EP249 - Holiday shipping data from ShipBob  Casey Armstrong (@CaseyA) is CMO at ShipBob, a third party logistics provider that offers e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands. They are able to see the carrier shipping performance for all those clients and provide aggregate data that gives us insight into holiday shipping performance, also known as #shipageddon. Shipageddon Repository ShipBob Carrier Dashboard ShipBob 404 Page w/ Star Wars reference Episode 249 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Monday, December 7th, 2020. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 249 being recorded on Monday December 7th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:38] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners. Jason we are officially a week past Cyber Monday and reports of ship Augustine are pouring into the Jason and Scot show virtual mailbox our interns are working full time parsing through everything. So we appreciate everyone feeling this in ship again is also picking up a lot of momentum with the Main Street Press we’ve seen Wall Street Journal Bloomberg New York Times, women’s wear daily your favorite Jason payments and one of my personal favorites supply and demand chain executive magazine. I’m going to put that one on the mantle so so a lot going on there and the Press, sort of capture all these resources we’ve published a little document that kind of highlights all the different hits if you will that ship again is getting you can find that at Jason Scott.com, or Link in the show notes. So today’s show we are going to get a strategic update on ship again and we are excited to have the CMO the chief marketing officer of shipbob Casey Armstrong on the show Welcome Casey. Casey: [1:45] Hey guys thank you for having me. Jason: [1:48] Oh my gosh Casey we are really grateful it’s super early in the morning where you are well we’re recording this so we appreciate that and if I’m not mistaken I think I hear the sounds of data being calculated behind you. Casey: [2:02] It’s crunching in the background you know in the closets. Jason: [2:06] I love it that’s what we call a teaser because we’re not going to get to what that is just yet but as longtime listeners of the show we’ll know we always like to start by getting a little bit of background about our guests and have a kind of came to this awesome Commerce space so could you tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to shipbob. Casey: [2:24] Yeah so I’m the CMOS you said over at shipbob before shipbob I was actually the VP of marketing over at Bigcommerce who I’m sure your listeners are very familiar with and before that I helped run a company called watch master, where we were a luxury watch brand primarily sold over in Europe and I’d say I’d say there is what really cemented, my views of the pain of logistics and inventory management we were really good at we grew very quickly we got the tens of millions within our first year, so we did a lot of things well shipping Logistics. And inventory management were things that we didn’t necessarily do well and when your average order values you know five or six thousand Euros, you need to do that while in so again really shed a light on that the Pains of logistics and was one of the many Catalyst to get me over to shipbob. Scot: [3:21] Speaking of shipbob let’s dig into that so first of all explain to folks I think Jason I have a pretty good handle on what shipbob is but who’s this Bob guy and what is he ship. Casey: [3:32] The bad guys remember when I was checking out ship I’m like who put that’s a pretty funny name over there, um a