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Fiona Scrymgeour from Vush | Checkout #266
In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Fiona Scrymgeour, the General Manager of Marketing at Vush - a sexual wellness brand working to change the conversation around some of the most natural things in the world; pleasure, bodies, and self love.
Links from the episode:
The Google Ads Podcast by Solutions 8
Secrets to Scaling Your eCommerce Brand by Jordan West and Sean Lang
Shauli Mizrahi from Rep AI: Reinventing the Chatbot with Extra Love
Questions answered in the podcast:
- What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever bought online?
- Who is your favourite retailer?
- Which retail fad do you wish was history?
- Can you recommend a book or podcast that our listeners should immediately get into?
- Finish this sentence. The future of retail is…
This episode was brought to you by…
About your co-host: Fiona Scrymgeour from Vush
A highly experienced, results orientated and innovative Marketing Director with a reputation for sound strategic thinking, planning and visionary leadership. Extensive experience in brand redesign, master-brand strategy and execution, communications & digital marketing that builds brands & businesses. Fiona delivers an entrepreneurial style & thinking within an organisation driving brand equity, market share and profitable results. Extensive experience in new product ideation, process and development with manufacturing industries and eCommerce marketing with strong knowledge of driving website conversion and attribution.
You can contact Fiona at LinkedIn
About your host: Nathan Bush from eSuite
Nathan Bush is a digital strategist, Co-founder of eCommerce talent agency, eSuite and host of the Add to Cart podcast. He has led eCommerce for businesses with revenue $100m+ and has been recognised as one of Australia’s Top 50 People in eCommerce four years in a row. You can contact Nathan on LinkedIn, Twitter or via email.
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Email hello@addtocart.com.au We look forward to hearing from you!
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