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Honest Ecommerce

378 EpisodesProduced by Shopify Expert Chase ClymerWebsite

Shopify Expert Chase Clymer and his guests provide online store owners with honest, actionable advice to increase their sales and grow their business.

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176 | Why You Shouldn’t Corrupt Your Email List | with Kerrigan Behrens

Kerrigan Behrens is the co-founder and co-CEO of consumer wellness brand Sagely Naturals. 

Most recently, Kerrigan guided her team through an acquisition by HempFusion, expanded the brands ingestible offerings with gummies, and launched a non-CBD infused product collection in Target under the Sagely Naturals umbrella. 

She and the brand have been featured in publications such as Forbes, Fortune, Glossy, Coveteur, Vogue, and Green Entrepreneur. 

Kerrigan has been at the helm of the brand since it launched in 2015, and has successfully galvanized and accelerated marketplace acceptance of CBD as a natural and effective alternative for the products you would already find in your medicine cabinet. 

Kerrigan lives in Los Angeles, which also serves as Sagely Naturals’ headquarters, with her husband and daughter.

In This Conversation We Discuss: 

  • [00:00] Intro
  • [01:07] Where the idea of Sagely Naturals came from
  • [06:29] How Kerrigan processed their pivot
  • [08:45] Sponsor: Electric Eye electriceye.io
  • [09:05] Sponsor: Mesa apps.shopify.com/mesa
  • [09:49] Sponsor: Gorgias gorgias.grsm.io/honest
  • [11:15] Sponsor: Rewind rewind.com/honestecommerce
  • [11:46] Sponsor: Klaviyo klaviyo.com/honest
  • [12:33] How to sell a new product in a new vertical
  • [14:58] Doing non-scalable things at the start
  • [15:26] Real-time feedback is very valuable
  • [16:24] Difficulties of being in a “vice” category
  • [20:26] Businesses that “help” cannabis brands
  • [21:02] Rich digital media as sub for FB and Google
  • [22:24] Sagely Natural’s email operation
  • [24:27] Acquisition by HempFusion
  • [26:51] Allocating budget for experiments
  • [28:55] Where to find Sagely Naturals

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