DTC POD - Tui Allen - Ampla

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Ampla, financial products, CPG space, trust, partnership, simplicity, speed/innovation, customer empathy, understanding, stress, funding, cash flow, omnichannel solutions, marketing channels, clear vision, intentional, small, learn, iterate, scale, margins, suppliers, mission, purpose, vision, product team, KPIs, roadmaps, insights, analytics, return on investment, trends, DTC Pod, Trend, Final Loop, Tui Allen, VP of Product and Design, checkout experience, money management banking platform, bill payment, pay later, growth line of credit, reconciliation accounts, data company, modernizing, supply chain, digital experience, burden, logistics, AP, AR workflow, B2C, B2B, Shopify, entrepreneurs, merchants, industry, hyper-focused, comprehensive capital offers, complexities.

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Blaine Bolus 00:00:05 00:01:38

"Real Time Financial Visibility to Save Money and Make Better Decisions": "As a D to C brand, you need real time financial visibility to save money and make better decisions. Waiting for books from slow and expensive bookkeepers that don't get Ecommerce is slowing you down."

Blaine Bolus 00:02:37 00:03:46

"Entrepreneurial Problem-Solving with Ampla's Julia Palatovska: Being founders and operators ourselves, it's kind of like we wake up in the morning and we're like, where's the friction that we can get rid of today?"

Blaine Bolus 00:06:18 00:07:06

"Omnichannel Challenges: What are some of the problems that the majority of the brands that you work with are all struggling with when it comes to Omnichannel that you guys are really excited to build around and be able to productize?"

Blaine Bolus 00:12:41 00:13:52

"Productizing Problems and Offerings: Every brand is trying to go omnichannel, but then that looks a little bit different at every single brand and actually their implementation of it."

Blaine Bolus 00:17:06 00:18:31

The Importance of an Omnichannel Strategy for Starting Brands: "Omnichannel is the place everyone wants to be, right? But again, it's not the easiest thing to do because you said capital is a constraint. What advice do you have for brand operators?"

Blaine Bolus 00:20:24 00:21:12

Starting a Brand: "A lot of people who do start brands don't start it because they want to be experts... maybe aren't so much experts in supply chain inventory managing and all the other things in managing their cash conversion cycle."

Blaine Bolus 00:24:06 00:25:22

Revolutionizing Business Operations: "Now you're able to kind of unlock that for the masses."

Blaine Bolus 00:28:14 00:28:54

"Product Frameworks for Success: I'd love to learn a little bit more about your framework for building products, how you think about it."

Blaine Bolus 00:37:13 00:38:20

The Importance of Having a Solid Product Strategy: "Having a solid product strategy in place, whatever you're building, it's a super crucial pillar to think about."

Blaine Bolus 00:40:41 00:41:40

Adapting to Market Shifts: "you also want to be aware of what's going on and being able to respond quickly to whether it's the market, whether it's a shift in the market, a new technology, and being prepared as an organization to be able to adapt."

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03:46 "Ampla: Revolutionizing CPG Funding and Operations"

10:49 "Better Investment Decisions and Funding for CPGs"

13:52 "Shopify vs Ampla: Deep Insights into CPG Challenges"

18:31 "Building an Omnichannel Strategy: Tips for Success"

21:12 "Ampla aims to simplify CPG commerce processes"

25:22 "Ampla: Simplifying B2B Checkout for CPG Brands"

28:54 "Ampla's Product Principles: Trust, Partnership, Simplicity & Speed"

33:54 "Aligning Mission, Vision and Strategy for Success"

38:59 "Balancing Innovation and Strategy in Tech Product Development"

41:40 "Ampla focuses on using data to revolutionize CPG industry"

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Topics Covered in the Podcast Episode:
1. Introduction to Ampla's product principles and approach - Ampla builds financial products for CPG brands - Principles prioritize trust, partnership, simplicity, and speed/innovation - Customer empathy and understanding of problem spaces is core to Ampla's approach
2. Omnichannel solutions for CPG businesses - Ampla aims to change the paradigm and help brands thrive - Focused on omnichannel solutions to solve problems across all channels - Strategy for choosing channels for marketing a product varies depending on the product
3. Building physical products and planning for long-term success - Starting small, learning, iterating, and assessing value is crucial - Planning for long-term margins and suppliers is important early on for success in CPG and brands - Aligning around the mission, purpose, and vision of a company is critical
4. Product vision and strategy - Product team should work through their product vision and strategy - Tools like a Vision Board and long-form product strategy can be used - Measuring success through KPIs and tracking progress is important - Roadmaps should be an evergreen document
5. Insights and analytics for better decision-making - Ampla provides insights and analytics to help brands make better decisions about return on investment and trends - CPG companies face challenges in the form of cash and capital-intensive nature
6. Ampla's mission and suite of tools - Ampla's mission is to modernize the CBG supply chain and bring a more digital, modern experience to the B2B side of doing business - Working on creating a suite of tools for vendors, manufacturers, and copackers - A data company that uses insights and data to help the entire CPG ecosystem make smarter decisions - Offering significant interest to deposits held in their company
7. Simplifying logistics and streamlining workflows - Overhead of running a business can be a burden for brand owners - Ampla aims to eliminate that burden by simplifying logistics of managing a CPG business, specifically by streamlining AP and AR workflow - Goal is to bring a simplified, consumer-like checkout experience to the B2B space
8. Comparing Shopify with Ampla - Shopify is great for entrepreneurs and merchants - Ampla's hyper-focused approach to CPG gives them a deeper understanding of industry-specific challenges - Ampla aims to change the paradigm by launching money management banking foundation and scaled capital
9. Conclusion - Ampla goes deep into CPG to understand complexities.

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Hey guys! I just listened to an amazing episode of DTC Pod featuring Tui Allen, the VP of Product and Design at Ampla. Ampla is a company that builds purpose-built financial products for brands and the CPG space. Their principles prioritize trust, partnership, simplicity, and speed/innovation, and customer empathy is at the core of their approach. They're focused on omnichannel solutions, and their goal is to simplify the logistics of managing a CPG business by streamlining the AP and AR workflow. Their suite of products includes a growth line of credit, a money management banking platform, and reconciliation accounts to facilitate accounting integration. Ampla is working to revolutionize the CBG supply chain and bring a more digital, modern experience to the B to B side of doing business. If you're a brand and are looking for a simplified, consumer-like checkout experience, or if you're interested in the exciting developments in the CPG ecosystem, definitely check out this episode! #Ampla #CPG #branding #finance #supplychain #DTCPod #influencer

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