eCommerce Fastlane Podcast

eCommerce Fastlane Podcast

I'm Steve Hutt, the host of eCommerce Fastlane – your go-to podcast for proven strategies and actionable insights to accelerate your Shopify store's growth. As a seasoned ecommerce entrepreneur, I'm passionate about helping retailers to boost traffic, conversions, and lifetime customer value.

One reviewer described the show as having an "impressive level of content that is accessible for beginners, but even more rewarding for deep e-commerce experts who want to get into the weeds of marketing & operations and translate these strategies into actions."

Host | Steve Hutt | DTC Founder | Ex-Shopify

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The Hidden Revenue Leak Sitting on Your Shopify Collection Pages
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June 23, 2026

The Hidden Revenue Leak Sitting on Your Shopify Collection Pages

Sorting your Shopify collection pages by bestsellers feels smart, but it quietly buries your highest margin products and leaks revenue. In this episode, Julia Wawrzynek, Marketing Manager at Sortwise, breaks down: Why sorting for profit beats sorting for popularity, and how to surface high margin products without a clearance bin look The two metrics that prove your merchandising is working: click through rate by position and revenue per view (RPV) A 24 hour audit you can run from your phone to c
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The AI Employees Running Your Amazon Brand While You Sleep
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June 18, 2026

The AI Employees Running Your Amazon Brand While You Sleep

One Amazon brand added $215K in annual profit across 15 SKUs by replacing its software stack with coordinated AI agents. In this episode, Chad Rubin, founder and CEO of Profasee, breaks down: How named AI agents own pricing, PPC, and demand planning, working your Amazon business 24/7 Why coordinated agents beat disconnected point tools when a stockout should pause ad spend automatically The "Ask Me First" mode that earns your trust before agents touch a single price Whether you're doing $50K mon
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Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales
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June 16, 2026

Conversion Before Acquisition: How OptiMonk Uses AI to Turn Paid Traffic Into Sales

Paying more for ads while 97% of your Shopify traffic leaves without buying? The cheaper growth lever is conversion, not acquisition. In this episode, Krisztian Kiraly, International Partnership Manager at OptiMonk and former CRO agency founder, breaks down: How one brand lifted revenue 12% in under three months using AI product-page optimization, no extra ad spend Why AI-generated product images, benefit badges, and 3-bullet summaries move the 99% of buying decisions driven by emotion The traff
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Your Conversion Rate Is Lying to You: The 4 Numbers That Actually Predict Revenue
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June 11, 2026

Your Conversion Rate Is Lying to You: The 4 Numbers That Actually Predict Revenue

Your conversion rate is lying to you. If you're scaling a Shopify brand and treating CRO as a single number, this episode rebuilds how you diagnose what's actually broken on your site. In this episode, Anthony Morgan, founder and CEO of Enavi, breaks down: Why the "intra-site funnel" beats conversion rate, with target baselines at every step: landing to product view, add to cart, and checkout How Grubbly Farms lifted subscription take rate from 15% to 45% without raising churn The "besides price
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From Dashboards to Doing: Triple Whale's Moby 2 with Maxx Blank
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June 9, 2026

From Dashboards to Doing: Triple Whale's Moby 2 with Maxx Blank

Your attribution dashboard tells you ROAS dropped, but not what to do about it, and for scaling Shopify brands that gap costs real ad spend. In this episode, Maxx Blank, co-founder and COO of Triple Whale, breaks down: Why Triple Whale's AI specialists (media buyer, creative director, conversion optimizer) now execute on ad accounts, not just report How a $15M brand had Moby build a working inventory forecasting app in 10 minutes The copilot-to-autopilot path that cuts your "ROAS dropped" questi
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What's Your Profit Target? The Question Most Shopify Founders Can't Answer (with Thomas Gleeson, StoreHero)
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June 4, 2026

What's Your Profit Target? The Question Most Shopify Founders Can't Answer (with Thomas Gleeson, StoreHero)

Great ROAS but no profit? If you're a Shopify brand watching revenue grow while margin disappears, this episode shows you where the money actually leaks. In this episode, Thomas Gleeson, co-founder of StoreHero, breaks down: The "margin paper cuts" hiding in every order: shipping, duties, returns, and rogue discount codes draining contribution margin Why most brands chase efficiency when they should chase profit, and how that costs them growth How brands unlock a 10-20% contribution margin lift
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The 5 to 15% of Revenue Hiding in Your Shopify Store (and Why You Never Capture It)
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June 2, 2026

The 5 to 15% of Revenue Hiding in Your Shopify Store (and Why You Never Capture It)

There's revenue sitting in your Shopify store right now, and most brands doing $1M+ never capture it because they're too busy fighting fires. In this episode, Apoorva Modi, founder of Revenue Agent and ex-Google ads operator, breaks down: Why the revenue you're missing is already hiding across eight levers, from pricing and bundles to retention and checkout How most stores uncover 5 to 15% of annual revenue, or $500K to $1.5M on a $10M store The question that separates agentic tools from dashboa
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Why AI Recommends Some Shopify Products and Ignores Yours
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June 1, 2026

Why AI Recommends Some Shopify Products and Ignores Yours

ChatGPT and Google's AI are recommending products right now, and Shopify brands with messy, scattered product data are the ones getting skipped. In this episode, Trever Chidester, director of partnerships at Plytix, breaks down: Why clean, structured product data is the growth lever that gets you discovered in ChatGPT and AI search How to bulk edit descriptions, images, and SKUs across multiple Shopify stores from one source of truth The free tier that puts a former $10K to $30K/year enterprise
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Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here's Where It's Already Working)
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May 26, 2026

Voice Is the New SMS for Shopify (Here's Where It's Already Working)

AI voice agents are recovering 35% of abandoned Shopify carts, and most operators haven't noticed yet. In this solo episode, Steve Hutt breaks down: Why AI voice beats email recovery flows by 3x on abandoned carts (and the stage where it actually pays off) How one Shopify brand cut $18K/month in support costs while CSAT jumped 22% The storefront voice concierge small brands can use to sound like the founder at scale Whether you're doing $100K years or $10M+ on Shopify Plus, this episode gives yo
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Why a 3,000-Follower Creator Beats a Celebrity Influencer (And How to Run It at Scale)
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May 21, 2026

Why a 3,000-Follower Creator Beats a Celebrity Influencer (And How to Run It at Scale)

Meta and Google CACs keep climbing, so Shopify brands are paying micro-influencers in product, not cash. In this episode, William Gasner, co-founder and CMO of Stack Influence, breaks down: Why the product-for-post model beats cash payouts at scale, with lifetime content rights and access to 11M+ vetted creators The Amazon cold start fix: how external influencer traffic feeds Amazon's algorithm and accelerates your listing toward page one Whitelisting explained: why running ads through the influ
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AI Brought a Stranger to Your Door. Now What?
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May 19, 2026

AI Brought a Stranger to Your Door. Now What?

AI just delivered a stranger to your Shopify store who has zero brand context — and the first 48 hours after purchase decide whether they ever come back. In this solo episode, Steve Hutt unpacks fresh Shopify data and breaks down: Why AI-referred shoppers convert 50% higher with 14% larger AOV — and why most merchants still lose them The 3-pillar post-purchase framework (first 48 hours, flow design, loyalty trigger) for turning AI strangers into loyalists Stage-specific moves to implement this w
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Your Ads Know Your Customer. Your Website Doesn't
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May 14, 2026

Your Ads Know Your Customer. Your Website Doesn't

Your ads are hyper-personalized. Your Shopify storefront isn't. That mismatch is leaking conversions for 7-figure brands. In this episode, Kratik Agrawal, founder and CEO of Kinect (YC-backed), breaks down: How real-time storefront personalization drove 10-12% conversion lift for early Shopify customers (and 2-3x for shoppers who engage the AI sales rep) Why non-commodity Shopify brands shouldn't chase agentic commerce yet, and what to fix before UCP standards roll out The adaptive PDP framework
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