Dave Storey

03/10/2026

Imagine you walk into a store, find exactly what you want, then walk up to the till holding a £200 product.

Your wallet is out. Buying intent is at its absolute peak.

But right before you hand over your credit card, you hesitate. You look at the cashier and ask a simple question:

"Is this true to size. It's a gift so I can't try it on?"

The cashier stares back at you in dead silence.

You wait. One minute passes. Then five minutes. The cashier refuses to speak.

Finally, after exactly 1 hour of awkward, agonising silence... the cashier reaches under the counter, slides a piece of paper across the desk... it's a 15% off coupon!

What would you do?

You wouldn't take the coupon. You would drop the item, walk out the door, and never return.

If this was your store you would be horrified. You would fire that cashier instantly.

BUT HERE IS THE BRUTAL REALITY -

That is exactly what your automated abandoned cart emails are doing right now.

When a high-intent buyer hesitates at checkout, it’s rarely because they don’t want the product. It’s because they have a specific, unresolved question (Shipping? Product questions? Returns?...?).

When that hesitation hits, your Email flow waits an hour, ignores their actual concern, and sends a generic reminder with a discount code.

You are treating a logistics / technical question like a price objection.

A static email cannot answer a dynamic question. And it's costing 7-figure stores 20-30% of their bottom-line revenue.

Stop giving away your margin to slow one-way broadcasts - emails.

This week, I’m recording bespoke 3-minute "Revenue Leak" breakdowns for a handful of established DTC brands.

I’ll show you exactly how our system starts a 2-way conversation and answers pre-purchase questions about your products instantly to save abandoned carts, and I'll map out your projected sales uplift based on your store's real numbers.

If you want me to run the maths for your store, comment or DM me "AUDIT" and I’ll grab your info for the video.

01/23/2026

Most abandoned checkouts aren’t because people changed their mind…

It’s usually because they had a question and nobody answered.

Email recovery barely works anymore.
People don’t see it. Or they see it too late.

We use AI-powered SMS conversations that follow up instantly and actually speak to customers like a real person — answering questions and guiding them back to checkout.

If you run an ecommerce store and want to recover more abandoned checkouts, comment DEMO and I’ll send you the link 👍

01/21/2026

Most abandoned checkouts don’t fail because of price.

They fail because the buyer has a question… and nobody answers it.

Email follow-up arrives too late (if it’s seen at all).
SMS gets seen instantly — and AI can handle the conversation like a real member of your team.

🎥 Watch the short video.

If you run a Shopify / WooCommerce store and want to see this working live, book a 15-min demo here:

https://salesboostai.com/live-demo

01/19/2026

70% abandoned checkout isn’t “normal.”
It’s tolerated.

Most Shopify / WooCommerce stores lose 7 out of 10 people at checkout…

…and then tell themselves:
“Ah well… that’s just how it is.”

It’s not.

You’re not losing customers because checkout is broken.
You’re losing them because your follow-up is weak.

Because let’s be honest…

Email flows aren’t recovery.
They’re polite reminders that get ignored.

Most cart “recovery” looks like this...

“You forgot something…”
“Still thinking?”
“Here’s 10% off”

…and then nothing.

That’s not persuasion.
That’s automation.

The truth is simple:

Revenue isn’t recovered by reminders…
It’s recovered by conversations.

Abandoned checkout usually means:

“I had a question”

“Shipping cost put me off”

“I wasn’t sure on sizing”

“I got distracted”

“I didn’t trust the store yet”

And none of that gets solved by another email subject line.

If your cart recovery is still email-only…
you’re not doing “everything you can.”

You’re doing everything your email platform can.

If you want, I’ll show you what AI SMS conversations look like that pull buyers back automatically....

Comment CART

01/13/2026

30.6% opened the email.
No conversation happened.

On paper, this looks like a win.

But most abandoned checkouts don’t fail because customers “lost interest”.
They fail because something interrupted them.

A question.
A doubt.
A distraction.

Email tells you who opened.
It doesn’t tell you who hesitated.

That’s where most brands get stuck.

The brands quietly recovering more revenue aren’t sending more emails or tweaking flows.

They’re starting real conversations the moment checkout fails — answering questions, removing friction, and guiding customers back while intent is still high.

Dashboards don’t show hesitation.
Conversations do.

If you run a DTC brand and want to see how this works in practice, drop a comment or send us a message.

01/08/2026

Abandoned carts don’t fail.

Conversations do.

Most brands try to recover lost checkouts with email:
– a reminder
– maybe a discount
– then silence

The real issue isn’t the offer.
It’s that email can’t have a conversation.

That’s why we use conversational AI agents over SMS.

They:
• ask why checkout failed
• respond naturally, like a real team member
• handle objections in real time
• guide customers back to checkout
• and trigger repeat purchases automatically

This isn’t blasting messages.
It’s AI having 1-to-1 conversations at scale.

That’s where the real recovery happens.

Comment “YES” or DM me and I’ll share how this works in practice.

12/30/2025

Most Shopify & WooCommerce stores are sitting on revenue they don’t even know exists.

We’ve been analysing real stores lately — and the same thing keeps showing up.

Not traffic problems.
Not ad problems.
Not even conversion problems.

It’s visibility.

Revenue hiding in:
• Abandoned checkouts that never get followed up properly
• Past buyers who never get reactivated
• Data that exists… but isn’t being turned into action

Most brands are working hard to grow — but they’re flying half-blind.

So we built something that shows exactly where revenue is leaking, and what it’s actually worth fixing.

Not guesswork.
Not vanity metrics.
Just clear, measurable opportunities sitting inside your existing store data.

If you run a Shopify or WooCommerce store, this might make you slightly uncomfortable — but in a good way.

Drop CASH in the comments or hit the link below and I’ll show you what your store is really sitting on 👇

12/19/2025

You already paid for the traffic.
You already paid for the click.
You already paid for the intent.

Then the checkout failed —
and the sale quietly died.

Most ecommerce brands treat this as a marketing problem.

So they send:
• abandoned-cart emails
• transactional reminder SMS
• last-chance discounts

That isn’t recovery.
That’s nudging.

What actually works is treating checkout failure as a sales conversation.

We’ve built AI agents that don’t just say:
“Hey, you left something in your cart.”

They:
• talk like a trained member of your sales team
• ask why the purchase didn’t complete
• remove friction in real time
• handle objections
• intelligently recommend upsells while intent is still hot

This isn’t transactional SMS.

It’s AI-driven conversational selling, happening at the exact moment most stores go silent.

That’s why results look very different:
• 15–30% checkout recovery
• higher AOV from conversational upsells
• no additional ad spend

Email tries to persuade people later.
Conversations close the sale now.

Comment “DEMO” and I’ll send you the link.

12/16/2025

Most ecommerce stores don’t actually have a traffic problem.

They have a follow-up problem.

When we look inside Shopify / Woo stores, the same things show up again and again:

• Abandoned checkouts that never get recovered
• One-time buyers who never hear from the brand again
• Email doing some work… but leaving a lot of money on the table

The issue isn’t effort.
It’s timing and channel.

Customers ignore inbox noise.
They do respond to timely, personal conversations.

That’s why stores using SMS + AI properly (not spam, not blasts) are seeing:

→ 15–30% of abandoned carts recovered
→ 5–15% of lapsed buyers purchasing again
→ Higher AOV from simple post-purchase follow-ups

No discounts.
No pressure.
Just better use of data they already have.

If you’re running an ecommerce store and want to sanity-check how much revenue might already be sitting in your data, I built a 30-second calculator that shows it.

👉 Link in comments

12/13/2025

If you run an ecommerce store, this number usually surprises people.

Most stores leak revenue through:

• abandoned checkouts
• customers who buy once and never return
• follow-ups that never happen

I built a free 30-second calculator that shows how much revenue is being left on the table.

👉 Try it here: Https://salesboostai.com/survey-form

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