Prepare to have your perspective shifted.

🎧 Cringe Mountain: Why Fearless Brands Win

Fear of being “cringe” keeps brands from standing out, building community, and driving growth. This episode shows why embracing authenticity and founder visibility is essential for scaling in today’s DTC landscape.

🥂 GHIA: Lo-Fi That Lands

GHIA’s lo-fi, authentic ad proves that simple, relatable content can outperform polished production. Clear value props, product-focused visuals, and subtle offers make it both scroll-stopping and conversion-friendly.

💰 Pros and Cons of Using Amazon’s MCF

Amazon’s expanded Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) lets brands ship orders from platforms like Shopify and Walmart using Amazon’s fast, reliable network. It offers shared inventory and potential cost savings but comes with tradeoffs like Amazon-branded packaging, less control, and increased dependency.

🎧 Don’t Let This Tactic Tank Q4…

Building a profitable email list starts with consent — native subscribers engage more, buy more, and protect deliverability. Focus on segmentation, suppressing inactive users, and strict rules for non-opt-ins to keep your channel healthy and revenue-driving.

💡 Test and Discover Your Winning Bid Strategy!

Test cost cap vs. min ROAS campaigns with equal budgets and broad targeting to find your most efficient Meta bid strategy before Q4. Running both for 7–10 days helps reveal which approach scales best for your brand.

💰 Vacation’s Clippable Coupon and Cheeky Copy

Vacation’s retro coupon-style pop-up nails brand voice, clarity, and simplicity to boost email sign-ups. Testing offer framing, future value messaging, and readable humor can make it even more memorable and high-converting.

🎧 How Lovevery Built a Nine-Figure Subscription Engine – Then Rebuilt It to Unlock Even More Growth

Lovevery scaled from a single premium product into a nine-figure subscription business by combining developmental science, customer feedback, and mission-driven design. Co-founder Roderick Morris shares how app engagement, strategic pricing, and global expansion fueled retention and unlocked new growth.

🎧 When Google Ads Stop Scaling with Dougie from Pilothouse

Dougie from Pilothouse explains why brands hit a scaling wall on Google Ads and how to break through impression share limits. Learn tactical strategies on demand creation, product alignment, and when to use PMAX vs Shopping campaigns for growth.

👀 New Tool To Spot Performance Changes Quickly

Meta Ads Manager now includes built-in conditional formatting, letting media buyers spot ROAS and performance shifts instantly without custom reports. This new feature helps teams act faster in Q4 by color-coding metrics to catch underperformers and scale winning campaigns.

🎧 The Hard Truth About Marketing Measurement with Constantine Yurevich of SegmentStream

Constantine Yurevich of SegmentStream reveals why most marketing measurement methods—fast MMMs and lift studies—are flawed or biased. He argues for first-click attribution and evidence-based strategies to give brands a truer picture of what drives customer acquisition.

💰 Major Google Updates For Q4 Holiday Season

Google’s Q4 updates show shoppers are more research-driven and budget-conscious, with impulse buys dropping from 30% to 26%. Brands can win by using AI-powered discovery, YouTube shopping tools, and loyalty integrations to capture demand and drive long-term retention.

🎧 Building A Monthly Creative Review and Post-Mortem Process

DTC brands can avoid reactive creative decisions by building a monthly review and post-mortem process that analyzes winners, losers, and “spicy” ads. Pilothouse’s Aves shares a simple system to review performance, capture ideas, and plan baseline content that keeps creative strategy sharp and scalable.

✨ Sprinkling In Social Proof and Storytelling

DEUX can boost Q4 conversions by enhancing storytelling, highlighting social proof, and promoting its subscription model more prominently. Pilothouse’s CRO team recommends mobile optimization, updated bestsellers, and checkout upsells to increase AOV and retention.

🎧 Email Like A Billion Dollar Brand on a Five-Figure Budget (Part 2)

Learn how scrappy brands can use big-brand email tactics like testing, segmentation, and engagement to drive year-round revenue. In this podcast episode, Jordan from Pilothouse shares practical ways to boost retention on a five-figure budget.

🐈‍⬛ Anthropologie’s Crafty Way To Upsell

Anthropologie boosts average order value by showcasing entire product collections directly on product detail pages, like with their new Halloween mugs. This seamless “Shop the Collection” design reduces friction, encourages impulse buys, and makes it easy for shoppers to add multiple items.

🎧 Rotten’s Retail Expansion: Seeding Strategy, Brand IP, and Standing Out at Checkout

Learn how Rotten scaled from a single product to national retail partners like Safeway and Sprouts by focusing on velocity, sampling, and fun brand IP. Founder Michael Fisher shares how TikTok Shop, affiliates, and unique characters fuel growth in the better-for-you candy space.