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About eCommerce Fastlane The eCommerce Fastlane podcast is your essential listen for mastering Shopify and driving profitable growth in the DTC space. Aimed squarely at Shopify merchants and DTC operators, this podcast cuts through the noise, offering actionable strategies to scale your business efficiently. You’ll learn how to pivot from misleading ROAS metrics to a profit-first marketing approach, ensuring your ad spend delivers real returns by focusing on contribution margin and integrating your P&L with creative and channel execution [1] [2] [3]
Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here's Where It's Already Working) How First-Party Shopify Data Cuts Meta Ad CAC by 30% Your ROAS Is Lying to You: How Profit-First Marketing Actually Works Listen on Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Website
Recent episodes Billions of Popup Views Later: What Actually Converts Anonymous Traffic — Jul 14, 2026 Glossier's Former CTO on Why Your AI Doesn't Actually Know Your Business — Jul 9, 2026 Copycats Are Stealing 20% of Your Revenue and AI Just Made It Worse — Jul 7, 2026 From Phone Photo to Full Content Kit: How Shopify Brands Are Using AI Product Photography and Video — Jul 2, 2026 150,000 AI Shoppers Vote on Your Ad Before You Spend a Dollar — Jun 30, 2026 The Hidden Revenue Leak Sitting on Your Shopify Collection Pages — Jun 23, 2026 The AI Employees Running Your Amazon Brand While You Sleep — Jun 18, 2026 What's Your Profit Target? The Question Most Shopify Founders Can't Answer (with Thomas Gleeson, StoreHero) — Jun 4, 2026 The 5 to 15% of Revenue Hiding in Your Shopify Store (and Why You Never Capture It) — Jun 2, 2026 Why AI Recommends Some Shopify Products and Ignores Yours — Jun 1, 2026 Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here's Where It's Already Working) — May 26, 2026 Why a 3,000-Follower Creator Beats a Celebrity Influencer (And How to Run It at Scale) — May 21, 2026 Your Ads Know Your Customer. Your Website Doesn't — May 14, 2026 How First-Party Shopify Data Cuts Meta Ad CAC by 30% — May 12, 2026 Revenue Up, Profit Flat: The Multi-Marketplace Trap Stalling Shopify Brands — May 5, 2026 Only 30 Shopify Merchants Used OpenAI's Instant Checkout. Here's Why That Matters. — Apr 28, 2026 The $9,000 Affiliate Fraud Most Shopify Brands Are Paying For (And Don't Know It) — Apr 21, 2026 Your Shopify Store Might Be Selling at a Loss (And Your Inventory Is Why) — Apr 14, 2026 Your ROAS Is Lying to You: How Profit-First Marketing Actually Works — Apr 7, 2026 Your Shopify Store Is Already Inside ChatGPT — Here's What That Actually Means — Apr 1, 2026 Your Ads Aren’t Broken. Your Data Is. (Here’s the Fix) — Mar 24, 2026 Why Your 7X ROAS Isn't Showing Up in Your Bank Account — Mar 17, 2026 From 8 Cents to 40 Cents Per Subscriber: Building a Retention System That Actually Pays — Mar 10, 2026 Your ROAS Is Green. Your Bank Account Isn't. Here's Why. — Mar 5, 2026 How Much Should You Actually Spend on AI? A Revenue-Stage Framework for Shopify Brands — Feb 24, 2026 Stop Giving Discounts To Customers Who Were Already Going To Buy — Feb 17, 2026 Why Your Best Content Is Invisible in AI Search (And How to Fix It) — Feb 10, 2026 Why Your $100 DTC Orders Can't Compete with $10K Wholesale Relationships — Feb 3, 2026 Why Alibaba Shows You The Wrong Suppliers First (And What Top Brands Do Instead) — Jan 27, 2026 162,000 Discount Codes Analyzed: The Unique Strategy That's Secretly Driving Shopify's Top Brands — Jan 20, 2026 Why Shopify Brands Need a Data Layer (Not Just Better Tracking) — Jan 13, 2026 The Hidden Nexus Trap Costing Shopify Sellers Thousands — Jan 6, 2026 Why Conversion Rate Is a Vanity Metric (And the 4 Numbers That Actually Matter) — Dec 30, 2025 Why 56% of Searches Now Skip Your Store—And How to Show Up in AI Answers — Dec 23, 2025 Inside BFCM 2025: What ShipBob Saw Across Millions Of Orders (And What Brands Need to Know for 2026) — Dec 16, 2025 1-Hour Delivery Meets Bulletproof Hardware: Shopify Winter Editions 2026 — Dec 10, 2025 The $250K Problem Hiding In Your Warehouse Corner — Dec 4, 2025 AI Agents That Actually Work: How DTC Brands Save 200+ Hours Monthly (Without Engineers) — Dec 2, 2025 The $20 Billion Affiliate Mistake: Stop Paying for Customers Who Were Already Buying — Nov 25, 2025 Customer Acquisition Costs Keep Rising—The Multi-Channel Fix Most Brands Are Missing — Nov 18, 2025 The 2 Discount Types Every Shopify Merchant Needs for BFCM (+ Why Most Are Using the Wrong One) — Nov 11, 2025 Stop Guessing on Ad Creative: AI Consumer Agents Predict Purchase Intent Before You Launch — Nov 7, 2025 From App Chaos to Conversion Engine: Building Shopify Stores That Scale — Nov 5, 2025 Your Phone Number Is Killing Your Conversions: How AI Voice Agents Turn Missed Calls Into Revenue — Oct 28, 2025 The Launch Revolution: Building Emotional Loyalty Through Drops — Oct 23, 2025 Scale Beyond Paid Ads: How SARAL’s InfluencerOS Delivers Predictable Growth for Shopify Brands — Oct 21, 2025 Chaos-Proof Your Q4: ShipBob’s Fulfillment Playbook for Fast-Growing Shopify Brands — Oct 16, 2025 Scale Smarter, Not Harder: The 10-Minute Shopify Workweek Using AI Agents With Thinkr — Oct 14, 2025 Winning The Checkout: Real-World eCommerce Fixes that Convert Customers and Build Loyalty — Oct 10, 2025 From Paid Ads To Owned Audiences: DTC Growth Strategies With Newsletter Monetization — Oct 7, 2025 