{"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":587,"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":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613"},"episode":{"title":"M&A Advisor on Ecommerce Valuations","slug":"m-a-advisor-on-ecommerce-valuations","published_at":"2026-01-23T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613/m-a-advisor-on-ecommerce-valuations","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ecommerce-conversations-963613","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1995667/episodes/18550581-m-a-advisor-on-ecommerce-valuations.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/1995667/episodes/18550581-m-a-advisor-on-ecommerce-valuations.mp3","summary":"Frank Kosarek is the co-founder of BizPort, a mergers-and-acquisitions marketplace launched in November 2025. Before that, he was head of acquisitions for a large ecommerce aggregator. He says buyers of ecommerce businesses today focus on discretionary earnings, not revenue, and seek recurring sales, such as subscriptions. He addresses those items, the state of ecommerce M&A, and more in this episode. For an edited and condensed transcript with embedded audio, see: https://www.practical...","meta_description":"Frank Kosarek is the co-founder of BizPort, a mergers-and-acquisitions marketplace launched in November 2025. Before that, he was head of acquisitions for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2299,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ecommerce-conversations-963613/episodes/m-a-advisor-on-ecommerce-valuations/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/m-a-advisor-on-ecommerce-valuations.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}