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Charles Palleschi always knew he wanted to start his own SaaS business but his route to founding Spark Shipping, an e-commerce automation software solution, was anything but straightforward. In this episode Charles explains the problem his software solves and provides insights into the respective pros and cons of marketing a business in ecommerce or SaaS.

Scaling your ecommerce business always comes with challenges you didn't expect. It seems like there's always more work to do, especially when you're growing fast. The good news is that you can automate parts of your ecommerce business. Today on the show Charles Palleschi, founder of Spark Shipping, shares how. The 5-Minute Ecommerce Email Marketing Hack Stop leaving money on the table. Without great email marketing, you're missing out on 6-7 figures per year of revenue and profit. Download this checklist, go through it, and in less than 5 minutes you'll know exactly what you need to do to increase your email revenue. This is our secret sauce and we're giving it all away for free, no strings attached. Click here to download the checklist for free. Links: Wavebreak Dylan's Interview on Business of Ecommerce Spark Shipping Business of Ecommerce Podcast Listen on iTunes Learn more about Wavebreak This episode is sponsored by... Klaviyo — Over 10,000 innovative brands are growing their businesses by listening and understanding to cues from their customers--easily turning that information into valuable marketing messages used to build highly segmented, automated email campaigns, such as win back campaigns or abandoned cart emails and more.

GUEST BIO: Charles Palleschi is the founder and CEO of Spark Shipping, an ecommerce company that acts as a third party between vendor and manufacturer. The idea for Spark Shipping came from Charles' initial drop shipping business. After finding that there wasn't a virtual tool to organize orders and vendors, he created one to help his business. Shortly after, he discovered the business opportunity of making this tool public and shifted his focus from dropshipping to Spark Shipping. Spark Shipping works with all vendors and has partnerships with Spotify, Amazon, eBay, Woocommerce, Magento, Big Commerce and more, helping dropshipping companies to increase their volume and margins. SHOW SUMMARY: Today's guest is Charles Palleschi, founder and CEO of Spark Shipping. Spark Shipping acts a third party between vendor and manufacturer for ecommerce businesses. Born from a solution Charles created for his dropshipping business, Spark Shipping is now partnered with Spotify, Amazon, eBay, Woocommerce and more. In this episode, Charles explains how the idea of Spark Shipping was a direct result of a pain point he experienced during the early days of his dropshipping business. He shows us how to create our own solutions and then, how to make them public as a SaaS product. We also talk about how to improve your dropshipping business, how to finagle lower shipping rates, and the vendors you should prioritize. This is the Lean Commerce Podcast. TOPICS: What was the inspiration behind Spark Shipping? 0:25 I started as a freelance consultant, using my development background, but I decided totally out of the blue to buy an e-commerce website. I started with FBA, drop shipping, and worked with a lot of vendors and that's what made me think of creating a tool to organize orders and vendors. We named it Spark Shipping, made it public and about three years ago we started to fully focus on it instead of our e-commerce website. 6:05 Spark Shipping sits between the retail side and the vendor and we automate inventory quantities, take order requests and get tracking data. Essentially we automate the day to day tasks of an e-commerce business. What is a hybrid drop shipping model? 8:56 Not a lot of people talk about the boring backend of e-commerce, especially when it comes to processing data. Hybrid drop shipping involves one product being fulfilled by multiple vendors (manufacturer, distributor, internal warehouse). This creates layers of inventory and you can use the cheapest vendor for that moment. What improvement can you make on dropshipping and returns? 14:10 A lot of dropshippers are listing products even though they don't have live numbers from their vendors. I get that if you have hundreds of thousands of products you can't do it on your own, but you need to find a tool that helps you keep track of those numbers. 18:30 Once you're deep within a given niche, you can start giving value based off of that specific product and increase your volume. Do you have dropshippers on your platform doing significant volume? 22:37 We see people move from drop shipping to manufacturing and manufacturing to drop shipping. It's not very black and white, it's more of a holistic approach. If you're manufacturing a product, it doesn't make sense to manufacture all of the accessories for it. But it does make sense to stock all of them. 26:06 There's a ton of large companies doing this and customers don't realize it. If you order a product and have it delivered in one box and then have the accessory delivered in a different box, on a different day, this is a company that is executing this strategy. How can you get lower shipping rates on ecommerce products? 29:13 The normal shipping rates from UPS or FedEx aren't typically paid once you are doing volume, you can easily negotiate a better rate. Once you've done that, go to your manufacturer and try to get them to negotiate with their carrier. Then, you'll have a cheaper rate on b

GUEST BIO: Charles Palleschi is the founder and CEO of Spark Shipping, an ecommerce company that acts as a third party between vendor and manufacturer. The idea for Spark Shipping came from Charles’ initial drop shipping business. After finding that there wasn’t a virtual tool to organize orders and vendors, he created one to help his business. Shortly after, he discovered the business opportunity of making this tool public and shifted his focus from dropshipping to Spark Shipping. Spark Shipping works with all vendors and has partnerships with Spotify, Amazon, eBay, Woocommerce, Magento, Big Commerce and more, helping dropshipping companies to increase their volume and margins. SHOW SUMMARY: Today’s guest is Charles Palleschi, founder and CEO of Spark Shipping. Spark Shipping acts a third party between vendor and manufacturer for ecommerce businesses. Born from a solution Charles created for his dropshipping business, Spark Shipping is now partnered with Spotify, Amazon, eBay, Woocommerce and more. In this episode, Charles explains how the idea of Spark Shipping was a direct result of a pain point he experienced during the early days of his dropshipping business. He shows us how to create our own solutions and then, how to make them public as a SaaS product. We also talk about how to improve your dropshipping business, how to finagle lower shipping rates, and the vendors you should prioritize. This is the Lean Commerce Podcast. TOPICS: What was the inspiration behind Spark Shipping? 0:25 I started as a freelance consultant, using my development background, but I decided totally out of the blue to buy an e-commerce website. I started with FBA, drop shipping, and worked with a lot of vendors and that’s what made me think of creating a tool to organize orders and vendors. We named it Spark Shipping, made it public and about three years ago we started to fully focus on it instead of our e-commerce website. 6:05 Spark Shipping sits between the retail side and the vendor and we automate inventory quantities, take order requests and get tracking data. Essentially we automate the day to day tasks of an e-commerce business. What is a hybrid drop shipping model? 8:56 Not a lot of people talk about the boring backend of e-commerce, especially when it comes to processing data. Hybrid drop shipping involves one product being fulfilled by multiple vendors (manufacturer, distributor, internal warehouse). This creates layers of inventory and you can use the cheapest vendor for that moment. What improvement can you make on dropshipping and returns? 14:10 A lot of dropshippers are listing products even though they don’t have live numbers from their vendors. I get that if you have hundreds of thousands of products you can’t do it on your own, but you need to find a tool that helps you keep track of those numbers. 18:30 Once you’re deep within a given niche, you can start giving value based off of that specific product and increase your volume. Do you have dropshippers on your platform doing significant volume? 22:37 We see people move from drop shipping to manufacturing and manufacturing to drop shipping. It’s not very black and white, it’s more of a holistic approach. If you’re manufacturing a product, it doesn’t make sense to manufacture all of the accessories for it. But it does make sense to stock all of them. 26:06 There’s a ton of large companies doing this and customers don’t realize it. If you order a product and have it delivered in one box and then have the accessory delivered in a different box, on a different day, this is a company that is executing this strategy. How can you get lower shipping rates on ecommerce products? 29:13 The normal shipping rates from UPS or FedEx aren’t typically paid once you are doing volume, you can easily negotiate a better rate. Once you’ve done that, go to your manufacturer and try to get them to negotiate with their carrier. Then, you’ll have a cheaper rate on both vendor and manufacturer side. What other areas should we work on with our clients? 36:52 Every vendor is using a different format and this makes people hesitant to bring on different vendors, even though they may be able to upsell better or bring in more data. Overcoming this hesitation can really move the needle for your business. 38:26 Vendors in the “quirky” part of the internet usually have the best products and rates. Don’t shy away from them, chances are you should lean into them. 39:08 Once you’re in a niche, it gets easier to find these particular vendors. Another bonus of these vendors is that you can create better relationships with them which can help you in the future. Contact Chris Palleschi at: Spark Shipping | Dropship Ecommerce Automation, Inventory Management and Third Party Order Fulfillment The Business of Ecommerce Podcast Chris on LinkedIN

What's up everyone! Today I finally have a Boston native on the show! :D Charles Palleschi is a developer turned entrepreneur who has built Spark shipping which is a solution to all of multi channel fulfillment needs! As with most people who have built tools for sellers, Charles built Spark Shipping from his own need for needing to connect manufacturers to wholesalers to ensure that the right stock levels are available in near real-time. We also talk about using a hybrid listing model to test what products work with low volume and then when a product sticks, go deeper on the next order safe in the knowledge that the product sells! If you want to find out more about what Spark Shipping could do for you, head on over to sparkshipping.com Also, here is the link to the hybrid dropshipping blog post we mentioned: https://sparkshipping.com/blog/17-how-to-grow-your-ecommerce-business-with-hybrid-dropshipping Thanks for tuning in, catch you in the next one!

The largest online retailers do not have a single method to fulfill all of their product. They use a combination of internal warehouses, 3PL's, and dropshipping direct from a manufacturer or distributor. This approach enables them to seemingly always have product in-stock, get the best prices, and have a variety of items in their catalog. We call this hybrid dropshipping, and its not just for the big guys anymore. New apps and services have made accessible to everyone. To discuss it, Charles Palleschi joins us from Spark Shipping in Boston. Spark Shipping automates the round trip of inventory, orders and tracking data between your store and any vendor, supplier, manufacturer, distributor or warehouse, no matter what format the vendor is using. You'll Learn Why invest in delegating fulfillment? What is hybrid dropshipping? What are the challenges of working with multiple vendors for fulfillment? What are the realities of custom dropshipping integration? In plain english, what's the deal with APIs? The common problems & challenges merchants face with fulfillment as they scale. Kurt's war stories from his time as an ecommerce product manager. The killer feature "multi-tiered" that only hybrid dropshippers can offer. Tune in for more details! Resources SparkShipping Shopify: Using fulfillment and dropshipping services Tw:@charlespal Share your thoughts Ask a question in The Unofficial Shopify Podcast Facebook Group Share this show on Twitter Never miss an episode Subscribe on iTunes Join Kurt's newsletter Help the show Leave an honest review on iTunes. Your ratings & reviews help, and I read each one. Subscribe on iTunes What's Kurt up to? See our recent work at Ethercycle Take a ride with Kurt on YouTube Grow Your Store in 2018 Apply to work with Kurt to grow your store. Prefer to DIY? Read a free sample chapter of Kurt's book Ecommerce Bootcamp, absolutely free. Tell me where to send your sample at ecommerce-bootcamp.com Learn Shopify Plus got that regular Shopify doesn't?” Sponsors Try Bold Product Upsell free for 90 days Save 20% on Turbo, a blazing fast Shopify theme Improve your shop's search engine ranking with Venntov SEO Meta Manager

My guest today, on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots free podcast interview is an man who has quite a journey to where he is today. Many moons ago, he purchased a website that sold various popcorn goods. During this venture, he found a need to automate parts of his business and that need inspired him to create Spark Shipping, a business that helps eCommerce retailers self-operate their connections with their vendors Currently he automates millions of orders for eCommerce and retail entrepreneurs every month, which is enough orders to fill every seat in Fenway Park hundreds of times. Or, as as our guest would say, Fenway “Pahhk.” Or as me and most people from the UK would say....nope, never heard of Fenway Park Anyway what Spark Shipping does is to automate the communications between e-Commerce sites and vendors (warehouses, distributors, manufacturers, etc). The communications that are automated are: getting inventory quantities from vendors, sending orders to vendors and getting tracking/shipment data back from vendors. Spark Shipping sits between the shopping cart and vendors to get the data back and forth between them. So its alright having these ideas of "Wouldn't it be good if we could do xyz" but how do you get this off the ground? And was it plain sailing or a rollercoaster that gradually hit its stride? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Charles Palleschi Show Highlights During the show we discussed such weighty topics with Charles Palleschi such as: Why he feels its so important to understand all aspects of a business when you are the leader, to ensure consistency and productivity throughout. How he manages to balance home life and work life, especially now he has young children who want to see their Dad before bedtime each day. What he does to manage the difficult times in his business, when decisions need to be made that will lead into unchartered territories. and lastly…. The first steps he took to became the entrepreneur he is today, and what he would advise anyone of our listeners wanting to do the same.

Spark Shipping founder, podcaster, and Interview Connections client Charles Palleschi talks with Jess and Cassi about the trials and tribulations of starting a podcast, what he’s learning about eCommerce from his guests, and what he’s getting out of being a guest expert. Also, the Interview Connections team loves snacks; specifically, ants on a log. Resources Mentioned: Spark Shipping The Business of eCommerce Womensplaining We Know What You Did on Fear Street Fan of the Band

The best inventions are born of necessity. When Charles Palleschi purchased a site that sold popcorn, popcorn kernels, and popcorn related accessories ecommerce business, he quickly realised that he needed to scale and parts of his business. That need inspired Charles to create Spark Shipping, the leading dropship software which automates millions upon millions of orders for eCommerce and retail entrepreneurs every month. 00:02 Salena: Hey there, and welcome to this week's episode of the bringing business to retail podcast. The best inventions are born of necessity. When Charles Palleschi purchased a store that sells popcorn, of all things, popcorn kernels and popcorn related accessories, the e-commerce business was a stepping stone for him to realize that if he wanted to grow he was going to have to scale and automate parts of his business. And that need inspired Charles to create spark shipping, the leading drop ship software which automates millions upon millions of orders for a-commerce and bricks and mortar retailers every single month. I am really excited to be talking about drop shipping because it is something that a lot of retailers may not know that they are even doing. So welcome to the show Charles. 00:53 Charles: Hey, thanks a lot for having me on. Salena: This is a New York accent am I right? Charles: Close, from Australia, it may sound like that. But Boston you are very close to that. Salena: Still getting use to my accents. Like Americans love Australian accent. We love all the individual accents.  Charles: You will hear it pretty quickly. It's very Boston. Salena: 01:19 Great, okay. So tell us what exactly is drop shipping because I have a feeling that some of the people who are listening today will know what it is, but others will actually be doing it already in some sort of informal arrangement in their store. And they don't even know that they are doing it. So what is drop shipping? For more click here