{"podcast":{"title":"Ecommerce Conversations","slug":"ecommerce-conversations-963613","podcast_index_feed_id":963613,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/1995667.rss","website_url":"https://www.practicalecommerce.com/tag/podcasts","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/srxg8w1mhya5utiagezo6tpdn7gx?.jpg","author":"Practical Ecommerce","episode_count":596,"summary":"Ecommerce Conversations is the long-running weekly podcast from Practical Ecommerce, hosted by ecommerce entrepreneur Eric Bandholz. •• Listen in as Eric interviews in-the-trenches founders and executives who address the essentials of launching, growing, and sustaining an online business. Hear their successes, mistakes, and plans — addressing customer acquisition, web traffic, marketing tactics, on-site conversion, shipping, favorite tools, funding, obstacles, and much more. •• New episodes every Friday. Subscribe to the podcast here, and then read a condensed transcript at https://www.PracticalEcommerce.com/tag/podcasts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T02:21:11.178476+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613"},"episode":{"title":"2 Bootstrapped D2C Brands, 1 CEO","slug":"2-bootstrapped-d2c-brands-1-ceo","published_at":"2026-05-29T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613/2-bootstrapped-d2c-brands-1-ceo","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1995667/episodes/19254334-2-bootstrapped-d2c-brands-1-ceo.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1995667/episodes/19254334-2-bootstrapped-d2c-brands-1-ceo.mp3","summary":"For four years Eric Steckling has run two direct-to-consumer brands. Brio, the company he founded in 2014, sells beard trimmers and related goods. In 2022, he acquired Ollie, then a seller of teeth-whitening strips and now an expanded oral care provider. Eric first appeared on the podcast in 2023. In this latest conversation, he addresses Brio's challenges of selling long-lasting goods, Ollie's opportunity with consumable items, and juggling the two. For an edited and condensed transcript wi...","meta_description":"For four years Eric Steckling has run two direct-to-consumer brands. Brio, the company he founded in 2014, sells beard trimmers and related goods. In 2022…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1756,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ecommerce-conversations-963613/episodes/2-bootstrapped-d2c-brands-1-ceo/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613/2-bootstrapped-d2c-brands-1-ceo.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}