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1Mstrong: Track, market, and make decisions on products to grow eCommerce sales faster.

1Mstrong: Track, market, and make decisions on products to grow eCommerce sales faster.

By Marvin Harris

The 1Mstrong podcast is a show hosted by entrepreneur Marvin Harris. Marvin talks to guests about tracking, marketing, and making decisions on products to sell and grow faster. His guests include merchants, business and e-commerce experts to learn what they are doing to scale faster and grow smarter.

Listen to 1Mstrong at ovalz.io/blog or wherever you enjoy podcasts. New episodes are published on Wednesdays.
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#E2: Building Digital Audiences and Not Followers — w/Shyon(Shy) Parsadoust of Toucan Family

1Mstrong: Track, market, and make decisions on products to grow eCommerce sales faster. Jun 25, 2020

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How to grow a successful eCommere store with Damiano Raveenthiran?

How to grow a successful eCommere store with Damiano Raveenthiran?

Ecommerce businesses fail or succeed for a variety of reasons. Damiano Raveenthiran shares what he has learned after building and managing over 2,000+ Shopify stores through his Toronto-based agency, Startup Slang. 

Damiano talks through his three-step strategy for merchant creation and how you to become successful building around product, content, and conversion. 

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Connect with Damiano Raveenthiran at fiverr.com/damianorstore or Instagram at instagram.com/damianor/

Connect with Marvin Harris at marvin@ovalz.io

Learn more about Startup Slang at startupslang.com

Learn more about Ovalz at ovalz.io

Apr 14, 202133:58
#E12. Create raving fans by unlocking your brand's position with Reggie Mac
Sep 19, 202057:30
#E11. How COVID is changing your analytics with Ryan Kovach
Sep 10, 202041:47
#E10. Building better customer relationships with Azim Nagree

#E10. Building better customer relationships with Azim Nagree

Azim Nagree, Principal of Nagree Consulting joins Marvin to discuss what how businesses can build better customer relationships. Azim shares what he does to help clients focus on customer relationships that grow sales and retention. 

New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Azim Nagree, Nagree Consulting

Azim Nagree LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/azimnagree

Azim's website: www.nagreeconsulting.com/

Sep 03, 202025:07
#E9. More inventory communication, More Profits with Bill Flannery of Savage Steaks

#E9. More inventory communication, More Profits with Bill Flannery of Savage Steaks

Bill Flannery, CEO of Savage Steaks joins Marvin to discuss what how he is experimenting with inventory communication to accelerate profitability. Bill shares what he does to enable inventory communication to build trust with customers.

New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Bill Flannery, CEO of Savage Steaks

Savage Steaks Instagram Profile: @savage.steaks

Savage Steaks website: https://savagesteaks.com/

Aug 27, 202040:13
#E8. Is inventory adding or lowering customer loyalty? w/Albee Shanefelter

#E8. Is inventory adding or lowering customer loyalty? w/Albee Shanefelter

Albee Shanefelter entrepreneur and co-founder of Ovalz joins Marvin to discuss what they learned talking to 70 retailers about inventory and customer loyalty during COVID to learn how retailers can increase customer loyalty with better inventory performance. 

New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Albee Shanefelter, Head of Customer Acquisition for Ovalz

Ovalz Instagram Profile: @ovalz.io

Albee's Instagram Profile: 

Albee's email: albee@ovalz.io 

Aug 20, 202044:54
#E7. How to re-invent your business model with Pramod Raheja

#E7. How to re-invent your business model with Pramod Raheja

Pramod Raheja serial entrepreneur and CEO of Airgility joins Marvin to discuss how small businesses can re-invent their business models. 

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New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Pramod Raheja, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Airgility. 

Show Notes:

Airgility's website: www.airgility.co

Pramod's email" pramod@airgility.co 

Aug 13, 202039:36
#E6.Maximizing opportunity and avoiding risk with digital policy programs w/Kristina Podnar

#E6.Maximizing opportunity and avoiding risk with digital policy programs w/Kristina Podnar

Kristina Podnar author of The Power of Digital Policy joins Marvin Harris, host of the 1MStrong podcast and CEO of Ovalz to discuss how small businesses can create opportunity and avoid risk with digital policy programs and frameworks.  

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New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple, Google or Spotify to receive new episode notifications.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Kristina Podner, Digital policy expert and author

Show Notes:

Get in touch with Kristina at me@kpodnar.com

Kristina's Twitter: @kpodnar

Kristina's website: www.thepowerofdigitalpolicy.com

Digital Policy Resources: https://www.kpodnar.com/which-digital-policy

Jul 23, 202050:09
#E5. Protecting Your Ideas with Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights w/Angela Grayson of Precipice IP

#E5. Protecting Your Ideas with Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights w/Angela Grayson of Precipice IP

Angela Grayson technology attorney and founder of Precipice IP joins Marvin Harris, host of the 1MStrong podcast and CEO of Ovalz discusses how small businesses can decide whether protecting their ideas to become stronger. Angela protects products, brands, designs, & data from idea to launch and how to protect intellectual property before commercializing your ideas. 

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New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple, Google or Spotify to receive new episode notifications.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Angela Grayson, founder of Precipice IP an intellectual firm for early stage science and technology companies

Show Notes:

Get in touch with Angela at angela.grayson@precipiceip.com

Precipice IP website: Precipice IP

Angela's blog post: If Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention, Then Who's Your Daddy?

Jul 16, 202041:08
#E4. How restaurants can create new business models with Tom Racosky of Big Buns

#E4. How restaurants can create new business models with Tom Racosky of Big Buns

Tom Racosky restaurant consultant and co-founder of Big Buns joins Marvin Harris, host of the 1MStrong podcast and CEO of Ovalz to discuss how restaurants can create new business models to become stronger.

Tom recommends a couple of strategies including reducing your costs, looking at what you sell and coming up with creative ways to sell other items using mobile food experiences to open up new revenue streams. 

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New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple, Google or Spotify to receive new episode notifications.

Host: Marvin Harris, host

Guest: Tom Racosky, restaurant consultant and co-founder of Big Buns

Show Notes:

Get in touch with Tom at tom.racosky@gmail.com

Big Buns website: eatbigbuns.com

Jul 09, 202035:34
#E3: Simple Inbound Marketing Strategies to Accelerate Growth — w/Ryan Kovach, Growth Specialist

#E3: Simple Inbound Marketing Strategies to Accelerate Growth — w/Ryan Kovach, Growth Specialist

Ryan Kovach joins Marvin Harris host of the 1MStrong podcast and CEO of Ovalz to talk about ways small businesses can implement simple inbound marketing strategies and accelerate growth to become stronger. 

Ryan recommends every business start thinking of themselves as marketing and technology company's first and "what you do" as the product (whether you are a product or service based business) to accelerate growth. Ryan shares easy to employ inbound marketing strategies that any small business can implement to grow. 

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New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple, Google or Spotify to receive new episode notifications.

Host: Marvin Harris, Host

Guest: Ryan Kovach, Growth Specialist

Show Notes:

Ryan's email address: ryankovach.consultant@gmail.com

Ryan's phone number: (817) 455-9263

Ryan's Website: http://www.freezysites.com/

Jul 02, 202044:57
#E2: Building Digital Audiences and Not Followers — w/Shyon(Shy) Parsadoust of Toucan Family

#E2: Building Digital Audiences and Not Followers — w/Shyon(Shy) Parsadoust of Toucan Family

Shyon(Shy) Parsadoust of Toucan Family joins Marvin Harris host of the 1MStrong podcast and CEO of Ovalz to talk about ways small businesses can build audiences and not followers to become stronger. Why user centered design principles are key to connecting to customers on social media. Shy recommends building relationships with people around a shared problem and finding digital communities where your customers live, are and go and much, much more.


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Host: Marvin Harris Founder of Ovalz

Guest: Shyon(Shy) Parsadoust of Toucan Family


Show Notes:

Shy's email address: shy@toucanfamily.com 

Shy's phone number: (240) 994-9734

Toucan's Instagram: @ToucanFamily

Toucan's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/toucanfamily

Toucan Family website: https://www.toucanfamily.com/ 

Jun 25, 202051:36
#E1: Tips for Small Businesses to Reopen, Grow and Adjust — w/Grier Melick (Small business consultant, Maryland SBDC)

#E1: Tips for Small Businesses to Reopen, Grow and Adjust — w/Grier Melick (Small business consultant, Maryland SBDC)

Grier Melick of Maryland's SBDC joins Marvin Harris host of the 1MStrong podcast and CEO of Ovalz to discuss tools small businesses can employ as they reopen, grow and adjust to become stronger and more sustainable businesses. How small business owners can adapt and learn from building Teams, adopting new branding strategies, digital acceleration, adjusting business models, cash reserve strategies and much more. 

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Show notes:

Grier's phone number: (443) 577-8835

Grier's email: jmelick@umd.edu

Link to The Small Business Survival Guide 

Jun 18, 202031:08