Shopify is seldom compared to Amazon for obvious reasons, they aren’t exactly direct competitors; one is a eCommerce technology platform while the other is an eCommerce retailer. At time of writing, $SHOP has a $45bn market cap and $AMZN has a $990bn market cap making them vastly different in size […]
How much time do you spend in your Google Analytics account? It can become a serious addiction, there is a ton of data about your website/business, you can spend hours on end mulling through it. In fact, if you wanted to, you could become Google Analytics Certified. However, you don’t […]
Getting customers to go out of their way to write you a review is tough. Especially when the product is as boring as a furnace filter. I believe developing a customer feedback loop is important for any business. You should be optimizing your entire operations based on what customers are […]
After doing my last interview with Pat from Starter Story, I received a lot of inquiries about Google Ads, readers wanting to know more about how to master the platform. So I decided to do a follow-up interview where I dive a bit deeper into one of the worlds greatest […]
The average landing page conversion rate across all industries is 4.02%. I want you to do way better than that. So, let’s bench that benchmark. Your landing page may already receive a good amount of traffic. But traffic is worthless if you don’t see conversions. It’s like buying thousands of […]
No that wasn’t a click-bait headline, and no I am not exaggerating those stats one bit. From the period between September 1 and September 14 (2 weeks), I ran a “giveaway marketing campaign” for PureFilters, an eCommerce company specializing in air filtration products. The campaign costs were around $110 (including the […]
In effort to diversify our marketing channels, which currently consists of mainly Google Ads, we have decided to execute a content marketing strategy. We’ve mapped out critical content channels like our blog, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. Our target audience is Canadian home owners who have an interest in maintaining great […]
(For the follow interview, click here. There is also a reddit thread as well, click here for that.) Recently did an interview with Pat Walls on the beginning and initial growth of PureFilters. We discussed how I got into e-commerce and the air filtration business (really funny story actually), how we […]
I am very honoured that the Canadian Tamils’ Chamber of Commerce (CTCC) awarded me Young Entrepreneur of the Year For 2018. Big thanks to my team for making it happen, even though we have come a long way, it still feels like it is only the beginning. The gala was spectacular […]
It’s no secret that traditional advertising agencies have been in trouble lately. As of today, over the past 1 year WPP is down -30.03%, Omnicom is down –8.91% and Publicis is down –7.02%. The usual narrative for the decline is “shift to digital”, “technological disruption” and “corporate advertising spend cuts”. […]