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150: Turning The Traditional Agency Model On It’s Head To Better Serve Shopify DTC Brands

Eric Dyck revolutionizes the traditional agency model to better serve Shopify DTC brands, bringing ecommerce on the fastlane.

Your Business Is A Journey.  Invest In Yourself Today.


Being an entrepreneur is a life of learning, implementing, and iterating. All it would take is a new idea, a strategy, a Shopify app, or a marketing platform to be the next thing you need to improve efficiencies, drive more revenue, and build lifetime customer loyalty for your Shopify brand.

In today’s episode, my guests are Eric Dyck, Director of Content Marketing and David Steele, Co-Founder & CEO of Pilothouse Digital. They're a performance paid media agency that helps Shopify DTC brands to grow and scale. It's a paradigm shift from the traditional client/agency model to more of a partnership to drive conversions and lifetime customer loyalty.

What You Will Learn Today

  • Top traffic platforms that you should be investing resources into for customer acquisition.
  • Why the product details page (PDP) is not the ideal place to send new traffic.
  • The 3 ways to grow your Shopify store.
  • The revenue benefits of upsells, pre-sells, abandoned cart SMSs, advertorials, tripwires and more.

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Tweetable Gold Nugget

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