You're listening to the My Wife Quitter Job podcast, the place where I bring on successful bootstrap business owners and dig deep into what strategies they use to grow their businesses.

Now today it's just me on the podcast and I'm going to talk about how our online store Bumblebee Linens performed in the first half of 2018 and why 2018 has been one of the toughest years for us so far.

I'll go over what's been working well for us and how we've managed to maintain growth despite

the adversity. It's going to be a short but sweet episode. But before we begin, I want to give

a shout out to Privy who is a sponsor of the show. Privy is the tool that I used to build my email list. a growth platform and they manage all of my email capture forms and in fact I use

privy hand in hand with my email marketing provider. Now there are a bunch of

companies out there that I'll manage your email capture forms but I like

privy because they specialize in e-commerce. Right now I'm using Privy to display a cool

wheel of fortune pop-up. Basically a user gives their email for a chance to win valuable prizes in our store,

and customers love the gamification aspect of this, and when I implemented this form, email signups increased by 131%.

So bottom line, Privy allows me to turn visitors into email subscribers, which I then

feed to my email provider to close the sale. So head on over to

privy.com slash Steve and try it for free. And if you decide you need some of the more advanced features,

use coupon code M. WQ HJ for 15% off.

Once again that's PRI vY.com slash Steve.

I also want to give a shout out to Clavio who's also a sponsor of the show.

Always blessed to have Clavio as a sponsor because they are my main email marketing

platform that I personally use for my e-commerce store and I depend on them for over 30% of my revenues.

Clavio is the only email platform out there that is specifically built for e-commerce stores, and here is why it's so powerful.

Clavia can track every single customer who has shopped in your store in exactly what they bought.

So let's say I wanted to send out an email to everyone who purchased

a red handkerchief in the last week. Easy. Let's say I want to set up a special autore

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