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Author: Dillon Carter, Johnathan Lyman
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Dillon and Johnathan dive into the nuances of operating an e-commerce business and taking it to the next level, while still staying true to its goals and larger purpose. Sometimes they get off track and talk about whatever's neat. Presented by Vendrive.
34 Episodes
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Topics:- Johnathan vents about how he's feeling this week- VC money- AMZ Weekly shutdown- Building the Seller Journal newsletter- Smart decisions- Writing because it feels good- Being a knowledge workerLinks:- Givemeyourdangemail.com- Freshly- Metabolic Meals- Huel- Free Thermal Printer - Seller Journal- Best Banks for E-commerce - Seller Journal- Farnam Street- Dilloncarter.com- Johnathan.org- Raspberry Pi article- Forte Labs- Know When to Hold 'Em - Kenny Rodgers- Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing - Parks & Recreation- Buy War Bonds
Topics:- Hygge- Project 333- Used Luxury Goods Market- Coffee- A new wholesale platform?- iPhonesLinks:- Flag and Anthem- Animal House- Ministry of Supply
Links:- Company of One book- https://www.diamandis.com/peters-laws
Topics:- Introducing Jack Tompkins & Pineapple Consulting- What do I do with the data I have?- Utilizing Excel- Tableau vs Excel- Getting Started with Tableau for the First Time- Low-quality data create low-quality analysis- Pro tipsLinks:- Tableau- "Oaky Afterbirth" from The Office - Pineapple Consulting
Topics:
About Lee LeFeverCommon Craft: explainer videos
What it means to be “Big Enough”Building a business that ‘you’ want
Links:
Common Craft
Google Docs in Plain English
Lee’s book: Big Enough
Topics:
Introducing Joe
What is Quiet Light?
The choice of business
Mitigating risk
Buy vs build
Links:
Gawker Media Lawsuit
DefectorThe Deadspin exodus story
Buy Then Build
Quiet Light Brokerage
Quite Light Podcast
Topics:
Social media advertising
Affiliate marketing
Advertisement optimization
Adversarial customers
Direct mail
Plus 11 minutes of bonus aftershow:
AI
Ham
Coffee
Pumpkin Spice Soap
Fall
CandlesThe candle in the email
Links:
Vendrive Careers
Book: Traction
Alternate Titles:
Pulling a Gmail
I’m a Fall Guy
There are little treats inside
Physical nuggets of related things
Topics:
Reviewing Dillon’s first coffee order
Managing lists of tasks and chunking time
Selling to businesses
Earworms
Links:
Limitless (TV show, movie)
MIT Open Courseware
Subvocalization
GTD: Getting Things Done
“We’re here when you need us” commercial
Alternate Titles:
Kind of Normal
All I want in life is your approval
Mechanically Engineering
Consciously aware of my drinking
I can use words
Reviewing the coffee soft launch
Keyboard Follow Up
Zapier
Links:
Keychron K1
Apple Magic Keyboard
RPAs
Titles:
They are really round
I am a mouser
I’m hearing a lot of clicking
I am a basic white girl
Flavored watches
Your inner white girl
Dirty Greasy Cheeseburger
Topics:
Shooting for the moon when your neighborhood will doDillon’s post on reverse engineering goals (Airtable)
Shopify 2 months in
Smile
Shopify API
Liquid
New tech
iOS 14 NFC Tags
Todoist
Reclaim AI
Wing App
Retrobatch by Flying Meat
Personal Air Cooler
Keychron K1
Alternate Titles:
Bodily Motions in Your Mouth
Manage Multiple Hats
Hashtag Business
The Moment You Get Strangers, You’ve Won
You Gotta Steal Some Stuff
Big, Massive, Sexy Goals
Beep Boop
I’m Addicted to the Aisles
A Human’s Hour
The Human’s Human
Topics:
Introducing Chris and his teamMicro Funds/SBA LoansDeal Structures
Links:
McKinzie: Jumping forward 10 years in 90 days76ers’ mottoGeico Photo WallGlobal Wired Advisers
Topics:
Introducing Steven
Biggest areas of struggle for Amazon sellers
Amazon as an advertising/acquisition channel
Links:
Blizzard news clip
My Amazon Guy
The Anti-Amazon Stratechery article
Steven’s YouTube Channel
Alternate Titles:
Water Homies
I thought this was a creamer podcast
Welcome to Creamer with Half and Häf
I am bright
Creamer Talk
A very liquid conversation
Mistakes were made
Pre-show:
The weather in Australia, Boston, and Seattle
Main show:
Andrew’s backstory
Applying logistics and process to an existing business
Forecasting & Inventory Planning
Loss aversion
Selling more with less stocksafety stock
Links:
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Logisticshelp.comYouTube
Your Processes S.U.C.K.12 Principles of High-Performance Warehousing
Satisfactory
I, Robot
How long you should spend automating a task
Treadmill Desks
In-home auto car wash
Libertarian paternalism
Nudge
Denmark’s digital government
Getmagic.com
Wing
The Power of Defaults
Exponential Wisdom
Google Auto-reservation demo
Hierarchy of Needs
Door-to-door fuel delivery
Filld
Booster
Cynch
WeFuel
Ultraworking.com
CRUD apps
Earth Class Mail
Anytime Mailbox
Traveling Mailbox
KitKat v. Greenpeace
Black Mirror
The Entire History of You
San Junipero
Striking Vipers
Ready Player One
Ready Player Two
Dune
Chia at brand24.comBrand24
Course on Media Management
Skillshare
Udemy
Brand24 Blog
Meetup group
Facebook group
Virtual Freedom by Chris Ducker
Hug Your Haters by Jay Baer
Carlos on Instagram, Telegram
Airtable
American Express Cards
Business Cash
Platinum
Plum
Chase Credit Cards
Freedom Unlimited
Sapphire Preferred
Sapphire Reserve
Alternate Titles:
It’s Garbage Day
Just the One Time
The First One’s Free
Churnin’ and Burnin’
Broke-Ass Airline
¿Por qué no los dos?
Pre-Show
Sean Parker & Napster
Captain Crunch
World of Warcraft
Main Show
Dillon’s planning system
Probability Stacking
The Circle of Competence
The Feynman Technique
Ramit Sethi
15-Minute Crash Course on Keepa
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Rejected Titles
Business Shaman
We Lost All of the Gurus
(Also featured: A simpler intro!)