Meta’s Muse x Shopify Merchants | Holiday Forecast +$1T | Always Hire from Agencies

Meta MUSE goes live for Shopify merchants, Sean Frank argues you should always hire from agencies and never a fractional CMO, Nike and Simon Property Group get dropped from the S&P 100, and an LG smart TV is caught recording while off. It's the consumer's daily show — Ecomm Cowboy — where we break down the stories moving retail and DTC, then sit down with the operators building through it. Today guest host Nate Lagos (Founder, Shootin' Doubles) joins Chris Hall and Colin Dougherty.ON TODAY'S EPISODEDana Peters — Founder & CEO, PROOF WalletsWe dig into hitting $18M in year-one sales fully bootstrapped in a category full of VC-funded competitors — the Recon Marine-to-manufacturer path, turning SMS into a two-way concierge channel with a disclosed 21X ROI lift, marketing a real lifetime warranty as a direct attack on competitors' "deceptive limited" fine print, what that warranty actually costs as a percentage of revenue, and whether patents are worth it when the category is flooded with sub-$20 dupes.Mike Khristo — Co-Founder & CEO, LayersWe dig into an ad-platform insider's pivot — six years running ad forensics inside Snap, now selling against the agencies that platform was built for — the thesis that the product's codebase, not the brief, is the marketing input that matters most, whether "$39/month replaces a $10K/month CMO" survives contact with real operators, the tension of asking builders to hand over their source code, and why DTC isn't a Layers market yet.ALSO ON THE SHOW-Butter Land-Nicotine drinks-SKIMS lands in DoorDash-A foldable iPhone, today?-Bain: holiday spending tops $1T, 24% start shopping on AI-DK Metcalf on Antarctica-------------------------------------Daily newsletter: https://newsletter.ecommcowboy.com/Made possible by:Proppel - https://www.weareproppel.com/ecomm-cowboy-proppelTie - https://meettie.com/TrendTrack - https://www.trendtrack.io/Sathi - https://www.mysathi.io/champions/ecomm-cowboySlash - https://www.slash.com/Richpanel - https://www.richpanel.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyPostscript - https://postscript.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboySeguno - https://www.seguno.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyIntelligems - https://www.intelligems.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyROKT Aftersell - https://www.aftersell.com/offers?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyProxima AI - https://www.proxima.ai/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyNorthbeam: http://northbeam.io/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyUniversal Ads - https://www.universalads.com/?utm_source=Ecomm+Cowboy+Show&utm_medium=Show&utm_campaign=Ad+Read&utm_id=Ecomm+CowboyFollow Ecomm Cowboy:https://x.com/ecommcowboyhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/ecommcowboyhttps://www.instagram.com/ecommcowboy/https://www.tiktok.com/@ecommcowboyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/0q1Pp0rW8j6cehXToNTeJchttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ecomm-cowboy/id1761749693