How Charles Nicholls Is Rewriting the Rules of Online Retail

🎯Thrilled to welcome Charles Nicholls, CEO of SimplicityDX, to the Conzia Podcast!

Charles Nicholls is a seasoned founder and retail tech visionary who’s reshaping how brands approach eCommerce.

In this episode, we dive into what he’s building at SimplicityDX—and how it’s changing the game for online retailers.

If you care about the future of digital shopping and customer experience, don’t miss this conversation.

🎙️ Two Brothers. One Mission. A Game-Changing App for Shopify.

On the latest episode of the Conzia Podcast, I sat down with Bridger Hart and Carson Hart, co-founders of Hoppn, to explore how they’re transforming product discovery through AI-powered visual search.

Their app—Infinite Color Search—lets customers find exactly what they want by simply selecting a color.

No keywords. No filters. Just intuitive, human-centered shopping.

✅ Building Hoppn as siblings

✅ Pivoting from a marketplace to a focused SaaS product

✅ Patenting a new method for color-based search

✅ The grind of early-stage growth—from coding to Zoom onboarding

✅ Why simplicity scales (and focus is the ultimate superpower)

They’ve already partnered with brands like Body Glove—and they’re just getting started.

📺 Watch the full episode to see how they’re helping Shopify brands boost conversions by turning color into clicks.

🔗 Install the app now on your Shopify store — just $15/month:⁠https://apps.shopify.com/infinite-color-search-by-hoppn⁠

📢 P.S. The Hart brothers are currently raising at an $8.5M post-money SAFE.If you're looking to invest in a breakthrough Shopify app, now’s the time to connect with Bridger Hart & Carson Hart.

🎙️ Cut 80% of Your Marketing Work with Smart AI Systems – Christie Calahan | Conzia Podcast

In this episode of the Conzia Podcast, we sit down with Christie Calahan—an AI-powered marketing expert who’s helped scale companies, led marketing at The New York Times, and guided a successful company exit.

From mastering no-code AI at MIT to building intelligent workflows that cut marketing time by 80%, Christie shares real-world strategies that founders and marketers can apply today.

✅ From agency life to NYT leadership
✅ Learning machine learning & prompt engineering at MIT
✅ Smart automation for eCommerce & B2B
✅ Applying AI to unexpected niches (yes, even yacht bird deterrents 🐦)
✅ What CEOs get wrong before an exit
✅ How to prep your business for growth & sale

🚀 Christie’s mantra:
"Don’t run the AI engine until you’ve done the upfront work. Once it’s running, marketing should just work."

If you're a founder, marketer, or Shopify brand looking to scale smarter with AI—this is a must-watch.