Squaretalk

SQUARETALK is back with a new episode featuring Alex Davidovich, Squareshot's Co-founder and CEO. We're spilling the details on 2023, why we kept it low on socials, company shifts, and our game plan for 2024. Dive into the chat about trends, including the buzz around UGC—do businesses really need it? And get the scoop on our internal stories shaping our growth.

In this episode, we are chatting with Orlando Rios, the founder of Raised by Coyotes, a southwestern outdoor apparel brand that has surpassed over 6,000 orders in just a year. Orlando is also a digital veteran of 10 years with his own marketing agency – Dropkick ads. Across our conversation, we discuss how to market your brand, sales benchmarks, reinvesting, finding your own product niche, and much more. New founders will benefit greatly from some of the insights that Orlando has to share.

The debut episode of Squaretalk Season 2 features not one but two industry experts. Stefanie Tacata, CEO & co-founder of Stateless NYC, and Evan Polivy, Director of Brand Development at Stateless NYC, share their experience building over 90 brands from ideation to product release.    Squaretalk is an e-commerce and content production podcast, where we explore business insights alongside industry professionals. Marketing, brand creation, clothing design, product photography – you name it, we probably talk about it. Hosted by Squareshot's Pylyp Sukhenko

On the 6th episode of Squaretalk, we chatted with Brian Guidry, Chief Growth Officer at Pixelz – a platform that empowers photo studio professionals with reliable retouching at scale. Brian has worn a lot of different hats, but now mostly focuses on the commercial side of the business – working with the sales team and business development as well as various partnerships. Across the episode, we explored agile processes in business scaling, instruments for maintaining consistency, automation, and many more insights that revolve around running a large-scale retouching company. This podcast will be especially insightful for enterpreneurs, e-commerce brands, studio owners, and freelance creatives. Squaretalk is an e-commerce and content production podcast created by Squareshot – a product photography service with a strong focus on process efficiency and client experience. The goal of Squaretalk is to explore instruments, ideas, and processes that set apart successful businesses and individuals in the booming industry of e-commerce. 

In this Squaretalk special, we sat down with Alex Davidovich, co-founder and CEO of Squareshot, to recap the passing year 2021 and discuss the company's ambitious journey in 2022.    From the launch of new studios to a complete sales cycle redesign, explore how 2021 has shaped Squareshot's near future. Website: https://www.squareshot.co/

On the 5th episode of Squaretalk, we chatted with Stephanie Cook, a lifecycle marketer with nearly five years of experience in helping eCommerce businesses grow both on and off the AdRoll* platform.  In the first part of the podcast, we explored broad topics, like the role of marketing in e-commerce, paid advertisement vs organic, and tips for brands that are just starting out. In the second part,  we dig into retargeting, break down some technical terms, loyalty programs, and discuss the nature of various channels, such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more.  If you are looking to elevate your e-commerce marketing, this episode will definitely be useful.  *AdRoll is an eCommerce marketing platform that gives growing direct-to-consumer brands the power to connect with people everywhere they go online.

On the 4th episode of Squaretalk, we sat down with Richard Baranyai, an experienced photographer in charge of Los Angeles studio for Squareshot.    In the early 2000s, Richard moved to Los Angeles from Hungary to pursue photography as a full-time job and since then has shot for clients, such as Apple, Ebay, PAX, Compass, and many more.    In this podcast, we explored the client-photographer relationship, talked about photography vs. 3D renders, and insights from Richard's most notable shoots.

On the third episode of Squaretalk, we chatted with Dylon York, ex-creative director of Corkcicle and now co-founder of Poolboy studio.      Dylon shared his experience leading product collaborations with Disney, Karim Rashid, Rifle Paper Co, the secrets behind getting things done, as well as how to find a visual identity for your brand.

On the second episode of Squaretalk, we sat down with Keith Krick to discuss the product photography landscape in the United States, the key difference between studios and freelancers, how to maintain consistency from shoot to shoot, and much more!    Keith Krick has been a photographer for more than 20 years, specializing in still life and product imagery. Keith also had extensive experience working on projects as a producer and now leads the New York studio for Squareshot.

This is a debut episode of the Squaretalk podcast, featuring the co-founder and CEO of Squareshot – Alex Davidovich.    Pylyp Sukhenko, Content & Brand Manager at Squareshot, and Alex sat down to explore the path that led to the creation of the product photography service Squareshot as well as the productization and the landscape of content production.