CHECKOUT Alex Tanya & Aaron Weller from Miss Amara | #088 - a podcast by Nathan Bush

from 2021-06-10T19:00:15

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In this episode of Add To Cart, we checkout Alex Tanya and Aaron Weller, couple founders of online rug retailer, Miss Amara.  A million miles away from the shouty men who traditionally seemed to be the only option in rug sales, Miss Amara use beautiful content, styling services and amazing customer service to modernise the business. Today they are on track to surpass $20m in revenue and are shipping to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and soon, the US. 


Links from the episode:

Miss Amara

Go To Skincare

Zappos

YP Threads

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Rug Love: The Miss Amara Story | #066  


Questions answered in the podcast:


  • What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever bought online? 
  • Who is your favourite retailer? 
  • Which retail fad do you wish was history?
  • Can you recommend a book or podcast that our listeners should immediately get into? 
  • Finish this sentence.  The future of retail is… 


About your co-hosts: 


Alexandra Tanya from Miss Amara


By admission Alex overstayed her welcome at university, completing two degrees - one in Architecture and then Property Economics before accidentally falling into a tech job. Since then technology has been her passion, working in app development for real estate. Since starting Miss Amara she feels that she has landed her dream job being able to work with technology to create a seamless customer experience, as well as design and production of physical product for the business. 


Aaron Weller from Miss Amara


Aaron has always been interested in business, starting his first business building websites in his bedroom at 16. Since then he has gone onto to start and sell Crucial, a cloud hosting business as well as be a key investor in one of the largest SEO companies in Australia. Miss Amara will be his forth business.  He enjoys the journey and learning new things every day.


You can contact Alex at LinkedIn  You can contact Aaron at LinkedIn


About your host: Nathan Bush from 12HIGH


Nathan Bush is the founder and lead strategist at eCommerce consultancy, 12HIGH. He has led eCommerce for businesses with revenue $100m+ and has been recognised as one of Australia’s Top 50 People in eCommerce four years in a row. You can contact Nathan on LinkedIn, Twitter or via email.


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  • Want to come on board as an Add To Cart sponsor 
  • Are interested in joining Add To Cart as a co-host 
  • Have any feedback or suggestions on how to make Add To Cart better


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