, launching DTC, specialty retail, Amazon, and Target in parallel. She shares how customer data fr...

Brendan Hughes, CEO of Optily, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast discussing paid media funnel strategy for ecommerce brands.
Marketing Funnel Strategy for Ecommerce Brands | Optily

Brendan Hughes of Optily breaks down a 3-stage paid media funnel strategy for ecommerce brands, explaining why most founders are stuck in bottom-funnel activity and how investing in mid and upper f...

Thomas Lotrecchiano, co-founder of Omigo, on the Honest Ecommerce podcast.
Omigo Bidet: Paid Ads, YouTube, and TV with Thomas Lotrecchiano

Thomas Lotrecchiano co-founded Omigo with his father after a chance encounter with a Japanese bidet seat. In this episode, he walks through their full go-to-market playbook: launching on Facebook a...