Shopify Plus Partner Shares Strategic And Tactical Experience To Grow And Thrive

Show Notes

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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 guest is Ben Zettler, the founder of Ben Zettler Digital Media.

Ben is an Ecommerce and Digital Marketing Consultant that helps both small and large-scale Shopify merchants to profitably grow revenue while assisting with the building blocks for customer lifetime value. He works across three core pillars of success and growth for a Shopify brand:

• The optimization of the store to drive conversions.
• The execution of key strategies to acquire new customers.
• The enhancement of tactics and tools to retain those customers

He is a Shopify Partner, Shopify Expert and Shopify Plus Consulting Partner, as well as a Facebook Marketing Partner and Klaviyo “Platinum” Partner.

Let’s all learn from Ben today, about how to build efficient paths for growth.

What You Will Learn Today

• How to identify and avoid being the “overworked founder” or the “overworked doer”.
• The benefits of building your Shopify brands owned marketing channels.
• The must-have list of tools for Shopify merchants today.
• The mindset around being a constant learner paired with experimentation.

Links And Resources Mentioned

• Ben Zettler Digital Media
• Ben Zettler Blog

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Episode Sponsor: HiConversion Recommend

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Running a Shopify store? You already know success isn't about finding the right app—it's about knowing which strategies actually work at your specific stage of growth.

I'm Steve Hutt, and I've lived every level of the ecommerce journey. From eBay Power Seller shipping products from my garage, to co-founding and scaling VisionPros.com (an optical DTC startup) through to a successful exit, then spending 6+ years as a Shopify Merchant Success Manager helping 100+ brands from startup to enterprise scale, including working with teams at Tentree, Dr. Squatch, Bulletproof Coffee, Salt & Straw Ice Cream, MUD/WTR, Bokksu, and many more.

Here's what makes this podcast different: I've been on both sides of the table.

6+ years working inside Shopify gave me access to what's coming before most merchants know it exists. Building, scaling, and successfully exiting my own ecommerce businesses taught me what actually works when your money and reputation are on the line. That combination of insider access plus real operator experience gives you a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

Since 2018, eCommerce Fastlane has delivered over 430 episodes and more than 2 million downloads to ambitious Shopify founders and marketers. Every week, I chat with operators, developers, and experts who share what's actually moving the needle right now—not theory, but patterns I've seen work consistently across dozens of brands at multiple stages.

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