In competitive markets where people, brands, and companies compete for scarce resources, only the strongest and biggest survive. But this shouldn’t be the default in business. If you’re serious about your business growth, you must decide from the outset where you want to be in the “pecking order” and how you want to get there.
In this episode of The Rebound, Australian futurist, author, and entrepreneur Steve Sammartino; Creative Director Tommy McCubbin; award-winning television presenter Rad Yeo; and APAC Marketing Lead at Shopify Bertie Ocampo explain how ecommerce brands can grow and flourish using the right tools, systems, and technology.
When a business is growing there will always be multiple tasks to carry out at the same time, so how can businesses simplify things to unlock scalability?
Bertie Ocampo of Shopify says this:
You are only as productive as your processes. Having the right systems and processes in place is key to the success of your business and your time management.”
When feeling “under the pump,” businesses should ask themselves these questions:
Ecommerce brands have the capability to sell online through their site globally. However, many pass up the chance due to logistical issues.
Bertie says if you can get over that hurdle, there are numerous advantages and a bigger slice of revenue waiting for you across international markets.
However, expanding into international markets is not without its challenges. If you’re considering or preparing to open up your ecommerce store to international consumers, Bertie says there are several things to consider doing:
Founders Andy and Hayley Worley decided to create The Sheet Society after being unable to find “the perfect sheet.” With the humble beginnings of a shared office, news of the best night’s sleep ever spread and scale was the order of the day. Fast forward to 2021, and all fulfilment is now done out of their warehouse.
Hayley explains their business growth came in three stages. “The first stage in launching the business was figuring out the product,” she says. “I’ve got a background in product design and development.
“The second stage was building our brand and marketing. Do people want to buy what we are selling? The last stage, which we’ve come out the back of, was the warehousing and operational side.”
Hayley has a specific idea about growth:
It is such a big term that implies you have to do everything at once. For us, it’s about the different stages and what you need to level up and grow. Is it your operations? Is it your marketing? And what can you focus on?”
Andy says you can’t put all your eggs into sales and marketing without making sure your back-end operations are taken care of. “It is about making those incremental growth stages across all your business so it grows together as a whole, rather than chasing one particular element,” he says.
Andy and Haley have been partners with Shopify Plus from the get-go and have grown with the ecommerce platform.
“They have been there from day one, when we were making $10 to $20 a day, to now. It’s one of those systems that we’ve really grown with,” Andy says. “Shopify is continually developing what they do, so I was finding more value from that platform, particularly when we opened more retail stores, with their POS solutions.”
