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Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Leaders on Shopify is a new podcast hosted by John Readman, a digital marketing veteran with 25 + years’ experience helping brands accelerate growth online. As founder and CEO of Modo25 and Ask BOSCO®, John has worked with global names such as ASOS, Pepsi, BMW, Superdry and more - and he brings that battle-tested insight straight to this show. Each episode of Leaders on Shopify digs into the real stories, strategies and scaling lessons from executives, founders and experts using the Shopify…
Episodes
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Nobody gets fired for buying Shopify. But is it always the right choice...?
He’s been in e-commerce for 25 years. He’s 44. He grew a bathroom retailer from nothing to £78m, then jumped the fence to agency side because he wanted…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
The wishlist app that knows what your shoppers want before they do...
What if your store knew a shopper was interested in a product before they even added it to their basket? This week on Leaders on Shopify, John sits down with…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
When is Shopify the right choice? A dev agency’s honest answer
Brad leads strategy and consultancy at Remarkable Commerce, a Nottingham-based development agency of nearly 100 people that has been building ecommerce…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
The unglamorous secrets behind luxury brands on Shopify
Tom is the founder of WIRO, a Shopify Plus agency for luxury fashion brands. In just over 10 years, WIRO has worked with hundreds of brands, grown to a team of…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Headless vs native Shopify: when it's worth it, and when it's a waste of money
Five years ago, headless was the hottest thing in ecommerce. Then it went out of fashion. Now it's coming back. So should your brand be doing it? Tom…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Why chasing revenue can make you a "busy fool", and why Google will never tell you to spend less
Revenue is up. Margins are down. And you're working harder than ever to stand still. After 18 years in ecommerce and eight Shopify stores selling trade tools…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
The surprising benefits of adding insurance to your Shopify checkout
What if adding insurance to your Shopify checkout could increase conversion, reduce returns and create a whole new revenue stream? John Readman is joined by…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Forget TikTok Shop: Go live on Shopify instead
Live shopping is working, but you don't need TikTok to do it. More Shopify brands are now streaming live sales directly from their own stores, keeping the…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
How to spot a good Shopify app in an age of AI generated apps
700 apps launched on Shopify in a single week this year. Most of them shouldn't exist. Some of them are brilliant. And almost nobody can tell the difference…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Showing your search bar on mobile can lift conversion by 30-50%
Most Shopify stores hide search behind a tiny magnifying glass in the corner. Adam Pearce has the data on what that's costing you. Adam Pearce co-founded Blend…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Scaling your Shopify store? The bit everyone forgets.
Most brands scale the fun bit first. More ad spend, more traffic, more orders. Then the warehouse can't keep up, returns pile up, and the bit nobody planned…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Too many Shopify apps? What your tech stack is really costing you.
Most Shopify merchants have no idea what their tech stack is costing them. Gareth Allen, Founder of Herd Agency, has been building on Shopify since the late…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
How brands like Gymshark and Castore scale with better data infrastructure.
Shopify may be easy to launch on, but scaling brands often hit the same wall: messy integrations, broken data, and tech stacks that can’t keep up. In this…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
The £/$/€ millions ecommerce brands are losing by ignoring accessibility
What if one of the biggest untapped growth opportunities in ecommerce isn't better ads, better AI, or better conversion optimization, but simply making your…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
An interview with an AI: what Boardy really thinks about Shopify
For the first time on Leaders on Shopify, John sat down with a guest that isn't human. Meet Boardy, an AI "superconnector" that spends its time talking to…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Inside Function18: Golf retail's digital success story with Shopify
Podcast description: Golf used to mean black trousers, black tops, and zero personality. Ben from Function18 helped change that, building a pure-play online…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
How FireBelly's Mary-Anne Danarzo builds brands that scale on Shopify
Mary-Anne Danarzo, founder of FireBelly, talks about building brands from the ground up, and what it actually takes to scale them. Mary-Anne shares how a…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Scaling a Shopify brand from £1M to £30M: what actually works with Quickfire Digital
What has eight years of working with scaling ecommerce brands taught Nathan Lomax? In this episode the co-founder of Shopify Platinum agency Quickfire Digital…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
How Smol scaled to £45M and why they left Shopify to do it
When do you know it's time to leave your ecommerce platform? Neil Campbell, Chief Growth Officer at Smol, has been through it. His direct-to-consumer cleaning…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
Why every brand is moving to Shopify and what comes next
Why are brands that went headless or bespoke quietly migrating back to Shopify? Liam Quinn, Director of Innovation at Visualsoft, one of Europe's largest…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
He sold 1.7 million pairs of shoes online last year, here's what he wishes he'd known sooner
How do you grow an online shoe business to £65 million and what nearly breaks along the way? Stuart Paver has been selling footwear online since 1999, making…
- Leaders on Shopify with John Readman
The Shopify secret nobody talks about (and why AI could cost you 4% of every sale)
The infrastructure secrets behind scaling stores, why AI just crossed a critical quality threshold, and the hidden 4% cost lurking inside the future of…