Add To Cart: Australia’s eCommerce Show

There’s a lot of noise right now around AI in ecommerce. Agentic commerce. AI checkouts. Bots buying on behalf of customers. It all sounds big. It all sounds important. And it all sounds like something you’ll deal with… later.
But here’s the problem with that thinking: The biggest shift in Agentic Shopping isn’t happening at checkout. It’s happening the moment your customer opens ChatGPT and asks, “What should I buy?”
And that moment is already here.
In today's Playbook: 
Why AI is becoming a new discovery channel 
How product data determines whether you get recommended 
Why AI is already influencing your revenue (without attribution) 
What leading operators are doing differently
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Explore Shopify
Shopify’s main episode
HealthPost’s main episode
Nutrition Warehouse’s main episode
StudioHawk’s main episode
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Justin Babet, co-founder of Chief Nutrition, didn’t set out to build a $1M/month ecommerce brand. What started as a side hustle selling beef bars in a gym has evolved into one of Australia’s fastest-growing health food brands, now stocked in Woolworths, Coles, and scaling globally.
With a background in tech startups (including selling JobAdvisor), Justin brought a “build, measure, learn” mindset into a category known for over-processing and shortcuts. The result? A brand built on trust, premium positioning, and a relentless focus on clean ingredients.
Today, we’re discussing:
How Chief Nutrition scaled from a side hustle to $1M/month ecommerce
Why creative volume beats “perfect ads”
Performance vs brand: when to focus on each
Building a premium product in a price-sensitive market
The power of subscriptions and loyalty programs
How UGC and influencer collabs drive new customer growth
Why “real food” is winning in modern ecommerce
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Explore Chief 
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Most ecommerce teams are incredibly good at the rational stuff. Product pages. Checkout flows. Abandoned cart sequences. Free shipping thresholds. Everything is designed to squeeze a little more conversion out of customers who are already close to buying.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: that’s not where the decision is made. Buying decisions are emotional first, and rational second. The features, specs and pricing comparisons don’t create the decision. They justify it after the fact.
In today's Playbook:
Why most ecommerce brands over-invest in features instead of emotion
The difference between cognitive vs emotional brands, and why it matters
How to identify your brand’s emotional default
Why you can’t create emotion, only amplify what already exists
How emotional storytelling at the top of funnel drives higher conversion without discounts
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Explore IGU Global
IGU’s main episode
Scratch Pet Food’s main episode
i=change’s main episode
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Stephanie Rogers, Retail Director at TransPerfect, has built her career helping global brands navigate one of ecommerce’s hardest challenges: expanding internationally without wasting time, money, or momentum.
In today’s episode, we’re breaking down the difference between translation and true localisation, why “land and expand” beats going all-in too early, and how Australian brands can punch above their weight globally.
Today, we're discussing:
Why localisation beats translation every time
The smartest way to choose your next international market
Why Japan, Korea, Germany, and France are underrated opportunities
The biggest mistakes brands make expanding into the US
How to test markets without burning cash
The role of AI vs human expertise in localisation
Why internal training is the most overlooked growth lever
How brands can scale globally without building full local teams
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Explore TransPerfect
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Matt Byrne, founder of Day One Advisory, works with ecommerce brands every day as their outsourced finance function, helping Shopify businesses understand their numbers, improve profitability, and make better decisions.

In today’s episode, Matt breaks down what actually matters behind the numbers. Not vanity metrics. Not revenue screenshots. But the core financial levers that determine whether a brand survives, scales, or quietly runs out of cash.
Today, we're discussing:
Why revenue is a vanity metric (and what to track instead)
The three numbers every ecommerce founder must know: gross profit, contribution margin, and breakeven
What “good” margins actually look like in ecommerce 
How to know if your paid ads are really working, or just burning cash
The biggest financial blind spot founders have when making decisions
The right way to approach tax, cashflow, and avoiding the BAS shock
Why you should be paying yourself from day one (and how it changes everything)
The truth about growth vs lifestyle, and what most founders are actually chasing
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Explore Day One
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Want to level up your ecommerce game? Come hang out in the Add To Cart Community. We’re talking deep dives, smart events, and real-world inspo for operators who are in it for the long haul.
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