Add To Cart: Australia’s eCommerce Show
by Nathan Bush
Add To Cart is Australia's leading ecommerce and retail podcast, hosted by Nathan Bush. Over 600 conversations with the founders, operators and digital leaders building Australian ecommerce. Episodes cover ecommerce strategy, DTC brand building, omnichannel retail, email and SMS marketing, performance marketing, fulfilment, and the tech stack decisions that shape how retail brands actually sell online. Free community, newsletter and resources at addtocart.com.au. Proudly supported by Shopify and Klaviyo.
Episodes
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Forever New Went Global on Shopify by Building as Little as Possible with Convert Digital | #679
Forever New has been dressing Australian women for 20 years and now trades in more than 25 countries. In this exclusive, CIO Robert Lupone and Convert Digital founder Andrew Waite unpack how they moved four markets off Magento and onto Shopify in nine months. The standout moment: the guiding rule...
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Chosen by AI or Remembered by People? Ex-Woolworths Leader Mark Mansour | #678
Utility is about being chosen. Discovery is about being remembered. That’s how Mark Mansour sees retail splitting as AI agents start doing the shopping. Mark has spent 20 years on the platform side of retail, from PayPal and eBay to building retail media, loyalty and marketplace businesses inside...
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How to Create Urgency in Ecommerce | #677
Customers have got very good at spotting fake urgency. And the cart is the worst place to lose their trust. This Playbook is anchored by Sylvie Wilson, co-founder of Unicorn Cart, which runs the cart on more than 400 stores. Her data shows carts with a gift with purchase convert 23.7% higher,...
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Swanky Socks Was a $40k Hobby. Now It’s Sold Nearly 4 Million Pairs | #676
Dorry Kordahi called Swanky Socks a hobby when he bought half of it. It had been running for three years and turned over $40,000 a year. Dorry built DKM Blue from his parents’ garage, then used that B2B know-how to turn Swanky Socks into a retail brand corporates want their logo on. Swanky has…
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How to Market Awkward Products | #675
Most of Conni’s customers wish they never had to buy its products. By the time they do, they probably needed them four weeks ago. This Playbook is anchored by Norm Douglas, CEO of Conni, which has made reusable absorbent products in North Geelong for around 25 years. His team talks about pee and...
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Category of One. How Craft Club Grew by Going Where No One Else Is | #674
Nakisah Williams’ first embroidery attempt was so bad she hid it in a drawer. Years later, it became the reason every Craft Club kit is built to be fail-proof. Nakisah launched Craft Club in 2021 with six cross-stitch designs. It now sells kits across a long list of crafts, ships worldwide and…
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How to Brief AI So It Doesn't Make Slop | #673
Plenty of brands have tried AI ads and given up. It’s usually not the tool’s fault. The output doesn’t look like the brand, and fixing one thing breaks three others. This Playbook is anchored by Sam Kroonenburg, who sold A Cloud Guru for just over $2 billion and now runs Cuttable, an AI ad...
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The Friendship Index. How Daily Blooms Turns One Order Into Three | #672
Courtney Ray built Daily Blooms so she'd never need a flower shop. Now she's opening one. Eight years in finance showed her the problem with florists. High rent and a shop full of stock that dies in days. So in 2014 she sold one bouquet a day online and stopped when it sold out. More than a…
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How to Turn Product Seeding Into Word of Mouth | #671
90% of TileCloud customers buy a $15 sample before they buy tiles. Product seeding still works. Most brands just judge it on social coverage and kill it when the posts are thin. This Playbook is anchored by Taryn Williams, founder of #gifted, which runs product gifting between 11,000 creators and...
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AI Search Rewards the Boring Work. Ecommerce SEO, Collection Pages and AEO with StudioHawk | #670
They found 30+ new collection pages hiding in their own product data. Charbel Raffoul from StudioHawk and Luke Rainsbury from Cooper & Co. turned an SEO and AI-search program into +125% organic revenue and more than 10x AI-referred sessions. This one gets properly nerdy on how search actually…
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Lonely Kids Club Had Its Entire Store Copied on Temu. Warwick Levy on Getting It Back | #669
Then Temu copied all 4,000 products overnight. Warwick Levy has run Lonely Kids Club for 15 years with no investors, printing every order by hand. Then Temu scraped his whole store and undercut him at half price. In this episode: The Temu takedown - how a trademark, not copyright, cleared a...
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How to Decide What You Let AI Run | #668
Every job on your list looks worth handing to AI when you only count the hours you get back. The upside is everywhere, which makes it a terrible place to decide from. What actually sorts one priority from the next is the downside. What happens when AI gets it wrong, and who finds out first: you…
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Stop Getting Ripped Off in Affiliate. Annabel Gray on How to Audit Your Own Program | #667
Affiliate is one of the most powerful channels in ecommerce, and one of the easiest to waste money on. Annabel Gray runs Silverbean's APAC business, and her mission is simple: help brands understand the channel so they don't get ripped off. his is a deep dive into a channel most ecommerce teams...
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How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Copy | #666
If you're brave enough to make your own product, you'll get copied. The branding, the packaging, even the exact colourway can be reverse-engineered. What can't be copied is why your customers chose you. When Meke Baby got copied like for like, Elysia Krstevski went legal, found it exhausting, and...
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LSKD Did $10 Million in an Hour. Locke Fitzpatrick on the Growth with Triple Whale | #665
LSKD is the Aussie brand taking on the world, and Triple Whale is the AI platform behind a lot of how they run. In this exclusive, the platform's VP of Marketing and LSKD's ecom growth lead get real about turning data into decisions. The standout moment: LSKD's Locke Fitzpatrick used Triple…
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The Cart Is the Most Neglected Page in Ecommerce. A Deep Dive with Sylvie Wilson | #664
We've drilled into every corner of ecommerce on the show, but never the cart. Sylvie Wilson is here to fix that. After running two ecommerce businesses of her own, she built Unicorn Cart to solve a gift-with-purchase headache, and it's now used by 400+ brands. Her core message: the cart is the...
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How to Know What a New Customer Is Worth Over Time | #663
We're all racing to acquire new customers. But how do you know what a new customer is actually worth, not just on the first purchase, but over time? This Playbook is anchored by Rob Ward, who bootstrapped Quad Lock to a $500 million exit and built a framework for exactly this: the three gates for...
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Passionate About Pee and Poo. Norm Douglas Sells What People Wish They Didn't Have to Buy | #662
Conni sells the product most people wish they didn't have to buy. Norm Douglas is CEO of Australia's leading reusable incontinence brand, and his own website leads with "we're passionate about pee and poo." This is one of the most fascinating businesses in Australian ecommerce, a privately owned,...
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How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers | #661
Raising prices is one of the biggest levers for profit, and the one we fight ourselves hardest on. Every ecommerce business is carrying costs it wasn't two years ago, and if you're not passing them on, your margin shrinks every day. Here's the thing the archive keeps proving: the cost itself…
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Publish 50 Ads a Week. Cuttable's Sam Kroonenburg on Winning Meta | #660
Sam Kroonenburg sold his last company, A Cloud Guru, to Pluralsight for just over $2 billion. Now he's back with Cuttable, an AI ad-creative platform, and Nathan's been using it for months on a client account. This is the behind-the-scenes on how it works, and the counterintuitive truth about...
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How to Prove Demand Before You Buy the Stock | #659
Ordering the right amount of stock can make or break an ecommerce business, and there's still no magic formula. Too much and your cash is stuck in stock going nowhere. Too little and you leave money on the table. This Playbook is anchored by Bronte Campbell, co-founder of Earthletica, who...
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Influencer Gifting Done Right: Don't Send Them Tea, Send Them the Tea Set | #658
Taryn Williams has been in the talent and creator world longer than almost anyone in Australia, and she saw where it was going before the rest of us. She started Wink Models at 21 with $30,000 of her own savings, launched the creative marketplace The Right Fit as influencers were becoming a…
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How to Justify Brand Spend to a Performance Team | #657
If you've worked in ecommerce for more than five minutes, you know the pull of the conversion number. The moment leadership discovers that one magic number, it's all they want to talk about, and it doesn't matter how rubbery that number gets when you pull it apart. Meanwhile brand cops it. Brand...
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The Self-Built AI Brain Behind Style My Wall's Growth to 22 Staff | #656
The last time Justin Bausch was on the show, in May 2024, he was leading CRM at Ryderwear and AI meant product recommendations. He's back as a founder, this time with his partner Felisha Mina, and everything has changed. In a year he's grown Style My Wall to seven figures, and he's built his own…
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How to Make Giving a Commercial Lever | #655
There's a link in ecommerce that mostly goes unsaid, and it's a slightly awkward one: the connection between giving and commercial benefit. When a brand partners with a charity, they're doing it for the right reason. But to get it off the ground and keep it alive when budgets tighten, they…
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A Competitor Copied Everything. So She Borrowed a Jet, a Lambo and a Black Dress | #654
Four years ago Elysia Krstevski didn't know what ecommerce was. She'd spent 15 years in musical theatre, working her way from receptionist to co-CEO. Today she runs Mekė Baby, the brand behind Australia's first portable milk warmer, she's in the 2026 Top 50 People in eCommerce, and she's the face...
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How to Find Your Unicorn Ads | #653
Making a single ad used to cost half a million to a few million dollars. You poured everything into one hero execution and you had to be right, because that was the bet. That world is gone. Today a brand can make a few hundred ads off an iPhone, put a bit of spend behind each, and let the market...
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The Best Exit Is the One You Don't Need: Rob Ward on Selling Quad Lock for $500M | #652
Five years ago Rob Ward came on the show as co-founder and CEO of Quad Lock, the phone-mount brand he and Chris Peters bootstrapped from a Kickstarter campaign. Since then he's taken the big exit, Quad Lock sold to Thule for $500M at the end of 2024, and walked away entirely. He's spent the time...
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How to Replatform Without Stalling the Business | #651
In ecommerce we're often asked to build a whole new house while making the existing one bigger and better at the same time. That's a replatform. You're not pausing trade while you move across, you're still hitting the numbers and running the sales while shifting the entire business onto a brand…
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The $30 Million Turnaround That Started With 48 Hours of One on Ones | #650
Beck Williams took the CEO chair at Seed & Sprout in 2022. A business in decline. A warehouse full of bread boxes nobody wanted. And a plan to fix it that started with people, not spreadsheets. If you've followed Australian sustainable retail over the past few years, you've watched Seed & Sprout...
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How to Win Back Customers Without a Discount | #649
Most of us have a segment sitting in our email platform we've quietly given up on. The customers who haven't opened anything in months. And every time the Klaviyo bill lands, someone suggests deleting them to clean up the list. Deleting that segment is one of the more expensive things you can do....
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From Three Olympic Golds to Taking on a $600 Billion Industry | #648
Bronte Campbell won three Olympic gold medals in the pool. Now she's taking on a $600 billion industry with a rule she swam by: raise the bar, then raise it again. After four Olympics and a stint in corporate strategy at EY, Bronte co-founded Earthletica, a B Corp making high-performance…
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How to Make Your Email Flows Do the Selling | #647
Most email teams pour their week into campaigns. The Tuesday send, the launch, the sale out the door by Thursday. Meanwhile their flows quietly out-earn all of it in the background, and almost nobody goes back to optimise them. That's the beauty and the drawback of flows. Once they're built they...
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How Bared Turns Trusted Data Into Decisions and Action | Triple Whale | #646
Fourteen years ago, Angus Growney realised he could game his own attribution model. He's spent every year since chasing numbers he can actually trust. That hunt is what brought Angus Growney to Bared, the podiatrist-founded Melbourne footwear brand where he leads performance marketing across a...
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Why Converse Lets Creators Break Its Own Brand Rules with Dave Dullens | #645
Dave Dullens has spent 20 years keeping brands like that relevant. He's Head of Brand and Consumer at Conquest Sports, the 45-year Converse licensee for Australia and New Zealand, and his whole career has run through iconic footwear: Converse, Vans, Timberland, Dr. Martens. This isn't a...
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How to Get More From the Tools You Already Pay For | #644
Ecommerce has never had more tools, and it's never been less clear which one is doing what. Every new AI tool that lands overlaps with three you already run, and half of them get absorbed into something else within months. So when something in the business isn't working, the instinct is to go and...
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The Shopify App Store Is Not Dead. Martin Cox on What Has Changed | #643
Martin Cox walked away from agency life two months ago. No business plan. Four Shopify apps with animal mascots. A clear view of where the ecosystem is heading. If you've been in the Australian Shopify scene for any length of time, you've heard Martin's name. He's the guy people mean when they…
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How to Get More From Influencers by Spending Less | #642
Influencer marketing is still a young line item, the pricing is all over the shop, and you can spend real money on a creator without ever being sure what you got back. So plenty of teams treat it with one eyebrow raised. But the problem was never influencers. Most brands treat influence as one…
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Doesn't Cost You Anything to Do Good: Rohan McCloskey on Building GoGenerosity | #641
Rohan McCloskey refunded $350,000 in donations, gave up his salary for a year, and nearly lost everything. He's still building GoGenerosity. And he'd do it again. That kind of conviction usually comes from one of two places: delusion or proof. In Rohan's case it's the latter. One in six customers...
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How to Ask for Help Before You Need It | #640
Ecommerce is still a young industry, and it's moving faster than anyone in ecommerce can keep up with. Nobody has all the answers, and the pressure to act as if you do can leave you in a precarious position. The ecommerce leaders who go furthest aren't the ones who faked it. They're the ones who...
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The Unicorn Rule: Why The Lad Collective Publishes 15,000 Ads to Find 10 That Work | #639
The Lad Collective has shipped roughly 15,000 ads in four years. Around 10 of those have been unicorns. Mark Broadhead, Head of Creative and Growth, runs the Meta engine behind one of Australia's fastest-growing bedding brands, now 200,000 customers deep and expanding into North America. Mark...
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How to Choose the Right Marketing Channels Using Data | #638
Most ecommerce teams are still arguing about channel split the same way they were five years ago. Meta versus Google, who gets the budget, who gets the credit. The argument usually gets won by whoever's most confident, not whoever's most right. The deeper issue is the data underneath it. Every ad...
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How Kathmandu Pulled Off a Four-Month Shopify Migration Mid Flash Sale | #637
Craig Mildenhall did not start in ecommerce. He started in loyalty. Years at Loyalty New Zealand. A stint at adidas in Europe, running global loyalty and consumer engagement. And somewhere in all of that, he figured out something most digital leaders are still catching up to: the data tells you...
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How to Find the Profit That's Already in Your Inventory | #636
Most businesses struggling with profitability aren't spending too much on ads. They're holding too much stock. The wrong stock. Stock bought on gut feel six months ago, sitting in a warehouse, tying up cash that could be doing something useful. Talea Bader is the co-founder of SKUTOPIA, an...
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Inside I.AM.GIA's Global Playbook: Dom Moretti on Running Two Fashion Brands With One Team | #635
Dominique Moretti rebuilt the I.AM.GIA website from scratch in 12 weeks. Open rates sit above 50%. The re-engagement flow beats the welcome flow. And 90% of I.AM.GIA's revenue comes from the US. This is how she runs two global fashion brands with one lean team. Dom is Head of Ecommerce and…
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How to Plan for a Product Recall Before You Need One | #634
Most product businesses don't have a recall plan. Not because they've decided against it. Just because the moment hasn't arrived yet. Melanie Nolan built Naternal Vitamins to eight million dollars in four years without running a paid ad for the first two. She built it on trust. Then in April last...
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How Amart Holds Itself Accountable for Broken Promises: Inside Shippit's State of Shipping Report | #633
The gap between when you say the parcel will arrive and when it actually does is still the biggest unsolved loyalty problem in Australian retail. This is the episode that puts numbers on it. This episode discusses Shippit’s State of Shipping Report 2026. Download your copy here. Rob Hango-Zada...
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Inside the Emails of July, Step One and APG & Co: Three Klaviyo Champions on Why Segmentation Is Dying | The Klaviyo #632
Most brands know what their campaigns are doing. Fewer know whether their flows are actually doing the heavy lifting. This is the second of three special episodes recorded live at Klaviyo's Sydney event, K:SYD. Nathan put forward a panel instead of a single interview, and the room delivered.…
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How to Run a Live Shopping Show That Actually Sells | #631
Live shopping has been "the next big thing" in Australian ecommerce for five years. Grayson White has been doing it for fifteen. Grayson White started running "breaks" (the trading card version of live shopping) at Cherry Collectables back in 2008. Cherry is now Australia's biggest trading card...
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Klaviyo Is 1% Done: What Their Co-Founder Says the Other 99% Looks Like | #630
Klaviyo is sitting at $1.2 billion in revenue and 196,000 brands. Ed Hallen says it's 1% done. Ed Hallen co-founded Klaviyo in 2012 with Andrew Bialecki, off the back of a dinner in Boston where an Australian entrepreneur selling suits online told them he spent three hours a week manually…
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Add To Cart is Australia's leading ecommerce and retail podcast, hosted by Nathan Bush.
Over 600 conversations with the founders, operators and digital leaders building Australian ecommerce. Episodes cover ecommerce strategy, DTC brand building, omnichannel retail, email and SMS marketing, performance marketing, fulfilment, and the tech stack decisions that shape how retail brands actually sell online.
Free community, newsletter and resources at addtocart.com.au.
Proudly supported by Shopify and Klaviyo.
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