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Closing The First ECF Capital Deal Feb 12, 2021

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Closing on a deal can feel incredibly intimidating and scary. How do you know if this is the right fit for your company? What is the paperwork involved? Today my friends and colleagues, Bill D'Alessandro of ElementsBrands.com and Michael Jackness of EcomCrew.com, join the show to help me explain how the team at ECF Capital finally ended up choosing a deal to close on and the work that went into it.

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Hunting for eCommerce Investments Feb 05, 2021

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Everyone always says how hard it is to work through deals and figure out what is good and what is not, but you never truly understand until you are in it. Today I will be talking about everything that went into searching for ECF Capital investments, including how I kept track of them all and the importance of doing your due diligence on the owners of companies.

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Starting an eCommerce Investment Fund Jan 29, 2021

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Last year I announced ECF Capital, an eCommerce fund investment group that looks to invest in promising eCommerce companies with a group of experienced investors. Over the course of the last 12 months, we have been setting everything up, looking for deals, and finally culminating and closing on our first deal in December. So in this episode, I will be running you through the process of getting a fund like this started and what exactly goes on behind the scenes.

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Leadership Lessons from Overlander.com Jan 22, 2021

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There are so many challenges and aspects to think about when launching a new project. Last week we touched on the eCommerce and business sides of launching Overlander.com, and today I want to shift the conversation to focus more on the management and team building lessons I learned while working on this project.

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Launching Overlander.com Jan 15, 2021

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Are you searching for a way to explore remote and untouched areas? Overlanding is essentially a vehicle-based exploration in travel, a fusion of off-roading and camping, and something I have been incredibly interested in. Today I will be walking you through a website that I spent the last six months of 2020 working on, Overlander.com, and I'll explain the lessons I learned while spearheading this project. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/2LQnZU4

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A Stressful Six Months Jan 08, 2021

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The second half of 2020 was an especially busy and stressful time for me personally. In today's episode I reflect back on the period, consider how too much work impacted my personal life and share a few takeaways and lessons.

Curating Your Customers (Replay) Jan 01, 2021

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This is a replay of the episode with Dafina Smith of CovetAndMane.com where we discuss the benefit of not selling on your website. Listen in as Dafina shares how her products are promoted, how she got started in the eCommerce world, and more.

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Free Shipping for Texans Only (Replay) Dec 25, 2020

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This is a replay of the episode with Will Roman from Chisos.com. We debate if it's possible to scale a brand voice beyond the founder, highly effective SMS techniques for cart abandonment, pop-up shops, and – of course – why they only offer free shipping to Texans.

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Is Building Consumer Electronics Crazy? Dec 18, 2020

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If you have an idea to try to create an electronic consumer good, is it worth it? Today Adam Leeb, the maker of Astrohaus.com, joins the show to discuss whether it is possible to break into the market, whether it's something you can do if you don't have an electrical engineering degree, and how he went about chip manufacturing. Adam also shares his thoughts on Apple and what he thinks about when he sees an iPhone. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/3g52dHg

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Predictions for 2021 Dec 11, 2020

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As tradition would have it, Bill D'Alessandro from ElementsBrands.com and I are back with our predictions for 2021. Although neither of us predicted a global pandemic ravaging the eCommerce world as we knew it, we go over the predictions we did have from last year and whether they came true or not. Did Amazon profit and grow as much as we predicted in 2020? Listen in to find out!

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