• The AI Employees Running Your Amazon Brand While You Sleep
    Jun 18 2026

    One Amazon brand added $215K in annual profit across 15 SKUs by replacing its software stack with coordinated AI agents.

    In this episode, Chad Rubin, founder and CEO of Profasee, breaks down:

    • How named AI agents own pricing, PPC, and demand planning, working your Amazon business 24/7
    • Why coordinated agents beat disconnected point tools when a stockout should pause ad spend automatically
    • The "Ask Me First" mode that earns your trust before agents touch a single price

    Whether you're doing $50K months or $5M years, this conversation shows what a coordinated AI workforce can unlock for your margins.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-470/

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    50 mins
  • Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales
    Jun 16 2026

    Paying more for ads while 97% of your Shopify traffic leaves without buying? The cheaper growth lever is conversion, not acquisition.

    In this episode, Krisztian Kiraly, International Partnership Manager at OptiMonk and former CRO agency founder, breaks down:

    • How one brand lifted revenue 12% in under three months using AI product-page optimization, no extra ad spend
    • Why AI-generated product images, benefit badges, and 3-bullet summaries move the 99% of buying decisions driven by emotion
    • The traffic threshold (10K to 15K monthly visitors) where AI-powered CRO starts paying off for your store

    Whether you're doing $50K months or $5M years, this conversation delivers conversion plays you can test this week.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-469/

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    46 mins
  • Your Conversion Rate Is Lying to You: The 4 Numbers That Actually Predict Revenue
    Jun 11 2026

    Your conversion rate is lying to you. If you're scaling a Shopify brand and treating CRO as a single number, this episode rebuilds how you diagnose what's actually broken on your site.

    In this episode, Anthony Morgan, founder and CEO of Enavi, breaks down:

    • Why the "intra-site funnel" beats conversion rate, with target baselines at every step: landing to product view, add to cart, and checkout
    • How Grubbly Farms lifted subscription take rate from 15% to 45% without raising churn
    • The "besides price" survey trick that uncovers the real friction killing your add-to-cart rate

    Whether you're doing $10K months or $10M years, this conversation delivers strategies you can test this week.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-468/

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    50 mins
  • From Dashboards to Doing: Triple Whale's Moby 2 with Maxx Blank
    Jun 9 2026

    Your attribution dashboard tells you ROAS dropped, but not what to do about it, and for scaling Shopify brands that gap costs real ad spend.

    In this episode, Maxx Blank, co-founder and COO of Triple Whale, breaks down:

    • Why Triple Whale's AI specialists (media buyer, creative director, conversion optimizer) now execute on ad accounts, not just report
    • How a $15M brand had Moby build a working inventory forecasting app in 10 minutes
    • The copilot-to-autopilot path that cuts your "ROAS dropped" question-to-action loop from days to minutes

    Whether you're doing your first $1M or scaling past $15M, this conversation delivers strategies you can test this week.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-467/

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    48 mins
  • What's Your Profit Target? The Question Most Shopify Founders Can't Answer (with Thomas Gleeson, StoreHero)
    Jun 4 2026

    Great ROAS but no profit? If you're a Shopify brand watching revenue grow while margin disappears, this episode shows you where the money actually leaks.

    In this episode, Thomas Gleeson, co-founder of StoreHero, breaks down:

    • The "margin paper cuts" hiding in every order: shipping, duties, returns, and rogue discount codes draining contribution margin
    • Why most brands chase efficiency when they should chase profit, and how that costs them growth
    • How brands unlock a 10-20% contribution margin lift in the first 60-90 days without spending more

    Whether you're doing $500K years or $50M years, this conversation delivers strategies you can test this week.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-466/

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    53 mins
  • The 5 to 15% of Revenue Hiding in Your Shopify Store (and Why You Never Capture It)
    Jun 2 2026

    There's revenue sitting in your Shopify store right now, and most brands doing $1M+ never capture it because they're too busy fighting fires.

    In this episode, Apoorva Modi, founder of Revenue Agent and ex-Google ads operator, breaks down:

    • Why the revenue you're missing is already hiding across eight levers, from pricing and bundles to retention and checkout
    • How most stores uncover 5 to 15% of annual revenue, or $500K to $1.5M on a $10M store
    • The question that separates agentic tools from dashboards, and why you keep becoming the operating layer

    Whether you're doing $1M years or $10M years, this conversation delivers strategies you can test this week.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-465/


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    36 mins
  • Why AI Recommends Some Shopify Products and Ignores Yours
    Jun 1 2026

    ChatGPT and Google's AI are recommending products right now, and Shopify brands with messy, scattered product data are the ones getting skipped.

    In this episode, Trever Chidester, director of partnerships at Plytix, breaks down:

    • Why clean, structured product data is the growth lever that gets you discovered in ChatGPT and AI search
    • How to bulk edit descriptions, images, and SKUs across multiple Shopify stores from one source of truth
    • The free tier that puts a former $10K to $30K/year enterprise PIM within reach for brands under 500 products

    Whether you're doing $10K months or $50M years, this conversation delivers strategies you can test this week.


    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-464/


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    🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevenhutt
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    40 mins
  • Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here's Where It's Already Working)
    May 26 2026

    AI voice agents are recovering 35% of abandoned Shopify carts, and most operators haven't noticed yet.

    In this solo episode, Steve Hutt breaks down:

    • Why AI voice beats email recovery flows by 3x on abandoned carts (and the stage where it actually pays off)
    • How one Shopify brand cut $18K/month in support costs while CSAT jumped 22%
    • The storefront voice concierge small brands can use to sound like the founder at scale

    Whether you're doing $100K years or $10M+ on Shopify Plus, this episode gives you a 90-day test plan to pick your lane before voice becomes table stakes by 2028.

    📝 Full show notes + resources: https://ecommercefastlane.com/podcast/episode-463/


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    22 mins