High Voltage Business Builders Podcast
The Top 2.5% Global Show, High Voltage Business Builders Podcast, features weekly interviews with successful entrepreneurs building and scaling e-commerce businesses, Amazon FBA brands, real estate portfolios, and online businesses beyond Wall Street. Hosted by Neil Twa since 2021, the podcast delivers proven strategies for digital marketing, product launches, brand building, and business automation. Grounded in the 5 F’s, faith, family, friends, freedom, + fun, this podcast equips entrepreneurs with practical blueprints to build wealth and long-term independence on their own terms.
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#233 What Trump’s State of the Union Means for Ecommerce Sellers
<p>Trump’s latest State of the Union was packed with headlines. </p><p><br></p><p>Most people heard the headlines and moved on. But operators paid attention.</p><p><br></p><p>Buried inside Trump’s latest State of the Union were policy shifts that could directly impact your costs, pricing, margins, and platform fees.</p><p><br></p><p>If you import products, rely on Amazon, Shopify, or SaaS tools, or operate on tight margins, this matters.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of the High Voltage Business Builders Podcast, Neil breaks down what the lates...
#232 Liquidity Crunch or Massive Opportunity? 2026 Capital Markets Outlook
<p>Markets always cycle.</p><p><br></p><p>The only question is whether you freeze in uncertainty… or plant anyway.</p><p><br></p><p>Chris joins Neil to break down what is really happening in capital markets right now, why liquidity feels stagnant, how venture and private equity are adjusting, and where opportunity is quietly forming. From housing affordability to 50-year mortgages, from leverage to Section 179 tax strategy, this episode is a wide-ranging conversation about ownership, yield, patience, and positioning yourself before the next cycle turns.</p><p><br></p><p>In This Episode, We Cover</p><p><br...
#231 Walmart Just Declared War on Amazon | What It Means for Amazon Sellers
<p>Walmart (the largest retailer in history) just put an eCommerce and supply chain executive in charge of a $500 billion business with 4,600 physical stores.</p><p><br /></p><p>If more than 70% of your revenue comes from Amazon, listen to this.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this episode of the High Voltage Business Builders Podcast, Neil breaks down Walmart’s AI-first transformation, its ChatGPT and Google Gemini integrations, the $2.3B Vizio acquisition, and why Amazon-only strategies are now a massive platform risk.</p><p><br /></p><p>🚀 Dominant is a 12-week live cohort for serious operators launching their first Amazo...
#230 Sell On The Way Up: How Smart Owners Exit at Peak Value
<p>Every business owner exits eventually.<br>But will you do it voluntarily, at peak value, or reactively because you had to?</p><p><br></p><p>Marvin Karlow focuses on helping founders get maximum market value for their businesses before burnout, bankruptcy, partner disputes, or life events force their hand. </p><p>In this episode, we break down how business valuation actually works, why most deals die in due diligence, and what it really takes to build a company that buyers compete for.</p><p><br></p><p>In This Episode, We Cover</p><p>✅ What Your Business Is Re...
#229 Is The Sales Funnel Dead? Zero-Click Commerce is the Future of Buying
<p>What if your website... doesn't matter anymore?</p><p><br></p><p>This is called “Zero Click Commerce” </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of the High Voltage Business Builders Podcast, Neil breaks down the shift from keyword search to conversational buying. Customers are completing purchases inside ChatGPT, TikTok Shop, Instagram, and Google’s AI environments without ever touching your website.</p><p>If you are still optimizing only for traffic, funnels, and on-site conversions, you may be improving a system that customers are bypassing entirely.</p><p><br></p><p>🚀 Dominant is a 12-week live cohort for seriou...
#228 He Created The ‘Tinder for 3PLs’ And It’s Changing E-Commerce
<p>Finding the right 3PL is one of the most important decisions an e-commerce brand will make. It is also one of the hardest. With over 10,000 warehouses in the United States alone, most founders rely on referrals, Google searches, and guesswork.</p><p><br></p><p>Matt built Third Person to change that.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Matt shares how he went from leading operations at early-stage startups like Rent the Runway and Birchbox to building a 3PL marketplace powered by AI. What started as a profitable consulting firm evolved into a scalable software platform designed...
#227 Buy Now, Pay Later Is About to Blow Up (What This Means for eCommerce)
<p>Buy Now, Pay Later is boosting conversions, but quietly destroying margins. </p><p><br></p><p>Buy Now, Pay Later looks like a conversion cheat code. Higher AOV. More checkouts. Fewer abandoned carts. But beneath the surface, BNPL is quietly bleeding eCommerce businesses dry.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of the High Voltage Business Builders Podcast, Neil breaks down what most sellers are missing. BNPL customers return products more often, cost more to serve, and come with higher transaction fees than credit cards. When payments fail, merchants still eat the fees, the shipping, and the inventory r...
#226 From Lawn Mowing to 300,000 Weekly Users. Building GreenPal Without VC Money
<p>Building a real business is not about chasing hype. It is about solving real problems, executing consistently, and staying in the game long enough for the flywheel to turn.</p><p><br></p><p>GreenPal founder Bryan Clayton shares how he bootstrapped the Uber for lawn care to 300,000 weekly users without venture capital. A candid conversation on AI as a force multiplier, organic SEO growth, building a marketplace, and scaling a real business the hard way.</p><p><br></p><p>In This Episode, We Cover</p><p>✅ AI as a Force Multiplier, Not a Replacement</p><p>Bryan ex...
#225 TikTok is NOT Amazon’s Replacement… It’s a Demand Engine (The Halo Effect Explained)
<p>TikTok was never meant to replace Amazon or Shopify. And treating it like a checkout channel is the fastest way to MISS OUT on massive opportunity.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Neil explains the TikTok halo effect, why off-platform conversions matter, how TikTok drives Amazon and Shopify sales, and how operators should measure real eCommerce performance.</p><p><br></p><p>If you are evaluating TikTok based only on TikTok Shop sales, you are missing the bigger picture. This episode explains what TikTok is actually doing for your business and how to use it correctly before...
#224 Retail Isn’t Dead. Amazon Sellers Are Ignoring a Market 3x Bigger
<p>Amazon and Shopify are NOT the whole market.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you’re only selling online, you’re competing inside roughly 15% of the total retail opportunity while ignoring a market that’s several times larger. In this episode, we break down why that blind spot is costing brands serious revenue and how sellers can expand beyond ecommerce without guessing or blowing up their margins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Talor Ofer, a retail strategist with over 25 years of experience helping physical product brands get placed in major retail channels. In this conversation, Talor breaks down how retail...
