The Deal Closers Podcast
Welcome to The Deal Closers Podcast - a show about how to build your ecommerce business to be profitable, scalable, and one day, even sellable. Hosted by Izach Porter from WebsiteClosers.com, and produced by Earfluence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
One of the KPIs buyers are looking for when analyzing a business is its conversion rate - the number of users who converted as a percentage of the total number of users that visit your site. A steadily increasing conversion rate can mean that your brand is becoming better known or your messaging is more attractive - and that’s something that’s attractive to the buyer as well.
A decreasing conversion rate - unless you...
Louie Torres is a first-generation American whose family comes from Ecuador. His mom had Louie when she was 18, and he didn't have another sibling until he was 10. So he had a lot of time to himself where he would script up his own movies or set up his Star Wars collection or just dream. And part of that dream was to find a way to make some cash.
Today we share Louie's story of how he built and sold his digital marketing agency,...
Today we hear from a founder who has built and sold four very different companies - a t-shirt business before ecommerce existed, a pest control service, a gas station, and most recently, an informational website with an adsense revenue model.
How did he do it? Let's find out!
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How Cristina Van Osten Revolutionized and Exited the Pigments Industry
Today's topic is exit planning, and all of the steps you can take as a business owner to help you prepare to sell your business. We all want to sell for the highest possible price at the highest multiple.
So what do we need to do to get there? And what are some potential pitfalls that could affect the sale of your business that you can avoid?
Our guest is Jason Somerville, founder of GW Partners and South Col.
Cristina Van Osten is one of those people where you’re not surprised by her success because she's been making success happen her whole life. Back in her home country of Romania, she decided to sell Avon door to door at 16 years old - and thrived. A couple years later, she started two convenience stores and had a nice exit. After moving to the US at 22, while studying to be a CPA, working full time at a public accounting firm, and b...
As Ecommerce entrepreneurs, we may not consider ourselves traditional investors. But in today's digital landscape, we're all in the business of selling and investing in our future. We may not have a stock ticker or a brick and mortar property, but we have websites and digital assets that hold incredible potential and can produce amazing cash flows.
Today we have the privilege of welcoming a true trailblazer in the world of digit...
Today, Website Closers' Gwen Sylvester joins host Izach Porter to chat with Adam Spiegel, who built and sold Ownloop, because he needed a way to make money when his career took a turn for the worse because of the pandemic.
Previous How I Built and Sold This Episodes
How a Dog Training Guru Built and Sold Her Business
Breakthrough in Hair Care, Overcoming Tragedy, and a Successful Exit, with Beth Di Maio
At Website Closers, we’ve brokered the sale of businesses anywhere from $100,000 in revenue to hundreds of millions of dollars ARR. But typically, buyers are looking for a company with a few million in revenue and an upward growth trend. And if you’re in the low 7-figures and kinda stuck, that might be what our guest Nick Weiksner refers to as “No Man’s Land”.
Nick Weiksner is the CEO of South Col.
Are you looking for financial freedom through passive income? That sounds like a dream for most of us, and today we're going to learn the steps to start making that dream a reality, with Spencer Hilligoss, the CEO and co-founder, Madison Investing
This episode of Deal Closers is hosted by Izach Porter, brought to you by WebsiteClosers.com, and is produced by Earfluence.
Today, Website Closers' Doug Grindstaff and Lenny Farber join host Izach Porter to talk with a college student who had an extremely profitable "gap year" from college - one where he built and sold his ecommerce business.
Previous How I Built and Sold This Episodes
How a Dog Training Guru Built and Sold Her Business
Breakthrough in Hair Care, Overcoming Tragedy, and a Successful Exit, with Beth Di Maio
Hyperlocal marketing is a strategy that targets potential customers who are close to your business location and looking for products and services like yours. The local area is usually very specific, which is awesome, but how does hyperlocal apply to ecommerce?
Let's find out from LiveRetail's Wayne Reuvers, a serial entrepreneur who has led 6 exits for a combined $110M!
Many people think that when a company is looking to make an acquisition, they need to have the cash up front to give the seller or maybe give stock or some combination of stock and equity in their own company. And while some transactions do take place like this, most that I've seen at Website Closers require some amount of financing to get over the finish line.
Today we chat with Stephen Speer, whose company EcommerceLending.com...
Today, Website Closers' Alex Matos joins host Izach Porter to talk with the co-founder of Rari Nutrtion, Sean Kelly about his exit in the super competitive supplement space.
Previous How I Built and Sold This Episodes
How a Dog Training Guru Built and Sold Her Business
Breakthrough in Hair Care, Overcoming Tragedy, and a Successful Exit, with Beth Di Maio
From Kickstarter to Successful Exit, with California Beach Compan...
How do you know when a potential buyer is actually interested in your company or if they're just simply fishing for information? Or worse, are they trying to get access to some of your proprietary trade secrets?
Unless you already have a relationship with the buyer and you've done your homework to properly vet them, it can be really difficult to figure this out and understand what their true motivations are. So today we're brin...
Today we're talking about subscriptions and membership sites - how to create them, grow them, and why recurring revenue streams are so attractive to potential buyers.
About Our Guest
Our guest today is Kristen Baileys, Co-founder and CEO of Bake Eat Love, which sells baking kits that come once a month.
This episode of Deal Closers is hosted by Izach Porter, brought to you by WebsiteClosers.com, and is produced by Earfluenc...
Today's guest is Robin Bennett, co founder of The Dog Gurus, someone who leveraged her expertise in “reading dogs” into courses, memberships, books, and an eventual exit.
Today's episode of Deal Closers is hosted by Jason Gillikin, brought to you by WebsiteClosers.com, and is produced by Earfluence.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The total market value of the hair care industry is about $100 Billion worldwide and over $15 Billion in the United States. That seems like a huge opportunity, but the market is dominated by big name players like Loreal, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, and Unilever.
So how did Cordiale and Beth Di Maio find market share in 2007? And how did Beth overcome her husband's tragic passing and take Healium Hair to the next lev...
As Ecommerce companies, we have so much information - sometimes too much information. What can we do with all of this data from our customers to maximize their experience while maintaining their privacy?
Well today we’re talking about the challenges that Ecommerce companies face when implementing AI, and how AI can unlock the value of your data to increase profitability, lifetime customer value, and return on ad spend.
Ab...
A couple episodes ago, Lauren Lee told us all about how we can use affiliate marketing to increase our bottom line. So how is referral marketing and word-of-mouth marketing different from that? And how can CloudSponge's Refer-a-Friend program double word-of-mouth sales?
About Our Guest
Jay Gibb is the Founder and CEO of CloudSponge, the most effective way to get people to share e-commerce products with people they know....
In Ecommerce, we all need much more than a bookkeeper to make sound financial decisions. We need instant information on cash flow, inventory, projections, and other KPIs. It's not easy, but Lio Pinchevski, CEO of Finaloop, has a solution.
This episode of Deal Closers is hosted by Izach Porter, brought to you by WebsiteClosers.com, and is produced by Earfluence.
Hosted on Acast. See ac...
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