Rachel J.

Andzen

Working with Andzen in a Board Member capacity, with a specific focus on strategic growth of the agency, providing insights and recommendations, and supporting key decision-making.

Agency Board Advisor

Klaviyo

Klaviyo Community Champions are Klaviyo’s most passionate and experienced advocates. Hand-selected through an application process, Champions have a deep understanding of Klaviyo products, marketing best practices, and are eager to help others achieve success. Klaviyo recognizes Champions for their exceptional leadership, love for knowledge sharing, and dedication to fostering innovation and growth within the Klaviyo Community.

Klaviyo Community Champion

Polaris Growth

Supporting Polaris through their next phase of growth as Fractional COO to define growth opportunties, build out a management structure and statically grow the agency.

Fractional COO

Cartstars

Providing strategic advice as the CartStars community continues to grow and crossing over our collective community of brands and agencies where it makes sense.

Business Advisor

Alpha Inbound

As a Non-Executive Director, I support senior leadership teams to drive growth, streamline operations, and prepare for successful exits. 

With almost a decade of experience in guiding 100s of agencies, with multiple 7 and 8-figure exits, I bring strategic insights and tailored solutions to help agencies scale and thrive.

VideoWise - Shoppable Video

The best shoppable video experience on Shopify to increase engagement & boost growth for innovative eCommerce brands.

Advisor (Agency Enablement & Partnership Strategy)

Investor

Quickfire Digital - Shopify Plus Agency

Working with Quickfire in a Board Member capacity, with a specific focus on operationalising the agency, I provide strategic insights and recommendations, contributing to key decision-making.  

With almost a decade of experience in guiding 100s of agencies, with multiple 7 and 8-figure exits, I bring strategic insights and tailored solutions to help agencies scale and thrive.

Agency Board Advisor 

Rainy City Agency - Award-Winning Shopify Plus Agency

As a Non-Executive Director, I support senior leadership teams to drive growth, streamline operations, and prepare for successful exits. 

With almost a decade of experience in guiding 100s of agencies, and multiple 7 and 8-figure exits, I bring strategic insights and tailored solutions to help agencies scale and thrive.

ROSWELL

Harris Web Works - eCommerce Services

#1 Trusted Advisor for Ecommerce Agencies | Simplifying the Process of Scaling Ecommerce Agencies | Founder of Ecommerce Partnerships & Ecommerce Agency Growth | Grade A Shenanigator ☘️

Leading trusted advisor for ecommerce agencies. Dedicated to enabling agency owners to get out of the day-to-day of running their agency so they can focus on taking it to the next level. As former COO of a leading ecommerce agency, I've support 100+ ecommerce agencies across the globe as fractional-COO, non-executive director, and board advisor.  

Number 1 authority in implementing best practice operations, systems, and processes to scale ecommerce agencies profitably and efficiently. From building scalable retainer models to coaching high-performing leadership teams, I work with ecommerce agencies to simplify the next steps in scaling their ecommerce agency.

Feel free to contact me directly: rachel@ecommercepartnerships.com

Fractional Chief Operations Officer

At Smart Solutions, our goal is to build great websites that increase overall revenue for your business and provide an easy way for customers to connect with you online. 

We are dependable, certified eCommerce experts who will help you strategize, execute, and grow. We are a privately held, boutique agency founded in 2004 and exclusively focused on eCommerce. We have an excellent team of employees and a great group of partners who take your business success personally. We do what is right for our customers, not what is easy.

OnePet

Own the eCommerce product to grow all the fun KPIs - setting all time records for Honest Paws for key growth metrics.

Product Manager, eCommerce

Leading the Honest Paws D2C eCommerce store as we set brand records, create and scale funnels, and overhaul the website so it performs better than ever.

Senior eCommerce Manager

Bare Performance Nutrition

Recruited by Nick Bare to grow and improve the BPN store.

The BPN culture leans heavy onto 'extreme ownership,' encouraging employees to take an entrepreneurial ownership of their realm of responsibility. "Take this and charge" is an environment I thrive in. 

Streamlined the BPN website improving: 
- Conversion rate
- Subscription take rate, AOV, and churn rate for a 30% boost in MRR
- Content management and processes for easier site management
- Technical SEO for improved rankings

Led weekly L10 sprints following the EOS format, designing a product roadmap to balance long term projects while also creating short term wins. 

Worked heavily across multiple departments, including performance marketing, helping grow traffic in addition to convert the traffic. 

"Was truly a joy working with you. Appreciate you taking extreme ownership of your role." - Katherine Thomas, BPN CEO

"Constantly impressed by the changes/updates you are making to the website. Excellent work man!" - Nick Bare, BPN Founder

Ecommerce Manager

Funko

Brought on through the sale of MondoShop.com to Funko to lead the B2B and D2C eCommerce website.

- Improved site revenue and performance metrics during economic downturn, including conversion rate, time on site, bounce rate, and pages per visit. 
- Overhauled catalog discovery, organization, and merchandising and added site personalization - boosting catalog KPIs considerably. 
- Analyzed sales and site data to understand customers and identify revenue opportunities through custom reporting, working to improve the P&L.
- Created processes and wrote documentation for best practices to help drive consistent high performance of product releases and marketing.
- Oversaw product release processes, including product publishing and merchandising along with email and social announcements for 1-5 products per week.

"He not only knows the ins-and-outs of running a high performing website, he knows how to bring solutions to the table in well-thought-out, understandable ways. He thinks challenges through logically, weighs the choices, and recommends solutions. I would work with Purk in heartbeat again." - Jason Jones, Mondo General Manager

Ecommerce Manager, Mondo

Mondo

Worked for Alamo Drafthouse during the sale of Mondo to Funko, assisting in ensuring a smooth transition during the company sale. This included building a dedicated eCommerce gift shop for Drafthouse.com so Alamo can keep selling merch after the sale. 

When not assisting with the sale, I worked to optimize the Mondo website - improving conversion rates, smoothing out site management processes, and laying the groundwork for long term site improvements.

AMMD

- Guided the AMMD website to the top 1% of websites for conversion rate in vertical (according to Shopify metrics) by iterating on the store’s customer journey and optimizing funnels using A/B tests and data driven changes. 
- Fostered a tight knit, communicative, collaborative, and effective multidisciplinary team, maintaining 100% retention throughout COVID and The Great Resignation.

- Designed two record A/B tests that generate 7 figures in new annual revenue, each.
- Reduced SaaS expenses by over $70k/yr by selecting alternatives and building custom replacements, improving our P&L.
- Led the creation and optimization of targeted landing pages for PPC campaigns, improving our ROAS.
- Implemented automated deployment and testing, improving team efficiency and quality control.
- Optimized email sign-up flow, increasing site revenue and reducing costs of new customer acquisition.
- Improved Subscribe & Save program take rate, AOV, and customer retention.
- Managed B2C and B2B channels on Shopify Plus, Amazon, and Walmart stores.

"I was a direct report to Brian for 14 months. He was hands down the best manager I’ve had since I joined the workforce 24 years ago." - Spencer Shattuck, Web Developer at AMMD

Ecommerce Manager - Product Manager, CRO, Web Dev

Grew and lead the AMMD eCommerce team, optimizing the website and boosting performance to hit top 1% for conversion rate in our vertical according to Shopify metrics.

"Brian is an incredible person to work with. On our monthly update calls when I was his Shopify account manager, he always (and I mean that literally!) had a long list of projects that he was working on, and the next month, he always had updates on what he had accomplished from last month. His team accomplished more than many of my other merchants combined over the course of a year." - Jennifer Chase, Shopify Merchant Experience Manager for AMMD

Website Lead

Rebuilt the AMMD WordPress and Shopify site from the ground up - creating a unified codebase that greatly improved dev time and site consistency.

"Brian, or “Purk” as we called him around the office, is a highly skilled web developer with a passion for all things e-commerce. Brian’s staunch devotion to clean code, site load speed, user experience & conversion rate were a huge boon to the team I managed, as well as the customers we served together over several successful years." - James Garland, AMMD Marketing Director

Lead Web Developer

MODintelechy

- Planned, architected, and developed custom websites, built to be manageable by non-technical users. 
- Wrote website quotes, client facing project scopes, and internal detailed product specifications, created to be understood by non technical clients while also providing enough detail for technical teams to execute the roadmap. 
- Roadmapped and solo developed a large custom membership website - completed on time and within 5% of budget.
- Maintained and improved the custom starter WordPress theme, lowering costs of development.

Senior Web Developer

Clarity Ventures, Inc.

I worked as the a Frontend Developer focusing on eCommerce websites. Contributed to the Clarity eCommerce Framework, a custom eCommerce Platform, maintaining and optimizing the base theme to boost performance.

"You are the best with HTML/CSS here, possibly better than anyone else ever at this company. I’ve never once had difficulty reading your code." - Chris Reddick, Owner of Clarity Ventures

Frontend Developer - eCommerce

Vuepoint Creative

I worked as the solo developer and SEO specialist. Tasks mainly involved frontend development, WordPress development, SEO, and web UI/UX.

Frontend Developer - WordPress, SEO

Bold Perspective

I co-founded Bold Perspective and worked as a designer and developer specializing in interface design, frontend development, and WordPress development. Bold Perspective was a one stop web design shop that takes an entire project from conception to launch.

Co-Founder / Developer / Designer

MonsterWeb

I worked as a frontend developer, designer, customer support, technical writer, and SEO specialist.

Frontend Developer & SEO Specialist

Built a website in the top 1% for conversion rate | eCommerce | CRO | Web Developer | Servant Leader

I built a website in the top 1% for conversion rate, maintained 100% team retention throughout COVID and The Great Resignation, and have repeatedly grown store revenue in the face of an industry downturn. 

Need to grow a website and scale revenue? I'm your guy. 

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About me:

I am a well rounded web professional with almost two decades of experience designing, developing, growing, and optimizing high performing websites using a blend of technical, strategic, data analysis, conversion optimization, and digital marketing skills. 

I am a servant leader who utilizes a collaborative leadership style paired with a self established philosophy labeled “obsessive positivity,” which generates multiplicative output from a team with high employee retention. Employs a solution oriented approach to project management, doing whatever is needed to conquer challenges. 

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Key Accomplishments: 
• Built a top 1% for conversion rate eCommerce site in two years. Rebuilt the AMMD website from the ground up, achieving top tier performance through constant analysis, iteration, team collaboration, optimization, and A/B tests. 
• Maintained 100% team retention through COVID and The Great Resignation while growing from the smallest team in marketing/ops to the largest. 
• Repeatedly grew store revenue in the face of industry downturns.
• Designed, developed, and wrote all of the copy and marketing material for a personal project. Received one million pageviews within the first year and the second million pageviews within two months after that. Achieved an average of 8-10 pageviews per visit and a bounce rate of less than 10%.

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Skills and Responsibilities 

Core Skills:
eCommerce, product management, revenue growth, customer funnel optimization, conversion rate optimization (CRO), A/B testing, web and sales data analysis and reporting, responsive website design, long term growth planning and strategy, competition research, traffic generation, marketing automation.

Technical Skills:
Shopify Plus, Liquid, WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, WCAG, GDPR/CCPA compliance, UI/UX, website automation, website personalization, Git, QA Testing.

Digital Marketing:
SEO, content marketing, catalog management, email marketing, social media, PPC, digital branding.

Servant Leadership:
Building roadmaps, ensuring stakeholder goals are met, team coordination and mentoring, vendor relationships.

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