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1

Is CPMr The Hidden Meta Ads Metric That Predicts Account Collapse? With Phil Kiel.

2

How The Heck Are We Supposed To Keep Up With All The AI Tools? (With Patrick Coddou)

3

The 4 Marketing Functions My $10M+ Ecom Brands Master

4

How Creative Diversity Leads To More Reach And Better Performance For Our Meta Ads Accounts

5

How She's Birdie Went From 7-Figure Debt To All-Time High Revenue & Profits

6

Most Brands Should Ignore CPMr

7

I Was Wrong About LTV In DTC Businesses

8

70% Of Her Influencer Revenue Comes From One Strategy Most Brands Ignore

9

Meta Just Launched Their TikTok Shop Clone — Here's What DTC Brands Need To Know

10

"Media Buying Is Dead" Is The Biggest Lie In Ecommerce

11

Ecom Profit Fell From 17.7% To 10.6% In A Decade (With Andrew Youderian)

12

My COO Replaced 7 Software Tools With One Vibe-Coded App. Here's How It's Changing Our Business.

13

Cody Plofker Media Buying Deep Dive: Reach, Value Optimization, & Reels-First Creative

14

How The War In Iran Is Affecting Your Supply Chain (And What To Do About It)

15

Sampling, Bundling, & Subscriptions: How Offers Drive DTC Growth (With Cherene Aubert)

16

Only 11% Of Agencies Have Produced Winning AI Ads. Here's What's Actually Happening.

17

This $30M Brand Spends Less On Ads Than You — And Grows Faster

18

Why The Best Meta Ads Agencies Are About To Dominate (And The Rest Will Disappear)

19

He's Seen 1000s Of Split Tests. Here's What Almost Everyone Gets Wrong. (With Drew Marconi)

20

The Biggest Threats Facing Our Agency Right Now (With Patrick Coddou)

21

How To Build A Lean Ecom Team With Offshore Talent + AI (With Gregg Carey)

22

The Biggest Margin Opportunity In Ecom Right Now — And For The Foreseeable Future

23

Outway Socks Grew To $20M And 4x'd Profit By Removing Growth Targets

24

Connor MacDonald's Channel Diversification Framework For Scaling Past $100M

25

6 Ad Types Every Meta Ads Account Should Have Right Now

26

How We Vibe-Coded Software That 3x'd Our Productivity

27

Taylor Holiday: Your Ecom Brand Is Ignoring Powerful Revenue Streams

28

The Complete Guide To Influencer Marketing For DTC Brands In 2026 (With Josh Durham)

29

He Runs A 7-Figure Brand As A Side Gig (With 6 Kids)

30

Why Most DTC Brands Never Make Real Money (And How To Fix It)

31

The Real Reason Your Meta Ads Aren't Scaling (It's Not The Tactics)

32

She Took A Brand From $30K/Month To $600K/Month In 6 Months

33

How To Actually Build Your Meta Ads Creative Supply Chain

34

Curtis Matsko's $175M Leather Empire Was Planned One Day At A Time

35

The Creative Process I Use To Make Winning Meta Ads Over And Over Again

36

Jess Bachman Tears Apart My AI Creative Process & Shares What Works Better

37

9 Takeaways From Running Meta Ads For 8-Figure Brands In 2025

38

He Quit His Job After Watching 200 Of My Podcast Episodes (And Now He Makes More Money)

39

8 Ways To Break Through Your DTC Revenue Plateau In 2026

40

Would You Keep Working If You Had Enough Money To Quit? (With Olivia Kory From Haus)

41

He Grew His DTC Brand 240% In One Year Using My Strategies

42

I Sold 45% Of My Company To Patrick Coddou. Here Are All The Details.

43

Cost Caps Are Too Volatile (And 6 Other Myths You Should Stop Believing)

44

From $40,000/Day To Collapse To 100% YoY Growth — Mixed By Nasrin's Wild Ride

45

Is Your Ecommerce Business Really Just A Gambling Addiction? (With Fan Bi)

46

5 Meta Ads Features You SHOULD Be Using (And 3 You Should Be Testing)

47

She Visited 28 Chinese Manufacturers For 15 DTC Brands In One Trip. Here's What Changed In A Year.

48

Exactly How We Use AI To Make Meta Ad Creative That Scales (With Patrick Coddou)

49

The EXACT Product Strategy Powering This 9-Figure 6,000 SKU Brand (With Katy Mimari From Caden Lane)

50

You've Never Even Heard Of My Favorite Meta Ads Creative Metric

51

Popsmith Was 2 Weeks From Bankruptcy. Then Oprah Called.

52

The Smartest DTC Operator You Haven't Met Is Optimizing With Data You Aren't Even Looking At

53

Am I Wrong About Creative Testing & Manual Bids? Jordan Menard Thinks So.

54

Building An 8-Figure DTC Brand By Ignoring The Rocket Ship Growth Story (With Edward Wimmer IV)

55

AI Made Our Agency Better — and Harder to Run

56

This 8-Figure Brand Has A 10.68 MER And 40% Market Penetration

57

Taylor Holiday Says Growth Is the CEO’s Job: Systems, Incentives, Accountability

58

What It REALLY Takes To Build A $400M Business (With Sunil Agrawal)

59

Meta vs. Margin: Why Reasonable Goals Win Long-Term

60

AI Hooks for Meta Ads: Sora 2 and a Repeatable Process

61

60% Price Drop: Sales Exploded, Reorders Collapsed

62

Natural CAC & the Meta Auction: Scale Without Killing ROAS

63

How TikTok Shop Turned 40M Views Into Retail Deals

64

Lessons From Living Inside China’s Supply Chain For 5 Years

65

Maybe Your DTC Brand SHOULD Raise Money After All (w/Drew Fallon From Iris)

66

Simple Modern Took Their AOV From $18 To $80. Here's How (w/Bryan Porter)

67

Beardbrand Lost Money In 2023 & 2024. Here's How Bandholz Fixed It.

68

My Complete Guide To Meta Ads For BFCM

69

Should You Launch Your BFCM Sale Early? Here's The Data-Driven Answer

70

6 Tactical Takes On The Current State Of DTC

71

How To Make Literally The Best Ad In The History Of The World

72

The Foundations Of Meta Ads Creative Testing You HAVE To Get Right

73

A Complete Guide To Creators & Influencers For Meta Ads

74

You Should Take Your DTC Brand Into Wholesale (W/Jared Mehr From Pura Vida)

75

The Reason AI Ad Creative Is So Disappointing (With Alex Cooper)

76

How $150M Made Mike Beckham Rethink Money & Happiness

77

My New Brand Has 91% Gross Margin. Here's How (With Lara Guevara)

78

How We 10X'd Ad Spend in 4 Days (and Why It Worked)

79

Every Financial Detail Of The Ecommerce Brand I'm Starting

80

Taylor Holiday Sold CTC. Here's Everything He Learned.

81

I Know The Biggest Problem In Your Business–And How To Solve It

82

From Stalled Growth to Record Profit: A Deep Dive

83

Why This 8-Figure Founder Is Joining My Agency (Ft. Patrick Coddou)

84

8 Steps To Fixing A Broken Meta Ads Account

85

How One Creator Drove $250K in Sales with Under 10K Followers (Ft. Jordan West)

86

This eCom Operator Is Quietly Making 8 Figures in Profit (Ft. Roman Khan)

87

Inside An 8-Figure Dog Brand Exit – What Made It Sellable (Ft. Bill D'Allesandro)

88

The AI Ad Creative Opportunity Isn't What You Think It Is

89

7 Meta Ads Tactics I've Changed My Mind About

90

Matt Bertulli: Building A Business Is Spiritual

91

Why Most 3PLs Fail Brands—and What to Do Instead (With Chad Carelton)

92

5 Takeaways from Meta’s Performance Summit

93

From $5M Profit to 200K…Then Back Again (With Bear Handlon From Born Primitive)

94

Real P&L Breakdown: The Hidden Costs Destroying Profits

95

Taylor Holiday Thinks Ecom Is A TERRIBLE Business

96

He Built Janji To 8 Figures By Narrowing His Focus (Not Expanding It)

97

Meta Ads Are NOT Volatile (And Believing They Are Is Costing You Money)

98

He Grew His Ecommerce Brand 120% By Doing Less Stuff (With Sam Mendelsohn)

99

The Staggering PROFITABLE Growth Of IQBAR (With Will Nitze)

100

5 Things You're Not Doing That Will Add Profitable Growth

101

What 9-Figure Omnichannel Brands Know That Startups Don’t (With Cherene Aubert From Ilia Beauty)

102

50% Of Shopify Businesses Are Worth $0 (With Fan Bi)

103

Even With Tariffs, I'm STILL Bullish On DTC

104

The Meta Advertiser's Guide To YouTube Ads (With Brett Curry)

105

Inside Original Grain's 8-Figure Product Launch Playbook (With Nate Lagos)

106

The Exact AI Creative Tools Alex Cooper Uses Daily (And What They Can't Do)

107

Advanced Meta & Google Ads Media Buying Principles (From A Math Ph.D.)

108

What Smart Brands Are Doing About Tariffs (And You Should Too)

109

The No-Debt Playbook Behind Flux Footwear’s Growth

110

Brutally Honest Lessons That Made Ben Perkins Profitable in E-Commerce

111

How To Build A HUGE Volume Of High Performing Meta Ads (For Cheap)

112

This $100 Million Brand Released 1300 Products Last Year. Their CMO Explains How. (W/MacCoy Merkley)

113

7 Meta Ads Mistakes Costing You Insane Amounts Of Money

114

My EXACT Guide To Ecom Forecasting For Profitable Growth

115

E-Commerce Is A Business Model. Kelcey Lehrich Disagrees (And Why It Matters)

116

How Chris Kresser Effectively Uses AI In E-Commerce

117

YouTube Ads Underreport Revenue By 70%. Here's What To Do About It.

118

My $10M+ Clients Spend Most Of Their Meta Budget On tROAS Bidding. Here's How.

119

YouTube Ads Perform 342% BETTER Than Google Says – Olivia Kory Shares The Data

120

Cuts Clothing Scaled Past $50M With His Operations Playbook (With Sean Christman)

121

10 Hard Truths About Ecommerce No One Tells You - My 10 Year Journey

122

AI Is Making Creative Testing Campaigns Obsolete

123

The Data Doesnt Lie: E-Commerce Has Never Been Better (With Jeremiah Prummer)

124

Why Do Fire Team's Ads Perform So Much Better Than Mine?

125

The True Path To 50% Growth For $10 Million+ Businesses

126

Why You SHOULDN'T Hire In The Philippines

127

Attribution For Meta Ads & Omnichannel Brands Is Simpler Than You Think

128

2 Opposing Perspectives On How To Maximize Ad Success In Meta (With Barry Hott)

129

7 Ways You're BLOWING Money In Your Ecommerce Business

130

Crappy Customer Research Is Hurting Your Ecom Business (With Sarah Levinger)

131

8 A/B Tests Your DTC Brand Should Run RIGHT NOW

132

Why Is This $200M/Year Brand Starting From Scratch?

133

The 4 Hardest Things About Cost Caps (And What I Do About Them)

134

The Creative Process I Use To Scale Past $10,000,000 With Meta Ads

135

The Biggest E-Commerce Stories Of 2024

136

He Went From $5M to $100M In 2 Years By Building A Brand Intelligently

137

The Bear Case For E-Commerce In 2025

138

The Details Of Managing Cost Caps Day To Day

139

The 5 Step Path From $10M To $30M For Your E-Commerce Business

140

The Bull Case For ECommerce In 2025

141

The Most Inefficient Part Of E-Commerce Has Been Fixed

142

How I Add 10% More Profit To The Brands I Invest In

143

Lessons From The #1 TikTok Shop Store In The US

144

Taylor Holiday's Vasectomy Went Amazing

145

How To Know If TikTok Shops Is Right For Your DTC Brand (w/ Jordan West)

146

Are Our Jobs Meaningless? (With Alex Greifeld)

147

Definitive Proof That Cost Caps Work At Scale (With Taylor Lagace)

148

How I Turn 1 Idea Into 300 Ads

149

The Complete Guide To Driving More LTV In Your DTC Business

150

How The Meta Ads Algorithm Really Works

151

The Sneaky Simple Way To Build A $50M Ecommerce Business

152

How To Design Your P&L For Profit

153

Rabah Rahil Surveys The Evolving Landscape Of Ecommerce

154

The Surprising Creative Key For Making Creative That Scales

155

How Cost Caps Will Perform At BFCM (And What To Do About It)

156

The Best Guide To Ad Channel Diversification I've Ever Heard

157

Exactly How To Use Humor To Build A More Profitable Brand

158

Agency Vs In House: What Every Brand Needs To Know

159

How Obvi's Ad Spend Doubled When Ash Went International

160

This Is The AI Tool That Will Revolutionize Ecommerce (With Jacob Posel)

161

I Made 3,500 Meta Ads In One Month. Here's What I Learned.

162

6 Ways You're Undervaluing Your Ad Spend

163

Your Media Buying Is A Way Bigger Problem Than You Think

164

Merchant Cash Advance Showdown: Bill D'Alessandro vs. Drew Fallon

165

Your Brand Is Too Boring. Lianna Can Help You Fix It.

166

Are We Sure AI Can Make High Performing Ads?

167

Your Ad Creative Is Too Expensive. And Also Too Cheap.

168

Alex Greifeld Tells Me And Nasrin How To Grow A DTC Fashion Brand

169

To Make Higher Performing Ads, Know What Your Customers REALLY Want (With Sarah Levinger)

170

How To Unlock Scale In A Plateaued, Cost-Controlled Meta Ads Account

171

Taylor Holiday Interrogates My Bad Business Decisions

172

AMA #2: Meta Ads Creative Strategy

173

Mehtab Bhogal Has 8 Actionable Ways To Juice DTC Profits RIGHT NOW

174

How Original Grain Is Generating Huge Profits Apart From Meta Ads (With Nate Lagos)

175

I Made A Major Change To My Media Buying Method

176

Exactly How Supply Chain Executives From The Philippines Completely Changed This 8-Figure Brand

177

Should This 8-Figure CEO Start A DTC HoldCo?

178

Don't "Test Everything"

179

Opening The Books: Zollie

180

The 3 Stages Of Facebook Ads Growth

181

The Power Of Relentlessly Pursuing Profit

182

You Send Too Much SMS & Not Enough Email (With Joel Biery)

183

The Financial Roadmap For DTC Success (With Drew Fallon)

184

Seasonality Is Way More Important For Your Revenue Than You Realize

185

Nasrin's Apparel Brand Is Growing Fast & Profitably

186

The 5 Categories Of DTC Businesses (And Why It Matters)

187

The Power Of The Marketing Calendar For Driving Growth

188

Taylor Holiday Says You MUST Grow Your Business

189

Opening The Books: PrettyBoy

190

Which Product Should You Advertise Next?

191

What Every Great DTC Operator Has In Common

192

Jack Rubin's $50M Playbook? Extreme Focus.

193

Ugly Ads Work. Trust Barry Hott (And Me).

194

Creative Testing Campaigns May Be The Biggest Cost Center In Your Business

195

Opening The Books: Beardbrand

196

Take A Full Day Completely Off Every Week

197

Cody Plofker On Ad Messaging, Contribution Margin, and Forecasting DTC Brands

198

How Changing Your Offer Can Overhaul Your Ad Performance

199

Briefing A Longform Explainer Ad For Bambu Earth Live (With Dave Rekuc)

200

Let's Fix Your Supply Chain And Save You A Ton Of Money (With Lara Guevara)

201

Your Winning Ads Cost $0 And You Already Made Them

202

Kirk Williams' DTC Google Ads Strategy Actually Works

203

How To Sell Your Business For Maximum Value (With Fan Bi)

204

The Best Performing Meta Ads I Run

205

Ju Rhyu Had A $630MM Exit. Is She Happy Now?

206

7 Lessons From Black Friday Cyber Monday 2023

207

Cody Plofker Goes DEEP On Meta Media Buying

208

My Exact Creative Testing Method For Meta Ads

209

AMA #1: Bid Caps

210

Why Percentage Of Spend Is The Best Pricing Model For Agencies

211

How A Viral Smash Hit Product Took Over Wondery's Business

212

Dan McCormick Is Taking "Build In Public" To A Whole New Level

213

Building The Process For Meta Ads Success

214

Exactly 10 Reasons Original Grain Is Growing So Much This Year (With Nate Lagos)

215

Does AOV Actually Matter?

216

Sarah Moret Grew Curie 1000% In One Year And Sold Into Every Walmart

217

My 4-Step Method To High Performing Creative

218

Patrick Coddou, One Year After The Exit

219

The Compounding Value Of Focus

220

Jess Bachman Lights Creative Strategy On Fire

221

How To Turn 3 Crucial Concepts Into Actual Operational Processes

222

Ezra Firestone's Prescription For REAL Profit

223

You Should Consider A Quiz

224

Opening The Books: Mixed By Nasrin

225

Jack Rubin's Subscription Behemoth Will Cross $70M While Growing 300%

226

Care About Profit? Get Serious About Forecasting.

227

Dave Rekuc Beat Cancer, Cash Conversion Cycles

228

What It's REALLY Like To Be A Filipino Ecom Employee (With Lara Guevara)

229

7 Reasons Your Bid Caps Aren't Spending

230

The Hidden Place Your Business Is Losing TONS Of Money

231

Panagiota Hatzis Built The Hiring, Onboarding, & Tech SOPs For My Business

232

What Should Your ROAS Target Be?

233

The #1 Skill In Media Buying Right Now

234

Bobbie Baby Co Passed $100m In 2 Years. It Could Have Been 2x That. (With Cherene Aubert)

235

There's No Such Thing As "Revenue"

236

Driveline Baseball Revolutionized Pro Sports. Now They're Growing An Incredible Business.

237

Sean McGinnis Is A Team Leadership Master

238

The Answer To The Single Most Important Question In Your Business

239

Bryan Porter Didn't Get To $100M On Amazon With Just Tips & Tricks

240

Your Worked Hard On Your Product. Now Tell People About It.

241

Don't Tell Kelcey Lehrich Aggregators Don't Work

242

You Have To Bridge The Digital Gap

243

Gregg Carey's Business Was Transformed By Employees In The Philippines

244

Andrew Youderian Surveys The Ecommerce Landscape

245

The Definitive Case For Cost Controls On Meta (In 6 Arguments)

246

Panagiota Hatzis Knows How To Scale

247

4 Media Buying Rules Most People Get Wrong On Meta

248

Aaron Orendorff Is Saving Customers From Hell

249

What To Do When You Have Great LTV

250

With $10M In Revenue And $0 In Ad Spend, Isaac Medeiros Is In A Class Of His Own

251

You Don't Need An Attribution Tool

252

Matt Bertulli (Lomi, Pela Case) Is All About Customer Experience

253

The 6 Biggest Factors In Retention, In Order

254

Bill D'Alessandro Hates Your Bad Ecom Debt

255

It's The CEO's Job To Be Pessimistic

256

The Most Surprising Turnaround Story I've Ever Heard

257

Born Primitive Just Did $1.2M In Two Hours

258

Taylor Holiday & Richard Gaffin Reflect On Failure & Wisdom (Ecommerce Playbook Colab!)

259

The Easiest Way To Ensure Your DTC Business Is Unscalable

260

Stop Testing New Ad Creative

261

Bill D'Alessandro Is Obsessed With Contribution Margin

262

The Hidden Driver Of Profitable Customer Acquisition

263

Andrew Campbell, OpenStore's Quant

264

Don't Diversify Your Ad Spend

265

BFCM 5: Taylor Holiday From Common Thread Collective

266

BFCM 5: Cherene Aubert From Bobbie Baby

267

BFCM 5: Lauren Schwarz From The Loft 325

268

BFCM 5: Sean Frank From The Ridge

269

BFCM 5: Jess Bachman From Fire Team

270

Want Ads To Perform? Be More Specifc.

271

Mandi Moshay Has A Bone To Pick With Me

272

The Business Case For Relationship Building

273

Bonus: Bryan Porter's New Channel Growth Framework

274

Simple Modern Is An Omnichannel Monster

275

The Black Friday Episode

276

Bonus: Patrick's Insights On The Market For Ecom Brands

277

Patrick Coddou Sold Supply

278

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