"We'd done it. We'd won."
"And then it felt like I'd been kicked in the face and sent back to the bottom with broken arms and broken legs."
Grant Arnott on the part of success nobody warns you about.
By every measure he'd made it. What he felt was shame.
Honest in a way business rarely is.

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"They don't see customers as people to transact with. They see them as people to be friends with."
Doug Low on how Incu's team actually sells.
They remember your face. Your kids. Where you're taking your new gear.
No CRM prompt. Just curiosity, and it's a brand value.
Leadership models it on the floor. See someone unserved? Jump in.

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Ecommerce has a way of making you feel like you're supposed to have all the answers. You sign off the spend, you make the call on stock, you lead the strategy, so you carry this quiet pressure that you should already know how to do every part of it.

But our industry is still really young, and it's moving faster than any of us can keep up with. Nobody has all the answers, and you were never meant to. The best operators I've come across aren't the ones who had it figured out. They're the ones who'll happily tell you they stumbled into something and worked it out by asking for help.

In this Playbook, we break down why you should ask for help while you're still learning rather than only when something breaks, how to build your network in the calm before you actually need it, and why asking for help is a leadership move rather than a weakness. It's anchored by one of the most honest conversations we've ever had on the show, with Grant Arnott, who built Power Retail and Click Frenzy and came on to tell the whole story after both went into receivership.

Featuring lessons from Grant Arnott at Click Frenzy and Power Retail, Sarah Timmerman at Beginning Boutique, Rosie Collins at Deja Marc, and Nati Harpaz at TradeSquare.
A heads up that this episode touches on depression and some dark moments. If that's close to home, Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and Beyond Blue is on 1300 22 4636.
Brands and tools mentioned: Click Frenzy, Power Retail, Beginning Boutique, Deja Marc, TradeSquare, Catch, Google Ads, Meta

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"Loyalty comes from the last part of the journey."
David Bauer from Amart Furniture on the stat that stopped him.
A bad delivery undoes everything. The mailbox run over. Muddy boots on the new carpet.
Contractor, third party, whoever. The customer just sees your brand.
The final metres decide if they come back.

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