E-commerce

Cold calling for e-commerce

E-commerce founders live in dashboards, so a call that names a real leak — cart abandonment, slow fulfillment, rising CAC — earns instant attention.

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Why cold calling works here

Selling into e-commerce (fulfillment, apps, ads, retention, logistics) works on the phone because the pain is measurable and the founder feels it daily. Metrics are public-ish: you can infer store platform, ad activity, and conversion issues before calling. The buyer is a founder or head of growth obsessed with CAC, AOV, and margin. Specificity wins — a generic 'we help stores grow' dies; 'your checkout has no upsell and you're on flat shipping' books a call.

Pains you can lever

Rising customer acquisition cost squeezing already-thin margins
High cart and checkout abandonment leaking revenue
Slow or costly fulfillment hurting reviews and repeat rate
Weak retention — all spend goes to first orders, none to repeat
A tech stack of disconnected apps slowing the store

How to open the call

Name the measurable leak: 'I looked at your store — you're driving paid traffic but there's no post-purchase upsell and shipping's flat-rate, so your AOV and margin are both leaving money behind. Is that on your list?'

Objections you'll hear (and how to handle them)

We handle that in-house.

Most founders do until the numbers plateau. What's your repeat-purchase rate doing right now? If it's flat, that's usually the fastest margin win and where an outside hand pays for itself.

We're happy with our current setup.

Good — if the metrics are strong, keep it. I only called because I spotted one specific gap. Give me your CAC-to-LTV ratio and I'll tell you honestly if it's worth 15 minutes.

Send me a case study.

Will do — from a store like yours, not a random one. Are you fashion, supplements, homeware? I'll send the result that maps to your category and margins.

What Tepio's AI brief surfaces here

Tepio's AI brief reads the store to infer platform, product category, ad activity, and conversion gaps — like missing upsells or slow load — so you open on a measurable leak instead of a generic growth pitch.

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