Hey eCommerce Folks out there! Developing a business in the online eCommerce world from a scratch is a journey that many people before you have decided to take. If you’re an eCommerce merchant, enthusiast, upcoming startup owner and want to learn about the eCommerce world, then you should follow these 100 experts because these folks have something more valuable to teach you.
1. Andrew Youderian
Andrew is the founder of eCommerce Fuel, a private community for six- and seven-digit store owners. He also shares eCommerce tips in his podcast.
Twitter: @youderian
2. Austin Brawner
Austin is the founder of E-commerce Influence and has compiled excellent marketing tools and growth strategies for E-commerce companies.
Twitter: @a_brawn
3. Ezra Firestone
Ezra Firestone runs Smart Marketer, a blog that covers all aspects of online marketing and focuses on e-commerce. He also heads Blue Ribbon Mastermind, a group exclusively for e-commerce entrepreneurs.
Twitter: @ezrafirestone
4. Bruno Levesque
He is the co-founder and CEO of PrestaShop, one of the leading e-commerce solutions in the world, which feeds more than 250,000 online stores around the world.
Twitter: @bruno42
5. Richard Lazazzera
Richard Lazazzera gives excellent advice on entrepreneurship and online sales at A Better Lemonade Stand and was also part of the Shopify Blog Team.
Twitter: @RichardABLS
6. Tobi Lütke
Tobi Lütke a CEO and Co-founder of ShopifyHe was also part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and created many popular open source libraries, such as a Typo, Liquid and Active Merchant blog engine.
Twitter: @tobi
7. Brian Dean
Brian Dean is the mastermind behind Backlinko, a reference resource for all things SEO. Brian’s blog contains articles that teach effective optimization techniques that can help any business gain more visitors.
Twitter: @Backlinko
8. Chad Vanags
Chad is the Chief Digital Marketing Analyst in E-Commerce Influence and is a Master Level Certified. He helps online retailers get actionable information from their web analytics and turn them into profitable customers.
Twitter: @ChadVanags
9. Jay Baer
Jay Baer is an entrepreneur, speaker and marketing writer. He has a particular ability to apply “traditional” marketing techniques, such as social media and content marketing, to the field of e-commerce.
Twitter: @jaybaer
10.Linda Bustos
Linda Bustos is an ecommerce blogger specializing in optimization and conversion strategies. Along with her writing, she also leads the digital experience of Skava Commerce, an innovative e-commerce platform.
Twitter: @lindabustos
11. Larry Kim
Larry Kim is a big name in the online marketing industry, with a particular focus on paid advertising channels. He writes for various publications and ranks eighth among the most popular authors of Medium, which is not an easy task.
Twitter: @larrykim
12. Neil Patel
Neil Patel probably don’t need introduction. He manages many of the most prominent digital marketing blogs on the web and has extensive experience in practical Ecommerce Tips.
Twitter: @neilpatel
13. Tim Peter
Tim is one of the pioneers of the e-commerce industry. He started in 1995. His consulting firm in Internet marketing and e-commerce, Tim Peter & Associates, has helped many companies find the right strategy for them.
Twitter: @tcpeter
14. Tracey Wallace
Tracey is known to have changed things for the BigCommerce blog since joining the company in October 2014. She is currently the editor and produces important e-commerce content.
Twitter: @TraceWall
15. Amy Porterfield
Amy Porterfield is co-author of Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies and Social Networking Strategist, helping online businesses in their marketing efforts. Their podcasts have helped many online businesses create the right brand.
Twitter: @AmyPorterfield
16. Rand Fishkin
Rand Fishkin is the founder, author and blogger of moz.com. If you are looking for SEO optimization tips for your e-commerce store, now you know where to go! And then we have the most popular, Pizarras Blancas on Fridays.
Twitter: @randfish
17. Marsha Collier
Marsha Collier is the author of more than 40 books, mainly devoted to e-commerce and digital marketing. She also appeared in the Forbes Top 10 Furturest. Ms. Collier blogs and presents podcasts to help businesses grow and prosper.
Twitter: @MarshaCollier
18. Jason Del Rey
Jason Del Rey is an experienced e-commerce journalist. He is a senior copywriter at Recode, where he covers Amazon, e-commerce and payments. He has been a business journalist since his arrival at Magazine Inc. in 2007.
Twitter: @DelRey
18. Peep Laja
Peep the founder of ConversionXL, His knowledge related to conversion optimization is outstanding, and his article related to increasing conversion rates of e-commerce stores is one of the most shared e-commerce contents.
Twitter: @peeplaja
19. Ben Marks
Ben Marks is an “Evangelist Of Magento” and his blog, as well as his social networks, is full of useful information, updates and tips for users of the Magento platform.
Twitter: @benmarks
20. Steve Hutt
Steve Hutt is a writer, professor and entrepreneur in e-commerce. Founder of eCommerceFastlane, he is responsible for one of the best Shopify-centric resources on the Web for entrepreneurs at all levels.
Twitter: @stevenhut
21. Hendrik Laubscher
Hendrik Laubscher has huge name in the e-commerce industry, He leads Buy Box Experts for Amazon retailers and is also the founder of Blue Cape Ventures, a research company dedicated to online retailers.
Twitter: @henlaub
22. Graham Charlton
Graham Charlton is the editor-in-chief of SaleCycle, an e-commerce-driven behavior tracking company that provides retailers with tools to improve all aspects of their sales through behavioral analysis.
Twitter: @gcharlton
23. Dan Barker
Dan is an eCommerce consultant who has helped many companies grow in the UK, the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Having started his career as a software developer, he is now one of the leading e-commerce consultants in the industry.
Twitter: @danbarker
24. Andy Geldman
Andy is the founder of Web Retailer, a site that helps companies sell in markets like Ebay, Amazon and others. He shares extensive research and statistics, essential guides and interviews with the world’s best sellers on his blog.
Twitter: @andygeldman
25. Drew Sanocki
Drew was the owner of Design Public before selling it. He is now a growth advisor for e-commerce executives. He blogs for nerds marketing.com
Twitter: @drewsanocki
26. Armando Roggio
Armando is the main author of EcommerceBoy.Net and one of the most important contributors to Practical Ecommerce, one of the leading ecommerce blogs. He is also the marketing and e-commerce leader at D & B Supply.
Twitter: @armandoroggio
27. Ryan BeMiller
He is the founder of Shopping Signals, His blog is about almost everything related to e-commerce. His own publications are available on his social accounts, but you can fully equip the industry after spending some time on your articles.
Twitter: @shopsignals
28. Alan Strom
Alan is the owner of Pulse Storm LLC, creator of Commerce Bug and is also the author of “No Frills Magento Layout”. If you operate an e-commerce store in Magento, it is the perfect agent to follow all tips, news and tips.
Twitter: @alanstorm
29. Dave Chaffey
Dr. Dave is the co-founder and co-CEO of SmartInsights.com, publisher of online marketing tips. He has written very successful books on digital marketing, e-commerce and digital business.
30. Jason Goldberg
Jason is the Head of Trade and Content Practice at Razorfish, He has over twenty years of experience in the development and implementation of retail purchases. He is also the host of Jason & Scot Ecommerce Podcast.
Twitter: @retailgeek
31. Pat Flynn
Pat Flynn is one of those geniuses who make a living by generating passive income through his blog. The blog is full of useful articles on SEO, social networking and motivation. Although he regularly covers e-commerce directly, his advice on various digital marketing topics applies to all users.
Twitter: @PatFlynn
32. Nicole Reyhle
Nicole Leinbach Reyhle Founder of RetailMinded has spoken to crowds of 20 to thousands of people on retail issues ranging from marketing, operations and marketing to retail operations.
Twitter: @RetailMinded
33. Zia Daniell Wigder
Zia Daniell a Co-founder of Groceryshop and Head of Content at ShopTalk. She is a leading expert in the globalization of e-commerce and digital businesses. She is uniquely positioned to provide information on the evolution of e-commerce in the industry.
Twitter: @zdwigder
34. Nathan Huppatz
Nathan Huppatz a co-founder of Readytoship. a B2B tool that automates the manual parts of the shipping process for e-commerce stores. Owner of an e-commerce store, Nathan is an expert in retail and e-commerce.
Twitter: @huppy
35. Charlie McBroom
Charlie Mcbroom is a Co-founder of ‘Fitted Commerce’, he speaks very well about his career in the business world and his success in the world of e-commerce in general.
Twitter: @McEcommerce
36. Chris Goward
Chris Goward author of “You Should Test”. The book includes a series of case studies that show how e-commerce companies are achieving exceptional results.
Twitter: @chrisgoward
37. Rich Page
Rich Page advices to e-commerce businesses about conversion rate optimization (CRO). He is the author of Website Optimization: an hour a day and also posts regularly on his blog Rich Page: Website Optimizer. His approach is accessible, simple and original.
Twitter: @richpage
38. Web Smith
Web Smith is e-commerce director at GearPatrol and also founder of 2PMLinks, a daily newsletter with selected links and quick commentary on brands, data and e-commerce. He has a strong field of knowledge related to the e-commerce industry.
Twitter: @web
39. Dejan Jacimovic
Dejan jacimovic is a Co-founder of Stunt Coders, presenter of the eCommerce Show: each episode presents an interview with the owner of a store or the leader of the opinion on ecommerce.
Twitter: @dejanjacimovic
40. Alex Harris
Alex Harris is one of the most popular conversion experts and speakers. He helped several ecommerce stores to build and optimize hundreds of ecommerce stores. He’s also published an Amazon bestselling book and topped numerous lists as a top conversion rate optimization (CRO) specialist.
Twitter: @alexdesigns
41. Tucker Schreiber
Tucker is a growing marketer at Shopify and a serial entrepreneur. Since experience is the key to the e-commerce industry, you have the opportunity to learn from one one guy that are in front of your heart.
Twitter: @tuckerschreiber
42. Charles Brun
Charles is a founder of MTL- Ecommerce and the director of Dynamic Yield. For ecommerce retailers looking to improve the effectiveness of their productThere are few influencers who can match charles level of passion and expertise.
Twitter: @_charlesbrun
43. Bryan Eisenberg
Bryan Eisenberg co-founded Buyer Legends, he’s brother of Jeffrey Eisenberg and they have also written several books, many of which go directly to online retailers. He has worked with many e-commerce stores and his book Be Like Amazon is mandatory for all users of the online space.
Twitter: @TheGrok
44. Branden Moskwa
Branden calls himself an intelligence agent in e-commerce. He was a finalist at the Business Excellence Awards at TD and the Chamber of Commerce in 2015. He regularly blogs and presents a podcast to share tips and tricks on how to manage the e-commerce industry.
Twitter: @bmoskwa
45. Pawel Ogonowski
Pawel Ohonowski is co-founder of Growcode the 1st all-in-one solution for IT-free ecommerce optimization. I’m known as the “Ecommerce Optimization Guy” and I like to challenge optimization norms whenever I can.
Twitter: @p_ogonowski
46. Alaa Hassan
Alaa Hassan is an e-commerce entrepreneur and a Teacher. He leads the E-commerce training academy, which helps the new and established entrepreneurs. He is also a founder of Linen Chest which is an online Homeware store.
Twitter: @mralaahassan
47. Matt Thorpe
Matt Thorpe is an E-commerce expert and a well known name in the world of E-commerce. Matt is He Helps multiple businesses to grow their online sales and how to get big.
Twitter: @Thorpeedo
48. Thomas Smale
Thomas is a founder of FEinternational.com helps the businesses by sharing his most effective columns. He is a columnist at entrepreneur.com share article about e-commerce.
Twitter: @ThomasSmale
49. Pamela Hazelton
Pamela Hazelton is an eCommerce and online business consultant. She helps the business and entrepreneurs to succeed in the online world. Pamela is also a contributing editor in PracticalEcomm.
Twitter: @pamelahazelton
50. Ina Steiner
Ina Steinar is Editor and Co-founder of EcommerceBytes. She is independent daily news source for online businesses and retailers.
Twitter: @EcommerceBytes
51. Steve Chou
Steve started an online store bumblebeelinens.com that made 100k in the first year of his business and now helping multiple business and teaches them how to replicate his success.
Twitter: @mywifequit
52. Hazel Bolton
Hazel Bolton expert in content marketing, user experience and optimization. She guides the content strategy in User Conversion, an excellent resource of ideas for all users of the online world, especially for online retailers.
Twitter: @hazelana_b
53. Catherine barba
Catherine Barba is well known name in the digital business world. She has founded and co-founded several digital business in france. Catherine is wrote several books about eCommerce and the future of retail.
Twitter: @cathbarba
54. François Momboisse
François President of Fevad (French e-commerce & Distance Selling Association) since 2002. international digital operations for the FNAC. François is one of the best head of Ecommerce in Europe.
Twitter: @fmomboisse
55. Andre F Bourque
Andre is an Ecommerce Consultant covering high-growth industries. He writes about multiple Ecommerce topics like Brad Messaging, inbound marketing social media marketing, Content marketing, seo, Community marketing.
Twitter: @SocialMktgFella
56. Debra Templar
Debra a founder of Templar Group Pty Ltd and also a retail business coach and professional consultant, author and speaker. She aims to help small businesses to increase their growth.
Twitter: @DebraTemplar
57. Stéphane ALLIGNE
Stephane is blogger, speaker and a well known name and also considered as expert in Ecommerce and retails. He is a managing Director at DOTNET. Stephane is also a Co-author of Internet marketing published in 2016.
Twitter: @Stefalligne
58. Brendan Witcher
Branden is Vice President of Forrester and also Senior Analyst of Digital Business Strategy, E-Commerce. He helps digital business professionals, professionals and experts in consumer behavior and technology trends in the space of business engagement.
Twitter: @BrendanWitcher
59. Ricardo Tayar
Ricardo is an expert in Ecommerce and also a founder and CEO of Flat 101 which help businesses in Ecommerce, Online Transaction and the Development of Digital products.
Twitter: @rtayar
60. Nic Brisbourne
Nic a venture capitalist aim to UK based Ecommerce companies to invest in. He also writes about his experiences on Europe’s most popular venture capital blog – The Equity Kicker.
Twitter: @brisbourne
61. John McIntyre
Johan is famous and well known name in the digital business world. He proved his expertise in E-commerce and email marketing and life cycle marketing.
Twitter: @JohnMcIntyre_
62. Liviu Taloi
Liviu is a well known guy in E-commerce industry and also expert in conversion rate optimization, Online marketing and web analytics. He helped multiple business with his expertise and help them to grow.
Twitter: @ltaloi
63. Nacho Somalo
Nacho a verteran of E-commerce, he is an Entrepreneur and professor of Business Schools In Innovation, Entrepreneurship and e-commerce. His mostly publications are in spanish.
Twitter: @nachosomalo
64. Pablo Renaud
Pablo spent around 18 years in developing Ecommerce and marketplace projects. His mostly publications are in spanish & he love coffee 🙂
Twitter: @pablo_renaud
65. Raul Dorado
Raul helping multiple projects on internet and Managing partner of Segunda Planta which is an agency related to E-commerce, Initiator organizar Sevilla, and partner of AZAranda Ecommerce Portal, Most of his publications are also in spanish.
Twitter: @RaulDorado
66. Gianluca Diegoli
Gianluca an Ecommerce Author, Independent marketing strategy advisor and Co-founder of DgitalUpdated.it. Mostly his blogs are around Ecommerce at minimarketing.
Twitter: @gluca
67. Simon Lilly
Simon previously Headed up ecommerce & digital Fatface, Lush & Liz Earle. He is now Head of Digital at Neal’s Yard Remedies. He has some serious skills in the digital world and helped a lot of businesses to grow.
Twitter: @simonlilly
68. Steve Dennis
Steve have remarkable share to the digital world. An Innovative Strategy consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author & catalyst on retail and digital disruption. Steve is also contributor in forbes.
Twitter: @StevenPDennis
69. Doug Stephens
Dough have a very professional role the digital world and retail. He’s speaker author of Reengineering retail and global advisor on the Future of Retail. Dough is also a well known contributor to the Business of Fashion.
Twitter: @RetailProphet
70. Talia Wolf
Talia Wolf is an expert in CRO (conversion rate optimization). She Is one of the top influencers, Trainer and speaker. Talia Help business grow fix their funnels with emotional targeting & customer-driven optimization.
Twitter: @TaliaGw
71. William Harris
William a founder of Elumynt and a professional growth marketer. William is one of the top ecommerce experts. He helped multiple ecommerce businesses grow.
Twitter: @wmharris101
72. Michael Anderso
Michael is the co-founder of Etail Solutions. He is also featured as the best presenter in eCommerce conferences and in Seller’s Conference for Online Entrepreneurs. His presentations have become alot famous among listeners.
Twitter: @TeamEtail
73. Chris Brogan
Chris is CEO of owner media group. He also encourages people to do what they love to do and not follow others.
Twitter: @chrisbrogan
74. John Jantsch
John is a business marketing consultant, speaker and author of Duct Tape Marketing. Ebay, HP and many other successful organizations followed what john said in his speeches.
Twitter: @ducttape
75. Tara Johnson
Tara is a lead reporter at CPC strategy and a well known writer in the field of eCommerce, data and social media and discussed these topics in detail.
Twitter: @CPC_Tara
76. Catalin Zorzini
Catalin is a founder of unblock.net, Ecomolatforms and ecomm design. He is passionate about driving customer engagement for clients through content marketing.
Twitter: @zorzini
77. Chris Lake
Chris is head of marketing at vestedHQ. His tweet focuses about commerce and content marketing, SEO, CRO, Designs CX, UX, SaaS and multiple startups.
Twitter: @lakey
78. David Boada Edo
David established his place in the world of ecommerce and several other fields by his professional experience.He is ecommerce and digital Marketing specialist. Mostly his publications are in spanish.
Twitter: @davidboada
79. Bryan Kramer
Bryan is a writer and speaker covering the topics of online marketing. He mostly focuses on those topic particularly relate to social media. Ecommerce retailers can stay up-to-date with the latest and effective social media strategy.
Twitter: @bryankramer
80. Paul Rogers
Paul is a founder of Vervaunt and eCommerce Consultant. He mostly worked with magento, Shopify plus. Paul is ambitious and energetic digital marketing professional and has great contribution to the Ecommerce.
Twitter:@paulnrogers
81. Tim Ash
Tim a CEO of sitetuners and the author of landing page optimization. He’s also a public speaker and has appeared at many high profile events as the keynote.
Twitter: @tim_ash
82. Kevan Lee
Kevan lee a VP of marketing at Buffer, One of the top social media management tools for brands ,agencies and marketers. He’s also writes for top publications.
Twitter: @kevanlee
83. Aaron Orendorff
Aaron was editor in chief of shopify plus. He is the founder of IconicContent. He is also ranked as top 10 B2B Marketer.
Twitter: @AaronOrendorff
84. Jon Loomer
Jon loomer is one of the best marketers and provides the best strategy to utilize the facebook for ecommerce sales. He helps multiple business they are starting out or looking to increase their current conversion.
Twitter: @jonloomer
85. Jeffrey Eisenberg
Jeffrey Eisenberg an investor, speaker & advisor he’s one of the top marketing optimization experts. He’s also two times best selling author.
Twitter: @JeffreyGroks
86. Tim Ferriss
Tim is author five # 1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers. He’s an investor in huge companies like Uber, Facebook and much more. His first business/interview podcast reached over 150 million downloads and become much popular among the audience.
Twitter: @tferriss
87. Jason Billingsley
Jason is a co-founder of Elastic Path Software and Zolo Realty.
Twitter: @jbillingsley
88. James Gurd
James is Owner of Digital Juggler, Ecommerce and Digital media marketing Consultancy.He mostly join the conversations on twitter and give advice.
Twitter: @JamesGurd
89. Mike Quindazzi
Mike is Managing Director leading sales for US Digital Alliances for PwC. His consultancy lead multiple global companies to success and help them to grow.
Twitter: @MikeQuindazzi
90. Vishal Mehta
Vishal is the founder and MD of Imfibeam. Ecommerce and Startup these two topics Vishal is more passionate about. His Company’s mission is also to drive growth for eCommerce Startups.
Twitter: @vm34
91. Kaleigh Moore
Kaleigh is a writer her article published in top platforms like Entrepreneur and Inc. She gained enough experience in ecommerce and now helping others to improve their businesses.
Twitter: @kaleighf
92. Luiz Cent
Luiz is Head of Customer Success at MailShakeApp,Consultant in Ecommerce Cosmos and an eCommerce entrepreneur and mainly focused on CRO and Inbound Marketing.
Twitter: @LuizCent
93. Sam Mallikarjunan
Sam is the Chief Revenue Office at flock and Co-author of ” How to Sell Better Than Amazon”. He was also a former executive strategist at HubSpot.
twitter: @Mallikarjunan
94. Markus Linder
Markus is CEO of Smart assistant and leading Digital Advice technology for online mobile and Instore.
Twitter: @markuslinder
95. Paul do Forno
Paul is Managing Director of Commerce & Content at DeloitteDIGI. He has more than twenty years of experience in strategy, Consulting and technology.
Twitter: @dofornop
96. Brian Solis
Brian is well known author on topics like technology, business development, Digital transformation and startup culture. He’s also a huge social media influencer because of his additional expertise.
Twitter: @briansolis
97. Matthew Howells-Barby
Matthew is Co-founder of TTTSEO community, Director of Acquisition at HubSpot. Due to his expertise, he is also a social media Influencer.
Twitter: @matthewbarby
98. Jeff Bullas
You may have heard about Jeff at some Point, He is an Ecommerce Influencers and social media marketing strategist & speaker, Forbes Top 10 Social Media Influencer.
Twitter: @jeffbullas
99. Martin Cook
Martin is an Adwords Expert, Ecommerce & Social Media influencer and knows much more about Tech, marketing and eCommerce. He helps Online businesses with PPC, SEO strategies.
Twitter: @Martin_Cook_
100. Chad Rubin
Chad is a CEO of thinkCrucial & Skhubana_ERP. He shared best Strategies for seller who wants rapid eCommerce growth.
Twitter: @itschadrubin
Phew! That is a wrap ! So, there you have it! The 100 top Ecommerce influencers. You can also check out our roundup in which we have gathered 40 High-Profile Seo Experts Advised 3 Tips On Keyword Research Which might help you in the online business.
Have we missed anybody out? Let me know if you guys feel I missed someone who should be on the list here. I will update accordingly. 🙂
