1Mstrong: Track, market, and make decisions on products to grow eCommerce sales faster.
By Marvin Harris
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1Mstrong: Track, market, and make decisions on products to grow eCommerce sales faster. Jun 25, 2020
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.
Connecting with today's guest or show host.
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
#E12. Create raving fans by unlocking your brand's position with Reggie Mac
Reggie is helps small businesses with brand strategy. He stopped by the show to talk about how small businesses can create raving fans by unlocking your brand's position. Welcome to the podcast Reggie.
Reggie Mac, brand strategist and brand expert joins Marvin to discuss what how to create a niche, differentiate your business and create raving fans by unlocking your brand's position.
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Host: Marvin Harris, host
Guest: Reggie Mac
Reggie's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reggiemac/
#E11. How COVID is changing your analytics with Ryan Kovach
Ryan Kovach, serial entrepreneur and marketing expert joins Marvin to discuss what how COVID is changing analytics. Ryan shares what he small businesses can do to start reshaping how they measure success.
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Host: Marvin Harris, host
Guest: Ryan Kovach
Ryan's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankovachmarketing/
#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.
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Host: Marvin Harris, host
Guest: Azim Nagree, Nagree Consulting
Azim Nagree LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/azimnagree
Azim's website: www.nagreeconsulting.com/
#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.
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Host: Marvin Harris, host
Guest: Bill Flannery, CEO of Savage Steaks
Savage Steaks Instagram Profile: @savage.steaks
Savage Steaks website: https://savagesteaks.com/
#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.
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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
#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
#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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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
#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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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?
#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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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
#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/
#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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New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe on Apple or Spotify to receive new episode notifications.
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/
#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