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Don’t hesitate to reach out to us on socials or directly to Blaine & Ramon if you have a guest you’d like to recommend, or specific topics you’d like to learn more about in the consumer, creator, and commerce landscape which we can explore with future guests.How did the pod start and where are we going?

How Consumer, Creator, & Commerce businesses are built
Bring different perspectives that can be applied across business landscapes

How has the DTC landscape changed since?

Solving for distribution challenges and identifying acquisition arbitrage
Organic reach and leveraging product
Content and building brand distribution
Shopify audiences for shopify plus brands
Retention and cx become top of mind to drive organic growth
Principles for the right business to work on for you
Subscriptions and unit economics
DTC becomes the testnet for CPG & prioritization of retail distribution
Using SMS as a marketer
Shopify & prospects for continued growth, challenges of the ecosystem
Data & solving for technical sprawl across more platforms
More enablement solutions looking for limited margin.. only the best core utilities survive

Previous episodes and learnings from DTC Pod guests:

Pattern - Emmett Shine & launching some of the biggest brands in DTC
Tabs - Owning distribution and prioritizing organic
Lunar, Zbiotics, Ghia - where product meets production
Coltyy - how to work with social algorithms
Ridge - going from 10-100 million
Openstore - An option for brands to cash out
Bite - mission first & founder hustle beyond shark tank

Product finds & whats next:

some of the products we’ve discovered through the pod
The guide to all the best online & dtc brands
Noowave, Awful, Rosaluna, Zbiotics, Bite, Ridge, Swagup & more

#200 - Episode 200! Blaine Bolus & Ramon Berrios on Consumer, Creator, & Commerce 01:05:05 Share

DTC POD: How The Best Brands Are Built

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#200 - Episode 200! Blaine Bolus & Ramon Berrios on Consumer, Creator, & Commerce