Growth Tactics for B2B eCommerce Teams: What Most Get Wrong About Email

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Kyler Nixon discusses common mistakes B2B eCommerce teams make with email marketing and offers strategies for improvement.

Kyler Nixon, Co-Founder of Forward Studios, joins the show to unpack what most distributors and B2B eCommerce teams get wrong about email marketing and how to turn it into a growth channel. Drawing on first-hand lessons as a Chief Revenue Officer, Kyler breaks down how to capture more revenue, why most companies leave money on the table, and what practical steps move the needle in B2B email. Episode highlights: 00:30 – Intro: Kyler’s path from agency owner to B2B eCommerce 03:00 – What distributors get wrong about email marketing (and how Kyler found the gap) 05:42 – Planning and forecasting in distribution: What signals Kyler actually tracked 09:45 – Why the “endless aisle” is a trap for most distributors 11:40 – First growth levers: growing the sales team, fixing SEO, improving UX 16:33 – The lost revenue of not capturing email 22:40 – Personalization in B2B email: beyond “Hi, Bob” 23:50 – Simple segmentation that works: inside vs. outside the buying window 25:52 – Kyler’s 3-part B2B email marketing framework explained 32:10 – What the B2B Commerce Association adds for practitioners 37:23 – Kyler’s podcast and TV recommendations Resources Mentioned: How I Built This (podcast by…

People in this episode

Guest: Kyler Nixon

Topics covered

• B2B eCommerce
• email marketing
• growth tactics
• revenue generation

Keywords

• distributors
• personalization
• sales team
• SEO
• UX

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