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we’re hosting a networking event where you hopefully forget you’re at a networking event. DTC Dines is coming to Vancouver! 🗻🌊 there’s no stage, no speakers and no formal agenda. the whole evening is off the record, so people can talk openly! dinner + drinks are covered by our friends at Klaviyo 🍷 grab a drink, find a seat, meet the people next to you, and see where the conversation goes. space is intentionally limited and attendance is application-only. apply today: luma.com/uug6187u
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How far can Amazon sellers push their listings before Black Friday? Tyler, who leads Amazon at Pilothouse, joined AKNF to discuss experimenting with deal-day messaging, Amazon’s evolving listing rules, and the conversion upside of testing within the platform’s boundaries. Catch the latest AKNF: open.spotify.com/episode/0LF…
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Premium shoppers may be getting more strategic about when they buy. 👀 Tyler, who leads Amazon at Pilothouse, joined AKNF to explain how deal-savvy consumers are timing purchases around major sales periods, especially for higher-ticket products. Catch the full conversation on AKNF: open.spotify.com/episode/0LF…
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Why did consumables surge during Prime Day? 📈 Tyler, who leads Amazon at Pilothouse, joined AKNF to share how some brands grew 150%+ YoY during October’s event, with shoppers increasingly stocking up around major deal periods. Hear Tyler’s full take on AKNF: open.spotify.com/episode/0LF…
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Getting the first purchase is only the first step of the customer journey ‼️ What happens next can have a major impact on repeat purchases, retention, LTV, and long-term growth. With @getresponse, brands can connect email, SMS, push notifications, automation, and customer data to build journeys around how customers actually behave, from first purchase to repeat purchase to reactivation. One connected lifecycle system, built to turn more customers into repeat customers. Convert more customers, and keep them coming back. Learn more about GetResponse and how lifecycle automation can help drive repeat revenue! 👉 getresponse.com/solutions/ec… #ad
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Reward the behaviors that lead to revenue. You already pay Meta a CPM. Yash Chavan's tactic: run the same CPM as a challenge for your affiliates, so 10,000 organic views earns a creator $200. Tune in to the latest episode of the DTC Podcast: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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Most affiliate dashboards show you thousands of affiliates and hide how few of them post. Yash Chavan from Saral shares why moving activity from 6% to 12% doubles affiliate revenue. If you’re running an influencer affiliate program, you can’t miss this episode. Listen: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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It’s a cheap ticket, but you pay for the luggage anyway. This episode, we talk with Yash Chavan, founder and CEO of Saral, the team behind the Sathi affiliate platform, walks through the math on an $80 AOV supplement brand and lays out how to build a creative flywheel. Catch this episode of the DTC Podcast: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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How much of your campaign revenue is from non-clicking visitors? Jordan says non-clicking usually 20% of campaign revenue, meaning they didn’t go to your site through your email. Someone could just keep visiting your site without ever engaging with your email. How do you deal with that? Find out in the latest episode of TWBERP: open.spotify.com/episode/06P…
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Don’t build your segments based on open rates. Jordan argues that building around opens is just going to get you more opens. However, building around Placed Orders? Now that’s going to build your revenue. We’ve got more segmentation insights for you in the latest TWBERP episode: open.spotify.com/episode/06P…
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Which email segmentation signals bring in more revenue? This episode, Jordan Gordon shares Pilothouse’s latest research on purchase history, Apple Privacy Opens, true opens, clicks, and bot activity. Catch the latest episode of TWBERP: open.spotify.com/episode/06P…
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What if a customer relationship could last 40 years? O Positiv is designing retention around different stages of women’s lives, using education, community, and relevant products to maintain trust as customer needs change over time. That philosophy has reshaped how the team thinks about LTV. Hear Bobby Bitton break it down on the DTC Podcast: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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What helped O Positiv lower CAC more than any other channel? Bobby Bitton points to TikTok Shop, paired with looser creator briefs and a system for taking winning learnings into Meta. The reach per dollar has helped the team scale aggressively in 2026. 📈 Hear the full conversation with Bobby on the DTC Podcast: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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What happens when a $2,000-a-day channel hits $70,000 a day within a month? O Positiv’s TikTok Shop growth moved so fast the team ran out of inventory, driven by sending more samples and letting creators tell personal stories in their own environments. 🤯 Catch our convo with co-founder Bobby Bitton: spotifycreators-web.app.link…
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Your camera roll could be hiding your next prospecting concept. Liam Robinson recommends finding early startup photos, major milestones, and a compelling “then and now” story, then turning that history into Meta creative and landing pages designed to introduce the brand to completely new audiences. This one’s worth the full listen on AKNF: open.spotify.com/episode/4de…
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Could a blurry founder photo outperform polished product creative? Liam Robinson explains how brands with genuine origin stories can turn early prototypes, garage photos, and startup moments into Meta creative that feels dramatically different in the feed and can scale effectively with cold audiences. Hear the full conversation on AKNF: open.spotify.com/episode/4de…
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What happens when every competitor is making the exact same claims? Liam Robinson says feature-led marketing quickly becomes a shouting match, especially with cold audiences. Leading with why the brand exists gives people a more distinctive introduction before moving into practical product benefits. Hear Liam’s full take on AKNF: open.spotify.com/episode/4de…
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Are you doing brand work right now? Drew Fallon, former CFO of Mad Rabbit, on why most companies don't start brand work until $30 million, $40 million or $50 million in revenue. Direct response has to be efficient enough to pay for it first. Get the full discussion in the fifth episode of Harness the Halo: open.spotify.com/episode/6lp…
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Do you trust the numbers in your ad dashboard? We asked Drew Fallon (former CFO of Mad Rabbit and current CEO of Iris Finance) and Claudia Lauture (VP of Client Services at Keen) for a number they stopped trusting. Both picked revenue reported inside an ad platform. Claudia says you should ask anyone to grade their own homework, then everyone’s just gonna take as much credit as possible. Catch the latest episode of Harness the Halo: open.spotify.com/episode/6lp…
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How’s your AppLovin budget looking? Drew Fallon, former CFO of Mad Rabbit and is now CEO of Iris Finance, sees the books of 200 brands at Iris. The pattern he keeps running into: Meta gets a brand to $50 million, they add $200K a month on AppLovin, and the margin goes away. He says it may have worked somewhere. He has not seen it. More CFO conversations happening in the fifth episode of Harness the Halo. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6lp…
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Sometimes you just want to sit across from someone who immediately understands the problem you’re describing. That’s who we’re hoping to bring together at DTC Dines Vancouver! Founders, operators, and senior marketers from scaling ecommerce brands – all coming together for an evening of good food and genuinely useful conversation. 🥂 Dinner + drinks are on us, with thanks to our friends at @klaviyo. DTC Dines Vancouver is application-only with limited space. apply to join us: luma.com/uug6187u
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