You're listening to the Kupicle to CEO podcast episode number one.

For our very first guest, all the way from Canada, we have my amazing friend Gabby Dickert here with us today.

Gabby is the Shopify expert and the founder of GD Commerce, a web development and online marketing agency that focuses on pushing the Shopify platform to do things that

doesn't natively do. As an ex-merchant success manager at Shopify, working with enterprise

level multi-million dollar e-commerce companies, Gabby was able to see what the top performers were

doing to differentiate their brands online. We're going to be revealing some of those insights

in our interview today, along with diving into how to best leverage Shopify's platform and build an automated welcome flow for your business.

Welcome to the Cubicle to CEO podcast. I'm your host, Ellen Yin. Each week on this podcast, learn from the best and brightest in business who have paved their way to the top of the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, as well as those new to the CEO game, like myself, who are working in the trenches to build our empires. Listen in as these leaders impart their wisdom, inspiration,

and encouragement to empower you to become the CEO of your dream business and life.

So today, we're going to be diving into some of the different ways that you guys use Shopify to really scale your own businesses online.

And Gabby actually has a special, I believe, deal for you guys at the end,

too. If you listen all the way to the end, she'll be able to offer you an unlimited development

period for Shopify so that you don't have to start paying for the platform until your site

is set up and ready to go. So we'll dive into that a little bit later, which I'm really excited about. But just to give

you a little background on why I brought Gabby on to the show to talk specifically about how

to use this platform to boost your e-commerce business, Gabby's background is that she was the

merchant success manager at Shopify, meaning that she worked with their clients who were making multi-milliones a year on the platform.

So she really knows this platform inside and out is a true expert at everything that you can do with this platform.

So I'm really excited for her to be able to share with you guys how to best utilize this platform for your own goals. Absolutely. Yay. So first, I would

love to learn more about automation, because that's one of the huge things that you really

focus on with your own clients.

So can you dive into a little more about what automation even means and how you see that

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