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A Year in Review: Content, Marketing, and What’s Coming in 2025 with Brent Peterson

This episode, Jay speaks with Brent Peterson, Founder of ContentBasis & Podcast Host of Talk Commerce to talk about 2024 and what’s coming in 2025.

Hosted by: Jay Topper
Dec 11, 2024
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Episode Description

In this episode, Jay speaks with Brent Peterson, Founder of ContentBasis & Podcast Host of Talk Commerce. They discuss the role of AI in E-commerce and the need for better analytics programs, the shifting trends in Headless commerce, and the future of personalized shopping experiences. They also talk about trends Brent has seen for selling channels in 2024 and what might be coming next. 

 

Brent:

“I think the biggest thing that we talked about in the green room is the idea that everybody is using AI but not using AI. So a lot of merchants are using AI as generative, but they're not looking at it in terms of  analytical and really diving in and using it for those numbers. I'm not saying everybody, but the majority of the people that I talked to last year were not employing the analyticals, and the predictive analytics that you would want to use in AI for your marketing, for your numbers, for your KPI, for all those fun data points that you could be getting out of your E-commerce world.”

 

Top(pers) Take

What’s Coming in 2025: 

1. AI around analytics and predictive analytics.

2. Hyperpersonalization

3. Selling at the point of intent.

 

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Transcript

About the Speaker

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Brent Peterson launched his first e-commerce venture in 1994, back when the internet dial-up tone was music to dial-up modems. Nearly three decades later, he co-founded ContentBasis, an AI-powered content engine designed for e-commerce merchants. The idea? Let AI handle the tedious task of writing product descriptions and blog posts, freeing up humans to focus on more pressing matters—like remembering where they left their coffee.

Brent's journey through the e-commerce landscape is marked by serial entrepreneurship, an unlikely ascension to Magento Master status (he's still not sure how that happened), and even a stint as a podcast host, proving that humans will listen to almost anything. He now shares his decades of insights with fellow entrepreneurs at EO Minnesota, emphasizing that success often looks like a series of well-managed mistakes.

ContentBasis, while not claiming to be "revolutionary" (a term Brent finds exhaustingly overused), provides practical solutions for content creation, tackling the digital clutter so businesses can focus on growth. Data drives decisions, but humans create meaning—and ContentBasis aims to give those humans a bit more breathing room. For Brent, it's about making e-commerce content less of a headache—because, honestly, who needs more of those?

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