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• Doesn't Cost You Anything to Do Good: Rohan McCloskey on Building GoGenerosity | #641 06.07.2026 1val 5min

  Rohan McCloskey refunded $350,000 in donations, gave up his salary for a year, and nearly lost everything. He's still building GoGenerosity. And he'd do it again. That kind of conviction usually comes from one of two places: delusion or proof. In Rohan's case it's the latter. One in six customers at his best-performing store donate every single time they shop. Ninety-eight percent of mystery shoppers said they were more likely to return to a brand running GoGenerosity than a competitor sellin...
• How to Ask for Help Before You Need It | #640 03.07.2026 15min

  Ecommerce is still a young industry, and it's moving faster than anyone in ecommerce can keep up with. Nobody has all the answers, and the pressure to act as if you do can leave you in a precarious position. The ecommerce leaders who go furthest aren't the ones who faked it. They're the ones who asked for help early, while they were still learning, and kept doing it the whole way along. The asking was never the weak part of the story, it's what makes them the leaders they are today. The best ...
• The Unicorn Rule: Why The Lad Collective Publishes 15,000 Ads to Find 10 That Work | #639 29.06.2026 58min

  The Lad Collective has shipped roughly 15,000 ads in four years. Around 10 of those have been unicorns. Mark Broadhead, Head of Creative and Growth, runs the Meta engine behind one of Australia's fastest-growing bedding brands, now 200,000 customers deep and expanding into North America. Mark joined as the founders' first employee, moving from his own vintage clothing business into the warehouse in Logan that The Lad Collective was running out of at the time. Four years later, he sits across ...
• How to Choose the Right Marketing Channels Using Data | #638 26.06.2026 15min

  Most ecommerce teams are still arguing about channel split the same way they were five years ago. Meta versus Google, who gets the budget, who gets the credit. The argument usually gets won by whoever's most confident, not whoever's most right. The deeper issue is the data underneath it. Every ad platform is built to over-claim, because the more credit it takes, the more budget you hand it. Add up what Google, Meta and your email tool each say they drove and you'll sail past two hundred perce...
• How Kathmandu Pulled Off a Four-Month Shopify Migration Mid Flash Sale | #637 22.06.2026 52min

  Craig Mildenhall did not start in ecommerce. He started in loyalty. Years at Loyalty New Zealand. A stint at adidas in Europe, running global loyalty and consumer engagement. And somewhere in all of that, he figured out something most digital leaders are still catching up to: the data tells you what happened. The customer tells you why. As GM of Digital at Kathmandu, Craig has spent two years rebuilding one of Australia and New Zealand's most loved outdoor brands from the platform up. New sit...
• How to Find the Profit That's Already in Your Inventory | #636 19.06.2026 10min

  Most businesses struggling with profitability aren't spending too much on ads. They're holding too much stock. The wrong stock. Stock bought on gut feel six months ago, sitting in a warehouse, tying up cash that could be doing something useful. Talea Bader is the co-founder of SKUTOPIA, an Australian fulfilment operation that's been building its own AI and robotics platform for eight years. He runs fulfilment for hundreds of businesses, from early-stage brands all the way through to enterpris...
• Inside I.AM.GIA's Global Playbook: Dom Moretti on Running Two Fashion Brands With One Team | #635 15.06.2026 57min

  Dominique Moretti rebuilt the I.AM.GIA website from scratch in 12 weeks. Open rates sit above 50%. The re-engagement flow beats the welcome flow. And 90% of I.AM.GIA's revenue comes from the US. This is how she runs two global fashion brands with one lean team. Dom is Head of Ecommerce and Digital at A&S Labels, the Melbourne company behind Tiger Mist and I.AM.GIA. She started there as a graphic design intern twelve years ago, grew with the business, left for a stint at Calibre, and came ...
• How to Plan for a Product Recall Before You Need One | #634 12.06.2026 15min

  Most product businesses don't have a recall plan. Not because they've decided against it. Just because the moment hasn't arrived yet. Melanie Nolan built Naternal Vitamins to eight million dollars in four years without running a paid ad for the first two. She built it on trust. Then in April last year, a manufacturing error created iodine variability across fifteen thousand units of her prenatal supplement. The TGA required a full voluntary recall. She refunded nearly three hundred thousand d...
• How Amart Holds Itself Accountable for Broken Promises: Inside Shippit's State of Shipping Report | #633 10.06.2026 50min

  The gap between when you say the parcel will arrive and when it actually does is still the biggest unsolved loyalty problem in Australian retail. This is the episode that puts numbers on it. This episode discusses Shippit’s State of Shipping Report 2026. Download your copy here. Rob Hango-Zada co-founded Shippit in 2014 and has published the State of Shipping Report three years running. This year's edition is the biggest yet. David Bauer is GM Customer at Amart Furniture, one of Australia'...
• Inside the Emails of July, Step One and APG & Co: Three Klaviyo Champions on Why Segmentation Is Dying | The Klaviyo #632 08.06.2026 1val 4min

  Most brands know what their campaigns are doing. Fewer know whether their flows are actually doing the heavy lifting. This is the second of three special episodes recorded live at Klaviyo's Sydney event, K:SYD. Nathan put forward a panel instead of a single interview, and the room delivered. Three Klaviyo Champions, three very different businesses, one hour on email, CRM, data and where retention marketing is actually heading. Lachi Agnew is Head of Technology at July, the Melbourne luggage b...
• How to Run a Live Shopping Show That Actually Sells | #631 05.06.2026 17min

  Live shopping has been "the next big thing" in Australian ecommerce for five years. Grayson White has been doing it for fifteen. Grayson White started running "breaks" (the trading card version of live shopping) at Cherry Collectables back in 2008. Cherry is now Australia's biggest trading card retailer, and what Grayson has built since isn't a sales channel. It's a community of hundreds of thousands of collectors who trust the brand enough to move 1,600% more product on a single new release ...
• Klaviyo Is 1% Done: What Their Co-Founder Says the Other 99% Looks Like | #630 01.06.2026 40min

  Klaviyo is sitting at $1.2 billion in revenue and 196,000 brands. Ed Hallen says it's 1% done. Ed Hallen co-founded Klaviyo in 2012 with Andrew Bialecki, off the back of a dinner in Boston where an Australian entrepreneur selling suits online told them he spent three hours a week manually emailing his customer list. They offered to automate it. Thirteen years, a 2023 IPO, and a shift from email tool to autonomous B2C CRM later, that same core idea, understand the customer, act on it, measure ...
• How to Build a Creative Machine That Finds Winners | #629 29.05.2026 17min

  For most of a decade, the performance marketing edge came from audience strategy. Which targeting, which lookalikes, which exclusions. Media buying was the skill, and creative was just the fuel you fed it. That advantage has quietly disappeared as Meta, Google and TikTok have absorbed the targeting levers into the platform. Most brands are still organised around the old model: budget and attention pointed at audience strategy, with creative treated as execution. The brands pulling ahead have ...
• Kill the School Shoes: How Jess Hatzis Rebuilt a 134-Year-Old Brand in Six Months | #628 25.05.2026 57min

  Most people know Jess Hatzis from frank body. The coffee scrub brand built on a $10,000 investment, a genderless persona called Frank, and an Instagram strategy so early they were setting alarms through the night to post manually. Eleven years later, a $100 million valuation and one of the most recognised Australian beauty brands in the world. What fewer people talk about is what it actually took to build that. The data before the creative. The hard calls on what to kill. The discipline of kn...
• How to Calculate Your Breakeven Number | #627 22.05.2026 20min

  Revenue is still the number most ecommerce founders lead with. It's the easiest to celebrate, the easiest to screenshot, and the one that gets the most airtime in strategy conversations. But it's also the number that tells you the least about whether the business is actually working. Most operators are chasing a revenue target that has no maths behind it. Nobody has calculated the one number that gives a revenue target its job. Gross profit might be off. Contribution margin might be close to ...
• Business Prison: Grant Arnott on the PE Deal That Cost Him More Than Click Frenzy | #626 18.05.2026 59min

  Grant Arnott built Click Frenzy from his bedroom into Australia's most iconic online sale event. Then one private equity decision cost him nearly everything, including, for a while, his reason to stay. He chose this conversation over every other request. When Click Frenzy and Power Retail went into receivership in March 2026, interview requests came in from multiple outlets. Grant turned them all down. Add To Cart was the only interview he agreed to do. Grant founded Power Retail in 2010 as a...
• How to Create a Hero Product as an Entry Point | #625 15.05.2026 15min

  Most ecommerce brands can tell you their best-converting product. Fewer can tell you whether that product is bringing in the right customer. There's a difference. A product can have excellent front-end economics and still be filling your database with people who buy once and never come back. The ROAS looks good. The CAC looks manageable. But six months later, the repeat purchase rate is telling a different story. The brands getting this right do three things differently. In this playbook, bas...
• It's Not Digital, It's Just Retail with Freedom's Paula Mitchell | #624 11.05.2026 1val 7min

  The whole ecommerce industry is racing to ship faster. Paula Mitchell thinks that's the wrong race. Paula came to that view the hard way. After building ecommerce at Rebel Sport, Dan Murphy's and General Pants across 25 years, she joined Freedom as Digital GM and spent the first few months driving home wondering what she'd walked into. Furniture is not fashion. Made-to-order lead times run 12 to 16 weeks. Customers plan their lives around delivery windows. A $10,000 sofa carries emotional wei...
• How to Go From eCommerce to Physical Retail #623 08.05.2026 11min

  Customer acquisition costs on paid social have been rising for years. The channels that drove efficient growth half a decade ago are harder to justify today. Physical retail is starting to look genuinely interesting to founders who would never have considered it before. But there's a gap between finding physical retail interesting and actually making it work. Most e-commerce operators approach the move with a revenue mindset they've carried from online. They measure store performance the way ...
• Why Most Ecommerce Brands Get Fulfilment Wrong with SKUTOPIA's Talea Bader | #622 04.05.2026 48min

  Talea Bader is the founder of SKUTOPIA, a tech-led fulfillment platform rethinking how e-commerce brands scale their operations. What started from running co-working spaces for e-commerce businesses quickly turned into a much bigger opportunity solving one of the most consistent pain points founders face: fulfillment that can’t keep up with growth. In this episode: SKUTOPIA is building an “intelligent logistics network” powered by robotics and AI, and why operations not marketing might be the...