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eCommerce Fastlane – A Shopify Podcast To Profitably Grow Revenue For DTC Ecommerce Store Entrepreneurs
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Started in 2016, eCommerce Fastlane is a top rated e-commerce growth and marketing education resource for Shopify stores. If you have a Shopify business or have the inspiration to build a direct to consumer (DTC) brand that matters, you're in the right place to accelerate revenue growth. We help direct-to-consumer, DTC founders, online business owners, and entrepreneurs to grow revenue and build lifetime customer value for Shopify online stores. As Shopify experts, we release blog posts and ...
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S4E14 - LeDerick Horne: Separate Is Not Equal in Special Education (reissue)
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Episode Notes This is a "reissue" of a classic episode. The original came out in January 2020. You can learn more about all the awesome work LeDerick Horne is doing at his website, lederick.com The poem at the start of the episode is called "New Beginning". You can hear it on LeDerick Horne's first album, Rhyme Reason and Song. You can also see LeD…
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New Pixel Fold leaks, reality-altering AI, and Minecraft on Chromebooks
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin the show by discussing all the new leaks surrounding Google’s upcoming Pixel lineup. Between the release date of the Pixel 7a and Pixel Fold leaking to the newly-rumored, lower price tag for the Pixel Fold and interesting price point on the Pixel 7a, there are quite a few interesting things to discuss as we in…
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We can finally talk about the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook
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This week on The Chrome Cast, the star of the show is – without doubt – the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook. And though some odd news about abysmal battery has made waves on the web, the overwhelming response to this device for everyone we’ve shown it to is massively positive, and we feel that it is the flagship Chromebook we’ve all been waiting for fr…
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This week on The Chrome Cast, the star of the show is – without doubt – the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook. And though some odd news about abysmal battery has made waves on the web, the overwhelming response to this device for everyone we’ve shown it to is massively positive, and we feel that it is the flagship Chromebook we’ve all been waiting for fr…
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Pixel Fold leaks, Google I/O 2023, and a black Dragonfly Pro Chromebook
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin the show by talking about the new HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook we have in the office in the Sparkling Black colorway. Though we’re still limited in what we can say about this Chromebook for now, this black color is pretty awesome looking and gives us yet another reason to talk about this very special Chromebook…
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Create The Ultimate Unboxing Experience Through Custom Eco-Friendly Packaging With Phil Akhzar Of Arka
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Phillip Akhzar, the Founder and CEO of Arka. Phil Akhzar learned about the importance of eco-friendly packaging through his work in supply chain logistics and industrial engineering. He discovered how important it was to have sustainable packaging that was accessible and affordable, to make sure the…
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5 questions with Google's Jenn Chen about ChromeOS Design and UX
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This week on The Chrome Cast podcast, we're back with another interview episode, and this time around, we had the privilege of chatting with Jenn Chen, Product Designer and Head of UX Design & Research for ChromeOS at Google. Jenn has been working on ChromeOS for over a decade and has a vast understanding of the OS so needless to say, it was an hon…
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S4E13 - How to Design a Great Project Launch, with John Santos
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Marketing Attribution Is Broken For Shopify Stores. Here’s How To Fix It With Pavel Petrinich Of SegmentStream
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Pavel Petrinich the Co-Founder and CRO of SegmentStream. SegmentStream is a Conversion Modelling Platform that helps e-commerce & D2C brands drive more sales by providing them with real-time marketing attribution insights. Marketers rely on attribution data to make informed budget allocation decisio…
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HP's Dragonfly Pro Chromebook is in the office and new tablets are inbound
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we’re talking about the new HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook – as much as we can at this point, at least – and why this new device is very important in the consumer Chromebook market. Sure, there’s an impressive spec sheet, but a fantastic Chromebook needs more than just stats, and the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook has it. Wh…
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HP's Dragonfly Pro Chromebook is in the office and new tablets are inbound
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we’re talking about the new HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook – as much as we can at this point, at least – and why this new device is very important in the consumer Chromebook market. Sure, there’s an impressive spec sheet, but a fantastic Chromebook needs more than just stats, and the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook has it. Wh…
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Supercharge Your Shopify Store Through High-Converting Landing Pages With Yuxin Zhu Of Replo
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Yuxin Zhu the Co-founder of Replo. Replo is a visual web development platform that allows teams to create beautiful high-performance landing pages on Shopify, without the need for developers. They are light years ahead of other page builders when it comes to customization and page speed. They have a…
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Gain A Competitive Edge With Conversational AI Shopping Experiences With Yoav Oz Of Rep AI
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Yoav Oz, the Co-founder and CEO of Rep AI. Rep is a conversational AI “sales closer” for Shopify ecommerce stores. They enable merchants to maximize their marketing budget by saving soon-to-be-lost traffic and turning them into customers. It automatically finds disengaged customers and provides them…
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Validate And Optimize Paid Media Investments Through Incrementality Experiments With Trevor Testwuide Of Measured
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Trevor Testwuide the Co-founder and CEO of Measured. Measured is the leader in incrementality intelligence for media optimization. They have a proven measurement methodology that incorporates results from years of continuous testing across all channels and tactics, combined with each brand’s own per…
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The Future Of ChromeOS With Google's John Maletis
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This week, we have a very special episode of The Chrome Cast Podcast as we welcome John Maletis - VP of Product, Engineering, and UX for ChromeOS - on the show. John was in-person at HP's reviewer workshop for the upcoming Dragonfly Pro Chromebook and was kind enough to sit down and have a chat with us about where the consumer Chromebook market is …
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The Future Of ChromeOS With Google's John Maletis
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This week, we have a very special episode of The Chrome Cast Podcast as we welcome John Maletis - VP of Product, Engineering, and UX for ChromeOS - on the show. John was in-person at HP's reviewer workshop for the upcoming Dragonfly Pro Chromebook and was kind enough to sit down and have a chat with us about where the consumer Chromebook market is …
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S4E12 - C3 Mobility: Increasing College Success Through Near-peer Mentorship and Continuous Improvement
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Drive Significant Incremental Revenue By Expanding Your Product Mix With Sina Djafari Of Duoplane
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Sina Djafari from Duoplane. Duoplane is an order management platform for Shopify merchants who drop ship or work with multiple fulfillment partners. They help ecommerce merchants to manage and automate their dropship and 3PL workflow by automating order processing, inventory syncing, and vendor paym…
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Shopify Stores Can Now Say Goodbye To Affiliate Links And Discount Codes With Anders Bill and Andy Cloyd Of Superfiliate
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guests are Anders Bill and Andy Cloyd of Superfiliate. Superfiliate is a platform that automates the creation of personalized storefronts for a Shopify brand's best customers and creators to get the most out of their word of mouth programs. These personalized storefronts give Superfiliates access to a brand'…
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Collaborate Your Way To Success With Influencers And Creators With Brett Owens Of Afluencer
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Brett Owens & Collab Matchmaker of Afluencer. Afluencer is the easiest way for Shopify brands to find, meet and start “Collabing” with social media micro-influencers and creators. Over 20,000+ influencers are actual users of their app – which means they can make direct introductions for you to new p…
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ASUS Vibe CX34 impressions and why Acer needs a high-end Chromebook
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin the episode by discussing our recent move from YouTube Music over to Spotify and why that transition has been so interesting. As a music streaming service, Spotify is the best there is, and it took us all quite a while to finally move over to it. With some updates to the way casting is handled, Spotify is now …
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Will Samsung Ever Make A Galaxy Chromebook Ultra?
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we spend quite a bit of time talking through the latest Unpacked event from Samsung. On February 1st, Samsung took the wraps off their new phones – the Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra – and a few other interesting new products as well. In the midst of those other products was a new Windows laptop called the Galaxy Book …
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Will Samsung Ever Make A Galaxy Chromebook Ultra?
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we spend quite a bit of time talking through the latest Unpacked event from Samsung. On February 1st, Samsung took the wraps off their new phones – the Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra – and a few other interesting new products as well. In the midst of those other products was a new Windows laptop called the Galaxy Book …
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S4E11 - Deeper Learning: Origins (With Laura McBain)
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Episode Notes High Tech High Graduate School of Education Director of Liberation Michelle Pledger talks to Stanford D.School's Laura McBain about how the Deeper Learning conference came about, and what it takes to help conference-goers EXPERIENCE deeper learning, rather than just talking about it. Resources: Read about (and register for) this year'…
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Shopify Stores Are Exploiting A Massively Profitable Direct Mail Channel At Scale With Dave Fink Of Postie
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In today’s Shopify Ecommerce Podcast, my guest is Dave Fink, the Founder and CEO of Postie.com. Dave Fink thinks the best kept secret in marketing is hiding where you least expect it — your mailbox. Over a 20-year career he’s generated hundreds of millions of dollars in ad revenue, powered viral sensations like Dollar Shave Club, and helped launch …
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Is the consumer world ready for HP's premium Dragonfly Pro Chromebook?
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin the episode by getting the elephant out of the room right off the bat: Robby bought a Tesla. The stars aligned and with a great trade-in, reduced price, and the new federal tax credit, the timing was right. The excitement is obvious, but it gives way to some new content that could come from the Chrome Unboxed …
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Stadia’s death gives way to new life in cloud gaming
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This week, we felt it was only fitting to not only discuss Stadia’s final death, but also the cloud gaming revolution it looks to have started. While many of the main players in the cloud gaming space have been around for quite some time, Google’s efforts with Stadia brought the idea of streaming games to the forefront and regardless of whether or …
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Stadia’s death gives way to new life in cloud gaming
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This week, we felt it was only fitting to not only discuss Stadia’s final death, but also the cloud gaming revolution it looks to have started. While many of the main players in the cloud gaming space have been around for quite some time, Google’s efforts with Stadia brought the idea of streaming games to the forefront and regardless of whether or …
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S4E10 - No Teacher, No Internet, No Problem
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Episode Notes Alec talks to Janhvi Kanoria and Lolwa Al-Saigh of Education Above All about the Internet-Free Education Resource Bank. Resources: The Education Above All Internet Free Education Resource Bank (IFERB) Janhvi Kanoria's Ted Talk, A is for Arrow
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10X Your Browse And Cart Abandonment Email And SMS With Adam Robinson Of Retention.com
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In today’s Shopify ecommerce podcast, my guest is Adam Robinson, the Co-Founder and CEO of Retention.com Retention.com helps Shopify stores to grow their abandonment revenues. Your customers can only receive abandoned cart emails if they’re logged in to Shopify. Think about that. Think about how many people aren’t logged in to your store right now …
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Evolution of Steam gaming on Chromebooks with Google's Zach Alcorn
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Today on The Chrome Cast podcast, we're back with another interview episode and this time around we are chatting with Zach Alcorn who is a Product Manager at Google working on Gaming for ChromeOS. More specifically, Zach has been working tirelessly on a project that allows you to play Steam games on your Chromebook and has been heavily involved in …
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Evolution of Steam gaming on Chromebooks with Google's Zach Alcorn
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Today on The Chrome Cast podcast, we're back with another interview episode and this time around we are chatting with Zach Alcorn who is a Product Manager at Google working on Gaming for ChromeOS. More specifically, Zach has been working tirelessly on a project that allows you to play Steam games on your Chromebook and has been heavily involved in …
This week on The Chrome Cast, we discussed all the things we saw and tried at CES 2023 in Las Vegas last week. It goes without saying that there were a ton of new ChromeOS devices from Chromeboxes to Chromebooks and it was our busiest CES yet. We've published videos for all of it and for this week's podcast, we talk through all of that hardware to …
This week on The Chrome Cast, we discussed all the things we saw and tried at CES 2023 in Las Vegas last week. It goes without saying that there were a ton of new ChromeOS devices from Chromeboxes to Chromebooks and it was our busiest CES yet. We've published videos for all of it and for this week's podcast, we talk through all of that hardware to …
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S4E9 - Gates Foundation Den Talk: Xiomara Padamsee and Adelric McCain on Weaving Equity Work and Improvement Work
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Episode Notes This episode is part of a three-part series from the Gates Foundation Fall 2022 Community of Practice Convening in San Diego, California. You can find all three episodes here. You can find the other den talks from this event in this youtube playlist. You can find lots more podcast episodes, articles, and videos about continuous improv…
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S4E8 - Gates Foundation Den Talk: Brandi Hinnant-Crawford and Luke Wood on Liberatory Improvement
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Episode Notes This episode is part of a three-part series from the Gates Foundation Fall 2022 Community of Practice Convening in San Diego, California. You can find all three episodes here. You can find the other den talks from this event in this youtube playlist. You can find lots more podcast episodes, articles, and videos about continuous improv…
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S4E7 - Gates Foundation Den Talk: Justin Cohen and Derek Mitchell on Transforming Schools from the Ground Up
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Episode Notes Justin Cohen's book, Change Agents, is available here This episode is part of a three-part series from the Gates Foundation Fall 2022 Community of Practice Convening in San Diego, California. You can find all three episodes here. You can find the other den talks from this event in this youtube playlist. You can find lots more podcast …
This week on The Chrome Cast, in light of the fact that this week is the strange, low-key week at the end of the year between Christmas and New Year's Day, we thought it appropriate to take a look back over the last 12 months and talk through our best performing posts on the website and most-viewed videos over on YouTube. It's a fun episode and it …
This week on The Chrome Cast, in light of the fact that this week is the strange, low-key week at the end of the year between Christmas and New Year's Day, we thought it appropriate to take a look back over the last 12 months and talk through our best performing posts on the website and most-viewed videos over on YouTube. It's a fun episode and it …
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2022 Gear of the Year and a new need for Google's Pixelbook
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we start the discussion by talking through some of the entries on our yearly Gear of the Year Gift Guide. There are items on the list from Chromebooks to phones to earbuds to coffee makers, so if you are scrambling for a last-minute gift idea, there could be something there to spark the imagination. For the rest of our…
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we start the discussion by talking through some of the entries on our yearly Gear of the Year Gift Guide. There are items on the list from Chromebooks to phones to earbuds to coffee makers, so if you are scrambling for a last-minute gift idea, there could be something there to spark the imagination. For the rest of our…
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More Pixel Fold renders, ChromeOS 108, and Fortnite on Chromebooks
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This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin the show with discussion around the latest renders that have leaked for the upcoming Pixel Fold. Though this foldable phone from Google isn’t due until May (according to the rumors), the substantial leaks have truly begun. With these latest renders, we get a video and some specific measurements for the chassis…
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Crush Your Profit Target This Holiday Season With First-Party Data And Intelligent Customer Segmentation With John Chao Of Segments
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In today’s Shopify ecommerce podcast, my guest is John Chao, the Co-Founder and CEO of Segments. They are a Shopify Plus Certified App that helps store owners and marketing teams scale their revenue by leveraging targeted customer segmentation with advanced data analytics. It’s all presented and actionable in an easy-to-understand visual manner. Fi…
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Picking our favorite Chromebooks of 2022
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This week on The Chrome Cast, our discussion revolves almost completely around our picks for Best Chromebooks of 2022. We just recently published a video and post rounding all these devices up, so you should definitely hit the show notes and watch that. For the podcast, we list those devices, but each of us choose two of our most favorite Chromeboo…
